- Geoff Huck, Communications Committee Chair

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Webmaster

The ABYC Communications Committee is looking for a webmaster to replace Linda DeRusha, who is becoming chair of the Regalia Committee.  We want to thank Linda for her dedicated and effective leadership in this important position for ABYC.

 

The ABYC webmaster has responsibility for setting consistent policies regarding content and style on the site, for providing content where necessary, and for approving and adding content to the site from other Club committees, in consultation with the Communications chair.  The webmaster also responds to inquiries about the website from both Club members and nonmembers.

 

The webmaster should be familiar with HTML and a Content Management System like WordPress, but does not need to be an expert programmer or web designer (though of course some experience in those areas would be a plus).

 

All webmaster tasks can be accomplished from the comfort of your own home.  So, if you're looking for a swell position to fulfill your volunteer member contribution to the Club, get in touch with Geoff Huck, Communications Chair, at geohuc@rogers.com.  

 

Communications Committee Liaison

The Communications Committee is also looking for a person to serve as a liaison with ABYC's working committees.  The liaison will coordinate with the chairs of these committees or their designates to ensure that important information about upcoming events, activities, opportunities, policies, and procedures is distributed in a timely fashion to Club members as appropriate, through Ship2Shore or other channels.  This position is suitable for those who are familiar with or wish to become familiar with the actions and operations of Club committees.  If you are interested, write to Geoff Huck, geohuc@rogers.com.

 

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The season is almost over, alas, so it is best that we plan to make the most of it.  Be sure to show up for the Archie Walker Race on Saturday.  The early forecasts promise a fabulous fall day of sailing, unlike last Saturday for the Summerville, where only the very intrepid finished the race on a cold and rainy day.

Congratulations to Stephen Trevitt, who sailed Five-Fifteen to victory in the IRC 2 fleet ahead of Murray Gainer and the Lively crew and Larry Harrison and the crew of Merlin 2 in third place.

IRC 3 was won by Winston Beckett and the Fortitude gang with Paul McDonald, Karen Albert and the Vertigone team second.  Third place in IRC 3 went to Charlie Alksnis in Trimpus and in fourth place was Starwatch with the Flynn family and crew.

The white sail fleet was won by Shaun Carey and his team on Whiplash while Double Time helmed by Sam Robbins placed second.  Harvey Harman and his crew aboard Sail La Vie were third, while the PHRF fleet was won by Eli Gershman in Black Swan with Bla ck Pearl sailed by Eriks Kalvins was third.

Meanwhile our Juniors starred at Fall Cork:

Matt Sherar did ABYC proud finishing 10th in the Laser Standard rig fleet.  Not so Junior Jeff Dejean was 27th, but placed well ahead of many of the other masters present.

In the Radial fleet, ABYC instructor and coach Sarah Douglas finished SECOND in the 36 boat fleet.  In 29ers, Linor Berezin and Katherine McEwen finished fourth overall.

Our Opti sailors did well, with Martin Staadecker finishing 8th, Rowland Goddard 9th and Hunter Dejean 14th overall, and third in the girl's division. Congratulations to all!

Full results can be found at http://www.cork.org/2013-results/.

Finally, Tim Connolly and the crew of Humidor represented ABYC at the J24 North Americans in Newport.  Alas, no Canadian teams fared very well, with the top Canadian team being that of Rossi Milev's Clear Air crew placing 14th.  Rossi considered it a good wake-up call as he hasn't spent much time in the J24 lately but he plans to do the Worlds in Newport next year, as do most of the other Canadians who were present.

See you all for the skippers' meeting on Saturday!
That's all for this week.

Wendy Loat

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For the last few years the Summerville has combined a big windward/leeward (or leeward/windward) sausage with a coastal component to the Gibraltar buoy and back.  This year we dropped the coastal component to avoid interfering with the International 14 Worlds.  The start was off ABYC with wind from the SW at 7-10 knots. The lake mark was three miles out at 220 degrees; IRC boats did three times round for an 18 mile course, while PHRF spinnaker and whitesail boats went twice around for 12 miles.  Cold rain lasted for the entire race but 16 hardy boats and crews finished. 

This race counts as part of the ABYC offshore series.  For ABYC awards, the race will be re-scored counting ABYC boats only.  Some boats in the ABYC PHRF fleet raced the Summerville in IRC while others sailed in PHRF.  For ABYC scoring purposes only, IRC boats from ABYC were given a finishing time at the end of the second time around so they could be scored against the PHRF boats.  ABYC results will be found on the club race results page.

- from ABYC Website.

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It might be the middle of September, but the ABYC Junior Race Team just finished one more busy weekend.  It began on Friday with Martin Staadecker, Rowland Goddard and Hunter Dejean heading down to Kingston to compete in Fall CORK.  Joined by Coach Mike Goldfarb and Special Guest Coach Eric Goldfarb, the team was in for a fun but cold regatta.  Saturday brought rain and heavy winds in the morning.  Although the winds settled a bit, the rain did not.  The wet ABYC crew (and parents) unloaded in the rain and headed out to the water.  Despite the rain we still saw a great day on the water (even with the fog).  Martin had some great races, including four in the top ten.  Martin's best race was a 6th overall and his drop was a race where he capsized on the downwind.  Rowland continued on his amazing progress from the summer for his best regatta yet!  Rowland's highlights include two sixths.  Rowland also had the misfortune of capsizing during a race. However, with determination he made a huge recovery and finished that race in 12th.  Overall Rowland finished the regatta in 9th proud to be mid-fleet in a very competitive fleet.  Hunter arrived a bit nervous about the strong winds but was determined to get out there and do well.  Demonstrating some spectacular skill, Hunter's top race was 9th to get her 14th overall and 3rd place female, which earned her a spot on the podium.  Hunter was thrilled to be joined on the podium by two ABYC coaches Sarah Douglas, Linor Berezin and Katherine McEwen, who were racing in Laser Radial and 29er at Fall CORK.

 

On Sunday, the remainder of the Junior Race Team headed over to ABYC for their regular day of fall training.

 

With all that the Opti Race Team accomplished this weekend you would never know that it is now fall.  The ABYC Junior Race Team will continue to train at the club on Sundays for the remainder of September and October, continuing to improve their racing and sailing skills!

 

www.facebook.com/ABYCJuniorRaceTeam 

 

Results:

Martin Staadecker 8^th

Rowland Goddard 9^th

Hunter Dejean 14^th & 3^rd Female

 

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