White Rock Lake Dallas, Texas
The
Main Sheet
August
2003
White
Rock
Lake
Dallas
,
Texas
Upcoming
events:
Wednesday
Night Fun Races End
August
27
Labor
Day (Post Race Party)
August
31
Area F Elimination Regatta
CSC September 6-7
Corinthian
Single Handed Regatta
September 13
September 21
September
27 - Past Commodores Dinner
Mark your calendars
SMU
Frozen Hate Regatta
CSC October 4-5
State
Fair Regatta
October 11
Flying
Scot Open House Regatta
October 18-19
Annual
CSC Banquet and Awards
City Club in downtown Dallas
Silent Auction
November
8
Business
Meeting
Royal Oaks Country Club
January
15
Great
sailing books available to club members at big discount:
Contact
Tom
Miller
Limited quantity, requests will be filled as received
Understanding
the Racing Rules of Sailing
By Dave
Perry, Illustrated by Brad Dellenbaugh
CSC Price: $15.00 Retail Price: $32.50
Description:
This indispensable guide for sailors and racing officials includes the
complete text of the ISAF Racing Rules of Sailing, 2001-2004 and US SAILING
Prescriptions. Perry concisely and clearly answers all the most commonly asked
questions on the racing rules, and then some. His comprehensive,
easy-to-understand explanations, with extensive references to US SAILING
Appeals and ISAF Cases, make this book a complete and authoritative resource
on the rules. Fifth edition, illustrations by Brad Dellenbaugh
Winning
in One-Designs
By Dave Perry, 3rd
Edition
CSC Price: $10.00 Retail Price: $24.95
Description:
Long considered one of the very best books about sailing by competitive racers
around the world, Dave Perry's Winning in One-Designs covers every aspect of
racing. Perry's expert advice, clear explanations and numerous tips in this
newly revised and updated edition, offer invaluable instruction to sailors at
all levels of competition.
Social
Update
Jul
y 4th
at the Corinthian Sailing Club started early and ended late!
The July 4th celebration began on July 3rd, as the Junior Sailors decorated the Corinthian Sailing Club float for the Lakewood Neighborhood Parade. The float included a blue and white Opti on a red trailer, pulled by a very, very cool red Land Rover. The float was decorated to simulate a boat moving through water with all of the traditional Independence Day fare. The junior sailors arrived early on the Fourth. They filled large containers with water, stashed bags of candy and flyers advertising the Junior Sailing Programs and climbed into the float. They were ready to face the day and headed up to the staging area for the parade. The parade started on time with the Dallas Police helicopter flying overhead with sirens blaring! The Corinthian Sailing Club float looked great! The Junior Sailors returned laughing and were wet from head to toe! The water was used to reload their water-blasters! I am not sure they expected to have the crowds reciprocate with their own water-blasters as they moved down the parade route! Fun was had by all! Special thanks to Ken and Selina Brown, Diane and Bob Van Buren, Donna and Sandy Dennison for their contribution to the float design and decorations, driving Ken Brown's very cool red Land Rover and making the flyers! Thanks to the Junior Sailors who participated in the parade! What a (water) blast!
The
Corinthian Sailing Club July 4th Celebration started around
The summer breeze helped modify temperatures as the boats sailed in search of watermelons. The Tommy, Melissa Miller, son Jonathan (and friend) were successful at finding not only the watermelon with the star, for a $50 gift certificate to West Marine, but also enough watermelons for additional T-shirts... It must be that very, very fast boat!
The
Illuminate Your Boat contest was won by Ken and Selina Brown, daughter Kindra
(and friend). Their Corinthian
was decorated with red, white and blue Christmas lights! We were amazed at the
number of boats participating in this contest.
There were red and white sails illuminated by a light and white sails
illuminated by red, white and blue lights and more!
It was great. Get ready
for next year!
First
Friday Celebration
Pray for a Summer Breeze Party!
We
can always count on a crowd on First Friday's when margaritas are on the menu!
This was no exception with over 100 members and guests attending! The
food was provided by Blue Mesa Grill. We
were fortunate to have a hefty summer breeze.
Special thanks to Patrick Glynn for providing a drum trio.
The jazz drum presentation, good food, friends and the breeze kept us
all very cool! The Grungiest Hat
Contest was won by Bob Harrington (his hat was run over by a tractor! Don't
you wonder why he kept it?). The
Prettiest Hat Contest was won by Judy Blackmon.
Judy's hat included live sunflowers! Special thanks to all for a
memorable evening!
Mark Your Calendars for the Up-Coming Events!
Junior
Program
Another successful Summer Season of junior sailing classes has come to a close. This year our program served a total of 41 junior sailors spanning the ages of 7 to 17 and skill levels from complete beginner to dedicated racer. Much of the credit for the success of our program should go to our coaches Megan Chrostowski and Joe Richardson, who were ably assisted by our three junior coaches Joey DeCosta, Brittany Widzer and Paul Denison.
Overview of Summer Sailing Classes and Regattas:
Summer Sailing Program:
Being race-oriented, our junior program is structured around the Texas Sailing Association Junior Circuit Regatta Schedule. This year we began with the Area F Sears Cup competition at CSC the weekend of June 7-8. CSC fielded two teams, who finished second and fourth among a strong fleet of competitors. Then beginning June 9th we dove right into a one-week racing clinic to prepare our junior racers for the three-regatta Dallas Race Week held June 14-21. Twelve of our CSC juniors participated in one or more of the three regattas comprising Dallas Race Week and a number of our sailors brought home hardware in both the Laser Radial and Optimist classes. We followed Dallas Race Week with a two-week sailing class from June 23 to July 4 which was devoted to beginner sailors and at which more than twenty young people were introduced to the joys of sailing. After the beginner class we held a two-week intermediate class from July 7-17, the purpose of which was both to provide the next level of instruction for sailors who had completed the beginner course and to prepare our more experienced sailors for Texas Race Week. After Texas Race Week we rounded out the summer with another class from July 28 to August 8, which was open to both beginners and anyone else who just wanted to come out and sail.
The
highlight of our program each year is the trip to
Competing in the Optimist Green fleet, Masie Comen medaled in all three regattas with finishes of tenth, seventh and sixth out of a fleet which averaged thirty competitors at each regatta. Masie topped off a week of strong sailing by scoring a bullet in the last race of the last regatta for which she was awarded one of the coveted red "Daily Firsts" t-shirts, of which she should be justly proud. Masie also came home with a medal for placing fifth overall in the Optimist Green fleet for all three regattas. Newcomer Cameron Keehn, at his first regatta, also made a good showing by chalking up consistent mid-fleet finishes all week. He showed improvement with each race and came close to medaling at the last regatta.
CSC
was also well represented at Texas Race Week in the 38-boat Laser Radial class
by Brittany Widzer and Paul Denison. Paul
finished fourteenth overall in the combined three-regatta event and medaled
with an eighth place finish in one regatta.
He had a second place finish in one race-missing first by half a
boat-length-and had several other top-ten finishes during the week.
While we are all proud of our junior sailors for their accomplishments on the water, of equal importance were the good times shared off the water during the week by our juniors, as well as their coaches and parents, who are all looking forward to returning again next year.
Fall Season Junior Activities and Regattas:
Although the Summer junior program may have ended, we hope that junior sailing will continue at CSC into the school year and the Fall Season. It is our hope that with the help of committed parents, the junior program can build upon the success of the Summer and continue with junior activities into the Fall. With the help of parents we plan to organize some junior activities this Fall which, in addition to sailing, will include some on the dock fun.
Parents
Meeting - August 31st: To
that end, parents of junior sailors interested in helping to organize
activities for our kids this Fall are asked to come to a short meeting in the
Junior Gazebo on Sunday, August 31 at
FWBC
"Ol' Man of the Sea Junior Regatta" - Sept. 6-7.
Finally, parents of junior sailors interested in attending the Fort
Worth Boat Club Ol' Man of the Sea Junior Regatta the weekend of September 6-7
should contact Sandy Denison at the above number or at ed@cscsailing.org.
This is always a well-run and well-attended regatta, attracting some of
the best junior sailors in
Dates
to Remember:
August
31 at
September 6-7 FWBC Ol' Man of the Sea Junior Regatta
Team 4 Texas
Team
for
Kathy
Irwin (helmswoman) Rush Creek Yacht Club
Wendy
Vann (trimmer) Fort Worth Boat Club
Debbie
Adams (foredeck person) Dallas Corinthian Yacht Club
The
Team is preparing to participate in the Rolex International Women's Keelboat
Championship for the Bengt Julin Trophy in
This
US Sailing sanctioned event is sponsored by Rolex Watch
The
Team is holding a fund raiser Saturday, Aug 23rd at
Flying
Scot NACs Crew Notes
and District Governor's Update from Scott Mauney
Flying
Scot North American Championship
Wednesday,
July 16th - Bill Draheim gets a call from Marc Eagan to build sails
for Marcus and Andrew Eagan for the North Americans.
Bad news - Bill won't have time to build us a new set of sails.
Good News - Another good sailor will be using his sails.
Bill says to me - Don't worry I think it's more important that we bring
our lucky rabbits foot rather than new sails to
Monday Winds: 8 to 14 knots (Perfect Breeze).
Monday morning first qualifying race, we start towards the middle of the line three rows back, take a clearing take to the right ducking 5 to 6 boats, breeze dies out on the left, round with leaders go on to win race.
Monday
second race, we start towards the pin, get shot out the back by Marcus Eagan,
tack out to the right, cross behind the entire fleet, get right, breeze goes
left, play "ketchup" for an eighth.
Bill promises his starts will get better.
So far no chance of being called over early!
Tuesday Winds: 10 to 15 knots (Perfect Breeze).
Final qualifying race, good start FINALLY, winning race until last beat, Marcus Eagan and Bill Ewing get by us by going to the favored leeward gate and get into better breeze. Hold on for a 3rd.
Wednesday
Winds: 10 to 15 knots (Slowly winding left with heavy shore influence).
First race for the championship, round the first mark in 3rd behind Greg Fisher and Harry Carpenter. Make up considerable distance on downwind leg. Greg Fisher hits leeward mark gate and does a 360. We catch Harry going upwind, lead going downwind. Greg catches up on last upwind leg. The race committee sets our finish line 50 feet beyond the windward and offset mark. As we sail on starboard between the windward mark and the offset mark the challenger fleet, rounding the windward mark and turning down to the offset mark, blocks us from tacking onto port for the finish. Greg beats us by a boat length. Ouch That Hurt!
Second race for the championship, race committee moves course to compensate for the wind going left. Get good start towards the pin, professional photographer's boat crosses directly in front of us, had to restrain myself from going crazy. Initially we stayed left, Marcus crosses in front of us, and we stay left with Harry Carpenter while the fleet is stacking up right taking advantage of right shore effect. This is where it got tough. Trying not to get caught too far to the left we start working our way back to the right, end up crossing behind too many boats. Harry Carpenter stays left looking bad until the final port tack rounding in the top three. Marcus ends up winning the right group and gets launched for an easy win. Greg Fisher and Ira Cohen eventually grind Harry down for second and third place. What really happened up front is a mystery because we rounded the first mark about 15th to 18th place going very slow. We stayed in slow mode downwind and back upwind. Wasn't until the last downwind that we start moving through the fleet. We decided to go high over the fleet on the port tack, just holding on to an inside overlap on the left gate. The race committee had moved the weather mark far to the right; we were hopefully going to get some right shore effect. Everyone in front of us was working out towards the middle of the lake. Bill and I and everyone behind us were stacking up to the right, near the shore, hopping for a miracle. After we made it around the right shore we actually lost a couple of boats. Everyone around saw us losing ground and bailed out back to the left. Now there was no option but to head back to the right shore. We actually had to sail the boat healed up to keep the centerboard from running aground on the sandbars. Finally on the last tack to starboard we were over-standing the finish line, we got a shot from the right and were now barreling down to the finish line. Steve Bellows was one of the boats that had been in front of us the whole race. He said "I couldn't see you because of all the other port tack boats, but you guys sounded like a freight train". We passed 7 to 8 boats at the finish. At the time we felt exhausted and a little defeated. We were now in fourth place.
Thursday
Winds: 0 to 4 knots (Frontal High Pressure System has landed on top of us).
Sat under shade trees all day drinking favorite beverages, playing touch football, decided to leave boat in water all day and overnight so boat could become one with the lake. That was our excuse for being too lazy to pull the boat out of the water.
Friday Winds: 4 to 6 knots (High Pressure - At least one more race is needed to be considered a regatta).
Race
committee was looking to get 2 races off.
However, this would be the last race.
I'm glad we didn't know that at the time.
We start 70% down the line, everyone to windward falls down behind us,
and we end up rolling the boats to leeward, finally a great start.
We start out left but end up working middle right.
A few boats way out to the right get a sliver of breeze and boats on
the far left come in strong as well. We
end up rounding around 8th. Harry
Carpenter is close by and Marcus Eagan is directly behind us.
Marcus brings breeze behind on port tack.
Marcus starts to roll us so we gybe away back towards the middle.
We never see Marcus again as he gets stuck out on the left.
We go back upwind losing a couple of boats rounding the weather mark
directly behind Harry Carpenter. Harry
looks back at us, as we both barely squeeze around the weather mark and says
"boy that was ugly". This
is our final downwind leg. Harry
Carpenter is not only ahead, with 10 to 15 minutes left in the race, he is
winning the regatta. We sail
downwind on port tack. Harry decides to sail higher hoping to get to the fresh
breeze first and to roll the boat directly in front of him.
The breeze is filling from behind and Bill sails straight to the
leeward gates. Harry ends up
sailing into the exact hole the
The
wind slowly shut down to nothing and 90 minutes later the race committee
decided to call it a regatta. Like
last years North Americans at
District
Governor's Notes: The 2003 Flying Scot North American Championship had 90 boat
registered. Each boat was
measured using a lottery system. Depending
on what color you drew determined what would be measured.
Our color indicated the boat would be weighed with the centerboard in,
the safety equipment checked, and our main sails would be measured.
The whole process from our late Sunday registration to final
measurement took all of 45 minutes. The
crew from
Next
years Flying Scot North American Championship will be at
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