Anacapa Yacht Club. Volume 2007 Issue 6 June CINDY SCHLAGETER

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1 Anacapa Yacht Club 40t Mainsheet Volume 2007 Issue 6 June Commodores Report: CINDY SCHLAGETER We are bringing in the summer months with excitement at Anacapa Yacht Club! Please join me in congratulating the members, recalling last month s article, that participated in the 60 th Annual Newport to Ensenada Race. In particular, Dave Randle and his crew aboard Coyote once again placing 2 nd in her PHRF Class and Jerzy Poprawski with his merry men aboard Superluminal who placed 3 rd in class. This was not an easy fete considering the slowest winds in the 60 year record of the race. This meant Shawna, my daughter Jessica & I had to guard the beer making sure it was cold enough and shop the silver stores venturing out several times until our boats arrived! The first to arrive were our familiar crewmen aboard Dick McNish s lovely Cherrio II. Dick, Neil, Pete, Walter and Scott aka Old Men Rule livened up the hospitality room at the Bahia for the girls. They were full of Walter Stories and I thank Dick for bringing me the best fish dinner I have ever had at 10pm at night! The hospitality room finally came Commodore s Report 1 Rear Commodore s Report 2 Vice Commodore s Report 3 This n That 4 Yacht Club Traditions 6 Casino Night 9 NOR Anacapa Island Series 9 Birthday Celebrations 10 Calendar 11 alive Sunday a few hours before it was time to checkout as our other AYC racers stopped by to rehash their adventures on the water. ( 1)

2 The racing schedule is now off to a wonderful start with Wet Wednesdays in full swing. Thanks to all of you scheduled mid-week to help and for staying until the end for clean up duties. We hope participation will average the boats per week that we had last year. I encourage you to consult your Mainsheet each month to make sure you do not forget when you are scheduled and expect a reminder call from Ira to insure we have all hands on deck. Thank you in advance for your positive attitude and energy when it is time to pitch in. We have a lot of fun at Wet Wednesdays and hope you do, too. The Anacapa Island Race Series begins with our Anacapa to Port Race on June 2 nd. Come sail or enjoy the post race chile & cornbread up at club following the race. Speaking of delicious dinners, our Saturday Night Socials have been wonderful and our group is growing each week. Thank you for providing such delightful feasts and for bringing your friends up to join us. I have met some really nice people who have stayed and played guitar or just sit after dinner to catch up on one another. That s what our clubhouse is all about.good Times! Enjoy your June and hopefully the Gloom Monster will not show his face too much and our winds will be terrific for racing and cruising. With our new boat on the way, the end of June will be an exciting time for my family. My boys (Joe & Eric) have been real good about not being too grumpy these last boatless 10 months. The only problem is there goes my Honey-Do list. Heck with it let s go sailing!!!!! Respectfully YOUR Commodore, Cindy (2)

3 Rear Commodores report: Rear Commodore s Report DOUG DODGE Racing Last month we got off to a windy start with our Wet Wednesdays Series, ably conducted by our Race Committee Chairman, Gene Beville. Unfortunately our first race in the series had to be canceled, due to extremely high wind. We still had a great turnout for the BBQ afterwards. The series goes through to September 26 th, so even if you can t make it to some of the races come out for a great evening sail and the phenomenal Wet Wednesdays BBQ! On June 2 rd, AYC will be hosting the first race in our Anacapa Offshore Race Series, Anacapa to Port. Many people have told me that this is their favorite race of the whole season. Look for a Notice of Race elsewhere in the Mainsheet. Cruising We got off to a great start to our cruising season this year with cruises to Ventura Harbor in April and to Santa Cruz over Memorial Day Weekend. Thank you to Larry Listing for organizing this year s Cruise to Cruz. Below is a summary of our events on the water for June: June 2 June 6, 13, 20, 27 Anacapa to Port Race Wet Wednesdays See you on the water! Vice Commodores Report: IRA BIGELEISEN Last month we had some wonderful events inside the club. We were treated to the marvelous cooking of Helene Golemon and Richard Germack, Doug Fajardo, and Bill and Liz Hubbarth. Last month also saw the beginning of our Wet Wednesdays Series, and I want to thank the Officers of the Day for last month: Joe and Cindy Schlageter, Kitty and Jan Frallic, Lucien Lacour and Carole Howe, and Neil Weinrich. Yours truly (3)

4 also took a turn, both as O.D. on Wednesday and running the Cinco de Mayo party on May 5 th. Thank you also to our regular bartenders, Joe Schlageter, Chris Tucker, Doug Dodge and Shanna McCormick. We re having a fantastic year, with terrific turnouts for club events! In June and July, we will continue our Saturday Night Dinners and we look forward to the cooking of: 6-2 Saturday Race Dinner Anacapa to Port 6-9 Saturday Poprawski 6-16 Saturday Casino Night 6-23 Saturday Russakoff 6-30 Saturday Schlageter 7-7 Saturday Race Dinner Platform A (4)

5 7-14 Saturday Schlageter & McCormick 7-21 Saturday Peterson 7-28 Saturday Sytten In addition, our Wet Wednesdays continue and the OD s will be : 6-6 Sytten 6-13 King 6-20 Dzida & Starai 6-27 Manes 7-4 Norton 7-11 Peterson 7-18 Wilkinson 7-25? Just a reminder, if you need to switch a date, please contact another club member to switch with you. I cannot know which dates might be most convenient for you, so it is best to do this yourself well in advance of you OD date. Then let me know what you have done so I can update the duty roster. June 16 th will be our annual Casino Night, chaired by Jr. Staff Commodore, Dave Randle. This year we are offering dinner and a grand prize of a magnum of Korbel Brut Champagne. And it s only $10 per person. Please call Dave at or him at sailj29@roadrunner.com to let him know you are coming. See you inside! Ira Bigeleisen This n that Jr. Staff Commodore David Randle It has been a whirlwind couple of months, so much so that I missed my opportunity to burden you all with my ramblings in the last issue of these pages. So I have a lot of catching up to do I will try (and undoubtedly fail) to be less verbose than normal! Boat of the MONth You will all be happy to know that our Board of Directors has formally approved the heretofore unofficial AYC Boat of the Month recognition program. Believe it or not, they actually agreed with my provisional rules, which stipulate that selection of BotM will be my choice, based strictly on whatever arbitrary criteria I choose. (Note that I will happily entertain suggestions for deserving yachts if you have a nomination, please send it my way!) This month I actually need to recognize TWO Boats of the Month, since I missed last month s issue. So we will start with our Boat of the Month for April Genie, Jerry and Genie Goldberg s beautiful SeaRay 56. The Goldbergs have been kind enough to offer Genie as AYC s entry in the annual Opening Day Boat Parade. Not only do we benefit from the privilege of hoisting the AYC Burgee on such a magnificent vessel, we also get to enjoy the unparalleled hospitality of the Goldbergs! It just doesn t get any better than that. So please, join me in congratulating Genie as AYC Boat of the Month for April! (5)

6 Our Boat of the Month for May is a vessel well known to the racing community, both as a race entry and as a frequent Race Committee Boat. I m referring, of course, to Moonshadow, Doug and Kalin Dodge s Beneteau 310. She is a lovely vessel which sails fast yet also offers wonderfully luxurious accommodations. Moonshadow served as the RC boat for last fall s Santa Barbara City Race, and more recently served in the same capacity for our Newport to Ensenada feeder race. Doug and Kalin race and cruise Moonshadow actively I would guess she may be one of the most frequently-used boats in the harbor. Please join me in congratulating Moonshadow as AYC Boat of the Month for May! Report from the Ensenada Race For those of you who have never done a Newport to Ensenada Race, it s an experience not to be missed! The spectacle of the pre-start maneuvering of upwards of 500 boats is awe-inspiring, especially when many of those boats are 80-foot Maxis charging around amidst their smaller cousins. AYC was well-represented in this year s race, with Jerzy Poprawski, Joe Schlageter, and Eric Schlageter on Superluminal, Pete Casamassima, Walter Russakoff, and Neil Weinrich joining Dick McNish on Cheerio II, Jerry Roth and AYC s good friend Tony Huskey on Traveler (an Express 34 from Marina del Rey), and Doug Fajardo on WindDancer. In addition, I was somehow able to persuade Rear Commodore Doug Dodge, Treasurer Tina Roberson, and my good friends Rick Barrett and Per Dahlgren to race to Ensenada aboard Coyote for the second year running. (They must be gluttons for punishment!) For this year s race, Coyote s class, PHRF F, included all boats under 33 feet with PHRF handicaps between 78 and 114. Our 111 handicap put us at the slow end of an 18-boat class, competing against downwind rockets such as Hobie 33s, Olson 30s, and Soverel 33s. Of some comfort were two other J/29s entered our old nemesis Mac s, a very well-sailed boat from Alamitos Bay, and another boat from San Diego named Zulu. We figured with all that competition, we had our work cut out for us but also decided that our primary objective was to Beat Mac s. There are normally three strategies for this race: go outside in search of offshore winds, hug the beach to capture the shore breeze, or go down the rhumbline to minimize the distance sailed. We elected to follow a rhumbline strategy this year. The Friday afternoon start offered cool air, a gentle but steady breeze, and sunshine. We started on the offshore line a few boatlengths from the committee boat, with one Hobie 33 to our right, Mac s well down the line near the pin, and all the other competitors a boatlength or two back. Staying true to our rhumbline strategy, we picked up a heading of 140 off the start, which allowed us to crack off just a bit from close hauled. With light air and flat water, Coyote was in her element, and with the exception of the Hobie 33 to windward (which quickly moved past us and continued to extend its lead), we began easing away from the rest of our competition. The last we saw of Mac s had them diving in toward the shore, with one of the Soverel 33s shadowing us to leeward and a Wylie 30 doing the same way offshore. As the day wore on, we gradually lost sight of everyone else in our class, finding ourselves surrounded by J/35s, Schock 35s, and other even larger boats. (We figured that either we were doing really well, or they were doing really poorly ) As the sun went down, we were well past San Clemente, but the wind backed a bit, taking us back to close hauled and driving us in slightly toward the shore. (6)

7 The wind held through the night, even strengthening for much of the night, though it backed further to the southeast, forcing us to tack multiple times as we worked our way down the coast. (This was a big hit with the off-watch folks who were trying to catch some Z s if you ve never heard the raucous sounds of the winches grinding through a tack from inside the cabin, try it sometime and you ll understand!) We crossed tacks frequently with another boat that I judged to be an Olson 30, though it was hard to tell in the dark. However, we continued to make good progress, and in fact as the sun came up Saturday morning, we found ourselves right at the northern tip of Coronado del Sur the southern (and larger) of the Coronados already into Mexican waters. And lo and behold, the Olson 30 we had crossed tacks with during the night turned out not to be an Olson 30, but an Olson 40! The rest of the boats around us were equally large, including Uhambo, the Fast 40 from Ventura we often see in our local races. Of course, given our primary objective, the question on our minds was: where s Mac s? We had no idea. As the sun came up, the wind clocked around to the southwest but dropped off in strength. In the light breeze we were able to set the spinnaker for the first time, and we made good progress down the coast of Baja California for a while, but as we turned easterly past the first of the points that would lead us to the finish in Ensenada, the wind shut off. Competely. Nary a breath. The GPS indicated 18 miles to go, and didn t budge for 3-4 hours as we searched in vain for even the merest puff of air. Frustration and disappointment began to set in. We watched as a continuous parade of DNFing boats motored past us toward Ensenada, wondering whether we ought to be doing the same. At about 6pm Saturday, still with 18 miles to go, a slight ripple finally appeared that allowed us to get the boat moving, albeit to the south away from where we wanted to go but we deemed any movement better than none at all. Before long, much to our delight, the wind headed us by about 80 degrees, allowing us once again to sail a hot (fast) angle directly toward the finish! We were ecstatic......until the wind died once again, with now only 5 miles to go to the finish. We could see it. We could taste it. We were ready to be done. But we had a bit more waiting to do... Remembering our experience from last year when, approaching the finish line in Ensenada in similar conditions, we headed toward the shore on the left and caught a light zephyr over there that carried us to the finish we tried the same thing again this year. It worked! At about 10pm, with the Dazy staysail up as a windseeker, we found enough of a breath of air to get us moving, and as the pressure built in the Dazy sheet, we pulled the genoa back up and suddenly found ourselves steaming along at 6.5 knots toward the finish. Thankfully, the breeze held, and we crossed the finish line just before 11:00 pm, totally exhausted. We had no idea where we were in the finish order for all we knew, everyone else had already finished while we drifted in the calms but we all felt a glowing sense of satisfaction in having persevered to the finish. As it turns out, we were only the third boat in PHRF F to cross the finish line, so when we made it over to Race HQ at the Bahia Hotel on Sunday morning, I was delighted to discover that our finish was good enough for a 2 nd in our class. Remember the Hobie 33 that passed us just after the start? They finished 6 hours ahead of us, so even though they owed us an hour on corrected time, they were still way ahead of us with handicaps applied. The only other boat to finish ahead of us did so by only about half an hour, and since they also owed (7)

8 us a bunch of time, we were able to correct out over them. In fact, everyone else in our class except Mac s owed us time, so having beat them all boat-for-boat, we were clearly ahead of them on corrected time. And Mac s? They finished Sunday morning at about 10:30 am! (Talk about persistence! I was awestruck. Still am. Wow.) I was equally thrilled to see the stellar results from ALL of our AYC participants. Superluminal took 3 rd in Sprit B (in their first Ensenada Race with this boat quite an accomplishment!), and Traveler (with Jerry and Tony aboard) took 3 rd in PHRF G. In fact, every boat that had an AYC member aboard finished the race and in a year when something like 50% of the fleet DNFed, that says a lot about the skill, competitiveness, and persistence of our sailors. Please join me in congratulating them all for representing AYC so superbly! 1 YACHT CLUB TRADITIONS S/C Jerry Goldberg GOOD NEWS! AYC now has a MMSI group number, effective world-wide. Assisting a mariner in distress is a tradition that is recognized everywhere. Today we are fortunate to have technology that makes boaters safer throughout the world. Your VHF radio is the single most important piece of safety equipment you can have on board your vessel. By using a VHF radio with Digital Select Calling (DSC) capability, you increase your safety dramatically by taking advantage of enhanced communications options. These options link you to other vessels and rescue facilities, providing a strong, modern safety net. DSC (Digital Selective Calling): Marine radios equipped with DSC have all the features of your current VHF radio, and more. DSC technology makes a VHF radio work more like a telephone. It allows boaters to send a digital call directly to another DSC-equipped vessel or shore station, much like a person-to-person telephone call. MMSI (Maritime Mobile Service Identity): Obtaining an MMSI is necessary in order to use the DSC functions of the radio. The MMSI number serves as both a nine digit telephone number and as a unique identification number for the U.S. Coast Guard to use in order to locate and identify you in an emergency. (MMSI numbers may easily be obtained at NO COST from BoatUS. See During normal communications, vessels with DSC capable radios may call each other over channel 70 (automatic transmission) using the MMSI as a telephone Number. The signal will only be received by those vessels with the MMSI numbers called. During an emergency, the boater may push a button to automatically transmit a May Day call which would include their MMSI number (and location if the radio is linked to a GPS receiver) to every DSC radio within range. When the U.S. Coast Guard receives the unique MMSI number, it will use the information on file (emergency contact number, type of vessel, etc.) to mount a more effective rescue effort. (8)

9 DSC VHF radios provide the following advantages: Have a One-Button Emergency Transmit capability that sends out the vessels unique MMSI number and, if properly connected to a GPS or Loran, the vessels latitude/longitude position; Continue sending the distress signal even if the captain is incapacitated; Allow for a non-experienced VHF user to send, with the pressing of one button, a goof-proof continuous distress message; Privately hail another DSC equipped vessel, or shore station, with a known MMSI number. Like having a VHF phone number this avoids having to monitor high traffic just for a hail from your boating buddy. It even rings your radio, similar to a telephone, notifying you that you have call and then switches you automatically to the channel your caller is waiting on. If properly connected to a GPS or Loran, a Polling feature transmits your vessels position, in digital display, that can be monitored by DSC equipped station/fleet station or boat; Fully function as all other VHF radios. Programming your DSC radio is extremely easy. It is menu driven and simple to add people and their MMSI numbers to you personal directory. First press menu then select Set Up. Go to Individual MMSI# and enter the MMSI# you want to save. Calling is even easier. Press Menu, select MMSI, and then enter the MMSI number or numbers you want to call, or select a name or names from your directory. Press Send or Call and you have placed your MMSI call. At the beginning of this article I proclaimed GOOD NEWS for AYC Boaters because AYC has a unique Group MMSI number. A Group MMSI# is an MMSI that has been assigned to a Club, a Fleet, or organization. Here s how it works: Our AYC Group MMSI number is AYC Member Boats that are equipped DSC VHF radios may easily program the AYC Group MMSI number into their individual radios by pressing Menu, select Set Up, and then choose MMSI Group. Enter our MMSI# with the name AYC. After programming the AYC Group telephone number you are connected to the AYC Fleet and your friends. Any AYC boat that has programmed the AYC Group MMSI# into their DSC radio is now a member of the AYC Group. Here is an example. For those AYC members who have VHF radios with DSC capability, they will have their own personal MMSI number. They will also have the option of using the AYC MMSI number which will enable them to call all other AYC members on a group basis in other words, if they send out a call to the AYC group number, all AYC members with the AYC MMSI number programmed into their radios will get the message and may choose to converse on Channel 69 or some other channel designated for pleasure craft use. Our boat is GENIE and our MMSI number is Genie and I would love to hear from you on the next AYC Cruise. Anacapa Yacht Club (9)

10 Casino Night June 16, 2007 Cocktails: 6:00 p.m. Dinner: 7:00 p.m. Casino Tables open: 7:30 p.m. Grand Prize for the top winner!!! Awarded at the end of the night. $10 per person includes dinner and casino money Join us for a fun night with good friends, good food and lots of fun! RSVP Dave Randle if you plan to attend by 6/14/06: or sailj29@roadrunner.com (10)

11 ANACAPA YACHT CLUB NOTICE OF RACE ANACAPA ISLAND SERIES 2007 Anacapa to Port Race, June 2, 2007 Platform A Race July 7, 2007 The Wes. Golemon Memorial Race (Anacapa to Starboard) August 11, 2007 This is a three race series with no throwouts consisting of the Anacapa (to Port) race on June 2, the Platform A race on July 7, and The Wes. Golemon Memorial (Anacapa to Starboard) on August 11. This series originally consisted of three Anacapa Island races and was the inaugural offshore event for AYC. We hope you enjoy the new improved format. The series winner s names in each class will be inscribed on the beautiful Anacapa Island Series Trophy which resides in the AYC trophy case. In addition, a Wes. Golemon Perpetual Trophy has been established for the Wes. Golemon Memorial Race. Don't miss this challenging and exciting series. A true test of man and machine, not for the feint of heart. TIME & DATES: Start at 1100 hours Race 1: June 2, 2007, Race 2: July 7, 2007, Race 3: August 11, COURSE: RULES: CATEGORY: CLASSES: ENTRY: SKIPPERS' MEETING: SOCIAL: TROPHIES: Race 1: Start outside Channel Islands Breakwater, take Anacapa Island to port, Platform Gina to port, finish in front of AYC. Race 2: Start at Mandalay, Platform A to port, finish in front of AYC. Race 3: Start at Mandalay, Wes Mark to starboard, Anacapa Island to starboard, Platform Gail to Starboard, finish in front of AYC. This series will be governed by the Anacapa Yacht Club Sailing Instructions except as modified herein, or at the Skippers' Meeting. PHRF category III, RLC area ratings will be used. Class divisions will be established at the first skippers' meeting after all entries are received. A non-spinnaker class will be established if there are enough entries. Yacht club membership and PHRF certificate are not required for non-spinnaker entries. Entry fee is $75 for the series and $30 for individual races. A $5 discount will be given for mail-in series entries. Entries must be submitted before the skippers' meeting at 0830 the morning of each race hours on the morning of each race at the Anacapa Yacht Club. Steaming hot soup or chili and cold beer (and other refreshments) will be waiting for all racers at the AYC clubhouse after they finish. Personalized trophies will be awarded for races #1 and #2 and for the series at the Anacapa Yacht Club on the Second Wensday night following each race: June 13, July 18, and August 22 at 1900 hrs. The bar will be open at 1800 hrs, and the usual wet wendsdays dinner will be served during the awards. Trophies for the Wes Golemon Memorial Race will be awarded at the Sunday Awards Breakfast on August 12. (11)

12 MAIL ENTRY FORMS TO: Anacapa Yacht Club, 3821 Victoria Ave. Oxnard, CA FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PLEASE CALL GENE BEVILLE AT Happy Birthday from all of us at AYC 6 11 Pat Compton 6 11 Crosby Swartz 6 17 Jerry Roth 6 18 Ron Peterson 6 20 David Randle 6 27 Peter Casamassima If we don t have your birthday, please give Pete a call or send an e mail or pgcasa@earthlink.net (12)

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