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Notice of races, websites, newsletters etc…all under Pages to your left!!!..under posts…check them out there are some great pictures and great information!!!

The first race day of 2010 is coming soon -  Sunday, February 21.   This will be our first race day of the Frostbite Series.

Early predictions have the temps in the 50’s.+

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)

Tomorrow at Noon, Hell’s Canyon Resort Marina – watch out for the Polar Bears!!

The Hells Canyon Boat Club is resurrecting the lighted boat parade.   It will be the Saturday after Thanksgiving.  Registrations are available at both Valley Boat and Riverview Marina.  There was an article in todays paper.

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Sunday dawned a new day with lighter winds.  We hit the race course at 9:30am and took the first gun at 9:45am.  6 San Juan 21’s were in the first start (though a couple were pretty late getting to the line – something about not being able to get out of bed (Jack?).
The SJ21’s were followed by the Open Fleet of 5 boats varying from 28 to 23 feet, including a Newport 28, a Catalina 250, an Aquarius 23, a Venture 24 and a Comet 24 Tri-hull.

With great work and course selection by the Race Committee headed up by Jeff Hanson, we were able to get in 4 races in great conditions.  There were a few white caps at times, a few close calls, a few penalty turns (sorry for the scare, Don) and a few great tacking duels.   The racing was close and everyone had a case of perma-grin by then end of racing at 2:30pm.

Result and pictures soon . . .

By 6:00pm we called it a day and headed either to camp or to home.  For Tom Weza, home is his 50′ sailboat Faith which was anchored out west of the island.  The night was a continuation of the daytime drama.  As Tom put it:

“I considered the winds of Saturday night a training experience. We were anchored a bit too close to a lee shore, which seemed to get closer as darkness fell.  I have to admit to being a little worried about my anchor dragging.

The 34th Annual Tribune Cup Regatta was held on the weekend of Sept 19-20,2009.

The welcoming easterly breeze that greeted sailors has they arrived Saturday morning was a cruel tease, leaving sailors unprepared for what was to come.

After a brief skipper’s meeting a little after 11:00am, the fleet headed out on flat water, preparing for a day of racing.   At 11:45am the conditions took a turn for the worse.   In matter of minutes, maybe only seconds, the reflecting waters of the Snake River turned dark, soon the be painted with waves tipped in white, as the winds quickly increased to 20mph + with gust in the upper 30’s. [Read more →]

The 34th Annual Tribune Cup Regatta will be here before we know it.  5 weeks to be exact.

I have the NOR ready for Jeff’s review and will be sending it out a posting it to the website shortly.

Here are the Committees I need help with: [Read more →]

We had a great full moon race this year. The weather was mostly nice with 6 boats participating in the event. We had Randy Blair on Mantis, Mary McCollum sailing Grace, Robbie Johnson on Pneuma, Greg Umbright on 4Sail, Dan Dorne on his Hunter 212 and Jeff Hanson sailing Vindr Knifr.

Wind was light most of the night but unlike other full moon races there was enough to at least keep moving. We were the last boat to turn at Wawaiwai around 4:30. Mantis in her usual fashion took off down the river moving easily in the light breeze with Grace shadowing along behind leading the mono hulls down the river. The rest of the mono’s accordioned closing and opening up as each boats strengths and weakness’s were shown by the wind conditions with Pneuma, 4Sail, Vindr Knifr and the Hunter making the Wawaiwai turn within 10 minutes of each other. [Read more →]

LCSA Monthly Meeting/Picnic.
July 11th – Chief Timothy Park – 5:00pm
NOTE EARLIER TIME ! ! !
Once again the Club will be hosting with hot dogs and beverages.  Everyone is encourage to bring a small side dish.  To avoid last months 13 tubs of potato salad (OK, it was only 4 Costco size ones) if your last name starts with A-L please bring a salad, M-Z please bring a dessert.  OK?

We will have hot coals available, so if you don’t want hot dogs feel free to bring your own grillin’ food.

Moonlight Race/Challenge
July 11/12 – Chief Timothy Park – 5:30pm
The start of this year’s race coincides with the Club Picnic.  We are hoping to have a Le Mans style start with all the crews gathering in the picnic area for the start. Upon the start signal, crews will  head for their boats, cast off and start racing while being cheered on by the rest of the more sane memebrs of the Club – further details will be released soon.