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The Mainsheet The Mainsheet Newsletter of PYC Sailing (Vol 2 No. 2, April 2021) Feedback or questions should be directed to: Photo of the Month Jack White, Race Committee Chair: [email protected] Clark Chapin, Race Committee Secretary: [email protected] Tom Ehman: [email protected] If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, send an email to [email protected]. Back issues are available HERE. In this issue: The Service Boat will be uncovered and ready for action soon! Photo of the Month ................................................. 1 Race Committee Prepares for 2021 ......................... 1 36th (and 37th) America’s Cup ................................... 2 Race Committee Prepares for 2021 24th Canada’s Cup – 2021 ......................................... 2 The Race Committee met in Racing Rules Book Club Continues! .......................... 2 February and March to work through the details of our 2021 Handling a Sailboat Practice Tips ............................. 3 sailing season. Much still depends From the Back of the Boat – Steve Wiseman ........... 4 upon how the pandemic and vaccination programs progress in Your 2021 Race Committee the months ahead, but plans are underway to get the Signal Boat and Service Boat uncovered, Jack White, Chair launched, and ready to go for an early May start to Brook Smith, Vice Chair the season. Clark Chapin, Secretary The Notice of Race, Race Schedule, and entry form Ty Cathey (IL) Rick Lyons were sent out in mid-March and are available HERE. Tom Ehman Bill O’Donnel Highlights of this year’s program include: • The Large Boat Silver (Thursday Night) Series Bill Foster Kerry Pebbles (FS) will have 16 race nights. We are going to have Brian Hawkins Ann Taylor more, shorter, back-to-back races (not unlike Rick Jarzembowski Steve Wiseman (LA) the Small Boat Silver (Tuesday Night) Series). • The Gold Series will have eight, scheduled race 2021 HPYC Board of Governors days with 3 back-to-back races scheduled on a staggered basis (usually every other weekend). Brian Hawkins, Commodore We anticipate shorter, more tactical races. Clark Chapin, Secretary and Past Commodore • One RM crew will serve for all three races on Brook Smith, Treasurer any given day. Bill Foster, Governor • In order to better ensure that there are eight race days, eight additional days will be Bill O’Donnel, Governor designated as alternate (make-up) days. If a race day is moved to an alternate weekend, then the designated race management will be expected to cover the alternate date. April 2021 The Mainsheet • Gold Series races’ Warning Signal on Saturday is • Whichever team wins, the agreement includes at 1200, Sunday is at 1300. In each case three that the 38th Match will be held back in races will be attempted. Auckland in 2024 and will be a more “normal” • Small Boat Silver Races’ Warning Signal is at multi-challenger event. 1830, Large Boat Silver warning signals will be at 1900 from 27 May to 12 August, and 1830 • The challenge includes a strengthened thereafter. nationality rule and conditions to prevent other • There will be several different events designed teams with deep pockets from “poaching” to increase the number of sailors at PYC, and major members of ETNZ such as their winning there will be opportunities for you to help out in helmsmen and tacticians. this endeavor. • There are looser nationality requirements for The Race Committee is committed to welcoming nations that have not recently challenged for racers with boats that are not members of our the Cup, which could include Australia or existing racing fleets with Portsmouth Handicap Switzerland, home of Team Alinghi. scoring if necessary. • The 75-foot foiling monohulls (AC75’s) will be th th used for the next two Matches, allowing 36 (and 37 ) America’s Cup stability in the design formula to (somewhat) limit costs. If this is indeed the framework of the INEOS challenge, it will mark the first return of The Auld Mug to Great Britain since the Yacht America first won it in 1851. 24th Canada’s Cup – 2021 Labor Day weekend will see the culmination of a multi-year effort to reinvigorate the Canada’s Cup, a The 36th America’s Cup Match wrapped up on 17- match racing challenge between American and Mar in Auckland, New Zealand. Emirates Team New Canadian clubs. Originally scheduled for last year, Zealand (ETNZ) beat Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli 7-3 in a the competition will use one-design boats, the match that was closer than many expected and also Melges IC37. There will be both a defender and in unusually light winds, in some cases barely above challenger selection with the winners to face off for the 6.5 kts lower limit. the trophy, Immediately after the conclusion of racing, the Use of a one-design boat will keep costs down and Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron accepted a using the same design over the next few biennial challenge from the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes, cycles will allow more teams to compete UK and the British challenger, INEOS Team UK for the 37th America’s Cup Match. Racing Rules Book Club Continues! Details have not been made public, but rumors The Racing Rules of persist that this is an unusual, precedent-breaking Sailing were revised for challenge for several reasons: 2021. All US Sailing • The challenge is actually for two events – the members can download 37th and 38th Matches. The 37th Match will be an app for Android or held late next summer in Cowes, England solely Apple devices that between ETNZ and INEOS. One presumes that contains not only the the money for staging this event will be rules, but links to Dave supplied by Sir James Ratcliff, the CEO of INEOS Perry’s book “Understanding the Racing Rules of and the wealthiest man in the UK. Sailing through 2024” and the US Sailing Appeals Page 2 April 2021 The Mainsheet Book. Hardcopies of the rule book are available for Also, if you come up empty handed after clearing the shipping and handling fee only of $7. both in sequence then you know you may not have PYC continues to host an online discussion of the to check as often. You should be able to gauge the rules using sample quizzes from a variety of sources. rate of checking needed based on what you see US Sailing members can download the new rules floating on the water. onto their phones at USSailing.org or order a new Typically, the least disruptive time to clear weeds printed book at a discount price. while racing is just after the windward mark after The series continues on Thursdays through 22-Apr you’re on course for the next mark at maximum each Thursday at 7:30 PM on Zoom: speed for the conditions, or in a lull with everyone Meeting ID: 482 219 6565 around you, and also before the leeward mark. Passcode: 1067 Clearing centerboard weeds – close hauled: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4822196565?pwd=em9 Boats with a line that pulls the centerboard up: EVGlXNEFaQXNVcFpTSEI2RWtuUT09 • With momentum on your normal course, briefly steer and coast 15 degrees or so closer to the Handling a Sailboat Practice Tips wind depending on the boat. This allows the Clearing weeds from the centerboard and sail(s) to luff slightly and reduces the side rudder as efficiently as possible with practice. pressure on the centerboard so it can slide When just sailing around easier in the trunk. This also reduces most if not weeds that get caught on all side-slip to leeward while the centerboard is the centerboard and raised. rudder is not much • The crew if possible could grab the centerboard consequence unless you line from before the cleat and quickly pull the planned to be back to centerboard up only just high enough for weeds shore at a certain time and the wind speed is to slide off. Practice as needed to find this dropping. If you are racing, these can take you off height and at various speeds - then mark the pace if you’ve collected very little, or more than line for reference. your fair share. • Lower to original height before bearing off back It’s possible to steer around floating clumps of to close hauled. weeds or even single strands. Also, when racing, • Observe the success that floats out from under weeds need to be cleared off before the start, but the hull and determine the need for the rudder as close to the start as practical, but leaving enough to be cleared and when. time to gauge your start and be on time. Boats with a daggerboard – close hauled: The centerboard will typically pick up the most first, • As described above - Steer closer to wind, as so when clearing these, practice steering around needed, to reduce the pressure on the the mass to avoid more on the rudder. If not daggerboard while keeping up momentum. successful then the rudder is next. If you only clear Then and with good rope handle secured at the the centerboard and leave the rudder unchecked, top of the daggerboard, yank the board up to a this tends to be slower than double-checking predetermined height, then quickly shove it overall. down and return to your normal course. With a buildup of weeds the boat will slow down or Once practiced there should be minimal sideslip if could drift sideways, so practicing removal is any and very little loss in speed. important to minimize the drag it creates and Once practiced there should be minimal sideslip if should make it worth the effort if practiced and any and very little loss in speed. done well. The effort also lets you know it may not Clearing rudder weeds - all points of sail: be weeds taking you off pace if you come up clean, Some boats have a very long back deck, tall but maybe different sail trim, or weight placement transom, and a long rudder blade, so if possible, like are called for.
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