Lake TownsendTELL Yacht Club • PO Box 4002 • Greensboro TALES NC 27404-4002 • www.laketownsendyachtclub.com December 2012 CHANGE OF WATCH Awards & Banquet • January 19 • RSVP now Issue 11 • December 2012 www.laketownsendyachtclub.com Call People. Go Sailing **** REACH OUT AND CALL SOMEONE **** In an effort to involve more sailors in the Club’s Sailing Events and Racing Programs, this “Available to Crew” list is published in each newsletter. If you have a boat and would like to participate in the Summer or Frostbite Race Series, call one of these folks for your crew. Alternatively, if you need a cruising partner on your boat or would like to team with someone on one of the city sailboats for a day sail or a race, contact someone on this list. If you are interested in crewing and would like to add your name to the list, please let Joleen know. Joleen has the best intentions of calling each new member if she doesn’t hear from them to encourage them to sign up on the Crew List. (See the Help Lines box located in this newsletter). Available To Crew Name Phone E-mail Jeanne Allamby [email protected] Bill Byrd 336-635-1926 Lacy Joyce 336-413-7929 [email protected] John Kuzmier 336-282-0411/336-580-5766 [email protected] Jonathan Kreider 336-829-6196 [email protected] Chris Maginnis 336-793-5313 [email protected] Dawn-Michelle Oliver [email protected] Jon Mitchell [email protected] Remik Pearson [email protected] George Shen 336-451-2646 [email protected] Martin Sinozich 336-455-9445 [email protected] Keith Smoot 336 996-6734 [email protected] Robert Riley [email protected] Bill Young 336-292-3102/336-707-0295 [email protected] Also, check the participation scratch sheet on the web Have ideas, articles,photos or contributions for inclusion in the newsletter? Send them to [email protected]. Holiday Gift Idea brought to you by LTYC Consider giving private sailing lessons as a gift this holiday season. We can create a lovely gift certificate for you to present to a friend or loved one. Private lessons cost $15.00 an hour, with a minimum of two hours. There are many great sailors in the club, willing to give lessons. All proceeds go to the club. Sailing lessons, the gift that keeps on giving! Contact Susan Cole at [email protected]. UPCOMING EVENTS Frostbite Race Series December 8 11 a.m. Lake Townsend Board Meeting January 3 5:45 p.m. Greensboro College; Proctor Hall West, 226 Frostbite Race Series January 12 11 a.m. Lake Townsend Change of Watch Banquet January 19 6-9:30 p.m. Bur-Mil Clubhouse Frostbite Race Series February 9 11 a.m. Lake Townsend Full Calendar is posted on the website, both a one page version and a month by month. ON THE COVER: Saturday, December 8, 2012 Frostbite Series; more December coverage in the January issue. Photo © 2012 Christopher Maginnis, published with permission. All members are encouraged to update their CPR and First Aid training. Local courses are available from the American Red Cross: http://gso.redcross.org/get-trained/schedule Issue 11 • December 2012 2 www.laketownsendyachtclub.com Sailing Sydney by Nancy Collins Uwe and I, among other things, like to chase solar boat. As they pushed away from the docks we were given eclipses. So this past November after 10 years of planning our sailing briefing. we found ourselves in Australia. Part of the trip included a “This boat wasn’t built for tourists.” They told us about visit to Sydney. Sydney is very sailing oriented. It is on a the load on the winches and the load on the blocks for the big harbor with lots of sailboats. main sail. (“Keep your hands We found a brochure in the away from these blocks!”, they hotel lobby, it was advertising a said. There is a tremendous load sail on an International America’s on the lines from those blocks, Cup Class boat. The style of and misplacement of a hand boat that Larry Ellis put out of could result in a loss of that business when he pushed to have hand.) multihulls in America’s Cup com- There were 4 cranks on the petition. boat. Each crank was operated The brochure, “Sailing Syd- by 2 persons. There were 2 that ney” said that they had 2 types of were horizontal to the front of events, a 2 ½ hr harbor sail and the boat and 2 that were vertical. a 3 hr sail on Wednesdays where They could all be geared together they raced. We looked at the wind and Wednesday the day or separately. All four were used to raise the main. The of the race looked promising. So Uwe booked our spot. mast was 113 feet high. It held a very large sail. There It loaded on the other side of the Sydney Harbor Bridge were 4 speeds on the cranks. The crew got all of the cranks in Darling harbor. All we found manned and pointed the boat was a sign. About 5 minutes into the wind to raise the main. before our departure, we watched “Faster, we need to go faster” the boat come in. It had been “Crank harder!” Just so the tour- modified to have a motor. It ists would get into the spirit the circled once around close to the crew did yell at them just like one loading dock, to get everyone’s would expect the America’s cup attention. There were obvious crew to yell. people waiting to go on this boat. After the main was up People with boat shoes, sunscreen they set the 2 vertical cranks for and jackets. After circling around adjusting the main and the 2 for- the boat labeled AUS40 docked. ward horizontal cranks for adjust- The crew brought out a little sign. ing the genoa. They really didn’t need anything, everyone was already The wind was blowing 18-20 knots. Because of the there. These ares the stats of the boat that we got on: wind the crew had reefed the main. The maximum wind It was called the AUS40 and is a 1992 sailboat. speed that they would have the boat out was about 22 Displacement 26,000 kg 57320 lbs knots. There were waves 2-3 feet. The boat sliced through Ballast 18,000 kg 39683 lbs the water nicely, I did not notice of any rocking to any of Sail Area 380M(squared) 3767 ft(squared) the waves, or wake from any other boats. The boat was very Mast 34.5 M 113.2 ft wide with a rough surface on the deck. There were also LOA 22.2 M 72.83 ft indents in the deck that would work as a ladder to get from LWL 18.5 M 60.1 ft one side to the other. The tourists that weren’t manning the Draft 4.3 M 14.1 ft winches were instructed to scuttle from one side to the oth- Beam 5.5 M 18 ft er and to stay on the high side. (So they didn’t fall in. The crew said that they hadn’t had anyone to fall in yet, and that (I have to admit, I only looked at this in metric, sometimes they didn’t want to start now. They probably wouldn’t have that really doesn’t soak in, this is a BIG boat.) been very happy to go back and get someone, since they We cheerfully signed our life away and boarded the were currently first in the series.) Continued on page 4 Issue 11 • December 2012 3 www.laketownsendyachtclub.com The winches were HUGE. They were probably 12” across. pered by Anthony ‘Nocka’ Nossiter, a veteran of the Volvo When they were under load they had 5-6 wraps of line on Ocean Race. The team timed the start perfectly and were them. The crew could easily let the sail out by manipulat- way out in front. There was another 70 ft maxi out there, ing that line. The tourists would crank but it had come late to the start. There the sail back in. They did tell us that were also a couple of blue water boats there was a head on board, but we really that had been in the Sydney to Hobart didn’t want to use it they said. & as the race, but they were also a little slower. boat was heeled over with the rail almost The race lasted for about an hour, in the water and with the tourists strain- rounding at the far end of the harbor a ing to hold on, it wouldn’t be tough to little yellow mark that looked like it was imagine the contortions that went along feet from the shore, with waves, crashing with that venture. around it. Wednesday was race day for this boat. We came around the last mark, and (There are races EVERY day on the Sydney harbor.) There headed for the finish line. Somewhere on the distant shore, were several other 70” boats out on the water that competed waving out of a third floor window was a orange flag signal- with each other. The race course was set by standing chan- ing that we had made the finish line, and were first over. nel markers or harbor items in the water. The course had After the finish, they let some of the tourists sail the been this way for many years.