Author: Louis Swanepoel

Proud Sponsor of  South Bay Family Sailing Series
(Relaxing/No stress/Sail Racing)

Sailing Instructions: February 17, 2024
When:   February17. 2024
Where:  San Diego South Bay
Time:   12:00pm Local GPS Time Race

STARTING TIMES
Start race Q’s 11:45
First Warning 11:55-
All Boats will start at Noon

Please download and use the RaceQ’s application so you can track the fleet and replay the race.

Racecourse #29 Reverse

Buoy “R34” to port / Buoy “WR-32A” to starboard (starting line)
Buoy “B” to port
Buoy “C” to port
Buoy “R34” to starboard
Buoy “B” to starboard
Buoy “A” to starboard
Buoy “R34” to starboard / Buoy “WR-32A” to port (finish line)

Course Distance 6.34 nm

Please Monitor VHF Channel 68 for information, to report problems on the course. Report finish times to Dan Dreesen, SV Parlay via text or Email – dandreesen1@gmail.com or  619-884-6157 before end of day Sunday February 18, 2024

Yellow “Q” flag should be flown aft, where it can be best seen while racing.

 “A” (N32 39.998 / W117 08.894) 24inch XL Yellow fender marked “A” in Black Letters.

“B” (N32 39.024 / W117 08.531) 30 inch White Ball marked with Letter “B” in Black Letters

“C” (“C” (N32 38.5420/ W117 08.1950) 60 inch Yellow Buoy W/ Red Brand marking “LALIZAS”

 Reference Navigation Charts for Location of the channel marks used for this race.

On the morning of January 20th, I was uncomfortably sitting in the Pool House bleachers at Brigham Young University watching a collegiate Dive Meet. It was 35 degrees outside and snow everywhere but a comfortable 76 degrees inside the pool house.  I received a few calls and texts asking if I knew who from North bay was going to travel down to South bay for the race. I anticipated a few hardy sailors would show up but I never expected that nine boats were ready to start the race at noon. I only have a few comments about the race:

Aragorn: “We were completely soaked. Helly Hansen foul weather gear was worthless and MIke’s golf rain suit wasn’t any better!

Parlay: ” The visibility made it tough for us and probably worse for the other boats. Lots of mist and no land bearings. Even with the bimini up we got wet.”

Estate Sail: “Great race today! Rained the whole race.”

Consigliare: “Wet one today.With all the talk about getting the new inflatable buoys, I made a wrong assumption at”A “. Oops!”

And my favorite!

Windancer: It’s great that the races are monthly, everybody should be over their Pneumonia by February’s race.”

Attached please find the race results from yesterday.  We started keeping points for year end awards in the following categories:

1. Fastest elapsed time
2. PHRF
3. The modified Collins Handicap.

At our January 11, 2024 meeting the attendees agreed to level the historic information in the Collins Handicap Program by creating a new 2024 identity for the boats. When the race results were entered into the program this morning, there was an unanticipated occurrence. The Collins System did not have any historical data to use to calculate the finish times and 1, 2, 3 finish placement of the boats. The result is that all boats were treated as new boats in the system and beat the program’s benchmark and received a first place finish against the standard benchmark. Seeing this,this is a trend that I expect to see each time a boat races for the first time in 2024 but should start working itself out after the second or third time a boat races. The February results should start to provide first, second and third place points as historic data is collected.

In the meantime, we have an ad hoc group looking into developing an alternate scoring system for the future.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Dan Dreesen

S/V Parlay

South Bay Family Sailing Series
(Relaxing/No stress/Sail Racing)

Sailing Instructions: January 20, 2024
When:   January 2024
Where:  San Diego South Bay
Time:   12:00pm Local GPS Time Race

STARTING TIMES
Start race Q’s 11:45
First Warning 11:55-
All Boats will start at Noon

Please download and use the RaceQ’s application so you can track the fleet and replay the race.

Racecourse 30

Buoy “R34” to Port / Buoy “WR-32A” to Starboard (starting line)
Buoy “B” to Starboard
Buoy “WR-32A” to Port
Buoy “A” to Port
Buoy “38” to Port
Buoy “A” to Starboard
Buoy “R34” to Starboard / Buoy “WR-32A” to Port (finish line)

Course Distance 6.8 nm

Please Monitor VHF Channel 68 for information, to report problems on the course. Report finish times to Dan Dreesen, SV Parlay via text or Email – dandreesen1@gmail.com or  619-884-6157 before end of day Sunday December 17, 2023.

Yellow “Q” flag should be flown aft, where it can be best seen while racing.

“A” (N32 39.998 / W117 08.894) 24inch XL Yellow fender marked “A” in Black Letters. Updated 1-15-24

“B” (N32 39.024 / W117 08.531) 30inch White Ball marked with Letter “B” in Black Letters

“C” (N32 640.13 / W117 13.438) 22inch Ball marked with the Letter “C” in black letters

 Reference Navigation Charts for Location of the channel marks used for this race.

Race Results from our April 16, 2022 race.

The day was quite windy and we had a fleet of 7 boats the Saturday before Easter.

• Kiss, Aragorn & Pau Hana started at Noon.
• Atsa II and Simplicity started at 12:07
• Consigliere and Marilee started at 12:14

The track took us from the start line to the A mark. Kiss was first to round followed by Atsa II. Consigliere, MArilee, Aragorn & Pau Hana all passed the A buoy within feet of each other.  Everyone raced clean around buoy 26 and down the bay to the B buoy.  There was a second white buoy within the close proximity of the B mark and it caused some confusion. with  the actual B mark.  Kiss maintained her lead from start to finish. Consigliere and Atsa II crossed the line within the thinnest of margins, Marilee was a few minutes behind them with Simplicity, Aragorn and Pau Hana closing out the race together.

After hearing some boat to boat chatter on the radio after the race, I reviewed RaceQ’s to determine if anyone had cut the route short and missed the B mark. According to Race Q’s, Consigliere, Marilee and Aragorn did not pass the B mark correctly. You all still had a great race.

Here are the results from Saturday April 16, 2022.

First Across the Line:

1. 1. 1. Kiss
      2. Consigliere*
      3. Atsa II

PHRF Finish Order:

1. 1. 1. Kiss
      2. Consigliere*
      3. Atsa II

Collins HC

1. 1. 1. Kiss
      2. Pau Hana
      3. Simplicity
      4. Atsa II
      5. Marilee*
      6. Consigliere*
      7. Aragorn*

* Completed the course but rounded the incorrect B Buoy.

See you all soon out on the water.