Posts from — October 2009

The days racing started and ended with little to no wind however 4 boats showed up and gave it their best shot. Race one was a slow fiasco with Tim somehow having a zephyr over his boat most of the way. It was like he had a wind finder in place of his wind vane. The rest of the fleet was unable to find enough wind to finish inside of the time limit and had to take DNF’s

Race two had similar wind to race one with Tim again having the wind finder on board. The rest of the fleet finished this race though and got some kind of a score.

Standings for week two:

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The next race day is this coming Saturday, October 24.

Cool tempeatures look to prevail, but with any luck we will have some breeze.  last time the temps were cool but the sun was warm.

Skipper’s meeting will be at 11:00am on the dock at Hell’s Canyon Resort Marina.  Racing will take place west of Red Wolf Bridge.  Racing will start at NOON.  No races after 4:00pm.

Join us for pizza and story telling at Fazzari’s after racing (5:30pm)

So I have been working on a new website. I hope everyone has checked it out.

I made some adjustments and updates today. Please let me know what you think.

Also, as far as storing pictures is concerned. We would have to pay an annual fee of at least $20.00 to store and upload our pictures and sort them into albums.

Therefore, I made a link to a Shutterfly account that I made which is free.  It has unlimited storage, we can order pictures for as low as $0.10 each, and even coffee mugs if you want.

The Shutterfly site has three parts, the first is a page with albums ( need to upload more pictures to finish these) the second and my favorite part is the Events Calendar which has race & meeting times & location, the third is a blog page which could replace the wordpress blog if we ,eventually, have the LCSailing.Org domain go directly to the wix website. If you want you can become a member on the Shutterfly and add pictures, chat, and have access to other member’s phone numbers and email. I haven’t added any of this yet, I want permission first, and only members could access this.

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Wendy

This weekend was absolutely wonderful sailing!  The winds were a bit light during the racing, (Jeff will update) but at about 3:30pm the breeze filled in and we (me and my crew Mike Cannon, Robby and raffle entry crew ?, her daughter ? and her son Kevin, and Greg Umbright and raffle entry crew Nolan), enjoyed a great sail to the power lines and back.  Most of the day I had a long sleeve rugby shirt on under my life jacket and was fine.  Put the fleece on when the winds picked up, and that was enough to stay warm. [Read more →]

Last Saturday looked like we were coming out for a nice days sail as we put up masts and prepared to go out to race. Once on the water the wind started picking up, white caps started to appear and by race start it was at the upper end of what we might normally want to go out racing in.

I conducted a normal start sequence and off we went for a brutal two laps on a windward leeward course. Robbie was kind enough to set the windward mark and it was well down river in anticipation of good wind creating the need for a long course. Around the down river bend wind was in the mid 20’s and boats were heeling hard trying to make the mark with San Juans scooping water over the gunwales on a fairly regular basis.

We finished race 1 and called it a day. A wild and tiring day at that, thanks to everyone for coming out and giving it a go. [Read more →]

The 2nd Day of the Fall Series is this Saturday, October 10th!  Cool temperatures look to prevail, but with any luck we will have some breeze.

Skipper’s meeting will be at 11:00am on the dock at Hell’s Canyon Resort Marina.  Racing will take place west of Red Wolf Bridge.  Racing will start at NOON.  No races after 4:00pm.

Join us for pizza and story telling at Fazzari’s after racing (5:30pm)