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The Intercom MEMBER Official Newsletter of the Interlake Sailing Class Association www.interlakesailing.org November 2008 Regattas The Intercom 2 From the President By Jim Bradley, Interlake #1376 With the arrival of the winter weather, some of you will seek out warmer waters, but if you're like my son, Let me introduce myself as you're now just waiting for the water to freeze in order the new president of the ISCA for the ice boating season to start. for 2008-9. My family has been involved with the Interlake since the early 1970s when my father started sailing Wednesday night races on the Maumee River in Toledo and continued his passion for the sport by joining Jolly Roger Sailing Club. Since that time, both my brother Bob and I have been active in the class and have passed the sailing tradition on to our families. I consider it an honor to be your president and I hope to fill this position to the best of my abilities. Wow! Where has the summer gone? I am writing this after just crewing for my son, Bryan, in the George Fisher Memorial Invitational Regatta. I would like to congratulate Skip Dieball on his win and to thank to all the skippers and crews who raced. Special thanks go out to all the members at Hoover Sailing Club who did an excellent job of hosting this great event for a good cause. George was a good friend and competitor and I hope that this endowment will continue to support sailing A shot from the George Fisher Memorial Regatta youth for years to come. Photo by Jeff Thompson. Next year promises to be another great season with Midwinters at Davis Island Yacht Club in Tampa, Florida and Nationals at Traverse City, Michigan. Grand What’s Inside Traverse Yacht Club will have a brand new facility for next year, so mark your calendars now for the 2009 3 From the President Nationals. This past year posed a number of challenges Feature to the rebuilding efforts of Fleet 38 and it would be great 4 - 5 George Fisher Memorial Regatta to have the Interlake class show up in numbers in order 5 Interlake Raffle / Boat Grant Program to support them. I know that Bob Sagan and his Tips and Techniques committee will have some great racing planned for us and it should be a fun time! 6 – 7 Clawing Your Way Up – Part 2 For the upcoming sailing season, we have several Class News issues that need to be resolved, as the electronic 8 Haphazard Regatta / Clark Lake compass and the weight of the rudder are both under 9 Hot to Trot Report consideration. There is also concern about sponsors 10 The Ghostly Breezes of the Poltergeist and naming rights of our Nationals. Sponsors are an 11 Results: Sandusky One-Design, excellent way to defray the cost of putting on a good Catawba Can, and Fall Blowout event and to get class exposure, however we must insure that the class still keeps control of the event. Our 12 New Rule Books and Olympic Medals goal as an executive committee will be to develop at US Sailing Annual Meeting guidelines for our future sponsors that work to the 13-14 ISCA Meeting Minutes, Oct 2008 benefit of everyone. 14-15 Classifieds Furthermore, I am pleased to announce that the 15 ISCA Officers and Fleet Captains executive committee has accepted a bid from Indian Lake Yacht Club, Fleet #10 for the site of the 2010 Nationals. When Bob and I sailed with my father many Cover Photos: The whole crowd at the years ago, Indian Lake was always one of his favorite Poltergeist Regatta. Photo by Bill Kennedy. regattas to attend. I am sure the tradition will continue. Stu Fisher and family at the George Fisher Thank you, Fleet 10, for extending your offer to host the Memorial Regatta. Photo by Jeff Thompson. 2010 Nationals. The Intercom 3 Intercom Feature George Fisher Memorial Regatta Hoover Sailing Club Westerville, OH October 18, 2008 By Steve Aspery, Interlake #1402 An invitational regatta is something new to our class appearance to the racing and made the course a little and many wondered how it would work out. It turned out narrow. It was a puffy day with big shifts and the to be a great success. Twelve competitors were tested conditions were challenging. The puffs were selective mightily, spectators enjoyed watching the carnage and though, sometimes flinging one or two competitors being able to see what the competitors could not, and planing down the lake while the rest of us watched everyone helped raise almost $2500 for the George them leave. Skip Dieball and Ben Mercer seemed to Fisher Endowment. be most often in the right place to catch the best rides. Terry Kilpatrick started the day with his Customflex It was very tight racing with a compact fleet and every Open House. He shared rigging tips and answered mark rounding was a challenge.Photo by ItBob felt Sagan like there were questions about the Interlake, how it is built, and the 30 boats on the water since the group was always most recent offerings. He used 1417 as his example together. boat. This was the boat that Terry had always wanted to After racing everyone enjoyed a great dinner, raffle build for George Fisher and it is the “poster boat” for the prizes, awards, and a chance to remember and speak new boat raffle (more later). about George. It was memorable evening and fitting The competitors headed out for three races after end to a good day of sailing and a good day spent with lunch. The low water at Hoover created a moonscape friends and fellow Interlakers. Terry at the Open House - Photo by Tim Lohner Photo by Ann Jones Place Boat Skipper / Crew Club R1 R2 R3 Total 1 1418 Skip Dieball, Ben Mercer NCYC 1 1 2 4 2 1340 Scott & Lynn Savage / Jeff Jones LYC 5 3 1 9 3 1402 Steve, Lisa, David Aspery HSC 4 7 4 15 4 234 Sjoerd-Jan Vanderhorst, Richard Blake SSC DNF 2 3 18 5 1318/1010 Andrew Nixon, Kirsten Petro PYC 3 9 6 18 6 1376 Bryan Bradley, Jim Bradley, Tom Eisert JRSC 6 6 7 19 7 1174 Matt, Amanda, Stu Fisher HSC 2 5 OCS 20 8 1370 Jeff Clark, Brian Boelk HSC 8 4 8 20 9 1267 Jamie Jones, Joe Hurst HSC 7 8 5 20 10 1332 Betsy Bradley, Laurie & Jacqueline Dieball JRSC 9 11 9 29 11 1270 Bryan Sarber, Paul Kirkpatrick ISC 11 10 10 31 12 1325 Ron Gall, Darren Lehman JRSC 10 DNF DNS 36 The Intercom 4 New Interlake Raffle Would you like to win a brand new Interlake? The George Fisher Endowment is raffling an Interlake. Tickets are $100 and only 200 will be sold. You can win Interlake 1417 or Terry Kilpatrick has offered to build the boat of your choice. Tickets will be on sale at all Interlake events, the Cleveland Boat Show, or you can buy a ticket by mail. Just send your check for $100 made payable to George Fisher Endowment and we’ll mail your ticket to you. The drawing will be held after the 200th ticket is sold. What color would you make your new Interlake? Mail your $100 check, payable to George Fisher Endowment, to: Steve Aspery 6473 Northland Rd Worthington, Ohio 43085 Skip sailing fast in his shiny Interlake George V. Fisher Endowment Boat Grant Program George always had a great commitment to the Interlake, to teaching our sport, and to developing young sailors. The George Fisher Endowment will further these commitments. Our immediate goal is to raise money for an Interlake boat grant program. This program will provide young sailors with the opportunity to experience Interlake racing and the Interlake Class. Young sailors can apply on the Interlake website for a grant that will provide them with the use of a competitive Interlake for one season. They will also be assigned a mentor and may receive some funding for expenses and registrations. The Memorial Regatta and the new boat raffle are the first major fund-raisers for the foundation. A competitive start at the Fisher Memorial. Photos this page by Jeff Thompson. The Intercom 5 Intercom Tips and Techniques Clawing Your Way Up: Part 2 Was it a shift? Are we doing something different, is our tuning different. We make corrections and go again. (Some useful tips for the club sailor) On a race day this may only last a few minutes. On a by Daniel Feldman, Wind Line International practice day we might continue for 20 minutes at a reprinted from US Sailing - SNAX time or more before coming together. We then repeat this for runs and reaches. The object is to familiarize In part one we looked at the change in mental ourselves with the conditions at hand and to make sure attitude necessary for improving your performance on we have practiced and / or warmed up on all the water. In this article I want to look at some drills maneuvers we will need for racing. It also allows us to that I use to practice, at some of the common check the course conditions and compare notes. problems that occur while racing and suggest some corrective actions. There are some specific routines I follow to try and keep my basic boat handling and maneuvers up to Problems on the course that start before you get snuff. Starting with the most basic skills of tacking and into the boat.