PYC’s Rear Commodore, Matt Gatewood (matt.gatewood@gmail.com), has published the 2012 racing schedule. It’s the most inclusive in PYC history with opportunities for all sailors, regardless of their racing experience. As usual there are series races for keelboat and centerboard/multihull racers. And for those who don’t wish to participate in series races there are fun races every month on second Sundays.
Check out this exciting 2012 series here: 2012 PYC Racing Schedule.
Raise a sail with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Leukemia Cup Regatta hosted by Perry Yacht Club, and help raise funds to support life-saving cancer research.
The Leukemia Cup Regatta is joining forces with Perry Yacht Club for the first ever Kansas Leukemia Cup. We are thrilled to partner with local businesses, sailors, friends and family as we work together to raise funds for those battling cancer. The Kansas Leukemia Cup will be held June 15th – 17th, 2012.
Since 1993 participants in Leukemia Cup Regatta events throughout the country have raised over $38 million in funding for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). Thanks to people like Gary Jobson, who not only is a lymphoma survivor, but the winner of the 1976 America’s Cup , an ESPN commentator and the chairperson of The Leukemia Cup campaign since its inception, the sailing community provides even more support year after year.
Perry Yacht Club will act as the host venue for the Kansas Leukemia Cup Regatta and Flotilla.
Not only will there be two full days of racing for all classes of boats but there will be sailing events for those who do not want to race as well as many shore side events.
There are several ways to raise funds for this event:
- You can enter a boat and pay the entry fee
- You and your crew can raise funds through pledges
- You can raise funds as an individual via pledges
- You can donate directly.
All funds raised during this weekend go directly to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
As an individual if you raise $8500 or more you will be invited to attend a Fantasy Sail with Gary Jobson (http://www.leukemiacup.org/what/gary_jobson/) in New Orleans.
As we raise funds and achieve certain levels, then major corporate sponsors will participate in our event. This could include: Mount Gay Rum, North Sails, Sailing World, The Moorings as well as several others recognizable companies.
During the weekend you will have a chance to not only raise a sail and raise some funds but you can:
- Learn the fine art of smoking meats from one of the Kansas City areas champion smokers and enjoy a meal prepared by his team.
- Dance the night away to the tunes of the No Cash Value Band.
- Learn all about Stand up Paddle Boarding and just go for a sailboat ride.
- Visit and shop with sailing related vendors.
The will be several kids events highlighted by the first ever Kansas Raingutter regatta.
How do you start and get involved?
Go to leukemiacup.org, find the register button and register. You will be provided a number of tools to help you fund raise. You will also be able to find the Kansas event and enter your boat for the races. So register, enter and start now.
You can follow this event on facebook. Or visit our own Leukemia Cup web page: kansasleukemiacup.org.
The team putting this event on is always looking for help. If you would like to participate contact Pat Allen at allenhouse4@sbcglobal.net.
One occasionally hears a friendly request from one skipper to another to “Sail your @#%$*!^ Proper Course.” This originates from the skipper of a keep clear (a boat that must yield) to the skipper of a boat with right-of-way. While the RRS’s do in fact have a concept of proper course limiting the actions of a right-of-way boat, there is no blanket rule that requires any boat (right-of-way or keep clear) to sail a proper course. So, when does the concept of proper course come into play?
First, let’s define the term. The RRS has the following definition:
Proper Course A course a boat would sail to finish as soon as possible in the absence of the other boat referred to in the rule using the term. A boat has no proper course before her starting signal.
This is pretty clear-cut, right? Dave Perry writes the following in his book, Understanding the Racing Rules of Sailing through 2012 (buy it here):
Clearly it is possible that there may be several proper courses at any given moment, depending upon the particular circumstances involved. However, because it is often difficult to prove when someone is actually on a proper course as opposed to sailing extra high or low for tactical purposes, ISAF Case 14 suggests, “Which of two different courses is the faster one to the next mark cannot be determined in advance and is not necessarily proven by on boat or the other reaching the next mark ahead.” For protest committees, two reasonable criteria for judging a proper course are whether the boat sailing in has logical reason for its being a proper course and whether she applies it with some consistency.
So, now that we know what the term means, when is a boat obligated to sail its proper course? As stated above, there is no blanket rule that requires a boat to sail its proper course. There is, however, one exception to the Section A: Right-of-Way rules that limit what the right-of-way boat can do.
Rule 17 – On the same tack; Proper Course
“If a boat clear astern becomes overlapped within two of her hull lengths to leeward of a boat on the same tack, she shall not sail above her proper course while they remain on the same tack and overlapped within that distance, unless in doing so she promptly sails astern of the other boat. This rule does not apply if the overlap begins while the windward boat is required by rule 13 to keep clear.“
Essentially, this restricts the leeward boat (normally the right-of-way boat) from heading up the windward boat (normally the give way boat) that she is passing. Note that it does not restrict a boat ahead from maneuvering to try to prevent the clear astern boat from passing. Until overlapped to leeward, the boat ahead has rights, as soon as it is overlapped and windward, it loses its right-of-way. Also note that a boat overtaking to windward of another is a give way boat and Rule 17 does not apply to this situation. The leeward boat being overtaken can head the overtaking boat up as far as she wants.
There are five other mentions of proper course in the RRS (18.1(b), 18.4, 18.5(b), 23.2, and the definition of mark room). Rule 18 deals with mark room and the proper course references define when the concept of mark room applies. Rule 23.2 specifies that unless a boat is sailing her proper course, it shall not interfere with a boat sailing another leg or taking a penalty.
So, now, when another skipper gently requests that you Sail Your @#%$*!^ Proper Course you can confidently reply that you’re not restricted to sailing a proper course. That is, unless Rule 17 applies to you at that moment.
Planning meetings for the 2011 Commodore’s Cup will be held on the following Mondays: 5/9, 6/13, 7/11 & 8/15.
The Cup is always a lot of fun and it’s even more fun to help make it a success. Please join us at the planning meetings. They’re held at 6:30 PM at the Lone Star Steakhouse at the Legends in KCK (1501 Village West Pkwy. Kansas City KS, 66111 Ph: 913 / 334-9995)
If you want to know more, or if you can’t join us and want to help, contact Terri Tilford (tilford81@aol.com) or Matt Gatewood (matt.gatewood@gmail.com).
The 2011 PYC Race Calendar is now available. You can find it here.
