2014 Notice of Race

Here it is!  It's the Notice of Race.

Pick it up HERE

What do you need to know?

• Skippers Meeting April 23, 6pm, MRYC
• First race May 7th
• Do your Man Over Board drill!

This is the last post that goes to Yahoo!. Embrace this new website because it is the Official Notice Board for St Michaels Wednesday Night Racing. That means any official communications for racers will be posted here and you are expected to know about official communications.

Here is the website:

http://sm-wnr.blogspot.com/

Want to be sure you are receiving all the posts on the website? Sign up here:

http://eepurl.com/NmTXb

Two weeks to the skippers meeting!

Barging at the Start

You know, we see a lot of barging at the start. Crazy amounts of barging! Being so close to the water on Volunteer, barging makes us very nervous. I mean, where would we go if a big boat decided to plant itself right into the committee boat?

So are you a barger? Do you know the rules about barging?

Look To Windward did a great series on the rules relating to barging. Check it out here:

http://rrsstudy.blogspot.nl/2014/03/back-to-basics-part-4-barging-i.html

It's time for a change

After many years of reliable email updates about Wednesday Night Racing from Yahoo!, we are moving on. Yahoo! was great, but they decided that I can no longer add email addresses. That's no good.

So it's time to move to a new system - one that will still meet all our needs and maybe even add some new features!

It's Blogger from Google:

http://sm-wnr.blogspot.com/

When we have updates that I would normally send you, they will now be posted at the website. Just after that the site will send you an email with a link to the new information. It's almost the same as before except:

• Now anyone can go to the website and see the updates
• Anyone can easily sign up to receive emails
• Everyone can manage emails through any email they receive
• There are new ways to share photos and videos

It should be a fun change. You know it will be fun! Come on, embrace the change - it's going to be great!

You will get this email both from Yahoo! and from the new site. Check out the difference.

Sailboat Performance 101

Sailboat Performance 101
How to (Legally) Make Your Boat Faster

Frank DeBord

Do you know how to maximize your boat speed in all conditions?   To achieve this you have to understand the wind and water forces acting on it, and how your actions can change these forces. This presentation is a practical discussion of things you can do to make your boat faster. It discusses the forces acting on any racing yacht and then provides specific actions you can take to legally improve your boat speed. Examples are given for a typical racer/cruiser, a sport boat and a Star.

Frank DeBord is a Naval Architect with more than 35 years of experience analyzing racing yacht performance, including performance optimization for eight America’s Cup defenders and challengers, two Volvo Race syndicates and more than 20 Grand Prix ocean racers.   Projects have included course record holders for the Newport to Bermuda, Transpac and Sydney Hobart races. 

Sail Committee Speaker Series
Thursday February 6, 6:00pm at MRYC

Reservations Required 410-745-9511

Time for a Reset

Sometimes technology and service providers just don't like to play along with the program that you set out. I think we have come to that point with Yahoo.

Normally people like to receive official emails from our official notice board for Wednesday Night Racing. I'm happy to do that, but there are so many people! Using Yahoo groups was great because I could manage the big email list using simple tools and they would handle sending all the emails. Well, no longer. Yahoo doesn't want me to manage the email addresses anymore.

So what's a poor Race Committee person to do?

We're switching up to Blogger and Mailchimp to handle our little official group here! It should be very exciting. There will be lots of new ways for people to get information. I think you will like it. More to come as we transition over.

Marshall