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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.

Night Cap 2011 final results

Results at last! Assuming nothing ELSE goes wrong.

A boat to watch next season is Silent Way. If they hadn’t gone through the S-F line when not starting or finishing (as per sailing instructions) they would have won the last race and placed second behind Dorado DESPITE having missed 2 races.

Results follow. Okay so they are a mess, but the info is there starting with final results.

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Night Cap Race 6

11 Boats came out for the final race of the Night Cap Series. Conditions were “variable” to put it lightly. Two boats, Silent Way & Pacemaker, crossed the S-F line between the first and second marks. The Sailing Instructions specify that the S-F line is only to be crossed when starting and finishing. This [...]

Night Cap 5

Nine boats participated in the 5th race of the Night Cap Series. The course was problematic from the dock, with the wind from the NNE while it was reported that there was no wind at the buoy (NNE of the dock). The only, somewhat consistent, wind seemed to be along the PT shore, so a downwind start to the trestle and back (hopefully twice) was chosen. With the wind slackening before the first boat crossed on the first lap, it was clear that fewer than half of the fleet could finish within an hour so, the shorten course flag was posted and times were taken.

Boats that have not participated in this series have been removed from the results, so some numbers have changed although this has no effect on the overall standings.

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Night Cap Race 4

8 boats participated in the 4th race of the series. Fortunately, the wind was a good bit better than predicted, though sometimes a problem in the area of the tower.

Second Wind finished 17 minutes after the last rated boat. I have no rating for Second Wind.
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Night Cap Series 2011 / Race 3 / First race completed

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.

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.

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