T Town Sailing Championship The Northwest’s Newest Regatta will be held in beautiful Commencement Bay. Arrive Friday Aug 9th, Race Aug 10th and 11th Mark Townsend from Long Beach Yacht Club will be the PRO (Principle Race Organizer) overseeing PHRF Racing. CYCT’s Fleet Captain – Racing, Billy Carter will oversee Windseeker Racing. Take home
Cruising Calendar 2013
February 23-24: Tacoma Pub Crawl at Dock Street March 23-24: Dockton at Quartermaster Harbor April 27-28: Jump Start to Opening Day, request at Des Moines Marina May 25-27: Cutts Island Memorial Day Weekend Cruise/Race July 27-28: Longbranch August 31-September 2: Poulsbo Annual Labor Day Cruise October 5-6: TBD November 9-10: Arabella’s with the LeMans Race
2013 Race Calendar
January 19th Quartermaster Harbor 1 CYCT Windjammer Harbor #1 January 26th Blake Island TTPYC Windjammer Harbor #2 February 16th Gig Harbor CYCT Windjammer Harbor #3 February 23rd Manzanita Buoy TTPYC Windjammer Harbor #4 April 3rd RRS CYCT Clubhouse CYCT Racing Rules of Sailing April 6th Spring Singlehand CYCT April 10th Windseekers CYCT Spring #1 April
Notice of Race Fun-On-Fridays I & II
CYCT FUN-ON-FRIDAYS June 14th-15th Eligibility: All boats must meet PIYA Category III safety requirements. Registration: Registration and funds must be in the possession of the CYCT Race Committee prior to the start of each days sailing. However, early registration is encouraged. Skippers Meeting: Skippers meeting will be held at 1800 June
2013 CYCT Man Overboard Practice Exercise
Folks This is your invitation to the CYCT man overboard exercise. We will be conducting this activity on Saturday Aug 3, from 9 – noon out of the Tyee Marina. If you plan to join us, please RSVP to Chuck Welter, CYCT Education Chair at ecwelter@hotmail.com or by phone to 253 381 3737.
T Town Sailing Championship
T Town Sailing Championship
- The Northwest’s Newest Regatta will be held in beautiful Commencement Bay.
- Arrive Friday Aug 9th, Race Aug 10th and 11th
- Mark Townsend from Long Beach Yacht Club will be the PRO (Principle Race Organizer) overseeing PHRF Racing.
- CYCT’s Fleet Captain – Racing, Billy Carter will oversee Windseeker Racing.
- Take home a piece of Tacoma! Trophies created by the Tacoma Museum of Glass.
Race central will be at the main Foss Waterway Dock just in front of the Rock the Dock Bar and Grill. With 1200 feet of dock space your reserved place will be assured when you register. The Rock the Dock Bar and Grill will expand to include ample deck space with beer gardens and bands. Racers will be welcomed Friday night with a steel drum band and Saturday evening is Reggie night. This is a perfect venue to have your support crew, family and friends join you for after racing festivities.
Schedule: FRIDAY AUGUST 9th
1200-2200 Boat arrival at the Dock, Thea Foss Waterway
1900-2230 Welcome Party at the Rock the Dock Pub on the Thea Foss Waterway with a Steel Drum Band
SATURDAY AUGUST 10th
1055 First Warning Signal
1730 No Warning Signal after this time
After Racing Reggae Band on the Rock the Dock Deck.
Sunday August 11th
1055 First Warning Signal
1430 No Warning Signal after this time
After Racing Awards party at the Rock the Dock Deck
For more information and to register go to www.TTownsailing.com
Fun-On-Fridays I
Sailors,
What a GREAT Race! Those that attended had a ball. The only major shortcoming was the lack of boats..Speaking for myself the RC work was superb. The wind was ideal for races #1 & #2 and cooperated for #3 thru #6 and it laid down in the middle of race #7 but had enough of a Tyee Cliff induced beach wind that those left standing finished. The beach fire Friday evening warmed us after sundown, the Burgers done to perfection and the beer cold. Doesn’t get any better than this.
Results attached, and you can see that it was a fight for first that was decided by a tie-breaker. But I must say that everybody was a winner on this one. And I hope you can attend the next go round of Fun-On-Fridays II June 28th & 29th. Rumor has it that the Cal 20 fleet will be showing up and I’d love to have a Windseeker fleet. The work on the beach and the work on the RC for four boats compared to forty boats really doesn’t increase that much. Believe me, we’d love to have a bigger fleet to score. I invite all to attend. The more the Merry.
Big thanks to my wife Soo that organized the beach side at CYCT Tyee II clubhouse and her assistants, Chef Ross Demmel, Debbie McAdams, Jerry Brennen, Linda DeCarlo, Ed Jacobs and our own Commodore Gary Ballentine.
RC had a big cast and many thanks must go out to Joy Ballentine running Mini-Tatoosh as the mark set boat on Saturday. Big thanks go out to Don Kimball on flags and anchor. My son Zak pulled marks and manned the horn and line-sighted. On Friday Joe Salz and Don McAdams made it happen with Romeo Charlie, getting her into position with marks inflated which enabled us to fire off the first start on time. There are many others that pitched in and lent a hand, thanks.
This is a great venue, just needs more boats. We are doing this again on June 28th & 29th. It’s a new series and hopefully the winds of Commencement Bay will allow us seven glorious races in June sunshine. Please contact me if you are planning on attending. Skippers meeting Friday June 28th 6:00 PM at the CYCT Clubhouse Tyee II.
Thanks,
Billy
Billy Carter
Race Chair CYCT
S/V Discovery
206-240-7886 cell
Windseekers Late Spring Final
Windseekers,
A short course was called for race #5 in the last of the Late Spring Windseeker Races. If the fleet had been sent over the the Ruston side of the course they’d still be there.
This was a welcome back race to a few boats that have been missing from our fleet, Ed & Linda with Wild Thing placed 2nd in PHRF C. Mark Hood with Shattered placed 1st in PHRF C. And CYCT’s own Gardyloo after a short lay-off placed 1st in PHRF A, took line honors and 1st in Fleet. Welcome Back!
Also attached is the Summer Series Standings, it’s blank but shows the movement of the Windseeker class boats that deserved to be moved in class. Blown Away II to WS-B, Kaimalu to WS-A, Gremlin to WS-B, Tatoosh to WS-C and El Milagro to WS-D.
If everyone shows up that has participated this year the fleet will number over forty boats.
Be careful out there.Sail by the rules.
Billy
2013 CYCT Man Overboard Practice Exercise
Folks
This is your invitation to the CYCT man overboard exercise. We will be conducting this activity on Saturday Aug 3, from 9 – noon out of the Tyee Marina.
If you plan to join us, please RSVP to Chuck Welter, CYCT Education Chair at ecwelter@hotmail.com or by phone to 253 381 3737.
The Coast Guard estimate that 1500 boaters go overboard every year. About 1/3 of the don’t make it back onto the boat. The purpose of this exercise is to provide crews and cruisers an opportunity to practice the critical skills of recovering an overboard crew member in a safe environment. Romeo Charlie will be with us in the practice area as a safety boat.
We want to emphasize that this in an opportunity for your crew to practice with your equipment on your boat. Below are several video links that will provide you with useful instruction on the use of the Lifesling and how to maneuver your boat in the event a crew member goes in the drink.
Lifesling How-to video. Very detailed includes both up wind and downwind sailing directions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnhjOhWD4j0
A description of how to maneuver the boat to recover an overboard crew member:
http://www.rorc.org/general-conditions/man-overboard.html
Shorthanded crew overboard video (Wife recovering husband):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stqveg0TYvA
Lifesling recovery of male victim by female crew:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTF7XtbZ7ik
There will be additional information sent to those that will be coming to the practice.
Looking forward to seeing you on the water,
Chuck Welter
LTD Lean+ Coach/Consultant
SPHR, Six Sigma Black Belt
253 820 3546
Notice of Race Fun-On-Fridays I & II
CYCT FUN-ON-FRIDAYS
June 14th-15th
Eligibility: All boats must meet PIYA Category III safety requirements.
Registration: Registration and funds must be in the possession of the CYCT Race Committee prior to the start of each days sailing. However, early registration is encouraged.
Skippers
Meeting: Skippers meeting will be held at 1800 June 14th at the CYCT Clubhouse Tyee II marina.
Class breaks will be announced and repeated on VHF 68 fifteen minutes prior to the first start.
Check in &
Check out: Before the start of each days racing it is required for each yacht to sail by the Race Committee Boat Starboard side to Starboard side and hail with their sail numbers. A boat that withdraws or retires shall contact the Race Committee at the earliest opportunity by VHF Channel 68 or by hail.
Start & Finish
Area: The start and finish area will be within the confines of commencement Bay.
Courses: This is a Windward-Leeward Buoy Racing, refer to the front of this book for course diagram. It is the intent of the Race Committee to complete two (2) races on Fridays and Five (5) races on Saturdays.
Start Time: The first warning is scheduled for 1855 on Fridays and 0955 on Saturdays.
Scoring: For PHRF boats the time-on-time method will be used.
Time Limit: Sixty (60) minutes for the first boat in each class. If a boat finishes within sixty minutes all other boats in her class must finish within 15 minutes of the first boat to finish.
This changes RRS Rule 35.
CYCT FUN-ON-FRIDAYS II
June 28th-29th
Eligibility: All boats must meet PIYA Category III safety requirements.
Registration: Registration and funds must be in the possession of the CYCT Race Committee prior to the start of each days sailing. However, early registration is encouraged.
Skippers
Meeting: Skippers meeting will be held at 1800 June 14th at the CYCT Clubhouse Tyee II marina.
Class breaks will be announced and repeated on VHF 68 fifteen minutes prior to the first start.
Check in &
Check out: Before the start of each days racing it is required for each yacht to sail by the Race Committee Boat Starboard side to Starboard side and hail with their sail numbers. A boat that withdraws or retires shall contact the Race Committee at the earliest opportunity by VHF Channel 68 or by hail.
Start & Finish
Area: The start and finish area will be within the confines of commencement Bay.
Courses: This is a Windward-Leeward Buoy Racing, refer to the front of this book for course diagram. It is the intent of the Race Committee to complete two (2) races on Fridays and Five (5) races on Saturdays.
Start Time: The first warning is scheduled for 1855 on Fridays and 0955 on Saturdays.
Scoring: For PHRF boats the time-on-time method will be used.
Time Limit: Sixty (60) minutes for the first boat in each class. If a boat finishes within sixty minutes all other boats in her class must finish within 15 minutes of the first boat to finish.
This changes RRS Rule 35.
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