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The General Membership Meeting and Dinner

America’s Boating Club San Diego

Cordially invites you to

The General Membership Meeting and Dinner

Friday, March 11, 2022
6-8 pm

 Maggie’s Café
3232 Greyling Dr. St. D
San Diego, CA 92123                                     

Join the other boating members for an evening together.  Come and see what is happening with the San Diego Club! Meal orders will be placed from their menu.  Separate checks for each party.  Alcoholic beverages available for purchase as well.  You can also just join us for an evening!  Come early to socialize.  Please let us know you are coming so we have enough seats available.

Invite a friend or someone that is interested in our mission and what we do.

Please RSVP your attendance by March 7, 2022 to Carl Schwartz @ [email protected] or call 619 528-9111. 

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South Bay Family Sailing Series-November 20, 2021 Saturday, (7.4 nm)

The third Saturday of November, November 20, 2021 was an excellent day to go sailing.  If you were not out on the water you really missed a wonderful day.  The winds had been light and fog was in the area a few days before the race.  Everyone was expecting light winds and wondering if we could even have a race.  The professional weather predictors predicted light winds of 5-8 knots.  As it turned out we had light winds out of the NW at 7-11 knots that were constant throughout the race.  On the Beaufort scale this is Beaufort Force 2-3. These conditions probably favored the smaller boats.  The fog had lifted and there were slightly blue skies with 50% high thin cloud covering.  There was a high tide of 6.6 ft. at 1000, so the tidal flow would out going during the whole race.

An update on the racing boats: Mike Collins (one of the originators of the South Bay Family Sailing Series handicap system) sold his boat Marilee to Dan Dreesen.  Dan is happy, however, we all are going to miss his boat, Quack Attack on the race course.  Astra is being sold, so Mike Philbrook and his scouts will have a new boat on the race course next month.  Everyone is hoping it is NOT as fast as Astra.

8 boats were circling the starting line for the noon horn.  The first group consisting of Fast Sunday, Miller Time III and BlewByU were off at the first horn.  This was a pursuit race so the starting line would not be crowded.  The second group was across the starting line at 12:05 and consisted of Simplicity, Estate Sail and Bon Temps.  Finally, at 12:10 the third group of Marilee and Astra began the race. At the first mark BlewByU was in the lead, followed by Miller Time III, Bon Temps, Simplicity, and Estate Sail.  The Marilee and Astra were close behind.   Miller Time III put up their spinnaker and everyone thought the race was over.  All were worried Estate Sail would fly their spinnaker as well.  However, by the second mark Miller Time III was slightly behind Simplicity and Estate Sail did not fly their spinnaker.  By the third mark, Bon Temps had taken over the lead.

The across the line finish times were:  Bon Temps 13:35:10, BlewByU, 13:37:40, Marilee 13:39:11, Simplicity 13:40:00, Astra 13:40:10, Estate Sail 13:41:37, Miller Time III 13:44:17, Fast Sunday 13:54:13.  WOW within 19 minutes 8 boats crossed the finish line.  Every boat was within close proximity to the finish line.  This is how we want all races to finish.

Putting all this information into the Mike Collins Handicap System we have the following:

http://sailingtracker.appspot.com/?fleetChoice=sbps&dateSelected=11%2F16%2F2019&submit=Select+Race

Congratulations Simplicity, BlewByU, and Miller Time III

Which boats are in position for a TROPHY at the end of the year?

Putting all these numbers into the PHRF rating system reveal: BlewByU, Simplicity, Marilee, Astra, tie for 5th  Estate Sail, Bon Temps, Miller Time III, 6th Fast Sunday.

Congratulations all racers.

Next race:  Saturday, December 18, 2021

We hope to see you all there for the final race of the year.

WHICH BOATS ARE RECEIVING TROPHIES?

 

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Sober Boating

It’s Tuesday and the National Safe Boating Council has designated today as Sober Boating awareness day.

It is pretty well known that you shouldn’t drink and drive, even on the water. However, it is also more dangerous for your passengers to drink and ride. Unstable people with lowered inhibitions are more likely to fall overboard…or just plain fall, which can still result in injury. For a lot of people, sober boating goes against everything they think of when they think of boats, but that is why yacht clubs, and many marinas, have bars. Save your drinking for when you dock. Enjoy your cruise, break out the bubbly after you tie up!

And enjoy those Norwegian sober boating videos I shared yesterday under the guise of lifejacket awareness 🙂

Stay safe, keep learning, boat sober,
Tanya Weimer

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National Boating Safety Week – life jackets

Monday of National Boating Safety Week and the focus is on life jackets. It has even been declared “Wear your life jacket to work day!” Which I can’t do because my life jackets are on my boat, and so it seems a rather odd campaign.

However, life jackets are important, so I found this video that demonstrates how your auto inflate life jacket works. Auto inflate life jackets have their limitations, but they have one huge advantage over other types: people are more likely to wear them!

If you enjoyed that video, here is another. And yet another. But that is really tomorrow’s theme!

Keep safe, keep learning
Tanya Weimer
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Video edutainment

 For your Friday dose of edutainment, I offer you a series of videos that could keep you busy for the whole weekend.

In 1973, 17 boats left Portsmouth, destination Cape Town and beyond. This was the first Whitbread Round the World Race. In addition to the sailing adventures the Whitbread, then the Volovo Ocean Race, and as of the next iteration, The Ocean Race, have brought us, this series has an amazing history of documentation, right from the beginning. Recent races have included a media expert as one of the crew positions, but crew have always brought their video cameras along, resulting in a rich history that we can all enjoy today.

So, start at the beginning with the 1973-1974 Official Film and follow along up to 2019. Look for the all women teams, watch for familiar names from Morning Light and definitely, definitely, keep an eye out for the squirrel.

National Boating Safety Week starts tomorrow, so keep safe, keep learning

Tanya Weimer
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Sydney Hobart race of 1998.

In the last of our series of horrifying ways to sail the ocean (I promised we would cheer up by the end of the week!) I present to you the Sydney Hobart race of 1998. Similar to Fastnet, the race went ahead, and the storms came in. Over and over again, we can see that one of the advantages to cruising, rather than racing, is the ability to watch your weather window. However, freak storms do happen and anyone on the ocean needs to have multiple strategies for dealing with them.

Stay safe, keep learning,

Tanya Weimer
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The Eleventh Coast Guard District Local Notice to Mariners (17-2020)

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If the links above do not work, you should either copy and paste the links into your web browser or follow the LNM links from the Navigation Center LNM page.

The Local Notice to Mariners, Light List, and Summary of Corrections are in Portable Document Format (PDF) and viewing them requires a PDF reader.  PDF readers are readily available on the internet, generally free of charge.

To download the latest information:

  • Place your mouse over the “PDF” symbol next to the corresponding week.
  • Right click for PC / Control click for Mac.
  • Choose “Save Target As”.
  • Save the PDF to your computer and open using your PDF reader.

If you have questions regarding this message, please contact the Navigation Center (use “LNMs, Charts, Chart Corrections, or Light Lists” as the subject from the pull down menu).

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April South Bay Race Cancelled

Hello Racers

 
Hope you are all staying safe and are well. Under a stay at home order and San Diego bay closed to recreational boating. The April race for the South Bay Family Sailing Series will be canceled. 
Especially during this time of Passover and Holy Week, our thoughts and Prayers are with all the victims and first responders of this tragic covid-19 virus. With still increasing numbers of infected people and deaths from covid-19. The chances for a May race is very dim. If we get the green light for the May race, It will be May 16. I will keep you posted.
 
Regards & stay safe. The Race Committee