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See our new features below! |
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Petaluma River Cruise Recap For those who didn't show up for the April 14th Petaluma River sail you missed out on a very nice day. Vice Commodore Fred Brass sure picked a great day to sail. Fred was unable to attend and a dock side meeting with Skipper Bill Daniels and myself opted to tweak the venue a bit. Because we both had outboards with our respective boats we decided to miss lunch in the Petaluma basin as planned because of lack of wind west of the boat launch. We decided instead to pack lunches, and sail to Papa Taverna's Restaurant.
Everything was kind of chaotic at the dock and Bill and I failed to recognize Mark Alarie. There was a canoe club launching their boats and a very large cigar type power boat sharing the ramp, which made things challenging, loud,and crowded. Once on the water everything calmed down. Bill's crew was Steve Moore on Bill's twenty one foot Hunter. My crew was Dennis O'leary who is new to sailing. Conditions couldn't have been better. Warm weather and a good wind pushing us effortlessly down river to the Restaurant. We played tag with the canoe club, which unknown to us were heading for the same destination.
A picnic bench and draft beers from the Restaurant, capped off lunch. I noticed coming into the dock there was a pretty good out going tide and decided to motor back to test my new outboard. Bill and his dauntless crew, decided that ancient mariners of the past had sailed up the Petaluma river, so therefore they would give it a try.
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Join
in on these up-coming events: June
4: Twilight Series Opener. Races
every Monday night through August 6 at Lake Ralphine. First
race: 6 pm. BBQ following races. June
11: Twilight Series. Races
every Monday night through August 6 at Lake Ralphine. First
race: 6 pm. BBQ following races. |
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The third race day of this new SRSC series was April 22. We have 10 entries in this series, so far. The results are: Jim Draeger (1, Force 5), Jim Smith (2, West Wight Potter 15), Allan Wykoff (3, FJ), Steve Sarsfield (4, FJ), Chuck Herzog (5, Laser), Mark Alarie (6, Spindrift 10), Charlie Dotti (7, Laser), Jack (8, Banshee), Bill Daniel (9, Laser), Mike O'Toole (10, Sunfish). Please join us for the rest of the Regatta on May 6 and May 20. The races begin at 1:00 P.M. Be sure to bring a lunch for the refreshment pause between races, and remember to bring a reliable means for self-timing your finish. Thanks to Jim Smith for organizing this series! |
New feature this month is the "Tactics and Strategy Quiz". Get the answers in next month's issue.
When you want to slow a boat with your wind shadow, you should position yourself directly between them and the true wind direction. True or False?
When the wind direction changes, the boat that is closer to the new wind direction will almost always win. True or False?
Which of the following conditions
is most likely to be associated with a persistent wind
shift pattern? 1) The wind is from the shore. 2) You see puffs on the water. 3) You have a building thermal. 4) Boats gain on both sides. |
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April
12 Meeting Recap Mark's report on membership shows 17 paid and 20 total members. On the financial report, Mark's analysis of the Banquet is that the Commodore undercharged the attendees by $5 making the Annual meeting a loss of around $85. All things being equal, next years price will be $30 per person. A motion was proposed by the Commodore that at this years twilight series, members will pay $10 to rent the Catalina 12.5's for racing and non-members will pay $15. The motion was seconded and unanimously passed. The rest of the meeting was spent in story-telling and spinning sailing yarns. |
Petaluma River Clean Up & Watershed Fair Sponsored by The Friends of Petaluma River May 5, 2012; 9 am to 2 pm Petaluma
Marina
Join The Friends of Petaluma River for the 18th Annual Community Spring Cleaning of our Treasured River. Come and have fun with your friends and family as you feel the pride of making your backyard a better place to live .
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Second new feature this month is random selection from the Origins of Sea Terms.
Yacht A privately-owned pleasure boat. Earlier a yacht was a vessel of state, for royalty, nobility, and other dignitaries. The most likely origin is the Dutch jacht, later jagt, from their word jagten, speed
Yankee This was the name of a large jib topsail carried by some American racing yachts, copied and so named by the British.
Yard A 'thwartship spar for any square sail. The term comes from the Anglo-Saxon seglegerald, meaning sail yard.
Yarn (1) Strands of thread twisted together, as for making rope. Origin in this sense is the Anglo-Saxon gearn. (2) A story or chat. Believed to be of nautical origin, but the derivation is unknown.
Yaw To swing off course due to bad steering or difficult sea conditions. One possible source is Icelandic, jaga, to go to and fro; another, Old Norse, is ga, to bend from the course. |
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For those who are thinking of racing with us at one of our low key races, this video gives a quick overview of some of the important rules. http://raceadmin.ussailing.org/Rules/Animated_Handy_Guide.htm |
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