[etchells-fleet11-members] July 27th Wrap Up

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I don't know if he's on the listserv but I told him this personally on Saturday:
 I thought Rick did an outstanding job as PRO.  He was on top of the very
dynamic and challenging weather we were seeing and communicated well what he was
thinking about it.  I would be very happy to see him standing on the deck of
Carrier for future OD races.

Aaron

P.S.  We took our time at the first windward mark of the abandoned race as
45:51.  I can't see anywhere that we could have made up that 51 seconds.  And
would we really have wanted to keep going in that race anyway?  As we saw, it
only got worse (until it got WAY better 2 hours later).



----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Frerker <mike.frerker at gmail.com>
Date: Monday, July 27, 2009 11:15 am
Subject: [etchells-fleet11-members] July 27th Wrap Up
To: Fleet11 Etchells <etchells-fleet11-members at raceonedesign.org>

> *Saturday*
> We had 2-1/4 races on Saturday.  Good patience by the all involved 
> got us
> the 2 as it was looking a lot like we would just get the 1/4.
> 
> For those of you that haven't yet read the SIs (and we know who you 
> are)there is a 45 minute time limit on the first mark.  That first 
> attemptedrace was abandoned on that basis, not by decision of the 
> RC.  The other
> notable regulation is that no warning will be made after 1545 (not 
> 1500 as I
> told some of you at the bar).  I believe we came in at 1515 so all 
> is right
> with the world.
> 
> In the end, good breeze from the west (so crazy streaky) for two races
> (B5-B6).  Not bad.
> 
> *Next Saturday*
> Next week was originally scheduled as B7 and 'Crew Race'.  Since we 
> were not
> able to get B3 and B4 in, the Crew Race has been replaced by a 
> makeup of
> B3.  This was posted by 1800 on July 25th as required in 3.2 of the 
> SIs, but
> I suspect this email is more useful for a lot of you. (Something to 
> thinkabout for 2010:  do we want to make electronic communications 
> the 'official'
> communications?)
> 
> We have one additional makeup slot on the schedule later in the 
> year that we
> may be able to use for B4 if we don't have a lot of missed C-series 
> races.
> *RC Communication
> *Please keep the direct negative communication to the RC to a minimum.
> Whether you don't like RC volunteer system, or you thought a change 
> mark was
> in the wrong place or a line too skewed; we've asked for several 
> years now
> that those comments be directed through the Fleet Captain.
> 
> *Verve Cup
> *Just a reminder that Verve Cup registration is now open.  Online at
> Yachtscoring.com <http://www.yachtscoring.com/emenu.cfm?eID=288>.
> 
> *Jaguar Cup
> *Information regarding the 2010 Jaguar Cup is now up at the Fleet 20
> website.
> http://etchellsfleet20.org/2010_jag/index.html#Documents
> 
> All for now.
> 
> Mike
>