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Anytime Bee  You might find some interesting things in the documentation.  NORs and SIs contain some important stufff.

Quote from: Bee on April 06, 2012, 07:54:42 PM
I don't read those.  Too dumb to figure that out.

Don't read the NOR?  Hmmmm....  Funny, everyone else does since that't the one piece of documentation that serves to provide the competitors all the information necessary to decide to race.  Maybe you should at least scan the documentation.

Here, let me help...

http://www.houstonyachtclub.com/documents/NOR_Offshore.pdf

What does the Notice of Race say with respect to your Cat 3 question Bee?

NOR?

That's great!  This is a relatively small community we all should be looking out for each other.

Yea, I had a Turvis tumbler walk off at the GBCA clubhouse and a sunfish sail / rig taken from a locker at SSC, and I've seen RC gear walk away over at LYC and TCYC.  Now that we have all the YCs covered Bee, maybe we can focus on whoever walked off with some foulies.

Is there a good description of what the foulies look like?  Make, model, size, color?  Name inside on the label?  It doesn't make sense to walk off with someone's foul weather gear - way too easy for someone to recognize.  This is a small community and we all look out for each other.

Quote from: Kevin Box on February 24, 2012, 04:53:39 PM
I'm Loving it!  Just don?t let Schr?dinger's cat out the box.  That kitty?s like 80-something right now.

The cat either is or isn't 80-something.  We just don't know...

Bee,  apologies.  I had to smite you.  I've never smited (smote?) anyone before...
But you were sitting with a -105 on the "smite meter" and I just couldn't let that go unnoticed:-)

"Negative Ghost Rider".  Delta e controls the convergence criteria and thus, the end of the recursivly interative algorithm.  An FFT has to converge somewhere...

Bee,
If the delta e in my Forrier Transform is small enough I can reduce out nearly all pertubative effects and end up with a pretty homogenous population that can be very predictive.  In a binary universe, 10 choices are all you need.

That would be Judge Smails...  Judge Elihu Smails.


Great golfer, great sailor.

"Spalding get your foot off the boat! "
"Don't you people have homes?"
"Don't you people have jobs?"

A few years ago my lovely wife and I took our honeymoon to Newport RI.  We spend 5 of those days going through the J/World program there.  Considering that we're both racers, what better way to celebrate your marriage and honeymoon.  The only downside was the long uphill hike at the end of the day (ended at the local bar with students and instructors to debrief) to the B&B where we spend 2 very nice weeks:-)

I can't say enough about the qualifications, skills, and resume experience of the J/World instructors we had.  One is currently on the Volvo RTW, another is representing the USofA in the Olympics, and another isn't quite done adding World Championships to his resume.  We're still in touch with all of them.

I did a delivery with one of our "crew" from those classes.  We brought a Halberg Rassey (sp?) 52 from Miami to Newport a few years ago.  The owner is one of the founding folks of Sailing Anarchy and is a great guy who we still talk to often.  Sailing Anarchy may be whacked, but BJPorter is one of the most solid people I've had the pleasure to know.

Bottom line - J/World was more than worth the $'s for us.  What we took away was more than worth what we spent.

Unless you attend the Safety at Sea seminar, AND the Practical Hands-On Seminar, AND pass the written test, you won't receive the certificate.  This is a very full weekend worth of seminars, wet-work, and testing, and is one of the best programs offered by UASailing.  One day of classroom seminar followed by lots of hands-on demos and training in the water and on boats, followed by a rather comprehensive test - be prepared to get wet and waterlogged as well as brain-drained.
The Certificate may be required by some Category 1 and 2 events outside the US but is not required within the USofA (suggested, but it can't be required).  The Safety at Sea seminar, a course highly recommended for all offshore sailors, is only required as part of obtaining a certification.

http://offshore.ussailing.org/SAS/Seminars.htm

Having taken both seminars and passed the test, I highly recommend this for everyone who is doing offshore or bay sailing and even Wednesday night beercans (evidence the MOB video from this past year).  I plan on attending.

Let me guess...  Doogie Howser?
12 years old, 125lbs, brilliant doctor!

Or, just save as a .pdf from Word 2010.  Agree with Bee, ,pdf is a much better choice.