J24 Fleet 61

	J24 FLEET 61 City Island, NY
Home Fleet Roster Race Results RC Dates Photos Membership Form Wed. NOR Wed. S I (see addendums) +Wed. S I Addendum #1 (5/14/07) +Wed. S I Addendum #2 & #3 (7/9/07) +Wed. S I Addendum #4 (8/10/07) Schedule	Fleet Captain - Paul Beaudin Treasurer - Jeep Califano Web - Jeffrey Goldfarb J-24 Fleet 61 Spring Meeting & Potluck* Sunday March 16th @5pm - Harlem Yacht Club - Fleet Awards Presentation for 2007 Season - 2008 Officer Elections and Schedule Review Skippers please bring a simple appetizer (finger food) we can enjoy with an adult beverage from the cash bar. Agenda: -Season 2007 Awards - 9 boats qualified for trophies in 2007: Ska, Wow, Heatwave, Alias, Jeepers, Surcease II, Power Play, Polar Express, Don't Panic. -2008 Proposed* Racing Schedule: Wednesday Spring and Summer series like last season starting one week later due to the Nationals May 16-18 in Staten Island. -Simplified RC scoring: 1 point scored for RC duty. No averaging needed and the computer scoring programs will work. -Casual Night: Considering moving Mondays to Fridays to increase the social aspect with clubs and restaurants all open for après-race. -Fall Sunday Series: How many dates do we want, this was fun and well attended last season for the 3 we did. I would like to see (at least) 4 Sundays this year. -Hoxsie Regatta: August 23. I am pitching this as a possible for the District 3 Championships & world qualifier for Annapolis '09. -Other events we may want to support as a fleet. Fleet Officers and Committees: I guess it is time to try and get everyone involved. If we all do a little something, it will all get done. Captain, Measurer, Secretary, Webmaster, Scorer, Treasurer, Social Committee, Membership, RC gear & boats, Coordinators for Spring, Summer, Casual, Fall Series and an HYC member for Hoxsie. If you have a special interest let us know. We Have A Race Committee Boat. With great thanks to a donation from Chris Skelly, setup by Jesse Fradkin we have in our possession a nice runabout for RC. Jeep is currently working to get it going. Sail meetup groups. This is becoming popular and we have fleet members involved like Leigh Mulroy with the Westchester/City island Branch. I am passing on these events you might consider. These are great for new fleet members: 1. March 7, 2008 Let’s get the sailing season started! Sail trim lecture presented by Steve Card from New York Sailing Center for anyone who will be trimming the sails, and those who wish they were :-). Go to: http://sailing.meetup.com/68/calendar/7362236/ 2. March 29, 2007 Boatless Regatta Our version of a Pub Crawl with tons of prizes for the winners! Go to: http://sailing.meetup.com/68/calendar/7367160/ 2008 Tentative Schedule Wed Spring Series May 21-July 9 Wed Summer Series July 16-Sept 10 Hoxsie Fleet Championships August 23 **Friday Series June-August** Fall Sunday Series Sept 14, 21, Oct 12 the big change is the idea of moving our casual night to Friday when the clubs are open and it can be a better party! Sunday Oct. 14 - News Flash>>>>Alias takes Fall Regatta #3>>>> In the last day of the season, the fleet sailed 3 races in a blustery 15 to 20 knot Northerly under sunny skies to finish up a banner 2007 season for One Design racing on Eastchester Bay. Thanks to all the competitors for making this happen. Sunday Sept. 23 - Great day for first Fall Regatta. 7 boats and 3 good races. Congrats to winner Surcease with Don't Panic and Heat Wave just behind. Thanks to Francine Alheid and Tony Sklarew (with Alviento) for providing Race Committee. RESULTS HYC HoxieRegatta - Aug. 25 A great turnout for our first weekend regatta in a while. Conditions were challenging for both the Race Committee and the sailors. With the wind shifting between south and southwest. But the RC did a great job of getting 4 races off. Big thanks to the RC: Eben Hansmire, Ron Weinstein and John Esposito ( his boat too) We also need to thank: Ricca Autobody for the adult libations Roy Smith and HYC for the munchies Paul Beaudin and Doyle Sails for the Slam Prizes Scoring - See Addendum #4: Turns out, our remedy to not penalize, but reward race committee duty has caused a problem with boats scoring different numbers of races for the series. We will correct this by averaging the scores for the final results. Wed. Sept. 12, 2007 - Race 11 Recap* First Ever One-design Weeknight Season Comes to a Fantastic Close. 8 boats turned out to start under a beautiful sunset and complete a 6 leg coarse in about 8-10 knots of wind. Blondie was first at the first top mark, but then Trouble put on the afterburners to lead at the first leeward pin. After that Jeepers made tracks to move into the lead and held that through to the finish. Wed. Sept. 5, 2007 - Race 10 Recap 13 boats turned out for the next to last race night in the inaugural J-24 Fleet 61 Summer Series. Big thanks to Jeepers for providing race committee and setting up 6 legs on a short .4 mile coarse. The pack was tight through the first leeward mark with Trouble taking the lead followed by Polar Express. Both boats extended their lead with Polar just nipping Trouble at the finish to take the win. This will be a nice way for the Polar Express team to end their racing season with Race Committee chores in next week's final. Wed. Aug. 29, 2007 - Race 9 Recap New Sheriff Arrives in town - Surcease II is on track with last night's ace to knock Jeepers off the top of the Eastchester Bay Rock Pile. This will be the first time that someone has bested the Califano Class Act, in a series, in quite some time. With only 2 race left the Kevin Sailor and crew will be hard to stop. Currently scoring, a very clean, 5 firsts. Well Done. Wed. Aug. 22, 2007 - Race 8 Recap Another great night with excellent race committee compliments of Trouble. Surcease had a great start and extended to lead all the way around, followed by Power Play and Heatwave. ONLY 3 more Wednesdays left to go in 2007. Wed. Aug. 15, 2007 - Race 6 & 7 Recap 3 Way tie for Summer Series Night 6. 2 boats tie for first in Race 1 -- How close is that? Power Play and Jeepers crossed the line together to share the win in race one. Heatwave had a great start and lead all the way around in race 2. Heatwave, Jeepers and Surcease all gain 5 points for the night. Well done to all the boats. Special thanks to Don't Panic for Committee. Trouble is RC next week. They were just practicing at last night's start. Wed. Aug. 8, 2007 - Race 4 & 5 Recap Great Wednesday Night -- 13 boats showed up for some great racing. SUNY maritime not only sent Coach Blaine over to do some excellent committee, but also had 2 boats on the line. The racing was very action packed and tight all the way around the course in a very shifty NW breeze. In Race 1 saw a big left shift up the first beat pushing Surcease, Blondie and Trouble into a nice lead they held till the end. The rest of the fleet was locked in tight pack with several place changes. Race 2 had more even conditions with Force G4 leading at the top mark. Unfortunately to get quickly rolled by Jeepers, due to a geriatric bowman problem. It was Jeepers, Force G4 and Blondie rounding out the top three with BLONDIE taking the best average for the evening. Excellent job Leigh! Wed. July 18, 2007 - Summer Series Race 1 After watching the east wind die through a 45 minute postponement. A nice Northerly filled to allow 11 boats to get a very good race in. Kevin Sailor on Surcease lead from start to finish with Jeepers close behind. Don't Panic made a great come back on the last downwind after missing the start. Wed. June 20, 2007 - Race 10 & 11 Recap Great sailing was had by all on another windy Wed night. Surcease dominated both races with Polar Express and Trouble tied behind both with 2 & 3s. We want to thank J-Puddleduck for taking the time to make a straight line and providing excellent committee. (Monday Night Fireworks at Orchard Beach 9pm should be right after racing with , I would guess, a view from HYC. I know I can see the beach from my mooring. Rafters will be welcome. So a perfect excuse to round up some friends for a sail.) Wed. June 13, 2007 - Race 8 & 9 Recap Jeepers is yet again the boat to beat with 2 bullets last night in stiff breezes clocked at 15-17 kts with gusts to 21 kts. Stellar performances also provided by Heat Wave and Don’t Panic in 2nd & 3rd place, with Don’t Panic coming from behind by going left in both races. Nice job to all racing - you provided the RC with some exciting action at the starts, leeward mark roundings, and some very close finishes. One protest was filed by Heat Wave against Power Play, and Trouble owes the RC a round of drinks for the T-bone attempt after the leeward mark rounding in Race 1, pay up Bob. Thanks to Reva, Diana, and Scott for providing excellent committee work! Wed. June 6, 2007 - Race 6 & 7 Recap Surcease was sailing great in last Wednesday's 4th one-design event. They took the night with a 2,1. Jeepers got off in a hail of bullets, starting dangerously on port tack, but never looked back to lead all the way around in race one. Kevin was second and Polar Express third, recovering well from a penalty turn after touching the starting pin. The wind was 15-20 knots with higher gusts in very flat water. The wind eased for race 2, the lead changed several times in very shifty conditions. Surcease prevailed followed by Trouble and Polar Express. Thanks to Alias for providing committee. Steve Schwartz took a bunch of HD video and we will look for an opportunity to view it. Wed. May 30, 2007 - Race 4 & 5 Recap Jeepers is still the boat to beat, with 2 solid 2nd place finishes to keep them on top of the leader board. Don't Panic had a great start and held off the pack to lead all the way around in Race 1. The new group sailing Power Play (ex Presto) dug into the new right breeze and held off the tight pack of 10 boats to win Race 2. Very big thanks to Francine, Melanie and Diana for providing excellent committee work and Hank for the boat. Wed. May 23, 2007 - Race 3 Wed. May 16, 2007 - Race 1 & 2 Recap Racing started in the Wednesday night series last night with rain and almost no race. We waited to the last minute and decided to head out with 3 brave boat making the line. Two races were sailed. It was very fun, tight racing. Start area was at Big Tom right off the moorings. Race 1 was in 4-5 knots of breeze we sailed to C twice around. Jeepers had a great start and lead around the course. Race 2 was to R and back in about 8-10 knots. It was pretty hard to find the mark and that distance is almost too long for a J-24 race. Next time we have low visibility, using the orange drop marks will be a lot easier to see. We had a potential new owner, Rob Davis, on my boat last night. If anyone hears about used boats, let me know. Thanks Jeff Goldfarb and Hugo Brown for committee and Robin Ricca for his Power Boat.

J24 FLEET 61 City Island, NY

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Wed. S I (see addendums)

+Wed. S I Addendum #1 (5/14/07)

+Wed. S I Addendum #2 & #3 (7/9/07)

+Wed. S I Addendum #4 (8/10/07)

Schedule

Fleet Captain - Paul Beaudin
Treasurer - Jeep Califano
Web - Jeffrey Goldfarb

J-24 Fleet 61 Spring Meeting & Potluck*

Sunday March 16th @5pm - Harlem Yacht Club
- Fleet Awards Presentation for 2007 Season
- 2008 Officer Elections and Schedule Review
*Skippers please bring a simple appetizer (finger food) we can enjoy with an adult beverage from the cash bar.

Agenda:
-Season 2007 Awards - 9 boats qualified for trophies in 2007: Ska, Wow, Heatwave, Alias, Jeepers, Surcease II, Power Play, Polar Express, Don't Panic.
-2008 Proposed Racing Schedule: Wednesday Spring and Summer series like last season starting one week later due to the Nationals May 16-18 in Staten Island.
-Simplified RC scoring: 1 point scored for RC duty. No averaging needed and the computer scoring programs will work.
-Casual Night: Considering moving Mondays to Fridays to increase the social aspect with clubs and restaurants all open for après-race.
-Fall Sunday Series: How many dates do we want, this was fun and well attended last season for the 3 we did. I would like to see (at least) 4 Sundays this year.
-Hoxsie Regatta: August 23. I am pitching this as a possible for the District 3 Championships & world qualifier for Annapolis '09.
-Other events we may want to support as a fleet.
Fleet Officers and Committees:
I guess it is time to try and get everyone involved. If we all do a little something, it will all get done. Captain, Measurer, Secretary, Webmaster, Scorer, Treasurer, Social Committee, Membership, RC gear & boats, Coordinators for Spring, Summer, Casual, Fall Series and an HYC member for Hoxsie. If you have a special interest let us know.

We Have A Race Committee Boat.
With great thanks to a donation from Chris Skelly, setup by Jesse Fradkin we have in our possession a nice runabout for RC. Jeep is currently working to get it going.

Sail meetup groups.
This is becoming popular and we have fleet members involved like Leigh Mulroy with the Westchester/City island Branch. I am passing on these events you might consider. These are great for new fleet members:

1. March 7, 2008 Let’s get the sailing season started!
Sail trim lecture presented by Steve Card from New York Sailing Center for anyone who will be trimming the sails, and those who wish they were :-).
Go to: http://sailing.meetup.com/68/calendar/7362236/

2. March 29, 2007 Boatless Regatta
Our version of a Pub Crawl with tons of prizes for the winners!
Go to: http://sailing.meetup.com/68/calendar/7367160/

2008 Tentative Schedule

Wed Spring Series May 21-July 9
Wed Summer Series July 16-Sept 10
Hoxsie Fleet Championships August 23
****Friday Series June-August****
Fall Sunday Series Sept 14, 21, Oct 12
*the big change is the idea of moving our casual night to Friday
when the clubs are open and it can be a better party!

Sunday Oct. 14 - News Flash>>>>Alias takes Fall Regatta #3>>>>

In the last day of the season, the fleet sailed 3 races in a blustery 15 to 20 knot Northerly under sunny skies to finish up a banner 2007 season for One Design racing on Eastchester Bay. Thanks to all the competitors for making this happen.

Sunday Sept. 23 - Great day for first Fall Regatta.

7 boats and 3 good races. Congrats to winner Surcease with Don't Panic and Heat Wave just behind. Thanks to Francine Alheid and Tony Sklarew (with Alviento) for providing Race Committee. RESULTS

HYC HoxieRegatta - Aug. 25

A great turnout for our first weekend regatta in a while. Conditions were challenging for both the Race Committee and the sailors. With the wind shifting between south and southwest. But the RC did a great job of getting 4 races off. Big thanks to the RC: Eben Hansmire, Ron Weinstein and John Esposito ( his boat too) We also need to thank: Ricca Autobody for the adult libations Roy Smith and HYC for the munchies Paul Beaudin and Doyle Sails for the Slam Prizes

Scoring - See Addendum #4: Turns out, our remedy to not penalize, but reward race committee duty has caused a problem with boats scoring different numbers of races for the series. We will correct this by averaging the scores for the final results.

Wed. Sept. 12, 2007 - Race 11 Recap

First Ever One-design Weeknight Season Comes to a Fantastic Close. 8 boats turned out to start under a beautiful sunset and complete a 6 leg coarse in about 8-10 knots of wind. Blondie was first at the first top mark, but then Trouble put on the afterburners to lead at the first leeward pin. After that Jeepers made tracks to move into the lead and held that through to the finish.

Wed. Sept. 5, 2007 - Race 10 Recap

13 boats turned out for the next to last race night in the inaugural J-24 Fleet 61 Summer Series. Big thanks to Jeepers for providing race committee and setting up 6 legs on a short .4 mile coarse. The pack was tight through the first leeward mark with Trouble taking the lead followed by Polar Express. Both boats extended their lead with Polar just nipping Trouble at the finish to take the win. This will be a nice way for the Polar Express team to end their racing season with Race Committee chores in next week's final.

Wed. Aug. 29, 2007 - Race 9 Recap

New Sheriff Arrives in town - Surcease II is on track with last night's ace to knock Jeepers off the top of the Eastchester Bay Rock Pile. This will be the first time that someone has bested the Califano Class Act, in a series, in quite some time. With only 2 race left the Kevin Sailor and crew will be hard to stop. Currently scoring, a very clean, 5 firsts. Well Done.

Wed. Aug. 22, 2007 - Race 8 Recap

Another great night with excellent race committee compliments of Trouble. Surcease had a great start and extended to lead all the way around, followed by Power Play and Heatwave. ONLY 3 more Wednesdays left to go in 2007.

Wed. Aug. 15, 2007 - Race 6 & 7 Recap

3 Way tie for Summer Series Night 6. 2 boats tie for first in Race 1 -- How close is that? Power Play and Jeepers crossed the line together to share the win in race one. Heatwave had a great start and lead all the way around in race 2. Heatwave, Jeepers and Surcease all gain 5 points for the night. Well done to all the boats. Special thanks to Don't Panic for Committee. Trouble is RC next week. They were just practicing at last night's start.

Wed. Aug. 8, 2007 - Race 4 & 5 Recap

Great Wednesday Night -- 13 boats showed up for some great racing. SUNY maritime not only sent Coach Blaine over to do some excellent committee, but also had 2 boats on the line. The racing was very action packed and tight all the way around the course in a very shifty NW breeze. In Race 1 saw a big left shift up the first beat pushing Surcease, Blondie and Trouble into a nice lead they held till the end. The rest of the fleet was locked in tight pack with several place changes. Race 2 had more even conditions with Force G4 leading at the top mark. Unfortunately to get quickly rolled by Jeepers, due to a geriatric bowman problem. It was Jeepers, Force G4 and Blondie rounding out the top three with BLONDIE taking the best average for the evening. Excellent job Leigh!

Wed. July 18, 2007 - Summer Series Race 1

After watching the east wind die through a 45 minute postponement. A nice Northerly filled to allow 11 boats to get a very good race in. Kevin Sailor on Surcease lead from start to finish with Jeepers close behind. Don't Panic made a great come back on the last downwind after missing the start.

Wed. June 20, 2007 - Race 10 & 11 Recap

Great sailing was had by all on another windy Wed night. Surcease dominated both races with Polar Express and Trouble tied behind both with 2 & 3s. We want to thank J-Puddleduck for taking the time to make a straight line and providing excellent committee.
(Monday Night Fireworks at Orchard Beach 9pm should be right after racing with , I would guess, a view from HYC. I know I can see the beach from my mooring. Rafters will be welcome. So a perfect excuse to round up some friends for a sail.)

Wed. June 13, 2007 - Race 8 & 9 Recap

Jeepers is yet again the boat to beat with 2 bullets last night in stiff breezes clocked at 15-17 kts with gusts to 21 kts. Stellar performances also provided by Heat Wave and Don’t Panic in 2nd & 3rd place, with Don’t Panic coming from behind by going left in both races. Nice job to all racing - you provided the RC with some exciting action at the starts, leeward mark roundings, and some very close finishes. One protest was filed by Heat Wave against Power Play, and Trouble owes the RC a round of drinks for the T-bone attempt after the leeward mark rounding in Race 1, pay up Bob. Thanks to Reva, Diana, and Scott for providing excellent committee work!

Wed. June 6, 2007 - Race 6 & 7 Recap

Surcease was sailing great in last Wednesday's 4th one-design event. They took the night with a 2,1. Jeepers got off in a hail of bullets, starting dangerously on port tack, but never looked back to lead all the way around in race one. Kevin was second and Polar Express third, recovering well from a penalty turn after touching the starting pin. The wind was 15-20 knots with higher gusts in very flat water.
The wind eased for race 2, the lead changed several times in very shifty conditions. Surcease prevailed followed by Trouble and Polar Express. Thanks to Alias for providing committee. Steve Schwartz took a bunch of HD video and we will look for an opportunity to view it.

Wed. May 30, 2007 - Race 4 & 5 Recap

Jeepers is still the boat to beat, with 2 solid 2nd place finishes to keep them on top of the leader board. Don't Panic had a great start and held off the pack to lead all the way around in Race 1. The new group sailing Power Play (ex Presto) dug into the new right breeze and held off the tight pack of 10 boats to win Race 2. Very big thanks to Francine, Melanie and Diana for providing excellent committee work and Hank for the boat.

Wed. May 23, 2007 - Race 3

Wed. May 16, 2007 - Race 1 & 2 Recap

Racing started in the Wednesday night series last night with rain and almost no race. We waited to the last minute and decided to head out with 3 brave boat making the line. Two races were sailed. It was very fun, tight racing. Start area was at Big Tom right off the moorings. Race 1 was in 4-5 knots of breeze we sailed to C twice around. Jeepers had a great start and lead around the course. Race 2 was to R and back in about 8-10 knots. It was pretty hard to find the mark and that distance is almost too long for a J-24 race. Next time we have low visibility, using the orange drop marks will be a lot easier to see. We had a potential new owner, Rob Davis, on my boat last night. If anyone hears about used boats, let me know. Thanks Jeff Goldfarb and Hugo Brown for committee and Robin Ricca for his Power Boat.