Royal Vancouver Yacht Club Opening Day 2015 Flagship: Quantum Commodore: Paul Shield May 8 & 9, 2015 Weekend Programme and Sailpast Instructions Opening Day 2015 kick off the boating season in style - participate in one of RVYC’s MOSt TREASURED TRADITIONS. On Friday, May 8: Join Commodore Paul Shield & Susan Kidd OPening DAy Dinner & Dance Cocktails: 6:00 pm / Dinner: 7:00 PM enjoy a special menu prepared by chef Patrick, then dance to the music of Faith & Desire Dress CODE: men - blazers, Black tie, white trousers and white shoes -or- Appropriate Formal Attire LAdies - Long or short formal Dresses Cost: $55 per person (+tax) RSVP with the Front Desk 604.224.1344 2 On Saturday, May 9: Celebrations ASHORE Jericho Station 0930 hrs Weather Decision: GO or NO GO (Channel 73) 1130 hrs Sailpast commences with the firing of the Commodore’s cannon 1400 hrs Garden Party on the Front Lawn and Patio 1430 hrs Commodore’s Receiving Line 1630 HRS End of the Garden Party 1700 hrs Sunset Ceremony: -Lowering of the Flags on the Front Lawn -Vancouver Fire & Rescue Service band And Honour Guard 1730 HRS Winners of the Seamanship awards to be Posted at the Front Desk 3 On Saturday, May 9: KidsFEST Hastings Mill park Activities to include: boat building with the Vancouver Maritime Museum Face Painting Kangaroo Game Kidsfest will take place at Hastings mill Park from 1400 hrs - 1600 hrs with boatloads of fun, and hands-on activities during the afternoon ceremonies. (if the weather doesn’t cooperate, activities will take place inside the clubhouse) Dress of the Day Men: Club blazer, black tie, white trousers, and white shoes Ladies: Club blazer, white skirt or slacks, Club hat or white beret with crest, white blouse, white gloves, and white shoes While neat sailing attire on board is permitted, determination of the Seamanship awards is based in large part on yachts displaying the best “Dress of the Day” as outlined above. Parking Members are requested to park underground or o property. e open parking lot will be used by VIP guests, and parking in this area will be available only with a special Opening Day parking pass. ank you for your cooperation. 4 Flags All Members’ vessels should y the Canadian Ensign and RVYC burgee as outlined in “Flag Etiquette” in the Yearbook (page 221 in the 2014 edition, and page 217 in the 2015 edition). Vessels with signal ags are requested to “dress ship” after anchoring or docking at Jericho Station. Commodore’s and judges’ Vessels e Commodore’s Flagship is Quantum, the white powerboat shown on the cover of this programme. e Judges’ vessel Attitude will be anchored north of Quantum. SALUTING INSTRUCTIONS Skippers will organise crew when about ½ mile from the Flagship. Traditionally, ladies stand nearest the bow and are ranked from shortest to tallest working aft. Gentlemen stand aft of the ladies, ranked down from tallest to shortest. All vessels will approach from the north to salute and will pass Attitude before Quantum. e Skipper will call “Ship’s Company, Attention” when about 100’ from Attitude. e crew will come to attention and this stance will be held until after passing Quantum. e Salute: each vessel shall pass approximately 20’ astern the Flag- ship. As she begins to cross the Flagship’s transom, the Skipper only salutes, provided he or she is wearing the appropriate Club headwear. e Canadian Ensign is lowered (in the case of small dinghies, the headsail is let y). e salute is held while the Flagship’s Ensign is lowered, the Commodore returns the salute and the Flagship’s Ensign is raised again. At this point, the Skipper terminates the hand salute and the Ensign is raised. e Skipper then commands, “Ship’s Com- pany, Stand Easy.” After saluting, vessels moored at Jericho may return to their slips. All other vessels may proceed to anchorage well clear of the Flagship. Do not anchor east of the breakwater. e entrance to the Jericho Marina must be kept clear for Group Victor vessels to manoeuvre. e Dining Room Dock is only to be used for the Group Victor vessels. 5 Sailpast 2015 Muster Stations Pre- and Post- SALUTE MOVEMENTS GROUP VICTOR AND SAIL FLEETS POWER FLEETS Group Victor and Green Class will circulate Approach speed to salute is 5kts over the bottom. clockwise (marks to starboard). One Design, Transit False Creek near its centre line. Pass between Junior Fleet, Yellow, Blue and Red Classes will the markers at the entrance to False Creek TIDES AT POINT ATKINSON circulate counter clockwise (marks to port). approximately at mid-point. Turn to a course of Saturday May 9, 2015 (PDT) ±250°M, pass north of the Kits Barge Buoy and Low Tide 04:26 3.2m (10.5 ft) Each fleet will alter course from the south continue until the pair of orange marks north of the (12.1 ft) bound side of its loop, or gybe or otherwise Commodore’s vessel are nearing abeam. Turn to High Tide 08:48 3.7m Low Tide 15:59 1.1m (3.6 ft) maneouver to proceed to the orange gate port, pass between the orange gate marks and High Tide (14.8 ft) marks, pass between them and continue on continue on to salute the Commodore. Hold course 23:31 4.5m to salute the Commodore. Hold course thru until thru the second set of orange gate marks and the second set of orange gate marks and disperse to the east. disperse to the west. COMMUNICATION All skippers to monitor Channel 73. Necessary communication only, please! Jericho Dock staff to monitor Channel 66A. Red Pink Green Yellow AREA ‘S’ 20 36’ – 40’ 33’ – 36’ RVYC RED CLASS BLUE CLASS 41’ AND OVER GREEN CLASS 32’ AND UNDER YELLOW CLASS YELLOW Coal Harbour Yellow Red Pink Green SAIL FLEET APPROACH GROUP VICTOR and POWER FLEET APPROACH SPECIAL 1½ nm at 5kts = 18 min Compass course ± 250°M GROUP ONE DESIGN ¾ nm at 5kts= 8 min JUNIOR FLEET Kitsilano Barge Buoy Orange Orange Commodore Commodore and judges and judges in west wind in east wind SAIL FLEET DISPERSAL Orange Orange AREA ‘P’ Anchoring POWER FLEET POWER CLASS V Here DISPERSAL 66’ and OVER POWER CLASS III Orange 46’ – 55’ All mustering vessels are RVYC Green requested to stay west of Jericho the Cambie Bridge and to POWER CLASS II stay clear of Dragon Boat POWER CLASS IV Granville Street Bridge 36’ – 45’ activity east of the bridge Blue 56’ – 65’ Yellow POWER CLASS I 35’ and UNDER Red Sailpast instructions Ocial Vessels: Commodore: Paul Shield Quantum (30’ Tollycraft, white) Ocers of the Day Aoat: Iain Drummond Arcturus (30’ Carver, white) Harold Gordon American Beauty (31’ Chris Craft, white) Judges Vessel: Peter Powers Attitude (38’ Viking, white) Patrol Chief: Hunter Lowden Whaler 7 (aluminium utility boat) Heavy Weather contingency Plan At 0930 hrs on Saturday May 9, the Ocer of the Day Aoat will decide as to whether Sailpast will proceed. In the event of unfavourable conditions, ag AP (this is a pennant with red and white vertical stripes) with two sound signals, will be displayed on the agpoles at Jericho and Coal Harbour to notify participants that Sailpast will not occur. Opening Day activities at Jericho Clubhouse will take place as scheduled. In addition, the Ocer of the Day Aoat will announce on VHF Channel 73 the status of the Sailpast as GO or NO GO. All skippers are encouraged to monitor their VHF radios at this time. Group Victor and Special Group 1100 hrs Rendezvous ½ mile north of the Flagship and west of the approach line 1130 hrs Vice Commodore John Robertson (Vessel: Bel Esprit) sails between the north pair of orange marks, salutes, continues through the south pair of orange marks and departs the area in an easterly direction. Group Victor and Special Group vessels will follow. Group Victor Tradition I PC David Rolfe Midnight Sun David Doig & Emma Stevens Deora PC Bill Botham Extra David & Ellan Bockus Shasta PC Geo Peretz Special Group HMCS Oriole, Vancouver City Police, Vancouver Fire & Rescue, Port Metro Vancouver, Steveston Lifeboat, visiting Commodores’ vessels, visiting Yacht Club vessels, RVYC Past Commodores’ vessels, followed by RVYC Flag Ocers’ vessels. 8 Sailing Vessel Orders 1100 hrs Rendezvous in areas designated on Muster Stations Plan (page 6 & 7). All vessels to form up line astern behind respective class leaders. Class lead vessels are identied by coloured pennants and last vessels by coloured ags. Be prepared to use engine as necessary. ere will be four courses set, with marks correspond- ing to Class colours. e marks for each course will be approximately one mile apart, on north/south axes, dening courses with two reaching legs. Patrol Chief will instruct lead vessels when to commence the approach to the Flagship. All sailboats are to pass between the rst orange marks, come to attention before passing the Judges, salute the Commodore, pass between the second two orange marks and disperse. Disperse to the west, unless returning directly to Jericho Marina, in which case, dispersal to the east is acceptable. Classes, led by the Fleet Captain will sail past in the order listed below. Please follow Patrol Vessel instructions during approach to the Flagship. Lead vessel - Endless Summer Fleet Captain - James McDonald Junior Fleet Lead Vessel 29er or Elliott 6 Calum Macdonald Last Vessel 29er Ryan Wood / Andrew Wood One Design Lead Vessel blink (Star 8017) Bruce Long Last Vessel Marhenurh 5 Peter Wealick Class I (under 32’) - Yellow Lead Vessel Ultraman II (yellow pennant) Jason Saunderson Last Vessel LRT (yellow ag) Robb Bassett & Danielle Roberts 9 Class II (33’ to 35’) - Green Lead Vessel Absolute Kaos (green pennant) Catherine & Reigh North Last Vessel Harlequin (green ag) George & James Dermer Class III (36’ to 40’) - Blue Lead Vessel Taranga (blue pennant) Kevin Mueller Last Vessel Marhenurh 4 (blue ag) Richard Wealick Class IV (41’ and over) - Red Lead Vessel Miller Time (red pennant) Tim & Cheryl Saunders Last Vessel Spirit (red ag) Tim Meakin POWER Vessel Orders 1200 hrs Rendezvous in areas designated on Muster Stations Plan (page 6 & 7).