On the water - from Chuck

On-the Water info

PRO for C420 and Radials ----- Lee Urbani
PRO for Opti Red, White and Blue----- Bobby Frye
PRO for Opti Green Fleet -open-- Clinic to be conducted by Amy Kehoe.

We will need three Safety/Chase/Mark boats and a Committee boat (start in
the middle of the windward leg so no finish boat needed) for each racing
circle. The Sailing School can supply the two Whalers for the green fleet
and the other two School boats are available for the other two circles. That leaves us with four more small boats needed for the racing circles. We will also need one more boat for a short time to run lunches out to the sailors.

It would be nice if we could have a larger boat with a licensed captain to
take out spectators.

I am nominating Seth Powell and Tom Tontarski to be in charge of Patrol boatcommitment and racing mark availability. We will need three sets of marks in different colors.

There has been a request for including a Windsurfer class in our event. I
have told the interested parties that we need to have their support (PRO)
and the commitment of ten boats pre-registered two weeks before the event.
After reviewing Island Heights YC plans I see that they have a standard of
fifteen boats to set up a separate circle so we should make that change.

I spoke to the RH vol FD and they may be able to send their emergency boat
for the entire two days. Should confirm this week.

We need to find two more Recorder/Scorers and their laptops so each
committee boat will be able to do the scores on the water and have them done when they get in off the water. We will also need inverters on each
Committee boat so the laptops will not die.

We need to buy, beg or borrow three more megaphones so we can have one at
each end of the Starting lines for C420/Lasers and OPti RWB. We can then
hoist the I flag instead of the prep flag at four minutes to go and talk
boats back from the line starting at one minute to go (Rule 30.1). We need
to have a megaphone for each end of the line to call the boats if they are
close to being over with one minute to go. Buzz Reynolds at IHYC does this
and has only had an average of two General Recalls over the ten years they
have been doing it and they had 304 boats this year on four circles.

One more thing we will need is someplace to park the Power boats that are
participating. Lee, maybe you could see if Mort would make some empty slips
available for Saturday night and we could give him recognition in the book
we put out and show him as a donor on the donor/contributor list.