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An Ideal American Summer Ideal 18 Program An Ideal American Summer Ideal 18 Program SAILING DIRECTOR FLEET CAPTAIN Kevin Broome Carolyn Russell [email protected] [email protected] 914.815.2434 203.962.5939 AMERICAN YACT CLUB –IDEAL 18 PROGRAM Be part of an exciting sailing program that is convenient, fun and has something for everyone. Sign out an Ideal 18 and be sailing in less than 10 minutes. Take family and friends out for a cruise and see Rye from the water. Learn or brush up on your sailing skills with the Women’s Sailing Program, Saturday morning clinics, or a private lesson with the Sailing Director. Join our Thursday Evening Series for casual non-spinnaker racing, or try team racing. THE PROGRAM The Ideal 18 program is a great way for all club members to meet each other at the club and to introduce their families and friends to the joy of sailing. Big boat owners often enjoy a quick evening sail without the need to arrange for crew, and the racer can experience more starts on a Thursday evening than in a month of weekend regattas. The season runs from mid-April through October, and the boats are available seven days a week from 0800 till sunset. The Ideal 18 is a fantastic keelboat day-sailor that is stable and not intimidating for the beginner, yet it still provides a stimulating sail for one-design racing. The boats are easily sailed single handed yet comfortably seat four adults. They are raced with two people. The program’s annual family membership fee is $195 ($175 if you sign up by Friday, May 30). The Program is complimentary the first year for newly elected members to the Club. This fee entitles participants and family member over 18 years of age, living in the same household, to participate in recreational day sailing, women’s programs, clinics, team racing, and Thursday evening fleet racing and local regattas. Skippers are required to complete a waiver before beginning each season. A certified Ideal 18 Program member must be on the boat with any guest. Any AYC member who is not an Ideal 18 Program member is considered a guest. Each new member who plans to skipper a boat is responsible for making arrangements with the sailing director or assistant sailing director to be certified. The certification process consists of a written exam and an on the water check out. However, lifelong sailors are generally given an abbreviated familiarization. Family members must be checked out individually if they wish to skipper. Call or email Kevin Broome at 914.815.2434 or [email protected] to book a convenient time and date or plan to attend the familiarization clinic and harbor hazards tour. The program member using a boat is responsible for the insurance deductible in the amount of $250 per boat or $500 per incident. Each member must report, upon returning, any damage or loss incurred. Fault while racing is determined by “The Racing Rules of Sailing”. 2 AMERICAN YACT CLUB –IDEAL 18 PROGRAM RECREATIONAL SAILING Members may sign out a boat for recreational sailing any time the boats are not reserved for a scheduled event. You may reserve a boat in advance on-line at www.americanyc.org or by calling the Club’s front desk at 914.967.4800, or just go to the front desk and check for boat availability. On weekend and holidays, only one reservation may be made at a time for a maximum of 3 hours. However, if there is no one waiting, then you may book the next contiguous session. Please call and cancel if you can’t keep your reservation. Your reservation may not be honored if you are more than 15 minutes late. Please take care to return your boat on time for scheduled events and to get to your mooring by sunset. WOMEN’S SAILING (Women on the Water) The Women’s Sailing Program provides an opportunity to develop a confident command of boats while learning in a comfortable and informal environment. Keep an eye out for the summer’s clinic schedule – it will be posted online at www.americanyc.org, posted in the AYC News, and in the weekly AYC Ondeck email. RACING Thursday Evening Racing is intended to be fun and low key. Spinnakers have not generally been used. Sailors of a wide variety of skills and experience are encouraged to participate. The Ideal 18 is raced double handed, and you can sign up as either a skipper or crew. Racing begins on May 26 and runs until August 18. The harbor start is at 1800, and participants are encouraged to gather back at the club at sunset for refreshments and to exchange ideas on the evening’s events. The sign up procedures for racing sessions are intended to accommodate as many members as possible and to ensure that we have all of our boats on the line in each session. Members may sign up for a racing session online, over the phone at (914) 967-4800 or in person. Only one reservation may be made at a time for any series. You must wait until 0900 on the day after racing to make another reservation. FAMILY FUN Family Fun-Day Regattas are terrific days of family sailing on Memorial and Labor Day Holidays. We will sail a round robin from 1000 to 1200. Prizes will be awarded. SOCIAL ACTIVITIES Social activities, both on and off the water, are planned throughout the season. Everyone is welcome to attend an informal introduction to the Ideal 18 Program to meet the sailing committee, welcome new members, learn about all the Ideal 18 clinics and programs, and meet Kevin Broome, our sailing director. 3 AMERICAN YACT CLUB –IDEAL 18 PROGRAM TAKING OUT AN IDEAL 18 – SIX STEPS TO SAILING 1. Make a reservation. To take out a boat, make your reservation online or at the front desk. Check in at the front desk, at this time, you will receive a large red key that will be your launch pass to go out to your boat. Without the key, the launch operator is instructed not to take you to any of our Ideal 18’s. When returning from sailing, take the key back to the front desk and check-in. That way we know that both you and the boat are safely back, and the next scheduled sailors can have their turn. 2. Check the weather. The daily weather forecast, and the times of the tide and sunset are posted at the Dock House and can be researched on the computer at the front desk. Check before you go. If more than 15 knots of wind is expected, the main sail should be reefed. If more than 20 knots is expected, stay on shore! 3. Complete the checklist. Before sailing, please check the boat and the equipment to see if anything is missing or damaged. The following should always be on the boat: 4 adult size life jackets, chart, whistle, flares, pump, anchor & rode, paddle, fender, 2 dock lines, 1 tow line, sponge, sail ties and tiller tie down, spinnaker pole, spinnaker sheets, sail covers. Spinnakers are available from the Dock House. Parents are responsible for providing correctly sized life jackets for any children on board. 4. Rig the boat. a. Unclip the secondary mooring line from the mast and clip it into the tall buoy. You may drop the tall buoy over the side so that it does not get in the way while you get the boat ready. b. Remove the hatch cover and check the bilge for water. If needed, pump it out. c. Remove the mainsail cover and uncleat the spinnaker halyard to lower the jib cover. Fold the jib cover as you unzip it, as it tends to end up in the salt water. Ensure the spinnaker halyard is clear, and if not being used, attach it to the mast eye. Stow the covers either under the cuddy or in the spinnaker basket. d. Take the sail ties off the flaked mainsail. Remove the main halyard from the mast eye and secure it to the head of the mainsail. Before you raise the main, be sure that the main sheet is uncleated and ready to go, and ease the boomvang and Cunningham so that the sail can go all the way up. A topping lift has been added that runs down to the boom and back up to a loop in its standing part. You should slacken it by unclipping it from the loop before sailing. 4 AMERICAN YACT CLUB –IDEAL 18 PROGRAM e. Now raise the mainsail and adjust the outhaul, Cunningham, and boomvang for current wind conditions. Uncleat the roller furling line on the port forward cockpit combing, but do not unfurl the jib yet. You will need a clear deck to cast off the primary mooring line. Release the tiller and make sure both bailers are open. 5. Leave the mooring. Check the wind direction and decide what tack you would like to be on when you leave the mooring. Go forward and unclip the primary mooring line from the bow eye. Once clear and sailing, unfurl the self-tacking jib by trimming either end of the jib sheet. 6. Sail. REMEMBER: Check the chart. If you are not sure of the water you are sailing in, check the chart. The Ideal 18 is not designed to sustain even a minor grounding. If you do not know where THE ROCK is, ask. It’s a doozy. Hint: it’s in the harbor. DERIGGING 1. Get the mooring.
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