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August 2014 Official Publication of Alamitos Bay Yacht Club Volume 87 • Number 8 pine blockchampionship regatta Jeff Merrill photos ith all of the July heat it was nice to be forced into the water, that’s what you have to do in Pineblock racing. It was an interesting WSunday afternoon – out at sea, 90 degree plus temperatures ashore and a fickle breeze. The tide was out (preordained) and we all had to wade our turn to race in one of the most casual and liberating forms of sail boat racing available. With only 55 Pineblocks in existence (this is a worldwide number and goes back decades) it was pretty impressive to have over 20 of these sleek craft show up to race. A big thank you to ABYC’s Roberto for helping us erect our tent and stake a claim to some of the Peninsula sand for PB12 racers of all ages to hang out and have some fun. Mr. Pineblock himself, the designer and inspiration, Bob Chubb arrived on the scene and all was well in the PB world. Dressed in long pants and wearing shoes, Bob told me he wasn’t racing this year, which I accepted, after all he has never missed one, so he was due. Speaking of dues, Richard and Kelly Moffett- Higgins collected the meager $12 entry fee for annual dues and full race participation to help the fleet hopefully break even. (It’s not too late to pay your 2014 dues!) As racers arrived a few of us set up the course and practiced. In my three previous PB Championships we have always raced onJeff port Merrill tack photo and paralleled the beach, but the breeze reinvented itself this year and we had to scratch our heads. Those of us doing practice races quickly (well reasonably quickly) realized that it was going to work a lot better on starboard tack … better, but we still had very spotty, soft wind. The event opened with theWomen’s championship – eight entries – and a new rule was established (made up on the spot in the finest Pineblock tradition) that you could “correct” your boat after the start, but only one time per race. 10 seconds into the first of three races the rule was changed again to multiple “corrections”, but you couldn’t pick up your boat and walk it across the finish line. After three races Sue McDannel made it close, just behind our current leader of the free world, Commodore Jennifer Kuritz, who took the honors and was crowned the queen of the fleet. No juniors were present so we went to the grand masters. What? No grand masters? The commodore’s dad, John Ellis, was minding his own business in the tent shade and relaxing after

...continued page 9 inside sav e the date Commodore’s Comments...... 2-3 Ukulele Lessons ...... August 6 & 20 Vice Verses ...... 4 New Member Appreciation Dinner ...... August 9 Rear View ...... 4 Junior Program Awards Banquet ...... August 14 Fleet Captain’s Log ...... 5-6 Catalina Cruise ...... August 16-17 Junior Sailing...... 7 Membership Meeting ...... August 22 Membership Report...... 8 Labor Day Regatta & Luau ...... August 30 -31 Racing Rules ...... 8 & 10 North Americans ...... Sept 2-7 Hails From the Fleets ...... 10-11 Full ABYC Calendar sou’wester • august 2014 • page 1 commodore’scompass

’m very pleased to welcome Andre Fournier, our new club manager, to ABYC. Andre began his career as a classically trained French chef and branched out into restaurant I management, event management and most recently food service for a senior housing complex in Santa Barbara. I hope you’ll take a moment to stop by the club to introduce yourself! Andre will be staying late on some Fridays to meet members during Happy Hour. I want to thank Nicole Peoples for her dedicated service as interim club manager. Under Nicole’s leadership the club has blossomed and there have been many improvements. I’d also like to thank our club staff for stepping up to help Nicole during the busy Spring and Summer sailing seasons. As you all know, there never seems to be a dull moment at ABYC. A few days prior to the Fourth of July Regatta, Rick Rose noticed smoke coming out of the ground in the yard between the Quarter Deck and Big Hoist. He quickly went and turned the power off which prevented further damage (good thinking Rick!). Apparently, during construction of our new basin and docks, a trench was dug for the new dock sewage system and fire suppression system. Well a back hoe nicked our 220 power line. It was repaired at time, but apparently the repair was not water proof. During the extremely high tides, water got into the power system and melted the line. Fortunately, the City ran a new power line for us at no cost as it was their error. The repair of the hoists was an additional two day project. Transformers were replaced in the ground and on both the Big and Small hoists. The lack of hoists made for a small but very nice Fourth of July Regatta. Martyn Bookwalter created a block and tackle system (made from his mainsheet system) that had enough leverage to hoist Lidos and Snipes into the water by hand but the Vipers, Tempests and Cal 20s were unable to sail. We were very pleased to see the fleet back at the club. Thank you to Theresa Cornwell, regatta chair, and the fleet. This was Theresa’s first time as regatta chair and she did an excellent job. Many thanks to our PROs Martyn Bookwalter and Marc Schryer for a great job on the water. On the upper deck, our new table tops have arrived. Additionally, another dozen of the refinished chairs came back so I spent the Fourth of July Regatta installing name plates and helping Cole, Rick and Dave Myers install the table tops. We should have the name plates installed on the tables by the end of July. Skipping back, Long Beach Race Week was a fantastic regatta. Our members really showed their race management skills on the Alpha and Charlie racecourses (several of our members were helping on Bravo course, too). The Friday night party at ABYC was HUGE. The entire patio and grass area were completely full. Naples Rib Joint (a sponsor of LBRW) provided sausages and sides and Chef Rick cooked additional sausages so there was plenty of food for everyone. The “gate” committee of Sue McDannel, Betty Baumann and Trish Clay greeted sailors and created beautiful streamers that were hung off the flag pole all weekend. Many thanks to all the volunteers and committee members Townsend, Mike Baumann, Jon Kathy Robinson photo Robinson. Many thanks to Robin Townsend for staffing the event and for working with Gelsons who provided our volunteer sandwiches. And, a huge THANK YOU to our port captains Kevin Brown and Dave Myers for the hours of preparation on the race management equipment and to my husband, Steve, for being PRO on Charlie course. Did you know that ABYC won the Yacht Club Challenge? Congratulations to TEAM ABYC. Not only did we win bragging rights for the next year, but we won a $500 donation from Pirates Lair for our Junior Program. Team ABYC was our Catalina 37 crew lead by Vice Commodore Chuck Clay, Kevin Taugher’s Viper team on Hot Mess and Robert Marcus’s team on Code Blue. The Firemen’s Fund Raiser and Fireworks was a wonderful evening. (It’s really nice to go to the club and not worry about an event — so Steve and I were able to relax and have fun.) We started the evening with cocktails with the McDannel’s ...continued next page sou’wester • august 2014 • page 2 morecommodore Jennifer Kuritz photos ...from page 2

on their boat – the perfect viewing spot. And, then worked our way around the basin to the patio. Channel 2 news showed up to film the fireworks! Fun band, nice food and good company – what a great evening. The weekend of July 19, we had hoists and we had the Regatta. Another small but very nice regatta. We had two multihull classes F-18 and . On Saturday, the Etchells fleet joined the regatta for their fleet races. Regatta Chair Paul Anctil put together a great team of Sr. and Junior volunteers. Saturday night, we have appetizers and beer on the patio. Congratulations to Jeffrey Newsome and Michelle Eatough for winning the Hobie 16 class and the Area J Multihull perpetual. Jennifer Kuritz

Sou’Wester DEADLINE Help us to Help you! Please keep your e-mail address current August 23, 2014 is the deadline with [email protected] to receive all for the September Sou’Wester. of the weekly news and events. Thank you.

2013/14 OFFICERS & DIRECTORS

Commodore Jennifer Kuritz Treasurer Nicole Peoples [email protected] Vice Commodore Chuck Clay Junior Commodores Emily Golison [email protected] Fleet Surgeon Angela Allbright Rear Commodore Latham Bell [email protected] Judge Advocate Tom Ramsey Jr. Staff Commodore Mike Baumann [email protected] Fleet Chaplain Don Reiman Fleet Captain Steve Smith [email protected] Port Captain Dave Myers/Kevin Brown Secretary Jeff McDermaid Sou’wester Editor/Layout Sharon Pearson [email protected] [email protected] Directors Weekly Reader Glenn Selvin Junior Program Dave Michaelis [email protected] [email protected] Membership Cindy Heavrin ABYC Phone (562) 434-9955 [email protected] Homepage www.abyc.org Volunteers Paul Anctil Email [email protected] [email protected]

sou’wester • august 2014 • page 3 viceverses

ong Beach Race Week was another successful event co hosted by ABYC and LBYC, Friday kicked off with the party at ABYC, brats with all the trimmings and live music by L Flyer that kept everyone entertained and dancing till last shore boat call at 9pm. Many thanks go out to Commodore Jennifer Kuritz, Robin Townsend, Kevin Brown and Dave Myers and all of the volunteers that make this event happen each year. If you would like to help out next year contact a board member and get involved. ABYC was well represented on the water winning the Yacht Club Challenge that consisted of Kevin Taugher, Chuck Tripp and Mike Pentecost sailing the Viper “Hot Mess” James and Pete Melvin and Dan Delave sailing multihull “Mama Tried” and rounding out the team sailing the Catalina 37 was TEAM ABYC with Chuck Clay, Pat McCormick, Jeff Merrill, Jim Bateman, Kevin Brown, Scott Atwood, Rob Rice, Rob Clay and Mike Lamb. The painting on the exterior of the clubhouse is looking very good; we have now turned the corner and are working on the west side facing the parking lot. The entrance of the club will look great with the new clean white paint! If you take a walk around the boat yard you are going to notice some new boats that are now in the yard, we have had some turn over and we able to get in some new boats into the yard (Viper fleet is very happy!) As we all know there is not much turn over in the yard and spots are hard to come by. I would like to remind every member that has a boat in the yard that Yard Rule 3.20 states, “A yard-moored boat must be sailed at least once during each six-month period (from January 1 to June 30 and July 1 to December 31) to retain yard storage privileges. Any boat found not to be in compliance with this rule is subject to immediate eviction by the Board of Directors. Any boat evicted from the yard for a second time for nonuse must wait one year from the date of the second eviction before the member may apply for another space in the yard.” The intent of this yard rule is to ensure that yard members are using their boats, enjoying the club and sailing! If for whatever reason your circumstance has changed, and you cannot get down to the club to use your boat and you are just “storing” your boat. I am sure that you can find a much more economical place for boat storage. I will be reaching out to yard members that are in violation of yard rule 3.20 to get them into compliance or forfeit their yard spot. The summer concerts are in full swing on Sunday. Come down and enjoy the music and hang out on the balcony. Just be mindful if you are coming in and out of the gate that you keep it closed behind you. In the past we have found non members wandering around the facility, so if you have guess that need to use the bathrooms please escort them, just to be safe! Remember that ABYC is THE place to BE… Cheers,Chuck Clay rearview

ello Fellow Members, Well, as you are aware July was a very busy month at the Club! H It started out with a BANG (no pun intended.) Once again ABYC hosted the Fireman’s Fund Raiser in conjunction with the 3rd of July fireworks show in the bay. It was wonderful to see all of the members and their guests rafted up in the basin, on the lawn and having a great time celebrating an early Independence Day. The Fireman’s Fund Raiser is just one of the ways we at ABYC support our community and say thank you for the support they give us during the year! We followed that the next weekend with our annual Fourth of July Regatta. This Regatta is part of our Holiday Series of events. We brought back the event as a two day regatta this year and it was well attended by members and even the Snipe fleet. The club had a traditional Apple Pie dinner on Saturday! I had great fun watching the Lidos and the Snipe hand hoist their boats just like the old days! Good job competitors coming to together to launch and retrieve the boats both days (watch the video!) Unfortunately the hoists were down because of electrical problems so the Keel boats were unable to launch. I think we just needed bigger block and tackles! We finished the month with the annual Pine Block regatta and BYOM dinner in the patio. Great job wading out into the rough waters of the bay to race your yachts! Remember, the long grill is working great so come on down and use it! Some things to remember as the summer progresses- Parking in the lot is for members only and you must have a sticker in your window. Guests may not park in the lot. Please do not lock your bikes to the new railing! The bikes scratch the coating and that will lead to a rapid deterioration on how the rail looks. The club has provided bike racks inside the wall along Ocean Boulevard. Have fun and enjoy the Club! It is yours to use and enjoy! Latham Bell

sou’wester • august 2014 • page 4 fleet captain’slog Steve Smith photos otes on the ABYC Boatyard and Yard Rules N Following repaving, slurry coating and striping of the boatyard, we’ve had quite the flurry of activity with ABYC hosting the North Americans, Memorial Day Regatta, Laser North Americans, Long Beach Race Week and 4th of July Regatta. Add in Lido and Sabot Twilights, the summer Junior Program, visiting U.S. SAILING Team and it is clear ABYC can be a busy place. That said, because we are an active club that encourages our members and guests to enjoy our wonderful venue, we need to ensure we all do our part to take good care of our facilities. The first step we can all take is to make sure we abide by the ABYC Yard Rules and keep our individual mooring spaces neat and free of extraneous materials on the ground or around our spaces. Though the spaces in these photos may well have been brought into line with Yard Rule 3.17 and 3.18 since the photos were taken, the pictures do illustrate sample violations of Yard Rule 3.17 and 3.18.

Next time you are at ABYC, please look at your mooring space and make sure nothing is stored on the pavement and that nothing encroaches on your neighbor’s space. If you see a problem in the yard or if a boat, trailer or other materials are blocking access to your space or one of the aisles, please tell the club office or a board member. In this way we can all enjoy our facilities to the fullest.

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Members Work and Storage Room

Hi ABYC members, do you recognize me? I’m your good old Member Work and Storage Room. I recently received a cleaning and reorganization and hope I can stay this way for a few months or more. The old paint cans have gone to the recycler and Rick has found a new home for the rest of the paint. In case you are in need; I have lots and lots of assorted nails, nuts, bolts, screws, pop rivets, sockets, springs, tape, safety gear, vacuums, power tools of many varieties and a nice new box of hand tools:

Members Tool Kit

So before you go looking for Rick or Eric to borrow a tool, try the Members Work and Storage Room and look for the bright red tool box. Also, before you buy materials for the club, please come in and see if I have what you need. And, as far as using me to store stuff you no longer want or need, I probably don’t want or need it either, so please find somewhere else to store or dispose of it. Members Tool Kit Box sporting a bright paint job Thank You Steve Smith

catalinacruise

TTENTION ALL CATALINA CRUISERS! The 2014 ABYC Catalina Cruise is less than three weeks away A and many procrastinators who have stated they will come but have not yet signed up on the ABYC website. If you are planning to attend (remember to bring your ukulele) Please: 1. Sign up online 2. Please notify Pat McCormick via email at [email protected] if you are planning to attend dinner Friday night at the harbor reef restaurant so I can make enough reservations for all of us. Please note DINNER IS AT SIX O’CLOCK to accommodate all of us instead of the time posted on the flyer. 6 O’CLOCK DINNER Friday night I hope to see you, your guests and your ukuleles at Two Harbors August 15, 16, and 17. Pat McCormick, 2014 Catalina Cruise Chairman

sou’wester • august 2014 • page 6 the bay clogger ...Jeff McDermaid photo (junior sailing)

Got Sails? The Juniors are collecting old sails to recycle Nathan Sih, Roxy Snyder, Coach Matt McDermaid, into duffle bags and other gear. Bradley Clinton, representing ABYC @ Dick Sweet Team Clean out your boat and garage! Race Series Simply drop off your old sails in the designated collection bin in the junior perspective junior room. he weekend of July 11th through July 13th was the Area J (Southern California) Junior Olympics. With a total of 95 boats spread between the C420, CFJ, Laser, and . ABYC sent one CFJ to JOs. Drea Keswater and his Tskipper, Luke Pond, placed 9th in the 21 boat fleet. In the Radial fleet, ABYC sent seven boats. Joseph Hou, Sawyer Gibbs, Bradley Clinton, Jack Berg, Trent Turgliatto, Ryan Schulten, and I represented Long Beach. The weekend was cool with wind form 8-12 knots. In the ocean, a swell was coming through, making for choppy conditions. For me, the chop was difficult to navigate, slowing me down a lot. After Friday’s racing, our coach, Jack Jorgenson, talked to us about how to sail through the waves. The technique made sailing much more physical, but it helped me keep my boat speed up in the chop. After finally getting the hang of sailing though chop during the first race of the second day, I broke my mast. I was hiking my boat flat on the last leg of the race when heard a horrible crack. It took me a second to realize what had happened. My top section had broken right at the connection point of the two spars. This is one of the most common places to break a Laser mast. While waiting for help from anyone, my brand new sail tore under the weight of the broken, hanging spar. Luckily, it only tore the sleeve of the sail, and with a little piece of sail tape was usable for the rest of the weekend. I only waited about three minutes before help arrived. Coach Garrett Baum from Ventura Yacht Club helped me de-rig my boat and get the broken spar out of the sleeve. He even had an extra top section in his boat. I then re-rigged my boat on the water, and finished the rest of the races that day. I probably would have not finished any races that day had it not been for Garrett’s preparedness. The rest of the weekend went off without any other problems. Joseph Hou placed 6th, Sawyer Gibbs placed 13th, Bradley Clinton placed 18th, Jack Berg placed 20th, Trent Turgliatto placed 21st, Ryan Schulten placed 30th, and I placed 26th. The next stop for junior Laser sailors is Laser Nationals at Saint Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco. Alan Peoples parking issues Recently there has been much discussion about non-members using the parking lot. We are finding locked cars and cars without keys in the lot. If you see a non-members car parked in the lot please kindly remind them that they must leave their car outside of our lot. If they are not with their car, the office has cards that may be left on their windshield. When a person leaves a car in the yard “just for dropping something off,” they are taking the privilege of a member. Paul Anctil

sou’wester • august 2014 • page 7 membershipreport ome and meet the new members!! The New Member Appreciation Dinner and Mixer is Saturday, August 9th from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. Chef Rick is cooking up something special in the kitchen! There will be live music, games and Cdinner on the patio. Bar opens at 5:00, dinner at 6:00. Make your reservations early! Congratulations to the following members who were approved at the June Board of Directors meeting: Becki Snelle Regular Sponsor Sam & Dana Bell Caroline Shining Regular Sponsor Jeff Merrill Dean Zanone Regular Sponsor Rob Hartman Dennis Palmieri Regular Sponsor Rob Hartman Stephen Clemmer Regular Sponsor Jon Robinson Ray King Regular Sponsor Jeff Merrill Nathan Jones Regular Sponsor Karl Zittle Charles Lavington Regular Sponsor Sam & Dana Bell Ian Holmes Regular Sponsor Ron Clanton Kurt Pruitt Regular Sponsor Kathy Reed It’s not too late to start Ukulele classes, which are still going strong on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month from 6:30 until 8:30p.m. The cost is $5.00 per session. The songs are easy and we are having a great time! Need to borrow a Ukulele…contact Cindy Heavrin or Kathy Reed. If you have a candidate for membership that would like a tour of the club or are ready to get started in the membership application process, contact Membership Chairman Dana Bell at [email protected] or Cindy Heavrin at [email protected]. racing rulesquiz #4

Jeff McDermaid photo ellow and Blue are sailing downwind on starboard gybe approaching the port rounding side of the YLeeward Gate. At position 1 Blue is clear astern of Yellow.

At position 2 Blue establishes a leeward overlap on Yellow.

At position 3 Yellow and Blue have passed the gybe point for the Mark and Yellow hails Blue to gybe for the Mark.

At position 4 Blue responds and bears away to gybe. Yellow also bears away to gybe.

At position 5 Yellow gybes onto Port, Blue does not and re- mains on Starboard. Contact occurs.

Both Blue and Yellow protest. What rules apply who will be disqualified? multihull regatta he multihull regatta consisted of seven races and was held on the weekend of July Nineteenth and Twentieth. In the F18 fleet there eighteen boats were present led by Steve Stroebel and crew Matt Morris. Thirteen boats sailed in the THobie Sixteen fleet led by Jeffrey Newsome and crew Michelle Eatough. I would like to give a very big thank you to all who volunteered to help run the event. It was a pleasure to work with everybody and watch some great sailing. Paul Anctil sou’wester • august 2014 • page 8 morepine block ...from page 1

a long day racing sabots. I told him that he needed to just sail one race and he agreed to roll up his pants. Mr. PB was given one last shot and even though he had already agreed not to race, he took off his shoes and he rolled up his pants so we had a match race! Christopher Chubb was Bob’s designated course caddy and Jennifer did the same for her dad. It was great to see these pillars of the club out racing in their 80’s – we had two races and our founder, Bob Chubb sailed with great patience to win the championship. Our junior arrived, (life is busy when you are under 18 and its summer and you are on vacation) all the way from Annapolis, MD, a visiting relative of the Wheatley family who are some of our newest PB fleet members. Caroline McNeil is an accomplished Opti (no leeboard!?) and 420 junior sailor from a solid sailing family and even though she had never seen or heard of a Pineblock in her life, she sailed to glory. Now Caroline can add the Pineblock Jr. Champion to her sailing resume alongside the Penguin International Championships which she won as crew in 2013. On a side note, last year’s junior Pineblock champion, Riley Gibbs was unable to attend this year, but recently finished 2nd in the ISAF World championships so we are expecting to hear big things about Caroline and she has an open invitation to return anytime – all of this and she is only going in to the 9th grade! This set us up for the big finale…the Pineblock Open Championship. Open to competitors of all ages and sexes and well, anyone who has a Pineblock in their hand at 4:30 pm on race day. We had 16 racers eager to participate so divided the group by hull numbers into two eight boat fleets - each to sail three races and qualify four from each group for the finals. The racing was close and there was no favorite side of the course. Some deep waders (practically swimming) caught a little more breeze, but the ankle waders were just as competitive and kicked up quite a wake with huge shin swells caroming these determined wooden wedges with sails into each other and into the racers legs. The final 8 squared off for our three race championship. Vice Commodore Chuck Clay (last year’s official race finisher) totaled 8 points in three races (pretty good for a rookie, he is clearly destined to big things in sailing) to become our runner up. Former Women’s champion, Kelly Moffett-Higgins, smoked the fleet with a very fast and consistently low finish total of only 6 points. Too many people to thank but we couldn’t hold the regatta without our rescue boat and rescue SUP skippered by Pam and Elle Merrill along with Doug Conwell. Racing officials included staff commodore Mike Baumann and everyone’s pal, Steve Kuritz. A special sportsmanship award should have been presented to Sharon Pearson (but I didn’t think of it in time) for showing up with her boat to loan out, paying her dues all while not being able to compete. Which reminds me, if you have a Pineblock and haven’t raced in the last three years… it’s time to either send in your dues or send back your boat, we have lots of interested sailors on the waiting list who don’t have more important things to do than race 12” wooden rocket ships one day each year. We won’t mention names – yet, but please contact your fleet captain to discuss your highly implausible excuse – better yet, we’d love to get you back in the fold. Our annual meeting with elections, pot luck and a grill your own dinner was a fitting finish to a fun day at the beach as we lounged on the Quarterdeck and celebrated our winners. Special thanks to Susan Long for organizing snacks and salads and to Mandi Smith for being re-elected treasurer (hey, that’s what happens when you do a great job and you don’t show up at the meeting to defend yourself). New names to be engraved on the Bob Chubb Pineblock Perpetual are: Women’s Champion – Jennifer Kuritz Grand Master Champion – Bob Chubb Junior Champion – Caroline McNeil Open Champion – Kelly Moffett-Higgins We will do this again next year, stay tuned and if you would like to know more about the Pineblock fleet and get on the waiting list contact fleet captain, Jeff Merrill via email [email protected]. Jeff Merrill

sou’wester • august 2014 • page 9 racing rules answersquiz #4 ...from page 9

here are several rules in play and the give way boat changes several times. The rules that apply are as follows: Rule 10 “On Opposite Tacks” T Rule 11 “On the Same Tack, Overlapped” Rule 12 “On the Same Tack, Not Overlapped” Rule 15 “Acquiring Right of Way” Rule 16.1 “Changing Course Rule 17 “On the Same Tack; Proper Course” 1. At position 1 Rule 12 “On the Same Tack, Not Overlapped” applies, Blue is the keep clear boat as she is clear astern. 2. At position 2 Rule 11 “On the Same Tack, Overlapped” applies, Blue has established a leeward overlap and Yellow is the give way boat. However, Blue’s actions are limited by Rule 15 “Acquiring Right of Way” as she must initially give Yellow room to keep clear. Additionally Rule 17 “On the Same Tack; Proper Course” applies as the overlap was established from clear astern and Blue cannot sail above her proper course. 3. At position 3 both Blue and Yellow have sailed passed the gybe point to the mark. Rule 17 “On the Same Tack; Proper Course” requires Blue to sail her proper course, which is to gybe for the mark. 4. At position 4 Blue and Yellow bear away to gybe. Yellow is still the give way boat under Rule 11, but Blue is required to gybe under Rule 17. 5. At position 5 Yellow gybes onto Port, which turns off Rule 17 as the boats are no longer on the same tack. Yellow is on Port and Blue is on Starboard and Rule 10 “On Opposite Tacks” applies. Blue is not limited by Rule 15 “Acquiring Right of Way” as she acquires right of way because of the Yellow’s actions. Yellow will be disqualified for violating Rule 10. Good sailing Mark Townsend, Race Management hails fromthe fleets

...Jeff McDermaid photo uly was a crazy month! The first week we had to cancel Twilites due to the large obstruction in the bay for the July 3rd Firework show, then the hoists stopped working the following week. This unfortunate event J opened up the opportunity for innovation. We certainly were not going to cancel Twilites because of a hoist. The Honorable D. Martyn Bookwalter came to the rescue and rigged a block and tackle on the small hoist to get the vessels in and out of the water (see video). Because of these heroic efforts, Fleet Six was given the Most Sustainable Fleet in the Galaxy Award. Not only did we get to sail, but did so in the most economically efficient fashion. Twilites is still happening! The horn sounds every Thursday at 1800, so be there! Watch your Signals Newsletter for late breaking news. If you want to subscribe to Signals (which you do), please email [email protected] WINNER’S CIRCLE June Twilites 1st Place: John Gresham (A-Fleet) and Ron Clanton (B-Fleet) MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR THESE UPCOMING EVENTS! Lido Twilites on Thursday Nights, April 3 through September 25 Fleet 6 Lido-14 Charter Boats Arrange your charter in advance with, Amanda Wayne ([email protected]). On the day of charter you will receive the sails and rudder in exchange for the $25 daily rental fee. We have two vessels that are available on a first come basis. Please follow “Lido Fleet Six” on Facebook and Instagram. Also, if you would like to subscribe to the Fleet Six Newsletter, email [email protected] Quality junk mail straight to you! Amanda Wayne sou’wester • august 2014 • page 10 hails fromthe fleets

BYC Laser Fleet Hosts the 4th of July Holiday Regatta On-line registration was filling in nicely with fleets of Cal 20’s, Vipers, Tempests, Snipes, Lido A 14’s, Opti’s and Sabots planning to race over the weekend following the 4th of July weekend. Alas, fate had other plans for us that weekend when, due to electrical problems, both the large and small boat hoists broke down. Long Beach Yacht Club offered their hoist for launching; however, logistics of moving trailers to and from the LBYC hoist, discouraged all but three boats from launching there. Otherwise, the Cal 20, Viper and Tempest fleets were grounded for the weekend. Back at ABYC, Martyn Bookwalter and the Lido fleet rigged a block and tackle arrangement on the small boat hoist which they used to launch Lidos on Thursday evening and throughout the weekend. Actually, the block and tackle arrangement worked quite well to launch and retrieve both the Lido and Snipe fleets with little delay. On the Bay course, PRO Marc Schryer and crew ran races for Lidos and Sabot on parallel courses with the finish line at the ABYC Scoring Platform at the end of the yacht basin. On the Ocean course, PRO Martyn Bookwalter ran races for I 14’s and Snipes which were using the regatta as their Pacific Coast Championship. A testament to the popularity of ABYC and our venue, all but two of the ten Snipes in the regatta hailed from the San Diego area. Conditions on the water were ideal for racing on both Ocean and Bay courses as well as for the 4th of July themed BBQ on the patio Saturday evening, so despite the disappointing hoist situation, sailors volunteers and guests seemed to be enjoying a weekend at ABYC. After racing Sunday, racers, volunteers and guests enjoyed a variety of snacks from the kitchen while Regatta Chairperson, Theresa Cornwell along with Commodore Jennifer Kuritz presented large, colorful, fluffy beach towels to the winners as well as impressive perpetual trophies for both the Lido and Snipe fleet winners. The Laser fleet wishes to thank Theresa and all the volunteers who dedicated their weekend, as well as the ABYC staff who helped us host a successful 4th of July Holiday Regatta. For more regatta reports, photos and results, go to: http://www.abyc.org/event.cfm?id=1877

U.S. Laser Racing Team Schools Local Laser Masters The U.S. SAILING Laser Racing Team stayed on at ABYC after the North American Championship to continue training under the guidance of their coach and new ABYC member Mark Littlejohn. As a thank you to host ABYC and local Laser Masters racers, the last four days of their training, Mark invited local Laser Masters (35 years and older) to join the Team, which included ABYC members Charlie Buckingham and Chris Barnard for starting practice. Mark promised an intense few hours on the water and he was good to his word. The day began with a preview of the day’s schedule and location followed by a rabbit start just off the clubhouse and race to the mouth of the channel. From there, Mark set up a short start-line for two quick practice starts followed by a windward-leeward race to marks expertly set and moved by Mark working in his RIB. The short starting line allowed us less expert racers to experience the aggressive boat handling techniques of Laser racers at this level, which in many cases, left us Masters in the proverbial dust. Regardless, the practice and advice offered by Mark and his team was invaluable and great fun. I found out one reason the Team was so aggressive when Mark announced the winner of the day’s races and handed the winner $50 in cash…a nice incentive. The Team thanked us local guys saying it was good practice for them to practice with racers they were not familiar with and therefore unpredictable, as in a real world race environment. In a fun note to the last day, when Mark announced Charlie Buckingham as winner of the day’s races, he turned over the cash to Chuck Tripp as best Master of the day when he was first to the weather mark in one race. Other ABYC Masters participating were; Vann Wilson, Sanjai Kohli, Jorge Suarez, Charlie Crockett, Rodion Mazin and your author. We look forward to more training when the Team returns to ABYC just before Turkey Day later this year. Steven Smith, ABYC Laser Fleet Co-Captain

KEEL BOAT FLEET ON WATCH

he first meeting of the new Keel Boat Fleet season from the summer break will be Friday, September, 12. This is always a fun meeting as it is held at the quarter deck and we will have our usual barbeque. The T fleet will provide potato salad, green salad, chips, salsa, eating utensils, plates, cups, etc. You provide your own entrée to be cooked on the barbeque and your libation. We will be discussing plans and activities for the coming year. Come with new ideas. Friends and guests are welcome. See you there, George

sou’wester • august 2014 • page 11 Drink of the Month late breakingnews The Lido Mojito Fleet Captain Amanda congratsriley gibbs

egarding Riley Gibb’s 2nd place finish at the ISAF Youth Worlds, just completed: Having lost the 29er lead they Rhad held all week on the penultimate day France’s Brice Yrieix and Loic Fischer Guillou hit back on the final day to take gold. The pair trailed America’s Quinn Wilson and Riley Gibbs by one point overnight but were able to level the scores up after the first race of the day. With both teams on 47 points it was a winner takes all bout. The French maintained their composure and came through in sixth whilst the Americans finished 13th sparking French celebrations on the water. A huge congratulations from your entire ABYC family!

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sou’wester • august 2014 • page 12 Rich Roberts photos 4th of july regatta Jim Drury photo boat captain lory for grown-ups in 4th of July Regatta The message sent by Alamitos Bay Yacht Club’s Fourth of July GRegatta was that little boats aren’t just for kids. The two most prominent winners were Aine McLean Fretwell, who will celebrate her 40th birthday next Wednesday, and Chris Raab, a small boat master who may not still remember that milestone. Fretwell, although measuring 5 feet 2 1/2 inches in height, is a mother of three from Mission Bay Yacht Club in San Diego. With teenager Matt Cappetta as crew, she won the Snipe class Pacific Coast Championship linked into the regatta with four second places, wins in Sunday’s last two races and an earlier fifth-place she was able to discard. She was the only female skipper in the 10-boat fleet. And, by the way, her last name was misspelled Pretwell in Saturday’s report. It will be remembered next time. Fretwell (l.) crosses competitor Eric Heim (below) finishes Raab, with Scott McKeiver as crew, won the last six of nine just ahead of I-14 start races to bury the dinghy competition in a buildup to that class’s Nationals at ABYC next month. Fretwell said: “I’m thinking I may wake up from one wild dream. This is the big one for me. I’ve done well in some women’s events, but I like to compete with all the sailors.” She beat out three-time PCC winner and current Snipe district champion Doug Hart by 17 points and first-day leader Eric Heim by 21 “We weren’t aggressive enough in playing the conditions,” Heim said. “Aine was just fast all weekend. She owned it.” The breeze rose just to whitecap level at 10 to 12 knots Sunday, and she and Cappetta thrived in it. But it was interesting that she came up short of a crew only two days before the event. “She called me Thursday,” said Cappetta, 18, who learned the ropes with Fretwell as his coach at The Bishops School in La Jolla last year. Cameron Puckey and crew Jake Sorosky work their I-14 Someday soon her own kids may join her on the boat. She has a daughter, 9, and twins son and daughter, age 6. They may be back. “This is really fun,” she said. “I love sailing out here.” So does Raab, who has also excelled in Cal 20s and Lasers. “We put in a little training, with the Nationals coming up,” he said. Three fleets—Viper 640s, Cal 20s and Tempests—were eliminated from competing because of an electrical breakdown in the boat hoists earlier in the week. The smaller Snipes were able to launch manually using ABYC’s small hoist. All others—16 Lidos and 29 Naples Sabots—launched from the ramp. Rich Roberts, Media Contact [email protected]

Chris Raab (l.) won last 6 races to run away with Lido 14 title Race Social Non-Classified ABYC Events Calendar - August 2014 Mon Tu Wed Th Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 Lido 14 National Lido 14 National Summer Concert - Championship Championship Elm Street Band ...... 5:30-7:30PM Lido 14 Nationals Lido 14 National Dinner Championship ......

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 JAB Meeting 6:30 Summer Sailing Summer Sailing Lido/Sabot Twilights BBQ Series #2 Etchells & Vipers PM - 1/4 Deck Fleet Championship Ukulele Lessons Summer Sailing Etchells & Vipers Summer Sailing ... Fleet Championship Lido 14 Junior Nationals New Member Appreciation Dinner ...

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Summer Sailing Summer Sailing RMC/SAC 1900 Lido/Sabot Twilights Bridge Q Deck Catalina Cruise Catalina Cruise ...... Summer Sailing Junior Program Awards Banquet Peninsula Garden Summer Concert - Club Party Ramfunkshus Summer Sailing 5:30-7:30PM

Lido 14 Fleet 6 BLOCKED Championship Day 3

Bell Event Qtr Dk 3PM-6PM

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 BOD Lido/Sabot Twilights General Membership BBQ Series #3 and Soto Wedding Qtr Meeting BYO BBQ Dk/Patio Ukulele Lessons ......

25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Lido/Sabot Twilights Labor Day Regatta & Labor Day Regatta & SCYYRA Ullman/Frost SCYYRA Ullman/Frost ......

Labor Day Luau ... Race Social Non-Classified ABYC Events Calendar - September 2014 Mon Tu Wed Th Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Labor Day Viper 640 Arrivals Viper 640 North Viper 640 North Viper 640 North Viper 640 North Viper 640 North American American American American American Championship Championship Championship Championship Championship Lido 14 Twilights Bridge Upper Deck

JAB Meeting 6:30 PM - 1/4 Deck

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 RMC/SAC 1900 Lido 14 Twilights Keelboat Social Wilson High School Event Reunion 2nd Deck

15 16 17 18 19 20 21 BOD Lido 14 Twilights Annual General Etchells Fleet Race Charity Regatta Membership Meeting ... Martinez Wedding - Patio/2nd Deck

22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Fall Equinox BOD Photos Lido 14 Twilights Commodore's Fall Jr. Invitational & Fall Jr. Invitational & Appreciation Party SCYYRA North Series SCYYRA North Series ...

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Calling all ABYC Members!!

We need to raise money for our Junior Fund.

The Junior Advisory Board has decided to name our fleet of charter boats.

We are seeking a $500 donation to put an appropriate name of your choice on the back of one of our 22 charter boats in our fleet of CFJs, Sabots, Lasers and Optimists.

These funds will be used to refurbish or trade out our current fleet of charter boats.

The boats will be picked by random drawing at the Annual General Membership meeting on September 19, 2014.

Due to the rotation of boats the JAB is guaranteeing the name will remain on a boat for a minimum of 5 years. Please make checks out to ABYC and on the memo line add Jr. Fund Boat naming.