Volume 25, Number 8 August 2015 Lake Michigan SuRF Official Newsmagazine of the Lake Michigan Sail Racing Federation LMSRF YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP 2015 LMSRF Corporate Members by Gail M. Turluck Broad Reach Sailing The 2015 Lake Michigan Sail Racing Federation Youth Championship for the C. N. Moller Memorial Trophy is being held in conjunction with the annual Copacetic Stores Skyline Regatta at Columbia Yacht Club, Chicago, Illinois, August 6-7, Lake Michigan Performance 2015. The championship was first conducted in 1936. Learn more at Handicap Racing Fleet http://lmsrf.org/index.php/youth/youth-championship-results. Manitowoc Marina Racing will be conducted in Optimist Dinghies (all fleets), Laser (all rigs), and Club 420s. National Marine Manufacturers Association Skyway Yacht Works For complete information contact Sailing Director – Kurt Thomsen, 312.465.3514, [email protected], and for information about the club see West Marine www.columbiayachtclub.org. World Yachts For information on becoming an LMSRF Corporate WRAP YOUR ADULT LESSON PROGRAM DIFFERENTLY Member, email [email protected]. THIS YEAR! by Gail M. Turluck It's wonderful to see all our yacht clubs reporting on having taught 20, 30, 40 or more adults how to sail and possibly race sailboats already this All The News That Fits ... summer! LMSRF Youth Championship ............................................... 1 Wrap Adult Program Differently ........................................ 1 Longest Freshwater Race on Earth ................................... 2 Now comes the challenge! What are you going to do to stick Michigan City's Hope Takes SuperMac ............................ 2 Chicago's il Mostro sets Port Huron-Mac Record ........ 4 them with super-glue to your club, your sailing program and your Kenosha Regatta Registration Open ................................. 5 sail racing program? Invitation to Tri-State Party ................................................. 7 Get Your Entries In Early ....................................................... 7 Courageous 400 ......................................................................... 7 Do you have a well prepared presentation on how to become a Donate to Grow Sailing on Lake Michigan ..................... 8 Rafting Rules of Etiquette ...................................................... 8 member, why membership is fun and good, how to become a Pan American Games-Sailing ............................................... 9 Let's Kill Weather Forecasts Once and for All! ........... 15 sailboat owner and how to buy, register and race a sailboat? Do Sailing Videos Around Lake Michigan ............................ 16 you have a couple give-our-boats-a-try days so these new sailors Everyone in a Protest is Right ........................................... 16 Yachting Australia – One Sailing ....................................... 16 can see, touch and feel the differences between a Sunfish, Butterfly, Laser; If Damage, Always File a Protest ...................................... 17 Vanguard 15, Star; Sonar, Etchells, Flying Scot, Lightning; and offshore 900 Pound Gorilla – Discover Boating ........................... 17 Grant to Help Pay for Visitor Facilities .......................... 18 boats? Do you educate them on the costs of ownership, storage, trailering, Member Benefits ..................................................................... 18 2015 Queen's Cup ................................................................... 19 race and regatta entry, and do so in a realistic way (it can be done Line Honors and Bragging Rights for Lucky ................ 20 affordably, we all do it!)? Island Goats Inducted and Awards ................................. 22 Northern Michigan 17 Restoration ................................. 22 Start a Life Jacket Loaner Site ............................................ 23 Are you having a regatta near the end of the program so everyone from it Race Committee ....................................................................... 23 Future of Navigation Survey .............................................. 24 has a chance to give racing a try? Racing won't be for everyone, yet many 2016 Shield Ocean-Great Lakes Challenge Set ........... 25 First Annual Pickle Night Dinner...................................... 26 may discover day-sailing or distance cruising is their calling and they will Grants-In-Aid Reports ........................................................... 26 make great club members for the long term. Epic Racing Bronze at ISAF Match Race Worlds ....... 27 Mark Your Calendars! ............................................................ 29 Heard on the Rail ..................................................................... 29 Are you inviting them to subscribe to this e-newsmagazine? It's easy- National Sailing Hall 2015 Class ....................................... 29 Letters to the Editor ............................................................... 30 here's the link: http://tinyurl.com/LMSuRF. College Sailing All-Academic Team ................................. 30 Safe Powerboat Handling .................................................... 33 ORA Extends US Sailing Partnership .............................. 34 It is really important to invite these program graduates to become a US Sailing News ........................................................................ 35 What Happened ....................................................................... 36 permanent part of your organization, whether as crew or boat owner, and About Lake Michigan SuRF .................................................. 58 to make sailing and possibly sail racing a permanent part of their lives! Lake Michigan SuRF Newsmagazine THE LONGEST FRESHWATER RACE ON EARTH The Supermac Race, an extension of the Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac and a precursor to the Bell’s Beer Bayview Mackinac Race, wound up with 31 entrants, and after four withdrawals, 27 finishers. Among those finishers, it was the smaller boats that fared the best, just as they had in the “Chicago Mac” (which started on Lake Michigan on July 11). “Supermac racers are those that keep racing, without stopping, after their Chicago Mac finish (at Mackinac Island) to a Port Huron finish line, for a total of 500 nautical miles,” explained Supermac Co-Chair and Bell’s Beer Bayview Mackinac Chair Peter Wenzler. “The smaller boats started first in the Chicago Mac, but halfway through the race the fleet inverted and the big boats got ahead. However, the wind was such that the larger boats had to beat their way to the Supermac finish while the smaller boats got to run in 30 knots of breeze, so it became their race.” Peter and Christopher Thornton’s Volvo 70 Il Mostro crossed first followed by Rick Warner’s ORMA 60 Areté, and Bill Alcott's Equation. Winning Multhull Class was Jonathan Alvord’s Corsair F-31R Triceratops, while taking Monohull Classes 2, 3 and 4, respectively, were Bill Martin’s 70-foot Stripes, Gintaras Karaitis’s Schock 41 Quick Silver and Michael Leland’s Najad 332 Hope. The top three finishers in Class 3 (the smallest boats), were also the top-three overall. They were Hope, Tim Prophit’s Fast Tango, and David Keys’s C&C 35 Shamrock. Organizers were the Bayview Yacht Club, Chicago Yacht Club and Port Huron Yacht Club, who billed this as the longest fresh water race on earth. According to Wenzler, most of the boats were planning to compete in the Bayview Mackinac Race, so collectively, all three events have to be the most exciting 10 days of racing fun on the Great Lakes. MICHIGAN CITY'S HOPE TAKES 2015 SUPERMAC by Vik Warren Our boat is Hope, a very nice 33 cruiser built in Sweden ten years ago, and owned by Michael Leland, an orthopedic surgeon, who recently performed his 1000th anterior hip replacement. His original plan to only cruise the boat took a dive when he decided he wanted to win the Chicago Mackinac race cruising division. The first year got him a 4th place flag which fueled his desire to win it. He recruited Vik “Big Toe” to manage the boat. Vik has a motor sports background and has been part of teams which have won in F1, Indy car and prototype sports cars. He brought on board Mike “Moose” DeBone a free spirit master carpenter as bowman, navigator, helm. Add Fred “Trimming Fool” Bell who is one the best big boat trimmers, as core crew. With the help of Jack who is no longer sailing, they went on a tear, winning local PHRF races and port to ports as prep for the 2011 Cruising Mac which they won. A word about the Cruising Mac, which pretty much every racing sailor here dismisses as not really racing. It is the the fastest growing fleet in the Chicago Mac, and while there are some casual boats, it’s more competitive than you might think. Hope has a 4th, two 3rds and two 1sts. In 2014 Hope won Cruising 2 and beat out a 50 boat fleet to win Cruising Overall, and Michael decided he should stop racing and concentrate on prep for his long term plan to cross the Atlantic. Vik, Moose and Fred started to look for another boat they could help up its game. A week before they signed up on another boat, Chicago Yacht Club, Bayview Yacht Club & Port Huron Yacht Club announced they would run a 2015 Super Mac race, from Chicago to Port Huron. The core crew had a meeting with Michael and they decided to try and win it. It became the Hope final Farewell tour. As prep we raced in the Chicago-Michigan City-Chicago race, which is the oldest race on Lake Michigan, a 65 mile overnight. We finished 2nd in section