PETTIPAUG YACHT CLUB PSA PETTIPAUG SAILING ACADEMY PETTIPAUG JUNIOR SAILING PROGRAM 2017 Paent & Sailo Handbook
PSA SCHEDULE Date Satuday June 17 th Thusday June 22 th Monday June 26 th - August 11 th Monday June 26 th - Fiday July 14 th Tuesday July 11 th Tuesday July 18 th Monday July 24 th - Fiday August 11 th Tuesday August 1 st Sunday August 6 th Wednesday August 9 th Wednesday August 9 th Fiday August 11 th Satuday August 12 th Event Boat Check In 1st Paents Meeting (6:00 PM @ PYC) PSA Full Session PSA 1st Session Bing a Paent Sailing (Both AM and PM classes) 2nd Paents Meeting (6:00 PM @ PYC) PSA 2nd Session Bing a Paent Sailing (Both AM and PM classes) Paul Risseeuw Junio Regatta & ECSA Cook Out Nott Island Picnic - fo ALL students (10AM - 3 PM) PSA Dance & Paty - fo ALL sailos (stats at 7pm) PSA Gaduation and Awads (stats at 6:30 pm) Boat Check out (9 am - 12 pm) Please Note: PSA will be closed - No classes - on Tuesday, July 4th and Monday July 17 th thu Fiday July 21 nd Times and exact schedules will be given out by the PSA staff appoximately one week pio to specific egattas and events DOGS ARE NOT ALOWED on PYC gounds duing PSA classes o duing othe PSA events at any time. When dopping off o picking up students, please dive cautiously and slowly... CHILDREN AT PLAY!! Please use the diveway cicle at the club in a counteclockwise diection. 1
2017 PSA Staff Chaiman Kathyn Ryan 16 Bittesweet Lane Ivoyton, CT 06442 (860) 227-9808 kmyan1995@gmail.com Teasue and Regista Maian Cason 84 Maes Hill Road Ivoyton, CT 06442 (860) 767-1929 lcason5@comcast.net Diecto Ann Coucy 17 Rive St Deep Rive, CT 06417 (860) 304-6843 ann.coucy@comcast.net Coaches and Senio Instuctos Kenna Campbell Assistant Diecto Kyle Fasulo Race Coach Libby Ryan Instucto Kelsey Foste Instucto Austin Rannestad Instucto Emily Black Instucto Megan Ryan Instucto Alex Maxwell Instucto Fom the PSA Chaiman Welcome to Pettipaug Sailing Academy (PSA) we all look fowad to Pettipaug s 59th season of sailing instuction. The pupose of this Handbook is to infom both PSA paents and students about ou pogams, so you will have a bette idea of what to expect if you ae new to PSA. Even if you ae a PSA vetean, we hope you spend some time eviewing the contents of this Handbook to make sue you haven t missed any useful bits of infomation. If you have any suggestions on how to impove the Handbook, let us know. Also, please feel fee to contact me o the Sailing Diecto with you comments and suggestions egading ou sailing pogams. Sinceely yous, Kathyn Ryan Chaiman, PSA Junio Sailing Pogam Vice Commodoe, Pettipaug Yacht Club (Junio Instuctos to be detemined by the PSA Diecto) Phone at the Club House: (860) 767-8893 (local calls only) PSA email addess: psa@pettipaug.og Pettipaug Web Site: www.pettipaug.com Check us out on Facebook!
Table of Contents 2016 PSA Events Schedule 2016 PSA Staff & PSA Chaiman Welcome lette Table of Contents PART 1 Oganization and Staff........................ 1 Pogam Goals... 2 Student Pepaation... 2 Paental Involvement......................... 2 Paent Voluntees... 3 Comments, Suggestions & Poblems... 3 Launch Sevice... 3 Pettipaug Yacht Club Membeship... 3 Sexual Haassment, Abuse Awaeness, Bullying.... 3 PART 2 Boats................................... 4-5 Neve Owned a Boat?........................ 5 Checklist fo Student Sailos................... 5 PART 3 Classes... 6 Sailing Ranks............................... 6 Seaman... 7 Seaman Fist Class... 8 Second Mate............................ 9 Fist Mate... 10 Boatswain... 11 Skippe-Racing / Skippe-Racing Team....... 12 PART 4 Racing... 13 Racing Oppotunities... 13-14 PART 5 Regatta Guidelines... 15 Regatta Checklist.......................... 16 2016 ECSA Junio Events Schedule 2016 ECSA Team Racing Schedule
Oganization and Staff PART 1 Pettipaug Sailing Academy (PSA) is a not fo pofit, educational, 501(c)3 copoation. Since 1961 PSA has been teaching sailos the fine points of sailing, acing, cuising and life. PSA is managed by a Boad of Govenos. Boad of Govenos: The Boad meets once a month to supevise activities of the Club and PSA. Membes of ou boad attend the National Sailing Pogams Symposium annually as well as many othe national, egional, aea and local meetings thoughout the yea. One boad membe is the US Sailing Regional Taining Coodinato. Though these activities we ae in vey good position to be up to date on local and national tends and events. PSA Chaiman: The boad appoints a boad membe to be the Sailing Academy Chaipeson to ovesee and manage PSA, and is esponsible fo hiing the PSA staff. While the chaiman is not at PSA duing the day, infomation on how to contact him o he is on the intoductoy page of this handbook. PSA Diecto: Day to day opeations of PSA duing the season ae handled by the Sailing Academy Diecto. He/she is esponsible to the chaiman of PSA fo all activities that PSA takes pat in. The diecto is esponsible fo managing the sailing staff, including the instuctos, junio instuctos and all othe academy staff membes. The diecto is also the main contact fo Boad Membes, paents, and othes inteested in any aspect of the day to day opeation of PSA. Instuctos ae the pimay instuctional staff at PSA. This summe we have seven full-time instuctos. They ae esponsible fo pepaing dass activities, ecod keeping, unning classes, discipline and all othe activities associated with teaching sailing at PSA. Ou instuctos ae vey well tained and of the highest calibe. They ae all US Sailing Small Boat Sailing cetified instuctos which equies a fou-day instucto couse as well as a valid CPR and Basic Fist Aid cetification. Some have gone on to become US Sailing Small Boat Racing cetified equiing an additional two days of intense taining. We also send them to an ECSA instucto clinic each yea and often to othe specialized seminas. Junio Instuctos: PSA also has a numbe of Junio Instuctos who help the staff duing the moning sessions. Thei esponsibilities include sailing with new sailos, helping ig and deig boats, and othe vaious jobs essential to a smooth unning pogam. 1
Pogam Goals To accomplish these goals we need the help and active coopeation of the Boad, staff, paents, sailos and fiends. Membes of the Boad and Academy voluntees spend countless hous evey yea woking to make PSA a success. The pimay goals of PSA ae (in no paticula ode): 1. Develop spotsmanship, integity and intepesonal skills. 2. Instill in the students an admiation fo sailing. 3. Develop a espect fo the sea and the elements. 4. Lean and incopoate safety and seamanship. 5. Instill esponsibility fo boats and equipment. 6. Ceate a fun atmosphee in which childen want to paticipate. 7. Povide the envionment and education fo those who want to compete and those who do not. Student Pepaation Each day, befoe coming to PSA, please help you child(en) by making cetain they ae pepaed fo class. Sailing is stenuous, had wok and can at times be dangeous. It is impeative that eveyone at PSA be on thei best behavio, well ested, alet, well nouished and have all the pope equipment. Pepae fo sailing by: 1. Eating a pope meal befoe coming to PSA. 2. Applying sunblock libeally. 3. Weaing sunglasses with full UV potection. 4. Weaing a hat that will be secue if it is windy. 5. Weaing shoes at all times (in boats, on docks and on clubhouse deck). Boat shoes and tevas ae acceptable. Sandals that slip off easily, like flip-flops, ae not acceptable. 6. Weaing a popely fitted US Coast Guad Appoved Pesonal Flotation Device (PFD o Lifejacket) at all times while on the docks o in the boats at PSA. They must have an emegency whistle attached. Paental Involvement Fist and foemost, we welcome paents involvement with thei childen in the pogam. We have included a list of things paents can do to help the pogam be a success. 1. Shae comments and suggestions with Diecto. 2. Help you child be pepaed fo class each day (see Student Pepaation). 3. Remind students that pope behavio (espectful, esponsible) is equied. 4. Call Diecto wheneve you child is absent. If you have any planned absences, please let the Diecto know as soon as you ae awae of them. 5. Dop off and pick up you child on time. No moe than 15 minutes befoe o afte a session. 6. Regatta Tanspotation: Vehicles with taile hitches ae needed fo tanspoting boats to othe egattas at othe yacht clubs. 7. Team Racing Tanspotation: Once a week ou team tavels to othe yacht clubs. 2
Paent Voluntees Pettipaug needs paents to assist with many student activities and egatta events. We can always use an exta hand. Please contact the PSA Chaiman if you can voluntee. Comments, Suggestions and Poblems We ae always tying to impove the pogam. We welcome all suggestions, citicisms and compliments. The pogam is somewhat flexible, and if the easons ae compelling, changes can be made in midsteam if necessay. We equest that you put all comments, suggestions and complaints in witing to the Chaiman (addess listed on PSA staff page) so that we will be sue to follow up on them. Please include you name and telephone numbe so that we may contact you if futhe discussion is needed. Poblems need to be addessed as ealy as possible. Summes ae shot so don t let peceived poblems feste. In addition to binging you geneal comments to the pogam Chaiman, you can discuss concens about classes, acing, teaching methods and daily opeations with the Diecto. Except fo safety concens which need immediate attention, such discussions must be taken up outside class time and should be out of the pesence of childen and thid paties. Please do not hold up an entie class with issues that can be discussed at anothe time. Ou instuctos have been odeed to walk away fom any convesation that becomes uncivil in natue, and epot the incident to the Diecto and the Chaiman. Launch Sevice The Sailing Academy staff ae not launch opeatos fo club membes. Instuctos ae at the club to teach sailing. The club safety boats ae not available to club membes duing Sailing Academy sessions. Pettipaug Yacht Club Membeship Pettipaug Yacht Club junio membeship is available to all PSA students fo $15. Senio (family) membeship equies the applicant to be poposed by anothe membe, who will collect the necessay fou lettes. The Boad of Govenos will then vote on the application. The new membe then pays the annual dues and the initiation fee. Sexual Haassment and Abuse Awaeness In light of ecent litigation, eveyone should be sensitive to peceived conduct and the effect it has on what is consideed appopiate and inappopiate behavio. While this may be a sad commentay on ou times, it is impotant to be AWARE of these issues and to make sound judgments. Bullying Bullying is the wilful, conscious desie to hut anothe and put him/he unde stess. Tattum, D and Tattum, E. (1992) Social Education and Pesonal Development. London,: David Fulton. At Pettipaug Sailing Academy, thee is zeo toleance fo bullies and bullying behavio. We opeate on the thee-stikes policy: waning, suspension, expulsion. 3
PART 2 Boats: C/C 420s, Optimist dinghies and Blue Jays Pettipaug Sailing Academy owns some sailboats. We boow C/C 420s boats fom Tinity College and fom geneous academy families and fiends. Pettipaug Sailing Academy uses these boowed boats at its discetion in ou sailing classes. Families with students in the pogam ae encouaged to own and donate Blue Jays o Optimist dinghies to the pogam. The two types of boats that Pettipaug will accept fo use in the pogam ae Blue Jays and Optimist dinghies. These boats ae sailed extensively in this aea. The 420 and the Optimist ae sailed heavily aound the wold, and the C/C 420 is used in many college sailing pogams. Blue Jays have been used at PSA and othe Long Island Sound and New Jesey junio sailing pogams since the foties. They ae good double-handed taining boats. Boat donations: Boats donated to the pogam emain the popety of the dono. The donation is actually the use of the boat duing PSA. Families who donate boats ae entitled to a tuition efund fo each student enolled, and because PSA is a 501(c)3 non-pofit copoation, a tax deduction equivalent to the chate value of an equivalent boat fo the same peiod may be taken. (The value and tax benefit deived fom such a donation is up to the dono to detemine. Check with a knowledgeable tax adviso.) Othe donations ae also welcome. Please contact a boad membe if you ae inteested in making a contibution. Owning and donating a boat to the pogam is vey wothwhile. Some mutual benefits ae: Allows PSA to function Saves owne tuition Povides a tax deduction Allows sailo to sail duing non-psa hous Allows sailo to attend egattas at PSA and othe clubs Teaches sailo esponsibility fo owning and maintaining a boat Outside of PSA pogam hous (evenings, weekends and off-season) the boat is fee to be used by the owne. Duing the pogam hous, PSA uses donated boats fo all pogam students to use. You child may o may not sail you boat. If you desie that they use you boat, please make it known to the Diecto and he will do what he can. In the end, howeve, the best inteests of the sailo ae consideed most impotant, and the sailo will be assigned to a class and boat that best fits his skills and abilities. Boat use fo egattas: In ode to attend egattas at othe clubs, sailos must eithe own a boat o boow a boat fom a boat owne. Geneally PSA has enough boats so that some pogam boats will be able to be eleased to the owne fo egatta attendance. Please be sue to alet the staff as soon as possible as to you plans fo using boats. In ae instances, we may equie that a boat stay at PSA. 4
Boowing boats fo egattas: Sailos who boow boats should intend to etun the boat in bette condition than it was boowed. PSA has guidelines fo boowing, using and etuning boats fo egattas. Realize, howeve, that it is up to the owne and the boowe to agee on all the details of use of the boat. PSA does help aange fo boat boowing. Boats used at egattas in this manne ae not the esponsibility of PSA, and we will not make epais due to damage fom egatta use. Boat damage: PSA does epai damage caused by students duing nomal PSA use. Paents of a student who causes intentional o avoidable damage to any club o pivate popety ae expected to pay fo any damage done. Neve Owned a Boat? PSA is a place fo eveyone to lean childen and paents alike. Many of ou students families ae new to sailing. As we depend upon families to help us out by owning and donating boats, we ae also hee to help you decide if boat owneship is fo you. We can help you decide what type of boat would be appopiate fo you child, and will even do infomal suveys of locally available boats used by PSA. We also keep tabs on the local boat maket, and often can help you find o sell a boat. If you have any questions about boat owneship, please feel fee to contact Bob Cashman o Ann Coucy. CHECK LIST FOR STUDENT SAILORS You need to bing (o wea) the following items to class eveyday: Coast Guad appoved life jacket (the vest type ae most comfotable) Shoes (Tevas, boat shoes o sneakes but NO flip flops) Sunsceen (put it on befoe you aive) Hat Change of clothes/towel Wate bottle... filled, especially on hot, humid days Snack 5
PART 3 Classes Classes follow a flexible lesson plan. Weathe conditions and safety ae majo consideations in planning daily lessons. The leaning pocess is a continuous one, and sailos missing a lot of classes will be at a disadvantage. Please discuss planned absences with the Diecto. Sailing Ranks PSA has a seies of skill sets (anks) which ae taught by ou instuctos. Each instucto is esponsible fo teaching these skills to his o he goup on an ongoing basis. A student almost always advances one ank each yea and it is possible to advance two anks each yea. Sailing Ranks ae designed aound the designations used in the eal woking wold of seamanship and ae intended to einfoce each student s sense of achievement and pogess. Each student will be evaluated at the beginning of each semeste and placed in a class woking towads a ank which the Instuctos detemine is appopiate fo thei skill level and abilities. Most anks ae designed to be leaned in a sequence as follows: SEAMAN SEAMAN FIRST CLASS SECOND MATE FIRST MATE BOATSWAIN SKIPPER RACING SKIPPER Some anks ae designed to be achievable by many students in a single session but othes may take moe time, such as BOATSWAIN and SKIPPER. All students will eceive cetificates fo thei paticipation at the gaduation awads egadless of the ank they achieve. Some students may equie moe than othes to achieve some of ou anks. Ou instuctos undestand that all students will pogess best at thei own pace. This is the best way to cultivate a life-long enjoyment of the wondeful activity of sailing. Please confim that you child has been placed in the coect level duing the fist week of you PSA session. 6
PSA JUNIOR SAILING ACADEMY RANKS PETTIPAUG JUNIOR SAILING ACADEMY Requiements fo SEAMAN Safety Swim test PFD on and off Capsize and ecove Know the fou basic PSA Rules of Seamanship Rig and Unig Know and follow gea stowage pocedues Know Noth, South, East and West Compass Point at PSA Detemine wind diection Detemine cuent diection and it s effects Knots, Cleats and Coils Bowline Squae Knot Coil & Hang Clove Hitch Cleat Hitch Figue Eight Chats What the colos mean Finding the compass ose and what it shows Sailing Skills Boad a boat safely and caefully Safety position fo stating and stopping: Basic Steeing Heading towads and away fom the wind Collision and dange avoidance Tacking Basic Rules of the Road Sail ove powe, except in channel and big boats Teminology Bow, sten, tansom, bilge, pot, staboad, mast, boom, mainsail, jib, sheet, halyad, outhaul, cleats (4 types), centeboad, udde, tille. DEMONSTRATE GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP AND COURTESY AT ALL TIMES! 7
PSA JUNIOR SAILING ACADEMY RANKS PETTIPAUG JUNIOR SAILING ACADEMY Requiements fo SEAMAN FIRST CLASS Safety Same as fo Seamen Sailing Skills Tun AWAY fom and TOWARDS the wind Jibing Mooing and Docking Man Oveboad Figue Eight, then ecove Squall pocedue: set ancho, douse sails, get low Point of Sail Be able to sail to windwad easily Close, Beam, Boad Reach, Run Stee by Balance (Ruddeless) Maneuveing in cuent Be awae of and check fo cuent Making and using anges Seamanship Chats, wate depth, compass diections, buoys and channels Anchoing Line coiling, thowing and catching, cleating Boat cae and maintenance Rowing Rules of the Road Pupose of the ules Opposite tacks: Pot / Staboad Same tacks: Leewad / Windwad Teminology Windwad, leewad, pot, staboad tack; Luffing, beating, eaching, unning, heading up, heading down, heading on and off the wind, heeling; Clew, tack, head, luff, leech, foot, battens, spinnake, telltales, stays, shouds, vang, down haul DEMONSTRATE GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP AND COURTESY AT ALL TIMES! 8
PSA JUNIOR SAILING ACADEMY RANKS PETTIPAUG JUNIOR SAILING ACADEMY Requiements fo SECOND MATE Sailing Skills Pope tim of both sails fo each point of sail Sail a staight couse in a cuent Pope tim of a centeboad Able to maintain couse and speed in fomation with othe boats Recove a Man Oveboad fom a each, un and beat Seamanship Identify the basic types of sailing vessels: Schoone, Cat, Ketch, Yawl, Sloop and Cutte Chats Buoy desciptions and light navigation makes Bottom makeup. Basic compass couses Compass How it woks Relationship between compass points and degees: N--S--E--W. Weathe Recognize basic cloud types Undestand elationships between wind diection and weathe Beaufot Scale Teminology Stom Tysail Genoa Radial Spinnake Maconi Rig Mizzen Mast Bloope Tiadial Spinnake Cosscut Spinnake Staysail Gaff Rig DEMONSTRATE GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP AND COURTESY AT ALL TIMES! 9
PSA JUNIOR SAILING ACADEMY RANKS PETTIPAUG JUNIOR SAILING ACADEMY Requiements fo FIRST MATE Sailing Skills Sail well on all points of sail in all conditions fom difte to heavy ai Sail well single handed Set, fly, jibe and take down a spinnake Exhibit the ability to wok well with cew membes of vaious abilities and tempeaments Undestand Sail Theoy Why a boat sails Appaent wind Pope use of sail contols fo wind conditions: Outhaul, vang, downhaul, babe haules, halyads Seamanship Know the 16 Compass Points Undestand Compass Vaiations and Deviation Plot a couse between two points on a chat Detemine Estimated Time of Aival (ETA) when given speed. Detemine tides and cuents fo the Connecticut Rive and Long Island Sound using cuent tables and chats Racing Skills Be able to stat a ace safely and intelligently Safe, seaman-like and efficient ounding of maks DEMONSTRATE GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP AND COURTESY AT ALL TIMES! 10
PSA JUNIOR SAILING ACADEMY RANKS PETTIPAUG JUNIOR SAILING ACADEMY Requiements fo BOATSWAIN Seamanship Skills Knots and thei uses Rolling Hitch Fisheman s Bend Sheepshank Bowline on a Bight Splices Eye Splice Shot Splice Whip End of Line Line Types advantages and uses Dacon Baided Nylon Twisted / 3-stand Anchos advantages and disadvantages Danfoth Scope Yachtsman Chain Mushoom Plow, CQR Buce Sea Ancho Chat Wok Plot a Magnetic Couse Detemine cuent stength and diection Coect Magnetic Couse fo cuent Have a thoough undestanding of all chat symbols Sailing Theoy Undestand what makes a sailboat go to windwad and downwind by the action of the wind on the sails and the wate Racing Skills Assist on Race Committee Undestand oganization and use of Appeals Undestand Rules and Potest Pocedues DEMONSTRATE GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP AND COURTESY AT ALL TIMES! 11
PSA JUNIOR SAILING ACADEMY RANKS PETTIPAUG JUNIOR SAILING ACADEMY Requiements fo SKIPPER AND SKIPPER RACING TEAM Pope tim of main and jib Most efficient couse in tide, cuent and wind conditions Sail a staight couse in cuent Emegencies on the wate: capsize, boat damage, stoms Cae of the boat: launching, docking, anchoing Teaching cew jobs: tacking, jibes, spinnake Pope tim of centeboad Maintain couse and speed in fomation Racing ules Stating stategies and techniques Rounding maks Pope lay line to maks Race stategy position in fleet Reading clouds and wind Sail selections fo wind conditions Boat balance and hiking fo wind conditions Spinnake tim and wind conditions Roll tacking Race in inte-club egattas (fou equied) DEMONSTRATE GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP AND COURTESY AT ALL TIMES! 12
PART 4 Racing Sailos who have gone though PSA have competed at the top national and intenational level. Seveal fome students have been All-Ameican sailos at the college level, sailed in US Sailing National Championships, involved in Olympic campaigns and woked with Ameica s Cup Challenges. It is possible that you childen will go in these diections as well and we will always be hee to do what we can to suppot ou sailos in these activities. Howeve, ou goal is not to tun out wold-class champions yea in and yea out. We ae just as happy to expose ou sailos to the adventues and fun of sailing, foste a love of sailing and geneally how to be good people. Racing Philosophy: Competition is an essential pat of the highe level classes. We believe that seveal benefits ae deived fom acing. Childen (and adults fo that matte) often don t undestand o develop the fine points of sailing unless they can see the effects of thei actions as measued against anothe boat sailing alongside. The leaning cuve is geneally heightened when thee is a clealy identifiable shot-tem goal. While encouaging fiendly competition, we ty to avoid divisive activities. We believe sailos should lean the acing ules. This includes allowing potests and the subsequent heaings, Racing Potests: This is an impotant pocess and helps sailos lean the nuances of the ules. Junio sailing potests at PSA ae geneally used as a leaning expeience fo all sailos. We discouage the use of the ules as a weapon to gain an advantage. We use the 720 penalty which, in most cases, allows the sailo to sail in two complete cicles to exoneate himself of a foul befoe continuing the ace. This allows a sailo who knows he made a mistake to take a penalty and continue acing, avoiding the moe sevee penalty of disqualification if a subsequent potest wee lost. We ty neve to foget that sailing should be fun. Paents should be instumental in suppoting thei childen and helping them undestand that thee is a system fo esolving disputes. The system does not always function popely, but childen should be taught to deal with it, accept the esults, o fight within the system and then move on. Racing Oppotunities Sailos ae encouaged to seiously conside thei abilities when deciding whethe to paticipate in any of these aces. Consultation with you instucto is advised if you have any question about whethe you ae pepaed to paticipate. 13
Fiday Seies is held duing the aftenoon session of PSA and is open to any junio sailo who is a membe of Pettipaug Yacht Club o any PSA student. Races ae un fo Optimists, Blue Jays and C/C 420s, assuming thee o moe of each class ae in attendance. The Fiday Seies is not pat of the egula lesson pogam of PSA. It is an entiely optional activity. Ou instuctos un the aces and will hold bief meetings befoe and afte the acing to make the seies as much of a leaning event as possible. Potests will be head by the instuctos afte the acing concludes fo the day, Fiday Seies acing is as effective a leaning tool as ou egula classes. Thee is no instuction and effectively no assistance duing sailing fo aces. Races will be held in vitually all safe weathe conditions. Racing will not be canceled if only pat of the fleet decides to sail. Instuctos may estict some paticipants fom sailing if the conditions ae too sevee fo paticula sailos. Safety is ou pimay concen. A smat sailo knows when not to go out. Regattas: Taveling to othe yacht clubs fo egattas is aguably the most memoable expeience fo ou sailos. Besides the enjoyment of the competition itself, the social aspects ae significant. The childen spend a lot of time on and off the wate with othe sailos up and down the Sound, and at highe levels, aound the county and the wold. Many local egattas ae listed in the ECSA Junio Yeabook. Please ask fo a copy fom you instucto if you want to see what is going on in the aea in Junio Sailing. The ECSA Yeabook contains dates of egattas, enty foms and diections to the yacht clubs. PSA will also maintain a calenda of local and egional events that ou sailos will be attending. Paent voluntees ae always needed to instill in the students an admiation fo sailing and to help move people, boats and equipment to and fom egattas and team-acing events. Don t be shy about volunteeing, and don t be supised if you eceive a call asking fo help, especially if you child is taveling to an event. Sailos who want to attend a egatta should be in contact with the Diecto as soon as possible. We will maintain a list of sailos and boats going to each event. We will do ou best to help coodinate moving people, boats and gea. It is not the instuctos job to move all the boats, to ig boats o keep tack of gea at egattas. They will help out when they can, but sailos and paents need to take full esponsibility fo thei paticipation at any egatta. When conditions pemit, a PSA instucto o epesentative will accompany ou sailos to egattas and help sailos befoe, between and afte acing. Paents ae encouaged to attend egattas with thei childen. At lage egattas, fleets ae usually boken up by age and expeience, and thee ae always some sailos who ae not vey good sailos. The best way to lean is to go acing a lot. It may often be fustating, but it is neve humiliating. Team Racing: Each week, membes of the PSA Team Racing Team compete against anothe yacht club. The esults ae compiled thoughout the season and a egional Team Racing Championship is held at the end of the season. 14
PART 5 Regatta Guidelines Sailos 1) Talk to people who have aced in the aea you ae going to. They will have lots of good local knowledge to help you have a successful tip. Make a list of any special equipment o pepaations you will need fo this tip. 2) Have you boat eady to be loaded on a taile the day befoe the egatta (in some cases we may need moe time). You should have all the wok you need to do done befoe we load tailes: clean the bottom, install equipment, de-ig and secue all unning and standing igging, etc. Don t ovelook having some tie-down line available as well. Make sue you have any gea you need fom the clubhouse and the sail locke; the club may not be open when you leave in the moning. 3) The night befoe the egatta gathe all you acing and fun stuff. Use the checklist so you will have eveything and be eady to go. Get a good night est as egatta days ae long and tiing. 4) When you ae at any event, always emembe you ae the guest of the host club. You ae expected to act matuely and show exemplay spotsmanship, both on and off the wate. Remembe to thank the oganizes, ace committee and othe host club officials. Ove the yeas PSA teams have gone to many events and we have been complemented on ou sailos good behavio, attitude and mannes, both as individuals and as a goup. Let s continue the good wok! Ou effots at being good citizens means in futue yeas we will be welcomed back. Instuctos 1) Encouage sailos to sign up and attend egattas. Maintain ecods of student paticipation, and oganize sailos and paents. Be mindful of not pushing sailos who do not want to paticipate (o ae not of sufficient ability). Make sue that eveyone knows that the only pessue is that fom the sailos themselves. Shae with all sailos who have not attended both the fun aspects of acing, as well as the wa stoies. Be sue to include sailos who could not attend a egatta, but ae inteested o wished to go. 2) Remind and assist sailos and paents in pepaing to go to a egatta: boat pep, de-ig, loading and secuing boats and gea. 3) Befoe depating make sue all ecods ae in place, paents ae infomed of plans, medical foms ae going with the goup and any othe loose ends ae tied up. 4) Gathe all the sailos pio to the ace and give all the help you can. Keep notes on aces and aces, and have a de-biefing afte acing. Evey ace is a new expeience and something can be leaned evey ace. 5) Maintain a list of paticipation and esults. 6) When at a egatta, be available at all times fo you students! Be helpful to the host of the egatta if possible, and wok with othe instuctos and clubs to make the egatta wok as smoothly as possible. 15
Regatta Checklist p Hull (equipment in good ode, cleaned, eady to go) p Spas p Racing Sails p Rudde, tille, hiking stick p Sail Ties p Lines (main, jib, spin sheets, uphaul, downhaul, painte, etc.) p Baile p PFD with whistle p Wate bottle p Sun sceen, hat, sun glasses p Paddle p Exta clothes, towel, bathing suit, foul weathe gea p Shoes p Sailing gloves (if conditions waant) p Snack food p Boat Registation (class egistation fo egional, national events) p Sail numbe on sail p Enty Fom popely completed and signed, enty fee p Wind pennant p Ancho & Line (Blue Jay) p Tools (hamme, and othe stuff) p Emegency pats: (bubble gum, duct tape, and othe stuff) p Rule book p A well-ested PSA sailo with a good attitude! p p p p 16