The popular “SHIPS’ MAIL” Holiday Winter issue newsletter already distributed by email to all club members. Stories of events of the past year, happenings with your club, reports on social gatherings, future conference and courses for 2020. Read all about it here!
Saturday, January 11, 2020, 6-8 pm at Southwestern Yacht Club, address 2702 Qualtrough Street, SD 92106.
Please RSVP your attendance and MENU CHOICE per person by January 6, 2020 to Deb Oberg at doberg10@aol.com or call/text at 858-717-7851. No walk-ins please.
America’s Boating Club-Sail Fleet/South Bay Family
Sailing Series/Ventura Sailing Club-November 16, 2019
Saturday, (7.6 nm.)
Saturday, November 16, 2019 was a fantastic day for sailing. It was just the typical
San Diego day. The wind was a constant 10-13 mph out of the northwest. The San
Diego South Bay was flat and there were NO other racers in the area. Sky was blue
with no clouds and the temperature was in the 70’s and 80’s. Not bad for a couple of
weeks before Thanksgiving.
There were only 5 boats at the starting line for the noon horn. Maybe the sparse
numbers was do to the “Baja Ha Ha” Race to Cabo San Lucas that started on
Monday, November 4. A number of our racers participated in this event, Steve
Brodbeck on Consigliare and Jay who sails on Sea Story. There may have been
other local sailors participating as well. The race committee had a discussion
whether their race would substitute for our race. Discussion is on going. ( Ha, Ha)
Our pursuit race started with Fast Sunday and The Bass Boat starting in the first
group. The Bass Boat is an Ensign 23 and is sailed well by Doug Bass, commander of
America’s Boating Club, San Diego. WELCOME Doug Bass and “The Bass Boat”
The next groups followed with Pyrxus (group 2), Bon Temps (group 3) and finally
Marilee (group 4).
Phyrxus slowly moved through the eight legs of the race course to the front and held
on to win first over the finish line honors. Corrected time honors go to Marilee with
13:44:30, followed by Phyrxus 13:46:15, Bon Temps 13:51:01, The Bass Boat
14:02:47 and Fast Sunday 14:38:10.
Congratulations all racers.
Putting all the finish times into the Collins Handicap System result in the following:
http://sailingtracker.appspot.com/?fleetChoice=sbps&dateSelected=11%2F16%2F2019&s
ubmit=Select+Race
Our next race and final race of the year is:
December 21, 2019 Saturday
We hope to see you all out on the water. Bring a friend.
For our annual halloween raftup it was warm and sunny but we only had one boat interested in coming to la Playa Bay, so instead, we had a barbeque at PJ’s Point at Southwestern Yacht Club. Even that had did not go as planned as a wedding party was using the point for a photo opp. So being adaptable boaters, we dragged the picnic table into the parking lot and using our portable grill by the dumpster. This is now our annual ‘dumpster’ party! Great burgers and dogs from the grill, german beer, and festive halloween desserts. It was great fun and I can’t wait until our next get together.
AMERICA is the world’s most famous racing yacht. Winning the ‘Royal Yacht Squadrons’ 100 Guinea Cup in 1852. This low black schooner from New York Yacht Club won the race around the Isle of Wight. They donated the trophy to the club, starting the America’s Cup Race.
The original America boat was destroyed during WW2 but this replica rebuilt in 1955 is now berthed in America Cup Harbor of Shelter Island in Point Loma San Diego doing daily pleasure cruises and charters. With a length of 139 feet and mast height of 105 feet she can carry 77 passengers and crew.
SDSPS Sail Fleet/South Bay Family Sailing
Series/Ventura Sailing Club-October 19, 2019, Saturday
(8.1 nm.)
Saturday, October 19, 2019 was an excellent day for sailing. The first part of the race at
the noon horn revealed NO wind. It took about 15 minutes for all boats to finally past
the starting line. About 30 minutes after the start the wind started to fill in. The boats
were all chasing “dark water”. In 45 minutes into the race the wind was up to our regular
8-12 knots. From the middle of the race to the end the wind was a constant 12-14 knots
with gusts to 15 knots. The wind was from the west with the skies being crystal clear
blue. There were one other group racing in the south bay. The group appeared to be from
the San Diego Yacht Club and it looked very official. There were about an equal number
of racing sailboats as there were committee boats. Is this the way real official
sailboat racing is? Our group and the San Diego Yacht Club group pretty much stayed
out of each others way.
Our group had 9 boats at the starting line for our normal pursuit race. The various
groups started at noon: 12:03, 12:06 and 12:08. Boats present were Pie in the Sky,
Madam Wu, and Bibbity Bobbity Boat in the first group. Phyrxus was across with the
second group at 12:03. The third, Astra, Consigliare, Bon Temps and Ran crossed at
12:06. And finally Marilee, the largest boat in the fleet was off at 12:08. After the slow
start the boats began to spread out.
Across the finish line first goes to Marilee the corrected
time of: 13:52:8. They were followed by Consigliare
13:54:58, Astra 14:00:01, Ran 14:02:07, Phryxus
14:03:55, Bon Temps 14:07:36, BBBoat 14:18:23, Pie in
the Sky 14:28:30, and Madam Wu 15:20:00.
Future attractions – Coming soon! Stay tuned to view the minutes of the Executive Meetings here on this website under the “Members” Tab. See what’s going on with YOUR club! Volunteer, get dialed in and participate.
Com Doug Bass congratulates Mike Sampsel achieving 25 years of faithful membership! Thank you for your hard work and contributions over many years.
Mike is also the instructor presenting Advanced Piloting Sept – Dec 2019 at South Western Yacht Club in Point Loma, San Diego.
