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11 JUNE
Monthly Meeting
SMWYC
8:00 PM
Board Meeting (members invited) SMWYC 7:00 PM
16 JUNE
9 JULY
Dave Wall 1 – Inverted Start
Monthly Meeting
SMWYC
8:00 PM
General Meeting 8:00 pm at Santa Monica Windjammer's Yacht Club.
13589 Mindanao Way, Marina del Rey, CA
Board Meeting 7:00, all members welcome.
Pacific Singlehanded Sailing Association
PO Box 9523
Marina del Rey, CA 90295
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Our June Speaker
June 11th, 8:00 PM, Santa Monica Windjammers Yacht Club
Well known and respected Harry Pattison from Elliott Pattison sails will be our guest speaker
at subject meeting. Topics will include; inventory selection for local shorthanded racing, what
to look for when choosing performance sails that are easily manageable, an update on what is
new in the sailmaking world, and will be glad to answer any specific questions.
Our Next Race
Our next race is the first race of the Dave Wall Series. It will be sailed on Saturday, June 16.
Here’s the course:
The starting line shall be located approximately 1.0 NM on 164 o mag. from the south end of
the MdR detached breakwater, and shall consist of the main mast of an anchored committee
boat and a marker bouy. At, or soon therafter, your appointed starting time cross the start line
in the direction of the first mark. Leave “DD” mark to starboard(33.56.647N 118.30.899),
leave Santa Monica bouy to starboard leave El Segundo buoy "ES2" to port, finish within 0.5
nm of the breakwater and the seaward extension of the measured mile markers, located next
to the flag pole on the detached breakwater. The skipper shall take his own finish time.
Handicap distance 15nm.
The specific starting times, by handicap, are on the following page.
Handicap
240
237
234
231
228
225
222
219
216
213
210
207
204
201
198
195
192
189
186
183
180
177
174
171
168
165
162
159
156
Start Time
11:50:00
11:50:45
11:51:30
11:52:15
11:53:00
11:53:45
11:54:30
11:55:15
11:56:00
11:56:45
11:57:30
11:58:15
11:59:00
11:59:45
12:00:30
12:01:15
12:02:00
12:02:45
12:03:30
12:04:15
12:05:00
12:05:45
12:06:30
12:07:15
12:08:00
12:08:45
12:09:30
12:10:15
12:11:00
Handicap
153
150
147
144
141
138
135
132
129
126
123
120
117
114
111
108
105
102
99
96
93
90
87
84
81
78
75
72
69
Start Time
12:11:45
12:12:30
12:13:15
12:14:00
12:14:45
12:15:30
12:16:15
12:17:00
12:17:45
12:18:30
12:19:15
12:20:00
12:20:45
12:21:30
12:22:15
12:23:00
12:23:45
12:24:30
12:25:15
12:26:00
12:26:45
12:27:30
12:28:15
12:29:00
12:29:45
12:30:30
12:31:15
12:32:00
12:32:45
Handicap
66
63
60
57
54
51
48
45
42
39
36
33
30
27
24
21
18
15
12
9
6
3
0
-3
-6
-9
-12
-15
-18
Race Results
2007 PSSA Dan Byrne #4 - Santa Barbara Island
Start: 11:00
Handicap Distance:
68 nmi
Singlehanded Division
Yacht
Skipper
1 Tenacity
Gil Maguire
2 Can2
Jaime Cantu
3 Rubicon III
Rod Percival
4 Got Wind
Mark Keller
5 Biyach
Mike Kaminskas
6 Slow Poke
Brian Radamaker
Trojan Conquest
Alan Cheeks
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Type
J/133
Jeanneau 37
Contessa 33
Cal-25
B-25
Ranger 23
Ericson 38
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PHRF Finsh
12
21:31:40
111 23:33:30
141
1:00:11
222
2:50:44
138
1:45:00
216
5:45:12
114
DNF
Corrected
21:18:04
21:27:42
22:20:23
22:39:08
23:08:36
1:40:24
Start Time
12:33:30
12:34:15
12:35:00
12:35:45
12:36:30
12:37:15
12:38:00
12:38:45
12:39:30
12:40:15
12:41:00
12:41:45
12:42:30
12:43:15
12:44:00
12:44:45
12:45:30
12:46:15
12:47:00
12:47:45
12:48:30
12:49:15
12:50:00
12:50:45
12:51:30
12:52:15
12:53:00
12:53:45
12:54:30
Doublehanded Division
Yacht
Skipper
1 Elixir
Chad Downey
2 Runaway
Eric & Robin Lambert
Type
Jeanneau 49DS
S & T 37
PHRF Finsh
84
23:42:00
126
0:36:31
Corrected
22:06:48
22:13:43
Type
Jeanneau 49DS
Jeanneau 37
J/133
Cal 25
S & T 37
Contessa 33
B25
Ranger 23
Ericson 38
F27
PHRF Finsh
127 23:42:00
109 23:33:30
-2
21:31:40
209
2:50:44
77
0:36:31
65
1:00:11
79
1:45:00
240
5:45:12
114
DNF
34
DNF
Corrected New
21:18:04 105
21:29:58
90
21:33:56
-20
22:53:52 208
23:09:15
80
23:46:31
76
0:15:28
96
1:13:12
270
114
34
Mariner
Yacht
1 Elixir
2 Can2
3 Tenacity
4 Got Wind
5 Runaway
6 Rubicon III
7 Biyach
8 Slow Poke
Trojan Conquest
Training Wheels
Skipper
Chad Downey
Jaime Cantu
Gil Maguire
Mark Keller
Eric & Robin Lambert
Rod Percival
Mike Kaminskas
Brian Radamaker
Alan Cheeks
Victor Kofahl
Series Results – Dan Byrne
Singlehanded
Boat
1. Rubicon III
2. Biyach
3. Can2
4. Got Wind?
5. Slow Poke
Series Point Total
3
10
12
12.1
18
Doublehanded
Boat
1. Elixir
2. Runaway
3. Twelve Bar Blues
4. Thriller
5. Reliance
Series Point Total
4
5
15
17
20
Mariners
1. Elixir
2. Rubicon III
3. Runaway
4. Trojan Conquest
5. Slow Poke
Series Point Total
4
8
11
14
21
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About Dolphins
Here, at the end of a slow news month (on the local sailing front, at least) comes the blank
page opportunity to answer the oft asked question “So how about those dolphins?” Your
editor is not introducing a sports page here, an advance look at the National Football League,
but rather is thinking how much there is to be learned from the ancients, from Greek
mythology, particularly is regard to that other oft asked question “Where do dolphins come
from?”
Enter Dionysus, a God, son of a God and not just any God but the son of Zeus, one of the
biggies in the pantheon. Here are some Greek God history highlights, before I get to the part
about the dolphins. Zeus was a player. As in any society there were rules, and one was this –
you don’t marry a commoner. Gods and Goddesses had a private, password-protected section
of the beta test version of Match.com. Intermarrying with the mortals was frowned upon.
Zeus didn’t care. He hooked up with Semale, a commoner, they got married and pretty soon
Semale was “with child” as they said back then. Now Semale, lacking the intellect of a God,
got tricked by a jealous Goddess and got talked into begging her hubby Zeus, who typically
walked around in street togas and looked pretty much like everybody else, to reveal himself to
her in his god garb. Zeus, who loved her a lot and could deny her nothing, agreed to do so
even though he knew it would kill her (a mortal who saw a God in his God getup invariably
died from the experience). So Zeus checks his closet, figures the God of Thunder gear will
impress her, reveals himself thus attired, and that’s it for Semale, wham, lightning and a puff
of smoke. Of course Semale is pregnant, but Zeus anticipates this. “No problemo”, he says
(Zeus was bilingual), and he gets the not yet born infant and implants him in his leg (I’m not
making this up) and carries the child to term and so into the world comes motherless
Dionysus.
Time passes. The Goddess still holds a grudge. With Semale gone and Zeus being too
powerful to mess with directly, she drives Dionysus crazy, and he goes on a world tour on
behalf of drunkenness and big time partying. When people are nice to him he responds in
kind – he’s the one who gave Midas the gold touching thing. Mean to Dionysus though and
there are going to be issues. So here’s Dionysus, reaching out to his mother’s people, the
commoners, teaching them about wine and gluttony, and some pirates come along, snatch
him up from a bachanalia (Bacchus was one of his running buddies) and set sail for the Asian
slave auctions. When Dionysus is sober enough to figure this out, he reacts by changing the
sails and oars into snakes (just imagine trying to row a boat with a couple of snakes that just
refuse to stay rigid), turns himself into a ferocious lion and growls the members of the crew
right over the rail and into the sea. He turns them into dolphins (or at least that’s the story).
Now of what particular use is this white space filler article to you? Here are two thoughts.
First, when people tell you that your children are not getting a good education because they
are not being taught the classics, tell them about Zeus and the thunder costume and poor
dead Semale, and the thigh birthing and the whole Rat Pack nature of the second generation
God kids and then tell them to mind their own business. But what about how this relates to
sailboat racing? Here it is. You’re in a big race. You rely on your crew, your rail sitters, for
info – speed, point, boats crossing, “kelp dead ahead five boat lengths”, that kind of stuff, and
what you hear is “Oh, dolphins, look at the beautiful dolphins”, followed by “Oh (expletive
deleted), kelp”, which you sail into, avoidance time being insufficient. Whose fault? Before
now, probably no one. But now you know that (if you believe this Greek stuff) dolphins are
really pirate kidnappers getting their just punishment, and not worthy of notice by your crack
racing crew. Let your crew know this, and they’ll care more about the kelp than the creatures.
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(My apologies for this. I was in a mood. Kaminskas, please don’t take offense. ed.)
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