GBCA Discussion Forum

Amendment #1 Posted this morning.

Apologies, but there was a typo in the coordinates for the "Virtual Mark" 2A boundary for the oyster reefs.

The coordinate should read:

  - San Leon Oyster Mitigation 2A ”Virtual Mark” (SLOM 2A): N 29o 32.310’ W 094o 56.817’

SIs are posted on home page.

We had to work through a few more logistics this year.

The Sailing Instructions for Rum Races are posted on the www.gbca.org home page.

We apologize for the delay, but we had a few changes for this year. We held off a bit to see what the Port of Houston was going to do in regards to marking the new Oyster Reef. If you do not know, there is a new Oyster Mitigation Reef in the south part of Galveston Bay. A line from Kemah #2 to J Mark crosses the NE corner of this new reef. I have found depths in the 6' range with this new reef and they are still working on dumping and compacting dredge spoil. With that, we came up with a solution until some marks can be placed.

We have also added an ORC class with start times.

Thank you for your patience and understanding and we look forward to seeing everyone this Saturday.

I added the new oyster reefs to the GBCA Obstruction Map:  https://gbca.org/ObstructionMap.

On Sunday, we saw two large mooring buoys about 1.25 nm ESE of the H-mark.  Nothing was tied up, but it seems likely these are related to oyster reefs.

Sure, SI's then. Where are those?

  I would personally rather see the Sailing Instructions. This has always been a nonregistered event so NOR's are not needed. 

Where is the NOR ?

How about posting a few bullets on the steps to take to get an Rum Race ORC rating?

Thanks Gary,

See  https://orc.org/

If you go to the "Sailor Services" page, you can set up a log-in for no charge. That is where you have complete access to the database and can search for certificates.

We are working on getting a recording of last night's webinar posted so those that missed can access also.

Best,

Chris

  I listened in on the informal skippers meeting with the purpose of explaining ORC rating system. I found it very informative, with a serious effort to explain and clarify the ORC rating system. SOO, now please post links to the different web sites that were referenced during discussion.