GBCA Discussion Forum

Are you still looking for a boat for this Saturday, Jan 4th?

Marty (mmped@aol.com)

This is Marty from Hobgoblin, a Hunter Legend 40.
We sail in the Cruising Spinnaker class.
Your welcome to sail on board this Saturday for Chili Chase and continue for the Icicles.
If you're interested, please feel to contact me at mmped@aol.com

This is Marty from Hobgoblin, a Hunter Legend 40.
We sail in the Cruising Spinnaker class.
Your welcome to sail on board this Saturday for Chili Chase and continue for the Icicles.
If you're interested, please feel to contact me at mmped@ail.com

Good morning....after the board meeting last night this is what we have.  Club Handicap is now split.

Club Handicap Non Spin: Obvious
Club Handicap Spin: Asym or Sym, sprit or however else you want to attach it to the boat. The first race will use your PHRF rating, then handicaps will be adjusted after each race. No poles on asyms.

I think it's a good start. Probably will need some fine tuning with time

Should be a lot of fun. Spread the word!!!!!!!

Marty

The Rum Races will be here before we know it.

How do these sound for class definitions:

• The Classes of the Cruising Club Fleet are:

o TRUE CRUISER CLASS (TCC) – These boats have interiors that include a reasonable level of comfort for extended Cruising. They are of moderate Performance Characteristics.  They may not use symmetrical or asymmetrical spinnakers. (Would use current Club Handicap System)

o PERFORMANCE CRUISER CLASS (PCC) – Similar to TCC except participants are permitted to use a Symmetrical Spinnaker or Asymmetrical Spinnaker on a sprit or pole. They may choose to use an Asymmetrical Spinnaker tacked to the center line or single headsail non-spin. (Would use PHRF handicap)

(This came from the Chesapeake Bay PHRF, I've slightly reworded it in places.)

There would be no spinnakers in the TCC, and the PCC would take the place of the Bow Asym class we currently have.

Any thoughts?

Can we start getting some firm ideas out so we can start to put a "box" around the definition of what the Cruising Asym Class will be.  We have plenty of time now.
- Non factory (aftermarket) sprit not to exceed ? in length
- Attached at bow
- Bow weight not to be less than ?
- Factory installed refrigerator?

Limit hard and fast rules and let the entrants let "their conscience be their guide"? Use the general philosophy of the Cruising Class be the guide. If someone needs a bottle of rum...well so be it.
Let the current Cruising Class stand as is, use whatever you want, however you want.
The Cruising Asym could be viewed as a step up in the racing learning curve.
Class Flag? Orange with a big black Dot in the middle

These are just some thoughts I have to keep it going, so we don't wait until the last minute to get a consensus of what we want.  It is afterall OUR club. We have to communicate what we want.

How about an Asym Cruising Class to include Bow mounted and Aftermarket/Retro Fit Sprits. We just need to figure out a way to keep the "racing" boats out.  Minimum length?  Minimum weight?
We have time to figure it out....we need input!!!!!

Great... lose those training wheels!!!!
Spread the word and let's get a real class going!!

The class already exists. It was Firewater and one or two others for the 2019 Icicles. I'm thinking of moving and this move seemed logical. I'm trying to get more boats to make it more fun

How about you Cruising Class A Kite flyers move to the Spinnaker A Kite Bow class?  Let try and make it a transition out of Cruising Class. It will be more competitive for us and for the non asym flyers in the Cruising Class.

Marc,

Are you still looking for a boat to crew on?
Send me an email, mmped@aol.com

Marty
Hobgoblin

Are you available to crew this weekend in the Shoe Regatta? The boat is the Hobgoblin, a Hunter Legend 40 docked at LYC.  In addition to this weekend, I plan on racing in the Rum Races and the Heald Bank offshore race in July.
Please let me know as soon as you can. You can contact me at mmped@aol.com

RaceQ is a free app and tracks all RaceQ boats.  I thought it might be fun if RaceQ was promoted in GBCA, so we would all have a track of our race plus all the others for the Rum Races and all other events.

Just a thought.

Here's the link.

http://raceqs.com/tv-beta/tv.htm#userId=15009&updatedAt=2016-04-07T00:40:21Z&dt=2016-04-06T18:11:36-05:00..2016-04-06T19:40:00-05:00&boat=In%20Sanity=

Any thoughts?

Spread the word?

I am an experienced crew member and am looking for a ride for Heald Bank.  You can contact me at mmped@aol.com.

Marty