SSA Laser Frostbite- this Sunday

Hello Frostbiters!

It is so warm outside these days it seems wrong to call it Frostbite- but word is it will turn colder again this weekend. Week 3 of the SSA Laser frostbite series is this Sunday.

Registration at 12:00pm, First race at 1:00pm

There will be another raffle and all participants are eligible. This week's prize is a Magic Marine Backpack- provided generously by APS.

Come on out and join the fun!

PS- those SSA fleet members who have not signed up for RC duty- please contact me. We need to fill the slots to keep this series going. There are more slots to fill this year so I ask that every SSA member sailing frostbite participate. If you are not available on the dates that are open let me know and I can try and shuffle people around. The current schedule is available on the website-

http://www.severnsailing.org/fleets/laser/frostbiting/frostbitingRC.pdf

Thanks,

Dorian

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Mike Waters was the most proficient sailor

Here's a bit of a recap for Chesapeake Bay racing events in 2006. Of the 23
most prominent laser events on the Chesapeake Bay last year (not including
master's events), there was a total of 169 different competitors. 31
sailors attended 4 or more events.
Mike Waters was the most proficient sailor finishing 3rd or better in 7
events. Using a high point scoring system the top 31 sailors were:

Position Name Club
1. Mike Waters SSA
2. Eric Johnson SSA
3. Bob Tan SSA
4. Mike Schmidt MRSA
5. Tip Clifton SSA
6. Ted Morgan SSA
7. Roger Link WRSC
8. Chris Legg SSA
9. Luke Shingledecker SSA
10. Henry Amthor HYC
11. Eugenio Cingolani SSA
12. Jon Deutsch FBYC
13. James Jacob SSA
14. Paul Garn SSA
15. David Teale PRSA
16. Quinn Tobin SSA
17. Diane Burton SSA
18. Alain Vincey FBYC
19. Trevor Prior SYC
20. Chris Foscue SSA
21. Steve Wirt FBYC
22. Dustin Hayes PRSA
23. Jane Schmidt MRSA
24. Dorian Haldeman SSA
25. Bruce Artman SSA
26. JR Futcher
27. Jennifer Parrow PRSA
28. Fuller Moore SSA
29. Jacob Donkersloot PRSA
30. Meredith Horan WRSA
31. Eric Powers FBYC
Thanks to Ted Morgan for putting together the numbers.
-Jon
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Frostbite series day 2

Hello everyone,

It was a beautiful, unseasonably warm and sunny day yesterday for the second day of our Frostbite series. Despite a forcast for no breeze, there was a steady 6-10 kts from the SE. We had 7 races. The winner of the day was Midshipman Andrew Vann. He finished just ahead of second place Morgan Wilson due to the tiebreaker. Stergios Papadakis was third. The winner of the raffle prize- a tool bag provided by APS, was John Zseleczky. Andrews report and full results are below.

Join us again next week- same time, same place. If you are an SSA fleet 10 member and have not yet volunteered for RC duty please email me- we still have some slots to fill.

See you next Sunday.

-Dorian

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Name: Andrew Vann

Regatta: SSA Frostbiting Weekend #2

Conditions (regatta site, boats, sails, etc) There was a light breeze blowing from the South East at 6-10 kts, the current going out of the bay, against the wind, giving you the ability to understand the windward mark a little bit.

What worked: My Starts were really the only contestant part of my race today. With the large fleet today it was important to approach the line a bit earlier than usual; I tried to start my final approach around 45-40 second left. It was imperative that your vang was off allowing you to dump your sail much faster. This fleet has a tendency to line up right next to each other, meaning your mast is in line with the boat to windward of you. When protecting your hole from boats to windward you don’t have to use that much of your boat. I tried to use only my bow to control and hold the boats to windward of me up. This also allows you do a couple things: the first is you can see boats coming in late trying to snake your whole, and the second is you now have that much more room to accelerate. I tried to keep a little speed up through the final 30 second, and would then pull the trigger with 5-6 seconds left.
Upwind I would always sail the long tack first, with the skewed course it was extremely easy to sail to a corner and give you no options. By sailing the long tack first, in today’s case starboard, you are centering yourself up on the course; this gives you more options at the top end of the course, and the ability to play the shifts without sailing to a layline. If you get punked at the start, clear your air, establish a new lane, and check back in with the fleet. By sailing out to the right corner you are hoping for a lift and a puff, and praying you don’t get headed. Out there you can no longer tack and that lift can do little good because you are already so close to the layline.
Downwind I would look behind me often, the puffs were really visible on the water and I just tried to stay in the pressure. I am relatively new in the boat and am still trying to figure out the downwind technique. What I did a lot today was tried to mimic the boats around me that seemed to have decent boat speed off the wind, big thing it seemed were easing off your outhaul much more than I initially figured at the beginning of the afternoon, and then also letting off all your other controls; vang and downhaul

What I learned/Messed Up:
Up at the top end of the course ducking when on port is the right call, by leebowing a starboard tacker you are essentially pinning yourself and have no options. Most often this results in you and the other boat coming into the starboard tack layline extremely close to the two boat length circle, and then ducking packs of boats to get around the mark.
If you feel off speed upwind, just put the bow down and go, don’t try to force height, even if you are giving the boat directly to windward of you a little breathing room, you might be controlling one boat but you are not match racing, and every second you are going slow the rest of the fleet is catching/passing you.

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SSA/Laser fleet 10
SSA Laser frostbiting
November 26,2006
Week 2
Pl Sail # Skipper 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tot
1 NAV Andrew Vann 9 10 1 3 2 1 1 27
2 170797 Morgan Wilson 2 6 4 1 7 5 2 27
3 52 Stergios Papadakis 1 4 5 7 3 3 6 29
4 173711 Patrick Kana 3 2 7 4 14 4 3 37
5 168424 Bob Tan 4 8 8 9 9 8 5 51
6 NGO Gavin O'Hare 31\DNC 3 3 8 11 2 4 62
7 182860 Luke Shingledecker 5 9 6 13 4 16 11 64
8 178575 Eric Dennis 12 5 15 10 8 10 7 67
9 NGG Grant Garcia 7 1 2 2 1 31\DNC 31\DNC 75 10 711 John Zseleczky 6 14 12 19 5 9 12 77
11 177155 Tip Clifton 31\OCS 15 13 6 6 6 10 87
12 173704 David Bonney 31\DNC 12 9 11 10 7 9 89
13 182827 Brennen Drysdale 31\DNC 7 10 17 19 15 8 107
14 179226 Andrew Eyring 10 16 16 14 12 19 22 109
15 166892 Ben Fransen 11 13 21 18 23 12 14 112
16 181113 Chris Foscue 31\DNC 11 18 5 22 11 16 114
17 165009 Paul Garn 13 20 14 12 20 17 19 115
18 168566 Quinn Tobin 15 24 17 23 15 14 15 123
19 132996 Chris Ryan 17 23 20 22 17 18 13 130 20 173641 Leo Wilson 31\DNC 22 19 15 13 20 17 137
21 168474 Dorian Haldeman 8 26 11 29 25 24 18 141
22 66133 Bill Ballough 14 19 24 16 16 23 31\DNC 143
23 169781 Russ Wesdyk 16 21 23 24 18 21 20 143
24 187874 James McKenna 31\DNC 18 25 20 21 13 21 149
25 38699 Buck Downes 20 17 22 25 26 27 25 162
26 129333 Chris Cather 19 29 27 21 28 25 24 173
27 4720 Kristoffer Stevens 31\DNC 27 29 27 24 22 23 183
28 180536 Steve Cofer 31\DNC 25 26 26 27 28 26 189
29 183892 Pauline Jerry 18 31\DNF 28 28 31\DNF 26 28 190 30 162156 Anne White 31\DNC 28 30 30 31\DNF 29 27 206

27 Nov, '06, 12:58
St. Pete Scorer


SSA/Laser fleet 10
SSA Laser frostbiting Series
November 2006- March 2007
SERIES SUMMARY
Pl Sail # Skipper 1 2 T
1 NAV Andrew Vann (43\DNC) 1 1
2 182860 Luke Shingledecker 1 (7) 1
3 170797 Morgan Wilson (4) 2 2
4 184550 Ted Morgan 2 (43\DNC) 2
5 52 Stergios Papadakis (23) 3 3
6 187787 Colin Robertson 3 (43\DNC) 3
7 173711 Patrick Kana (43\DNC) 4 4
8 168424 Bob Tan (5\*1) 5 5
9 166043 Brendan Heussler 5 (43\DNC) 5
10 181267 Eugenio Cingolani (6) 6\*2 6
11 NGO Gavin O'Hare (43\DNC) 6 6
12 182827 Brennen Drysdale 7 (13) 7
13 178575 Eric Dennis (43\DNC) 8 8
14 170799 Greg Herbert 8 (43\DNC) 8
15 NGG Grant Garcia (43\DNC) 9 9
16 179226 Andrew Eyring 9 (14) 9
17 711 John Zseleczky (43\DNC) 10 10
18 177155 Tip Clifton 10 (11) 10
19 165009 Paul Garn 11 (17) 11
20 173704 David Bonney (43\DNC) 12 12
21 166892 Ben Fransen 12 (15) 12
22 153006 Kim Couranz 13 (43\DNC) 13
23 181113 Chris Foscue 14 (16) 14
24 184472 Bo McClatchy 15 (43\DNC) 15
25 179506 Brian Hetherington 16 (43\DNC) 16
26 35313 Mike Waters 17 (43\DNC) 17
27 168566 Quinn Tobin (19) 18 18
28 169781 Russ Wesdyk 18 (23) 18
29 132996 Chris Ryan (43\DNC) 19 19
30 173641 Leo Wilson (28) 20 20
31 187874 James McKenna 20 (24) 20
32 168474 Dorian Haldeman (27) 21 21
33 186519 Fuller Moore 21 (43\DNC) 21
34 66133 Bill Ballough (26) 22 22
35 R67 Matt Schoene 22 (43\DNC) 22
36 4720 Kristoffer Stevens 24 (27) 24
37 38699 Buck Downes (25) 25 25
38 129333 Chris Cather (43\DNC) 26 26
39 180536 Steve Cofer (43\DNC) 28 28
40 183892 Pauline Jerry (30) 29 29
41 169629 Michael Klybor 29 (43\DNC) 29
42 162156 Anne White (43\DNC) 30 30

*1 = DNC+RDG
*2 = DNC+RDG

27 Nov, '06, 13:01
St. Pete Scorer

Annual Laser and 505 Fleet Holiday Party

Host: Laser Fleet 10 and 505 Fleet 40
Location: Severn Sailing Association
311 First Street, Annapolis, MD
When: Saturday, December 16, 7:00pm
Phone: 410-703-3401
It is that time of year again. Please come out and help us celebrate the magic of the holiday season! It will be a chance to socialize and recap the great sailing adventures of 2006 and look forward to 2007. Beverages will be provided. Please bring a favorite appetizer or dessert to share. If you know what you will be bringing please mention it in your reply- for planning purposes. Hope to see you there!

Happy Holidays!

SSA Laser Frostbite- results week 2

Hello everyone,

It was a beautiful, unseasonably warm and sunny day yesterday for the second day of our Frostbite series. Despite a forcast for no breeze, there was a steady 6-10 kts from the SE. We had 7 races. The winner of the day was Midshipman Andrew Vann. He finished just ahead of second place Morgan Wilson due to the tiebreaker. Stergios Papadakis was third. The winner of the raffle prize- a tool bag provided by APS, was John Zseleczky. Andrews report and full results are below.

Join us again next week- same time, same place. If you are an SSA fleet 10 member and have not yet volunteered for RC duty please email me- we still have some slots to fill.

See you next Sunday.

-Dorian

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Name: Andrew Vann

Regatta: SSA Frostbiting Weekend #2

Conditions (regatta site, boats, sails, etc)
There was a light breeze blowing from the South East at 6-10 kts, the current going out of the bay, against the wind, giving you the ability to understand the windward mark a little bit.

What worked: My Starts were really the only contestant part of my race today. With the large fleet today it was important to approach the line a bit earlier than usual; I tried to start my final approach around 45-40 second left. It was imperative that your vang was off allowing you to dump your sail much faster. This fleet has a tendency to line up right next to each other, meaning your mast is in line with the boat to windward of you. When protecting your hole from boats to windward you don't have to use that much of your boat. I tried to use only my bow to control and hold the boats to windward of me up. This also allows you do a couple things: the first is you can see boats coming in late trying to snake your whole, and the second is you now have that much more room to accelerate. I tried to keep a little speed up through the final 30 second, and would then pull the trigger with 5-6 seconds left.
Upwind I would always sail the long tack first, with the skewed course it was extremely easy to sail to a corner and give you no options. By sailing the long tack first, in today's case starboard, you are centering yourself up on the course; this gives you more options at the top end of the course, and the ability to play the shifts without sailing to a layline. If you get punked at the start, clear your air, establish a new lane, and check back in with the fleet. By sailing out to the right corner you are hoping for a lift and a puff, and praying you don't get headed. Out there you can no longer tack and that lift can do little good because you are already so close to the layline.
Downwind I would look behind me often, the puffs were really visible on the water and I just tried to stay in the pressure. I am relatively new in the boat and am still trying to figure out the downwind technique. What I did a lot today was tried to mimic the boats around me that seemed to have decent boat speed off the wind, big thing it seemed were easing off your outhaul much more than I initially figured at the beginning of the afternoon, and then also letting off all your other controls; vang and downhaul

What I learned/Messed Up:
Up at the top end of the course ducking when on port is the right call, by leebowing a starboard tacker you are essentially pinning yourself and have no options. Most often this results in you and the other boat coming into the starboard tack layline extremely close to the two boat length circle, and then ducking packs of boats to get around the mark.
If you feel off speed upwind, just put the bow down and go, don't try to force height, even if you are giving the boat directly to windward of you a little breathing room, you might be controlling one boat but you are not match racing, and every second you are going slow the rest of the fleet is catching/passing you.

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SSA/Laser fleet 10
SSA Laser frostbiting
November 26,2006
Week 2
Pl Sail # Skipper 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tot
1 NAV Andrew Vann 9 10 1 3 2 1 1 27
2 170797 Morgan Wilson 2 6 4 1 7 5 2 27
3 52 Stergios Papadakis 1 4 5 7 3 3 6 29
4 173711 Patrick Kana 3 2 7 4 14 4 3 37
5 168424 Bob Tan 4 8 8 9 9 8 5 51
6 NGO Gavin O'Hare 31\DNC 3 3 8 11 2 4 62
7 182860 Luke Shingledecker 5 9 6 13 4 16 11 64
8 178575 Eric Dennis 12 5 15 10 8 10 7 67
9 NGG Grant Garcia 7 1 2 2 1 31\DNC 31\DNC 75
10 711 John Zseleczky 6 14 12 19 5 9 12 77
11 177155 Tip Clifton 31\OCS 15 13 6 6 6 10 87
12 173704 David Bonney 31\DNC 12 9 11 10 7 9 89
13 182827 Brennen Drysdale 31\DNC 7 10 17 19 15 8 107
14 179226 Andrew Eyring 10 16 16 14 12 19 22 109
15 166892 Ben Fransen 11 13 21 18 23 12 14 112
16 181113 Chris Foscue 31\DNC 11 18 5 22 11 16 114
17 165009 Paul Garn 13 20 14 12 20 17 19 115
18 168566 Quinn Tobin 15 24 17 23 15 14 15 123
19 132996 Chris Ryan 17 23 20 22 17 18 13 130
20 173641 Leo Wilson 31\DNC 22 19 15 13 20 17 137
21 168474 Dorian Haldeman 8 26 11 29 25 24 18 141
22 66133 Bill Ballough 14 19 24 16 16 23 31\DNC 143
23 169781 Russ Wesdyk 16 21 23 24 18 21 20 143
24 187874 James McKenna 31\DNC 18 25 20 21 13 21 149
25 38699 Buck Downes 20 17 22 25 26 27 25 162
26 129333 Chris Cather 19 29 27 21 28 25 24 173
27 4720 Kristoffer Stevens 31\DNC 27 29 27 24 22 23 183
28 180536 Steve Cofer 31\DNC 25 26 26 27 28 26 189
29 183892 Pauline Jerry 18 31\DNF 28 28 31\DNF 26 28 190
30 162156 Anne White 31\DNC 28 30 30 31\DNF 29 27 206

27 Nov, '06, 12:58
St. Pete Scorer

SSA/Laser fleet 10
SSA Laser frostbiting Series
November 2006- March 2007
SERIES SUMMARY
Pl Sail # Skipper 1 2 T
1 NAV Andrew Vann (43\DNC) 1 1
2 182860 Luke Shingledecker 1 (7) 1
3 170797 Morgan Wilson (4) 2 2
4 184550 Ted Morgan 2 (43\DNC) 2
5 52 Stergios Papadakis (23) 3 3
6 187787 Colin Robertson 3 (43\DNC) 3
7 173711 Patrick Kana (43\DNC) 4 4
8 168424 Bob Tan (5\*1) 5 5
9 166043 Brendan Heussler 5 (43\DNC) 5
10 181267 Eugenio Cingolani (6) 6\*2 6
11 NGO Gavin O'Hare (43\DNC) 6 6
12 182827 Brennen Drysdale 7 (13) 7
13 178575 Eric Dennis (43\DNC) 8 8
14 170799 Greg Herbert 8 (43\DNC) 8
15 NGG Grant Garcia (43\DNC) 9 9
16 179226 Andrew Eyring 9 (14) 9
17 711 John Zseleczky (43\DNC) 10 10
18 177155 Tip Clifton 10 (11) 10
19 165009 Paul Garn 11 (17) 11
20 173704 David Bonney (43\DNC) 12 12
21 166892 Ben Fransen 12 (15) 12
22 153006 Kim Couranz 13 (43\DNC) 13
23 181113 Chris Foscue 14 (16) 14
24 184472 Bo McClatchy 15 (43\DNC) 15
25 179506 Brian Hetherington 16 (43\DNC) 16
26 35313 Mike Waters 17 (43\DNC) 17
27 168566 Quinn Tobin (19) 18 18
28 169781 Russ Wesdyk 18 (23) 18
29 132996 Chris Ryan (43\DNC) 19 19
30 173641 Leo Wilson (28) 20 20
31 187874 James McKenna 20 (24) 20
32 168474 Dorian Haldeman (27) 21 21
33 186519 Fuller Moore 21 (43\DNC) 21
34 66133 Bill Ballough (26) 22 22
35 R67 Matt Schoene 22 (43\DNC) 22
36 4720 Kristoffer Stevens 24 (27) 24
37 38699 Buck Downes (25) 25 25
38 129333 Chris Cather (43\DNC) 26 26
39 180536 Steve Cofer (43\DNC) 28 28
40 183892 Pauline Jerry (30) 29 29
41 169629 Michael Klybor 29 (43\DNC) 29
42 162156 Anne White (43\DNC) 30 30

*1 = DNC+RDG
*2 = DNC+RDG

27 Nov, '06, 13:01
St. Pete Scorer

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warmer places

Hello Sailor Friends:

As Canada sends down more and more cold air, we may be thinking of warmer places.

The current Laser Sailor lists Cabarete, Dominican Republic, as the venue for the 5th Caribbean
Laser Midwinter Regatta for January 12 -14.

Jane and Mike Schmidt visited there recently for an anniversary and send the great trip Report given
below. Many warm images attached.

Thanks Jane...........Enjoy........Carl


----- Original Message -----
From: Jane Schmidt
To: Friends and Family
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 3:54 PM
Subject: Laser Sailing in the Dominican Republic: Trip Report

Lasering in DR

Hello Friends and Family:

First off, I will apologize in advance if you get more than one copy of this as I have more than one address in my address book for many of you and am not sure which ones are correct! I am sending this trip report out along with some pictures attached from our recent trip to the Dominican Republic for our 15th wedding anniversary.

Not having too much time available away from work, we picked a place where we could get to fairly easily and use our American Airline frequent flier miles. After some going back and forth on what we wanted to do, we settled in going to Cabarete in the Dominican Republic. We had some Laser sailing friends who had been there and gave it a big "thumbs up" as well as giving us advice on travel, money exchange etc. Thanks for the tips Lynn and Mike!

Cabarete is located on the northern shore of the DR and is known for windsurfing and for kite surfing and in the past few years also for the site of the Caribbean Mid-Winters Laser Regatta in January as well as being a training center for Laser sailors year around. We left Baltimore early on a Wed. and flew into Puerto Plata DR (plane change in San Juan). Our taxi picked us up and drove us to Cabarete and we were there by 3pm. We stayed at the Hotel Magnifico (www.hotelmagnifico.com) and it was a great choice for us. It was slow season and we were only one of a handful of guests staying on the beautiful oceanfront grounds of this property. The units are actually more like condos with their own kitchens and ours had a rooftop terrace as well as another side balcony, all with wonderful ocean views and breezes. The grounds had beautifully made stone walls and tropical plants and orchids everywere. We were a short walk to a grocery store to by some provisions once we figured out the exchange rate from dollars to pesos.

That afternoon we took the short walk down the beach to the sailing center (www.caribwind.com) and met Andrea who had made all of the arrangements for us. The wind really blows there and we were treated with some spectacular jumps from the kite surfers. Andrea showed us where everything was and we arranged for Mike to have some coaching the next day with Rulo who is from Argentina. The set up is quite nice, right on the beach with lockers for your belongins, fresh water for drinking, beach chairs, hammocks and the EZBar where you could get nice breakfasts and lunches as well as smoothies and other drinks.

Getting back to our room we encountered a friendly cat who ended up spending most of our vacation with us! We even got her some catfood at the store. She was fun and enjoyed being in the room with us and sitting up on the terrace. Not sure what she did during the day while we were gone, but I expect that she was sleeping somewhere or fleecing food off of someone else!

In Cabarete you can walk everywhere and there are tons of places to eat each night. We found the food to be good with interesting selections and not too expensive though on our anniversary night we ate at a restaurant called Otra Cosa and it was superb, special and expensive, but well worth it. We were one of two tables occupied and had a fabulous meal at this special oceanside place.

As for the sailing, Mike went out with Rulo for coaching and they went so far out that you could not even see them anymore. I stayed on the beach reading that day in the shade of the palm trees, swimming when I got too hot and generally relaxing into the Caribbean speed of life. Mike and Rulo came back in a few hours and Mike had a great time, but was exhausted. He learned a lot about sailing in really BIG waves and wind. Rulo was leaving the next day to coach the youth sailing team out of the capiol (Santo Domingo) so we would not see him again.

The next day I got my nerve up and Mike and I went out together. Me on the 4.7 (smallest sail for the Laser) and Mike on the radail (medium sized sail for the Laser). I have never sailed in waves like this before and it was freaking me out. The wind I could handle, but to look behind you when you were going downwind and see waves breaking behind you was scary! I started not looking behind, but then when you are in the trough of the wave with the one that passed you in front of you, that was scary too. We sailed for about an hour and then I felt like I better go in before my good luck ran out. The best thing about sailing there was than either Wilson or Emilio not only rigged your boat, but they derigged it as well. I could get used to that and when Mike and I came in from sailing last weekend I was missing Wilson and Emilio. Mike did some sailing with Ari who owns the sailing center and they had some fun together. I went out the next two days and got more used to the wave action, but never really comfortable. The last day it was windier and gusty too, which was challenging. All in all, it was a blast and I would do it again in a heartbeat.

We loved being there in the off season as there were no crowds. The only drawback of this is that there were more beach vendors than tourists! The food was good, the accomodations were wonderful, the sailing center awesome with Andrea making sure we got whatever it was we needed. The Dominican people were nice as well as interesting. Almost all of them spoke some English and many were fluent. The tourist population was also interesting. A nice mixture of Europeans, South Americans, Canadians and Americans. Even though we were only there 5 nights, it did not seem like a short vacation. We relaxed and got right into the slow mode of things making it the perfect getaway. There are also many other things to do in this area: mountain biking, hiking, horseback riding etc. The DR is a big island and had a much different feel than the other Caribbean island that we have been to; not good or bad, just different.

Hope you enjoyed hearing about the trip and looking at the pictures!

Jane and Mike

SSA Laser Frostbiting- this Sunday!

Hello Laser sailors,

Just a reminder - after you have had your fill of Turkey this Thanksgiving weekend (and slept off the Trypophan), come out racing on Sunday! It is the second day of the SSA Laser Frostbiting series. Registration at 12:00pm, first start at 1:00pm.

There will be another raffle prize provided by APS and, of course, warm food/drinks available from the Angry chef. Make sure to try the "Frostbiter" it's tasty...

Hope to see you on Sunday,

Dorian

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SSA Laser Frostbite results - Week 1

Hello everyone,

Thanks so much for coming out and participating in the first day of our Laser Frostbiting Series! It was a great day to be sailing- and we had a great turn out of 32 boats. Thanks so much to Bob and JR who did a great job as the Race Committee. Luke Shingledecker won the day. His report and full results are below. The raffle prize, a Magic Marine duffle bag provided by APS, went to Fuller Moore.

Please remember- in order to get scored everyone must fill out a registration form at the SSA clubhouse. This is manditory! The policy is as follows -If you have not registered before racing, you do not get scored -The second time you go sailing, if you have not registered you will be sent in to the SSA clubhouse to register before being allowed to sail the course. The forms are available on the table upstairs in the clubhouse and also online at the SSA website.

http://www.severnsailing.org/racemanagement/entryform.pdf

Also- I still need volunteers for RC boat on Dec. 31 and Feb.25 as well as Mark/safety boat on Dec. 31, Feb. 11, Feb.18, Mar. 4, Mar. 11 and Mar. 18. If all SSA members who are frostbiting volunteer one day we will be covered!

Thanks, and I will see you next week!

-Dorian

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It was a great day for our first day of frostbiting for the 2006-2007 season. Mild temperatures, light-moderate winds, and relatively warm water temps brough out well over 30 boats. It was great to see such a great collection of old and new faces out sailing. Wind was mostly around 6-8 knots, with a couple shots up to 10 knots and sometimes as low as 5 or so. The wind direction was around 300 to 330, with the wind generally clocking to the right through the day.

With a large fleet on a tight line and a short course, it was easy to make mistakes and fall behind the leaders on the first leg.
You could usually see where the first weather puff would be from the start line. This gave me a good idea when there was a good reason to go right or left. Usually it was right, there were always opportunities on both sides of the course. The starts were a key to achieving a consistent finish. I seemed to be able to find a decent spot on the line in most starts. A couple of starts I started at the boat a bit late (second row), which was fine since I was able to tack out and go right. In general, I had a series of good starts where I was able to accelerate quickly off the line and hold a good lane. I find that the start is the primary place where I find myself behind, usually by having a lackluster start. Today, I only had one bad start.

Upwind , the puffs were frequent and the leg was short. As a result, if I could stay on the tack I wanted, it was a pretty easy sail up to the weather mark. The only problems came when I couldn' tack when I wanted, which goes back to the importance of a good start.

Downwind, it seems like there were always a couple of puffs coming down the Severn river, so there was usually some benefit to holding to the left (looking downwind). The only problem was not getting totally caught up in the bad of air from over 20 Lasers coming into the weather mark, pretty much bow to transom. So while gybing immediately, or bearing off well by the lee might have been the quickest way to get out in the river, it would usually leave you choking for breeze. Usually, the best thing was to try and sail down the rhumbline a little bit, not letting any boats behind me get further to the left of me.

Underlining the entire day was a unique factor. There were plenty of leaves floating all over the race course, plus some weeds as well. It seems like every time I checked my rudder, there were always a couple of leaves, if not a lot of them! I saw plenty of boats towing a rake-full of leaves. This was very slow, so it was important to monitor this point.

Overall, I was suprised to do well because I'm heavy and I don't usually sail have boatspeed in light air. I think the difference today was good starts and avoiding bunch-ups at the marks. I seemed to have good speed upwind, and I believe I passed boats because I paid attention to leaves and weeds in the water. When I was behind, I looked for opportunities, to sail into the next windshift or puff.

Thanks to Bob and JR for running the race committee. It was a tough day because the wind was shifting, and they had to deal with a couple of general recalls.

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SSA/Laser fleet 10
SSA Laser frostbiting
November 19, 2006
SERIES SUMMARY
Pl Sail # Skipper 1 2 3 4 5 6 Tot
1 182860 Luke Shingledecker 6 2 2 2 4 1 17
2 184550 Ted Morgan 1 3 1 6 3 5 19
3 187787 Colin Robertson 7 5 5 4 1 3 25
4 170797 Morgan Wilson 13 1 4 3 2 4 27
5 166043 Brendan Heussler 2 11 3 1 5 6 28
6 181267 Eugenio Cingolani 3 20 7 5 10 7 52
7 182827 Brennen Drysdale 5 7 13 8 6 15 54
8 170799 Greg Herbert 8 8 14 15 8 8 61
9 179226 Andrew Eyring 11 6 11 14 12 12 66
10 177155 Tip Clifton 12 12 6 10 11 16 67
11 165009 Paul Garn 16 9 9 12 15 11 72
12 166892 Ben Fransen 15 17 18 7 18 2 77
13 153006 Kim Couranz 9 19 15 13 13 20 89
14 181113 Chris Foscue 21 10 21 20 9 10 91
15 184472 Bo McClatchy 18 18 8 11 24 14 93
16 179506 Brian Hetherington 19 23 10 17 19 9 97
17 35313 Mike Waters 22 14 31\DNF 9 7 31\DNC 114
18 169781 Russ Wesdyk 24 21 19 22 16 13 115
19 168566 Quinn Tobin 14 25 16 23 17 21 116
20 187874 James McKenna 17 24 26 18 20 18 123
21 186519 Fuller Moore 10 15 23 16 31\DNC 31\DNC 126
22 R67 Matt Schoene 31\DNC 13 12 19 23 31\DNC 129
23 52 Stergios Papadakis 4 4 31\DNF 31\DNC 31\DNC 31\DNC 132
24 4720 Kristoffer Stevens 27 29 22 24 14 17 133
25 38699 Buck Downes 23 22 20 25 26 24 140
26 66133 Bill Ballough 20 16 17 27 31\DNC 31\DNC 142
27 168474 Dorian Haldeman 25 28 25 21 21 22 142
28 173641 Leo Wilson 26 26 24 26 22 19 143
29 169629 Michael Klybor 31\DNC 27 27 28 25 23 161
30 183892 Pauline Jerry 28 31\DNF 31\DNF 31\DNC 31\DNC 31\DNC 183

20 Nov, '06, 13:39
St. Pete Scorer

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The start of the 2006-2007 Frostbite series is almost here!

Hello Frostbiters!

The start of the 2006-2007 Frostbite series is almost here! Sunday November 19 at Severn Sailing Association

Weather is forcasted as follows- High 51 degrees, partly sunny, NW winds 10 knots- sounds like the perfect day for sailing!

Not to mention a great raffle prize! A large, tough Magic Marine duffle bag provided by APS. It is perfect for carrying around all that frostbiting gear.

Registration begins at 11:30 am - first start at 1 pm.

Everyone must register!! Fill out the SSA entry form in the clubhouse. Non-members have a registration fee of $177

The NOR is available at the fleet 10 website- and posted below.

http://www.severnsailing.org/fleets/laser/frostbiting/frostbiting_nor.pdf

hope to see you on Sunday!

Frostbiting this Sunday at SSA -raffle prize!!

Hello Frostbiters!

The start of the 2006-2007 Frostbite series is almost here! Sunday November 19 at Severn Sailing Association

Weather is forcasted as follows- High 51 degrees, partly sunny, NW winds 10 knots- sounds like the perfect day for sailing!

Not to mention a great raffle prize! A large, tough Magic Marine duffle bag provided by APS. It is perfect for carrying around all that frostbiting gear.

Registration begins at 11:30 am - first start at 1 pm.

Everyone must register!! Fill out the SSA entry form in the clubhouse. Non-members have a registration fee of $177

The NOR is available at the fleet 10 website- and posted below.

http://www.severnsailing.org/fleets/laser/frostbiting/frostbiting_nor.pdf

hope to see you on Sunday!

-Dorian

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Frostbiting NOR

RULES: RRS, USSA prescriptions, Laser Class Rules, SI's.
1. Competitors shall wear life jackets at all times while on the water. This changes RRS 27.1 and 40.
2. A boat that may have broken a rule of RRS Part 2 may take a penalty by making a 360 degree turn. This changes RRS 44.1.
3. A boat shall not leave the basin(s) until the safety boat has left.
4. Competitors shall wear wet or drysuits.
SCHEDULE: Registration Sunday, November 19 11:00am -12:30pm, and every Sunday thereafter for newcomers. First warning signal every Sunday @ 1:00pm. No races started after 4:00pm. Register once for the entire season. No registration, no scoring, no exceptions.
COURSES: Windward/leeward; start/finish in the middle. Sometimes triangle. Rarely Olympic. Always per the discretion of the RC. Length is 10-15 minutes per race.
SCORING: Low point system. DNS equals number of competitors for the day plus 1 point. Race Committee duty equals your average daily score for all race days you competed in. You must compete in 50% of the series' races days to qualify for series scoring.
AWARDS: Trophies for all competitors who race in 50% or more of the 2006-2007 series, measured in terms of participation days.
ENTRY FEE: $177 for non-SSA members. Space on the starting line is limited. Fee does NOT include winter storage. There is NO winter storage available to non-SSA members. Sorry, we just don't have any room at the inn.
INFO & ENTRIES: Dorian Haldeman, spidervmd@hotmail.com
DIRECTIONS: US Route 50 to Exit 24, Rowe Blvd (MD 70). Bear right onto Rowe Blvd. Cross Weems Creek and College Creek. Continue on Rowe Blvd as it bears right after College Creek. At Church Circle you must turn right - continue about 180 degrees around Church Circle to Duke of Gloucester Street - the Maryland Inn is on the corner of that intersection - turn right. Follow Duke of Gloucester Street and turn right at end. Cross Spa Creek Bridge and take the first left onto Severn Ave. (Shell Station). Go 5 blocks; turn left onto First Street. SSA is at the end of the street on the right.

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Frostbite starts Sunday- still need volunteers

Hello Laser Sailors!

Just a reminder- the Frostbite series starts this Sunday. You must fill out a registration form to race!! The forms will be available in the clubhouse. Registration is free for SSA members (although I will begin collecting 2007 fleet dues- $30) Non-members registration fee is $177.00. Registration begins at 11:30 am- First start at 1:00 pm.

I still need SSA members to volunteer for Race Committee/ safety boat for Frostbite. Remember that you do receive credit towards your score for the series for Race committee. We have three more slots to fill on the main RC boat - Dec 31, and two slots on March 25 (it will much warmer by then...)

Mark boat opennings Dec. 31, Feb 11, Feb 18, Mar 4, Mar 11, Mar 18

Also- if you are an SSA laser sailor and not crazy enough to sail frostbites you can still volunteer! Bundle up, come watch the racing, have some chili and hot toddies from the Angry Chef- it is a great way to spend a chilly Sunday!

Hope to see you Sunday!

-Dorian

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RC grid

Hi everyone,

I am still trying to fill in the RC grid. If everyone volunteers for just one day we will have no problem filling in the slots. Please email me what days you are available. Here is the schedule as it stands.


Race Committee Safety Boat

19-Nov Bob Tan, JR Futcher IC

26-Nov IC IC Eugenio Cingolani

3-Dec Ted Morgan, Bill Balough IC

10-Dec John Quay, Jen Cook J Bergquist

17-Dec IC IC IC

24-Dec X-mas weekend

31-Dec **need people*** **need person***
7-Jan IC IC G.Leonard,B. Downes

14-Jan **need people** J Bergquist

21-Jan Mike Waters,Steve Cofer IC

28-Jan IC Midwinters

4-Feb Dave Schoene, Quinn Tobin IC

11-Feb B. Artman, D. Haldeman *need person**

18-Feb IC IC *need person**

25-Feb Tip Clifton, Russ Wesdyk IC

4-Mar IC IC *need person**

11-Mar L.Shingledecker,S. Shingledecker *need person**
18-Mar IC IC *need person**

25-Mar ****need people*** IC

More Frostbite stuff - boat for sale

Hello everyone,

Thanks to all of you who have already volunteered for Frostbite RC/mark boat duty. We still have many spaces to fill - so please let me know what days your are available and I will get you signed up:) Dates we still need help - Nov 26, Dec 3, Dec 10, Dec 31, Jan 7, Jan 14, Jan 21, Feb 4, Feb 11, Feb 18, Feb 25, Mar 4, Mar 11, Mar 18, Mar 25

Frostbite items for sale-

Henri Lloyd Gore-Tex dry suit with booties for sale. Great condition. Red with front entry zipper. I believe it is a size medium. It fit well a 5'11" 185 lb. male. $350.

Also, a medium/large Excel full wetsuit. Red and grey. Great condition. $75

Contact info:

John Quay
301-779-7198 (H)
240-305-1796 (M)
johnquay@earthlink.net

Boat for sale:

Laser for sale - full and radial rigs. White deck, gray
hull. Light use, stored indoors, excellent condition. Not a
racer but a good all-around rig. Located Washington DC.
$1000 OBO. Brian Lockett - O: 202 452 4373; H: 202 966
5850; lockett4@verizon.net

Hope to see you out Frostbiting!!

-Dorian

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Hello Frostbiters!

Hello Frostbiters!

I need volunteers! It is time to fill in the RC schedule so we can make this series happen. We need 2 people on the RC boat and 1-2 people for the crash/safety/mark boat on the following days. Remember you will receive a scoring credit for the series on the day you volunteer. If you can email me the dates you can be available and I will get back to you with the final schedule. I will make sure that there is at least one well experienced person on the RC boat each day.

RC boat dates: Nov 19, Dec 3, Dec 10, Dec 31, Jan 14, Jan 21, Feb 4, Feb 11, Feb 25, Mar 25

Mark/Safety boat days: Nov 26, Dec 10, Dec 31, Jan 7, Jan 14, Feb 11, Feb 18, Mar 4, Mar 11, Mar 18

Thanks so much! I can't wait to see you on the water:)

-Dorian

It's time to dig out those drysuits

Hello Laser sailors,

It's time to dig out those drysuits. SSA Laser Frostbite series begins Sunday November 19! Registration starts at 11:30 am - first signal at 1:00 pm. Everyone must register to participate- no exceptions! The race committee volunteer information will be sent out soon. See the NOR on the Laser Fleet 10 website (or attached below)

http://www.severnsailing.org/fleets/laser/frostbiting/frostbiting_nor.pdf

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Check out the Laser Fleet 10 Blog! A big thanks to Leon Bloom for setting in all up.

http://laser10.blogspot.com/

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Don't forget to mark you calendars - The Laser Fleet 10 Christmas party is scheduled for Saturday December 16th - 7:00 pm at the SSA clubhouse. Beverages will be provided, please bring a party food or dessert to share.

As always, contact me if you have any questions. I am looking forward to seeing you soon.

-Dorian
spidervmd@hotmail.com


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2006-2007 Laser Frostbite Series- Notice of Race

RULES: RRS, USSA prescriptions, Laser Class Rules, SI's.
1. Competitors shall wear life jackets at all times while on the water. This changes RRS 27.1 and 40.
2. A boat that may have broken a rule of RRS Part 2 may take a penalty by making a 360 degree turn. This changes RRS 44.1.
3. A boat shall not leave the basin(s) until the safety boat has left.
4. Competitors shall wear wet or drysuits.
SCHEDULE: Registration Sunday, November 19 11:00am -12:30pm, and every Sunday thereafter for newcomers. First warning signal every Sunday @ 1:00pm. No races started after 4:00pm. Register once for the entire season. No registration, no scoring, no exceptions.
COURSES: Windward/leeward; start/finish in the middle. Sometimes triangle. Rarely Olympic. Always per the discretion of the RC. Length is 10-15 minutes per race.
SCORING: Low point system. DNS equals number of competitors for the day plus 1 point. Race Committee duty equals your average daily score for all race days you competed in. You must compete in 50% of the series' races days to qualify for series scoring.
AWARDS: Trophies for all competitors who race in 50% or more of the 2006-2007 series, measured in terms of participation days.
ENTRY FEE: $177 for non-SSA members. Space on the starting line is limited. Fee does NOT include winter storage. There is NO winter storage available to non-SSA members. Sorry, we just don't have any room at the inn.
INFO & ENTRIES: Dorian Haldeman, spidervmd@hotmail.com
DIRECTIONS: US Route 50 to Exit 24, Rowe Blvd (MD 70). Bear right onto Rowe Blvd. Cross Weems Creek and College Creek. Continue on Rowe Blvd as it bears right after College Creek. At Church Circle you must turn right - continue about 180 degrees around Church Circle to Duke of Gloucester Street - the Maryland Inn is on the corner of that intersection - turn right. Follow Duke of Gloucester Street and turn right at end. Cross Spa Creek Bridge and take the first left onto Severn Ave. (Shell Station). Go 5 blocks; turn left onto First Street. SSA is at the end of the street on the right.



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