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2012 Sailing Calendar Released
Next year's sailing calendar was released from the Port Townsend Sailing Association's central home office. To download your copy of next year's scheduled fun on the Bay and surrounding waters, click the link below. 2012 PTSA and Regional Sailing Schedule-1.pdf. |
NIMBUS formerly known as IMPULSE of the PTSA From Ballard Sailor’s report on the 2012 Duamish Head Race on Pressure Drop. By 2pm the mid raters were crossing the finish line en masse, but amongst them was a little 26 foot boat sailed by one of those old Des Moines Sea Scouts – [...] The Flash Player and a browser with Javascript support are needed. var so38_1 = { params : { wmode : “opaque”, allowfullscreen : “true”, bgcolor : “#000000″}, flashvars : { file : “http%3A%2F%2Fptsail.org%2Findex.php%3Fcallback%3Dimagerotator%26gid%3D38″, shuffle : “false”, transition : “fade”, backcolor : “0×000000″, frontcolor : “0xFFFFFF”, lightcolor : “0xCC0000″, width : “500″, height : [...]
10 boats came out for Race 3 and all “finished” though Kolus’s finish could not be counted as they finished in the wrong direction and did not re-cross the line in the right direction. No Name and Second Wind did the same, but then crossed in the right direction. The RC made a mistake in signing the tower for a port rounding which could have caused traffic problems, and then made an error in changing the rounding direction during the race. The Wizard was the first boat to round the tower and seeing that they were taking it to starboard, Sirocco called the RC and asked if it wasn’t supposed to be a port rounding. I was in error to tell Sirocco on VHF that they should follow The Wizard in rounding to starboard as that was a safer direction. The correct response would have been “sail the course as posted.” Because the race committee course board set the course to round mark T to port (any letter without an underline means round to port), any boat rounding to starboard should have been DSQ. Due to my error, no boat will be disqualified for rounding in either direction. We will try not to repeat this mistake and urge participants to pay close attention to the course board. At this time, the race 3 results are also the overall results. Sunday afternoon’s race was blown off the Bay with the first serious wind storm of the fall. At 11:15 Myron put out the racing canceled flag on the picnic table by the yard office in Boat Haven after first checking the ferry wind which was showing 28 to 30. Not everyone one was discouraged [...] The first race of the Night Cap Series attracted 7 boats, but alas, no finishers The calm day seemed to be freshening from the NNE at starting time, esp. in Admiralty Inlet, so the (landlocked) RC set a hopeful course–Start–#2 buoy–tower–#2 buoy–finish. Good start and hopeful progress. Some good wind lines for those who [...] |
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The Night Cap Series has gotten off to a rough start. In Race 1 the winds diminished enough that no boats finished. Race 2 was abandoned due to a Gale Warning and winds gusting to near 40.