District 19 News

Doug updates us with the following District 19 news ...

1.) Some updates to the District website at www.j24district19.org, including updates on the PNW Championship, and some links to the items highlighted below

2.) Nice representation by Eric Sanderson and team Suspence as well as Harry Brown and the Mouse Trap folks at the Worlds in Annapolis.

3.) Congrats to Harry Dursch and the Self Abuse gang for the J24 win at the NOODs in May, 1st step on the PNW Champ front!

4.) Other Events on the District Calendar

• 3/28-3/29 VARC Opener, RVYC
• 4/18-4/19 RVYC OD
• 4/25 Lake Washington Spring Regatta
• 4/30-5/8 Worlds (Annapolis)
• 5/15-5/17 Seattle NOOD - PNW #1
• 6/20-6/21 Seattle J-Fest (Shilshole)
• 6/27-6/29 WAVES/Easter Seals -PNW #2
• 7/31-8/2 Montana Sailing Championships
• 8/1-8/2 CGRA One-Design (CGOD), Columbia Gorge, District 19 Championship - PNW #3
• 8/8-8/9 HRYC Double-Dammed, Cascade Locks -> Dalles
• 9/5-9/6, Labor Day Weekend. There will be a J24 start with about a dozen expected.
• 9/12-9/13 Lake Washington Fall Regatta
• 9/12-9/20 RVYC OD
• 9/19-9/20 Western Regionals, Berkely Yacht Club
• 9/24-9/27 Nationals, San Francisco Yacht Club (Tiburon)
• 10/3-10/4 Seattle One-Design Fleet Championship
• 2010 Fleet 26 has secured the bid for the 2010 North Americans! J

RCYC Summer Regatta - June 19 & 20

Attention Sailors:

Friday & Saturday, June 19 & 20, is the RCYC Summer Regatta. Two days of
excellent sailing and great racing, guaranteed*! If you have not sent in
your registration, NOW is the time to do so. Don't wait, summer is here the
weather will be good, there will be wind, this WILL BE FUN! 2 or 3 races on
Friday and a bunch on Saturday, with Sunday off to mow the lawn; what more
could you want?

Send your checks by snail mail and your entries electronically, for faster
service use your credit card**

RCYC.RaceCapt@comcast.net
Eric & Kim
RCYC Race Captains

*there are no guarantees in life, but it sounded really good didn't it?

**no, we don't take credit cards.

Coming Events

The following events are listed on the front page of SAILPDX website. Can we get great J24 participation? With the bigger better fleet we are fielding this year we should be able to. Sign up often and early.

• SYSCO Summer Series Tuesdays & Thursdays 6/2-7/2
• OWSA Womens Race series 6/15-7/13
• Beer Can Races (most) Fridays 6/12 to 8/21
• RCYC Summer Regatta 6/19-20
• CYC Single Handed Race 7/19
• CYC Summer Series 7/21 - 8/27
• CYC Couples Race 6/24
• PYC and SHSC Gold Rush 7/25

UK Sailing Races - Cowes Week and Round the Island

I used to sail in Cowes Week and the Round the Island Race.

Round the Island is a single day event which draws 1875 boats. Don't expect to win unless your boat looks like this.



Cowes Week is a week long mega-regatta which attracts 1000 boats and 9000 competitors. Cowes takes place in August in a spectacular setting on the south coast. It brings together an amazing variety of boats.

I suggest that one year we put together a Fleet 27 J24 race team and that we head over there. I have no details planned and no boat sourced but I want to launch the idea. How about 2012?

Race Results

The following is from http://www.sailpdx.com/results.html

SYSCO Spring Regatta 25-Apr-09

More grat pictures from Dena from Apple Pi http://picasaweb.google.com/denakent

Wind Charts

The following come from http://www.intellicast.com

Key



Midnight

6 AM

12 noon

6 PM


Midnight

6 AM

12 noon

6 PM


Midnight

6 AM

Race Summary

The Race Committee gave it a gallant try last night. An east wind against a 2-4 knot current are not the ingredients for a successful evening of racing. The committee waited until the wind was more or less steady at 10 knots or more before making a decision to race. When puffs in excess of 12 knots started to fill things around Buoy 14, the “go” decision was made.

Tony and his crew of A Fleet volunteers wisely added C as a mark of the course just in case the J 24 race had to be shortened from 2 laps to 1. And the Poncho crew was ready to finish the other fleets at B if necessary.

The RC was able to shorten the J24 course and finish a race for the fleet. For the other fleets, no such luck. While a few of the Cruising Fleet boats could have finished in time, there just wasn’t enough light left in the day to finish all boats in any other fleet. As a result, the RC had to abandon the race for everyone else. Bummer.

On the bright side, wind direction notwithstanding, it was a nice night for sailing on the Columbia River. And there was no sign of pirates, porcine ailments, or toxic assets anywhere to be seen.

No races next week because of the Offshore. SYSCO Spring Series racing resumes on the 12th and 14th.

If you’re doing the Offshore, break a leg. If you’re not, remember practice doesn’t make perfect, perfect practice does.

See you on the water,

Rich

SYSCO Commodore for 2009

Temp Race Captain for the Spring Series

Local J24 for Sale

J/24 sailboat and trailer - $7000 (Kalispell)
Reply to: sale-cg5bv-1140823207@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
Date: 2009-04-26, 8:25AM PDT


1980 J/24 competitive sailboat has faired keel and rudder with new VC-17 bottom paint. All running rigging and deck hardware just updated for racing. Excellent running Tohatsu class outboard. Two sets of sails. New spinnaker launching bag. Road trailer is in great shape. Clean titles in hand $7000.00 (406) 257-0632



http://portland.craigslist.org/grg/boa/1140823207.html

Wind Speed History at Portland Airport

There is, as far as I am aware, no wind indicator on the water. The follow scrapes logs from Portland Airport. Readings are hourly. Time is EDT.

To update and see the most recent graph go here.