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AMYA Bulletin
Volume 4, Edition 4
| February 24, 2011
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A Message from the President
There is hope that Winter will eventually end and I can go sailing again. The AMYA volunteers have been hard at work getting us ready for this.
Check out the Club Resources section of the AMYA website. With the regatta season kicking in, there are some great additions there that you should know about. If you need to publicize your regatta, you can use one of the new posters. Don't have a starting tape? Well, the files are now available in the Club Resource section. Need a score sheet? Those are also available.
The score sheets are formatted for printing on 24"x36". Don't worry that you don't have a large format printer in your house. It's a simple process to download this file and send it to an office supply store like Staples, Office Max or Fedex Office. Staples charges $2.97 per sheet. You can either walk in the file or use their website. Trust me, the results are just plain cool.
You can do the same thing with the poster files. Staples does an awesome job. The trick seems to be to ask them to print it on shiny paper. Obviously, I am not too well versed in printer language.
Have you ever gone to the lake just to sail, then a buddy shows up and now you want to race? Darn, nobody thought to bring a start tape. Well, here is another benefit of having the start files available online. Get your smart phone out of your pocket, navigate to the start tape file in the Club Resource section and click the link. Bingo, the tape starts playing. At least it does on an Iphone. You'll have to let me know if it also works on other smart phones.
Let me know what else you think we need in the Club Resource section.
Now it's time for me to dust off some boats and charge some batteries. See you at the pond.
David Brawner
AMYA President
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 Important Election Information
Due to an oversight, the position of IOM Class Secretary was omitted from the list of offices up for election in 2011 published in Volume 4, Edition 3 of the Bulletin. Also, two classes administered by Class Owners Associations were left in. The complete list should be:
Class Secretaries
J - John Hanks - 2009
Wheeler - George Ribero - 2009
Soling 50 - Stan Ogden - 2009
Ten Rater - William Young - Appointed
Victoria - Brian Roberts- 2009
Inf. 54 - James Hensel - 2009
EC12 - Rick West - 2009
CR914 - Rick Martin - 2009
Soling 1M - Timothy Willings - 2009
Santa Barbara - Ernie Mortensen - 2009
US12 - Jack Ward - 2009
T37 - Will Lesh - 2009
IOM - Jake Leo - Appointed
Appointed directors must stand for election per bylaw 1.7.3. Incumbent Directors must be nominated and seconded if they wish to stand for re-election (bylaw 3.3).
Per bylaw 3.3, nominations and seconds for Director must be submitted to the Executive Secretary not later than March 3 (bylaw 15.3).
Per bylaw 7.7, nominations are not required for incumbent Class Secretaries. Other nominations and seconds for Class Secretary offices also must be received by the Executive Secretary by March 3.
Motions and their seconds must also be submitted to the Executive Secretary no later than March 3.
Doug Hemingway
Executive Secretary
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New Hampshire Boat Museum
The New Hampshire Boat Museum - Back Bay Skippers is in full swing for our winter 1m Soling building school. This years class is building 15 new boats to add to our fleet. Over the last three winters we have built 39 Solings.
Starting from 0 our skippers list is up to 45 active members and growing. We run Tuesday afternoon regattas, and attract a great crowd of spectators, including being on the tour buss list for things to do in Wolfeboro.
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 CR-914 Midwinter Regatta
South Broward Model Sailing Club
CR 914 Midwinter Regatta C.B. Smith Park Pembroke Pines FL
On 2 perfect sailing days, sunny skys and temps in the mid 70th , 13 sailors from 4 States entered the 2011 CR 914 Midwinter regatta. With the excellent management of the PRO Tony Gonsalvez, who mastered the the first day of races and did an even greater task of teaching our alternate race committee, (Virginia Russell and Bobbie Lawrence with assistance from Vanessa Flebbe) who ran the second day of racing. 26 Races where sailed in winds NE and ENE of 8 to 10mph, with sometimes down to 5mph, but basically it was a pretty steady condition. The winner was experienced CR 914 sailor Rick Martin, followed by Christian Flebbe, Fred Deutsch and Chris Hughes. 7 different sailors won at least one race, so that the competition was very close and many times won at the first mark by who was able to stay out of the pack and get free wind.
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Palm Beach Gardens Valentine's Regatta
EC 12's continued to battle in the second contest of the year at Palm Beach Gardens Valentine's Regatta Consistent B rig winds both days gave the skippers plenty to handle. At the end of the weekend, Class Champion Baron Bremer stood alone in the lead. But the rest of the A fleet skippers were as tight as it gets. GOLD FLEET
Place Skipper /Score
1 B. Bremer / 35
2 M. Gray / 67
3 F. Pfeil / 68
4 J. Steacy / 69
5 E. Gelina / 70 Not to be outdone, the leaders of the B fleet made it close also. SILVER FLEET
Place Skipper Sail/Score
1 B. Elder / 34
2 B. Cassidy / 35 John Lusconb and Bob Greer did a great job and changing to 720 turns for penalties at the start kept the fleet out of trouble most of the time. Full regatta report at http://www.floridaec12.com/regattas.html Photo link:http://picasaweb.google.com/greerdr/palmbeachgardens2011 |
The Seventh Maritime Model Exposition
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St Michaels, Maryland Saturday May 21 and Sunday May 22, 2011
The Model Guild of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM), the North American Steamboat Modeler's Association (NASMA) and the Washington Ship Model Society (WSMS) are again sponsoring the MARITIME MODEL EXPOSITION at St Michaels, Maryland. This event presents an opportunity for radio-controlled steamboat modelers to sail in a fresh water pond, and for R-C model sailors to race or just sail their craft in the pond or in the adjacent Fogg's Cove of the Bay. The Washington Ship Model Society will again present their exquisite display of the finest static models. Other modelers with static displays are invited to participate. In addition, the Model Sailing Club of the CBMM will race their five-foot skipjack R-C models and other sailing model clubs will sail in Fogg's Cove.
Check the Museum web site at www.CBMM.org . Contact Bob Mason at 410-745-3266 or bobmason@atlanticbb.net or Tom Ray at 443-786-1239 or yogojr@yahoo.com for more information.
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Middleboro Model Yacht Club
Editors Note: Many of use know how hard it can be to secure a site and sometimes give up.. It's great to see hard work pay off! Congratulations to MMYC.
SAILING SITE SECURED! Yesterday three MYC members attended the Grand Rapids Yacht Club board meeting. Bob Kress made the presentation to the board. He outlined the races we ran last year, our efforts to "stay out their way" and our offer to provide a sailing scholarship each year for their sailing school. Several GRYC members offered their support and the resolution to permit us to race each Wednesday starting at 5:30pm passed unanimously. Our season will coincide with theirs; Memorial Day through Labor Day. Of course it didn't hurt that Bill Waring and Bob are both former Commodores of the GRYC. We hope to have several tune-up races in April and we also offered a US-12 demo day during April to GRYC club members for anyone interested to try their hand at radio-controlled model yacht racing. This is an important milestone for our club - having a convenient place to sail for $250.00/year is an incredible bargain. Thank you Bob and Bill! - Larry Brannan Learn more about their club here.
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 In Memory of:
As the Commodore of the Woodlawn Sailing Club, I am sadden to inform the RC Community of the passing of Mr Porter Loring Jr. on January 14th, 2011. Porter was well known amongst many RC sailboat builders and skippers. In the late 1990's and early 2000 years , Porter had a goal to own or have built for him a boat from every best known National/World Champion from as many Classes he could get his hands on. This included builders such as Graham Bantock, John Hanks III, AJ Moritz, Dave Ramos, Herb Hoser, and Buddy Black to just a very few. At the height of his collection Porter owned closed to 65 ready to sail/race boats. All kept in immaculate condition in his climate controlled warehouse. During this time Porter would never refuse a chance to show off his collection to any one or groups of skippers that would want to spend time with him just talking sailing. Porters love for sailing went all the way back to the America's Cup days with the Classic J boats and later even being a Major cash Contributor to many America's Cup campaign. Porter was even once chosen to be the 17th man on the 1995 Young America's "Mighty Mary" boat and got to sail her in after a practice session as Skipper in San Diego. Porter was so proud of this that he even had Dave Ramos custom build and paint a CR-914 with the matching Mermaid design. This boat sits proudly in my home as Porter wanted it to be. In his later years when it came time for Porter to downsize, he asked me to find as many good homes and deserving skippers with an opportunity to buy and own these boats. I for one and many skippers in the San Antonio area would not otherwise have an opportunity to own some of these professionally built boats if it had not been for Porter. The Woodlawn Sailing Club and it's current luster would not be what it is today if it wasn't for Porter's support throughout the years. I for one can honestly say without a doubt I would not be a committed to RC Sailing as much as I am if it wasn't for the opportunities and knowledge that Porter bestowed onto me. Porter never said no to anything when it came to donating a boat for a Classroom teaching session or a raffle for a regatta as part of the fund raiser. Porter never would accept money from me for anything he had that I wanted or needed for the good of the Club or my personal collection. Porter was a dear friend of mine and many sailor, not only around the World but here in San Antonio, TX. His name will be engraved as with all WSC members as that has passed. With a plaque that reads "Sailors never pass on they just sail over the horizon". Sail on my friend! PORTER LORING, Jr. November 26, 1928 - January 14th, 2011
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Datacenter Passwords - Reminder
Passwords for member access to the AMYA Datacenter will be emailed early next week. This is referred to in the President's Letter in Model Yachting issue #163. Members who may have already received Model Yachting by first class mail may be concerned that they have not yet received their password.
Doug Hemingway
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 AMYA REGATTA SCHEDULE
GOTTA REGATTA?? (thanks to Dick Martin CR-914 CS for the phrase) Regatta Directors - Please send your regatta information to the AMYA to have your regatta published on the AMYA calendar. If you send me a link to your regatta information I will include your link in this calendar of events. Once the regatta has concluded please send us your regatta results and photos.
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