Scratch Sheet This year GIYS has combined the Commodore’s Review and the GIYS – SCC Spring Regatta. Competitors can expect to finish the race around 4 pm and arrive at the harbor in time to join the parade of boats at 5 pm if they wish to do so. The awards party at the boathouse will include supper and an open bar. Party tickets for the skipper and three crew are included in the Race Entry fee. Additional party tickets are $25 per person. BoatPix is scheduled to cover the regatta, and photos taken from the air will be available to the entrants.
A Club Class Division was added to expose more sailors to CBYRA sanctioned racing events. If you like to participate in the point to point races that are traditionally part of club cruises, you will enjoy this race. By entering in the Spring Regatta on Saturday and the MRSA Spring Classic on Sunday, skippers can sail three of the races required to qualify for a CBYRA high point award in one weekend. The idea was to provide a tune-up distance qualifier that finished in the Annapolis area with a true destination finish/party providing an easy trip home or to the party.
In 2011 45 yachts started at Hackett’s Point and raced through the Bay Bridge to a Baltimore Lighthouse finish-line. Gibson Island hosted a lively dockside awards party complete with a bagpipe sunset serenade by a crew member from the J35 Windependent. Boats were encouraged to tie-up or anchor and tender service was provided. The feedback from participants was overwhelmingly positive, and both GIYS and SCC received Race Committee of the Year Awards from CBYRA as a result.
Full details and information about how to enter will be found in the CBYRA Green Book and online. Click here for additional information.
Ever wonder what it is like to cross an ocean? How about a race across an ocean? Just how fast was Leopard going? 25 knots, 32 knots, 37 knots??? What prep is involved? What conditions can one expect to encounter? Find out the answers to these questions and more. Clarke Murphy and Will Passano present video footage from their Transatlantic Race on board Leopard. A midwinter cruise guaranteed to part your hair and wash your face. What other crazy things happen on a cruise like this? And in case that is not enough, the 2011 cruising season awards will be presented and there were be several other surprises.
Winds were on the light side http://gibsonisland.com/yachtsquadron/wp-admin/post-new.phpas expected for this annual July racing series for Stars. Excellent races were run on both days, though challenging for both the Race Committee as well as for the Star boat crews. Ten boats were on the starting line after the long tow out from behind Gibson Island. A moderate leftover Northeast breeze from the evening’s thunderstorms gave us false hope all morning but as the sun rose higher the breeze slowly expired and veered towards the East.
At the start, crews were hiked and the Stars looked brilliant clearing the line in an 8 knot breeze. Three quarters up the beat, boats coming out from the right side looked good. Tom Price with Alex Schwab crewing took a lot of sterns but worked late to East and in a new, stronger veer led the fleet to the weather mark. Down the run, John Vanderhoff very sensibly took the low lane and sailed past Price and the pack to his left and went on to win. Price and MacCausland finished 2nd and 3rd. Click here for full results(more…)
By Tom Price with Photographs Collected by John Sherwood
They say History repeats itself and in looking back at Gibson Island’s 90 year saga of One Design racing, it’s clear that there has been phenomenal (some might say pathological) desire for racing similar, if not identical yachts within our Squadron, between members and even between other Bay clubs. (more…)
This year GIYS has combined the Commodore’s Review and the GIYS – SCC Spring Regatta. Competitors can expect to finish the race around 4 pm and arrive at the harbor in time to join the parade of boats at 5 pm if they wish to do so. The awards party at the boathouse will include supper and an open bar. Party tickets for the skipper and three crew are included in the Race Entry fee. Additional party tickets are $25 per person. BoatPix is scheduled to cover the regatta, and photos taken from the air will be available to the entrants.
