Howdy from Bob Duff,
I am back here again for this 2010 sailing season! The focus will be THE PEOPLE WHO SERVE ON THE WATER FOR THE EASTERN YACHT CLUB RACE COMMITTEE. We invite you to come out with us. How to proceed to that end/beginning is described herein. You can always call me, Bob Duff at 1.781.631.0033 for questions/hints.
Each race day needs 10 or more race crew people with a variety of skills out on the water. BEGINNERS ARE WELCOME TO VOLUNTEER. We have fun, but recruiting people to sign-up for race jobs seems a major challenge.
Some new things are in place to, hopefully, improve on past procedures and spread recruiting tasks to people other than the Chairman of the Race Committee. I will describe some of these below.
We did several race days earlier with the following race days to do this 2010 season:
06/19-Sat-MRA#1 Day 3of4 @ TINKERS-Jack Cochrane as PRO
06/26-Sat-MRA#1 Day 40f4 @ BRIMBLES-Jim McCully as PRO
07/03-Sat-MRA#2 Day 1of4 @ MIDDLE-Jack Cochrane as PRO
07/04-Sun-EYC ANNUAL REGATTA-John Koopman as PRO
07/10-Sat-MRA#2 Day 2of4 @ TINKERS-Jim McCully as PRO
07/17-Sat-MRA#2 Day 3of4 @ TINKERS
07/19-Mon-JUNIOR RACE WEEK 1of3-Toby Reiley as PRO
07/20-Tue-JUNIOR RACE WEEK 2of3-Toby Reiley as PRO
07/21-Wed-JUNIOR RACE WEEK 3of3-Toby Reiley as PRO
07/22-Thu-NOOD Race Week 1of4 @ TINKERS (no BYC)
07/23-Fri-NOOD Race Week 2of4 @ TINKERS
07/24-Sat-NOOD Race Week 3of4 @ TINKERS
07/25-Sun-NOOD Race Week 4of4 @ TINKERS
07/31-Sat-MRA#2 Day 4of4 @MIDWAY
08/07-Sat-MRA#3 DAY 1of3 ONLY EYC
08/09-Mon-PYC Junior Olympics Day 1of2
08/10-Tue-PYC Junior Olympics Day 2of2
08/14-Sat-MRA#3 Day 2of3 @BRIMBLES
08/15-Sun-EYC CHANDLER HOVEY RACES-John Koopman as PRO
08/21-Sat-MRA#3 Day 3of3 -NO EYC shown at MIDWAY?
08/27-Fri-PHRF New England Championship Day 1of3-NO EYC
08/28-Sat-PHRF New England Championship Day 2of3
08/29-Sun-PHRF New England Championship Day 3of3
09/04-Sat-MRA#4 Labor Day Regatta Day 1of2 at Line 3
09/05-Sun-MRA#4 Labor Day Regatta Day 2of2 at Line 3
09/11-Sat-No EYC-MRA Fall One Design Day 1of 3 CYC No EYC
09/12-Sun-EYC-IODs-David J. Smith Trophy
09/18-Sat-MRA Fall One Design Day 2of3 ONLY EYC
09/24-Fri-EYC Sonar N.A. Championship Day 1of3
09/25-Sat-No EYC-MRA Fall One Design Day 2of3 CYC No EYC
09/25-Sat-EYC Sonar N.A. Championship Day 2of3
09/26-Sun-EYC Sonar N.A. Championship Day 3of3
Just for the record, we use three lines/areas for MRA: MIDDLE Line, TINKERS Line and BRIMBLES Line which are designated areas mostly out to sea. For NOOD Race Week the areas are called Outside, Halfway Rock and Tinkers. This year EYC will be at TINKERS for NOOD. For other events, we usually find an area out beyond the neck where we do not interfere with other club regattas.
MRA is the Marblehead Racing Association, a collaborative approach to keeping order. We do these many yacht races coordinated by MRA using committees and equipment from EASTERN, BOSTON and CORINTHIAN YACHT CLUBS. Pleon (PYC), Jubilee (JYC), Manchester (MYC) and Palmer's Cove (PCYC) participate in many events.
Further, PRO stands for Principal Race Officer: the person in charge who makes major decisions on the water to provide the best possible races for all the boats/people participating. A very good explanation of what PROs and committee members do is available on the EYC web WITHOUT PASSWORDS. This is buried along with a FORM for signing-up to experience a most interesting day on the water as follows:
- sign on to easternyc.org HOME page
- move cursor to touch “SAILING”
- click “RACING” in the pop-down
- click “Race Committee” buried with other things in the blue column on the left
- select “Race Committee” pop-down to see options then:
- click “Volunteer Schedule” (this is the FORM for sign-up)
- then click “here” to really get to the FORM
- or click “Join the Race Committee Team” ( the name of these two options is confusing)
Please take a look at #8 which is a good promotional piece. I feel that it should be available closer to readers rather than buried way down there on the web. The chance is small that an uninformed reader will find it buried down so low.
While there you might want to put "Join the Race Committee Team" into your "FAVORITES"
or "BOOKMARKS".
Then consider putting either/both of the following things there also.
For a look at how the EYC Sign-Up System works, click this YouTube presentation I modified for just this purpose. Click:
Then if you are inspired to register for time with us on the water, fill out the FORM seen on YouTube (#6 above) by clicking:
Soon after sign-up you will hear from us showing who plans to be there on the water with you
The schedule for this Saturday shows (as of Thursday pm) the need for two more crew but we could use four. Jack Cochrane is making phone calls as I write this! NOTE-DOUBLE CLICK TO THE RIGHT OF THIS LITTLE SPREADSHEET IF WRITING IS WHITE--A SOFTWARE BUG!
| 06/19-Sat-MRA#1 Day 3of4 ```````````` C*/E/BYC 1000hrs |
| Race | Person | Position |
|
| Byrne, Cheryl | Any Job |
|
| Smith, Liz Blodgett | Any Job |
|
| Soule, David | MARK Boat |
|
| ~ | need mark2? |
|
| ~ | need pin1? |
|
| ~ | need pin2? |
|
| ~ | need recorder? |
|
| Cochrane, Jack | PRO |
|
| Duff, Bob | Signaler |
| 06/19-Sat-MRA#1 Day 3of4 ```````````` C*/E/BYC 1000hr | Marvin, Bradford | Timer |
Though not listed, Faxon Michaud is the EYC club employee who drives the ETO signal boat, sets/pulls anchors and fires cannon on direction of the PRO and Timer. Last year he was listed along with Rebecca Bennett for this very important job. The Chairman of our committee objected; so I removed them from the system. Our Dock Master Michael Smith schedules these people from the Doc Staff. Rebecca did the first several race daysthis spring and has moved on to other summer work. A new person will be joining us soon to rotate with Fax.
Last Sunday we ran a special Spring Regatta for high performance 505 racing machines. The scheduled Saturday racing did not happen due to the absence of wind. You can read a nice review of the ten boat series/four races on Sunday written by Greg Wilkinson in the regular Monday EYC Sailing News. I do not know its distribution. I tried copying and pasting Greg's report, but this Google blogger software goes crazy with the full page size. There may be a "trick", but I do not have it tonight.
Race committee was NOT OVERSTAFFED Sunday. We did okay using the automated horn for 3 minute dinghy starts. The wind was so light that we used a regular LINE START rather than the traditional 505 RABBIT START. Ask me about RABBITS if you are interested. I did my first series of RABBITS for the 505 North American Championship in 1985 where I drove the ''chase boat" which was quite enjoyable. That was on a big fresh water lake near Ogallala, Nebraska. I have helped with many others since then. Anyway, here was the very short handed crew for 505s on Sunday: NOTE-DOUBLE CLICK TO THE RIGHT OF THESE LITTLE SPREADSHEET IF WRITING IS WHITE--A SOFTWARE BUG!
06/13-Sun-EYC-505 SPRING `````` REGATTA 2of2 1000hrs |
Race | Person | Position |
| Sides, Richard | ETO Signal Boat |
| Gring, Frank "Questie" | Mark/Pin |
| Schneider, Susie Oliver | Mark/Pin |
| McCully, Jim | Mark/Pin |
| Brennan, Tom | PRO |
| Duff, Bob | Timer |
Going back in time, here is the nearly full crew for the 06/06 LAMBERT OCEAN RACE.
| 06/06-Sun-EYC-LAMBERT `````````` OCEAN RACE 0900hrs |
| Race | Person | Position |
| 06/06-Sun-EYC-LAMBERT `````````` OCEAN RACE 0900hrs | Duff, Bob | Signaler |
|
| Marvin, Bradford | Timer |
|
| Koopman, John | PRO |
|
| Sides, Richard | ETO Signal Boat |
|
| Byrne, Cheryl | PIN Boat |
|
| Ducharme. Sarah | UTILITY player |
|
| Koopman, Fritz | MARK Boat |
Since the LAMBERT is an EYC event, the results are posted on easternyc.org and (I think) nowhere else. I thought I could give you a direct link to results, but the only thing I can find on the site is the sailing instructions.
Good luck with your search. I personally find the EYC web very hard to navigate for things related to sailing. If you can find REGATTAS/RACING RESULTS you will find nothing posted about the LAMBERT. Another pop-down is so cluttered with undated races that I gave up trying to find the thing which brought me to sign-on.
A classic thing which never seems to get changed is the RACE COMMITTEE page which has little or nothing there of much interest. Then after gushing words about our FANTASTIC race committee, it says "Visit our Race Committee's page and learn about our all-star team!
". Please! Please! We are reading that suggestions right there ON THE RACE COMMITTEE PAGE!
For our MRA races, results are posted elsewhere in great detail by clicking:
http://www.mheadrace.org/
Copy and paste this http.... to your internet browser if the click does not work.
Jim Whipple does an outstanding job as MRA Scorer. It is a shame that MRA does not carry scores for the big club regattas like our LAMBERT, EYC ANNUAL, CHANDLER HOVEY and big events at the other clubs.
Going back further, we started the EYC 2010 season by running the Spring One-Design Regatta on Memorial Day weekend as follows: NOTE-DOUBLE CLICK TO THE RIGHT OF THIS LITTLE SPREADSHEET IF WRITING IS WHITE--A SOFTWARE BUG!
| 05/30-Sun-EYC-MRA Spring ```````1 Dsgn Day 1of2 1000hrs |
| Race | Person | Position |
| 05/30-Sun-EYC-MRA Spring ```````1 Dsgn Day 1of2 1000hrs | Duff, Bob | Signaler |
|
| Marvin, Bradford | Timer |
|
| Koopman, John | PRO |
|
| Shea, Kevin | Mark/Pin |
|
| Byrne, Cheryl | Mark/Pin |
|
| Schneider, Susie Oliver | Mark/Pin |
|
| Ducharme, Sarah | Utility |
| 05/31-Mon-EYC-MRA Spring `````` 1 Dsgn Day 2of2 1000hrs |
| Race | Person | Position |
| 05/31-Mon-EYC-MRA Spring `````` 1 Dsgn Day 2of2 1000hrs | Duff, Bob | Signaler |
|
| Marvin, Bradford | Timer |
|
| Koopman, John | PRO |
|
| Shea, Kevin | Mark/Pin |
|
| Byrne, Cheryl | Mark/Pin |
|
| Reiley, Toby | MARK Boat |
|
| Piper, Mike | Mark/Pin |
Now that seems enough for a start this week. I am certain that one or more of my friends on the race committee will find something about this blog which is wrong or should have been different or, most likely, that I should not have done it at all. However, the nice thing about a blog is that you can do most anything short of slander.
PLEASE USE THE COMMENT FACILITY BELOW JUST FOR FUN! THAT WOULD PLEASE ME! IT WILL BE DIRECT WITHOUT A POSTAGE STAMP. TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK--BAD OR GOOD.
See you next week with views of the race committee stuff---maybe!
IOD events--Bermuda, Maine, San Franciso, Long Island Sound New york and Edinburgh Scotland without ever winning the IOD Worlds Championship. Not a bad life. Further down you will read my "excuse" for showing a picture of this beautiful racing yacht with reference to the 4th of July.