Coming Events 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 SOLO The newsletter of the Pacific Singlehanded Sailing Association JUNE 2007 Home Commodore: Vice Commodore Jr. Staff Commodore: Fleet Captain: Directors: SOLO Editor PSSA Website Work Jaime Cantu Nancy Samovar Chris Hardenbrook Chuck Spear (818) 399-1226 Phil Habegger (818) 884-4511 Mark Keller Frank Ross (714) 491-8712 Eric Lambert Rod Percival Email seaspear@yahoo.com PHabegger@aol.com franklin.d.ross@aero.org Chuck Spear www.pssala.org 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 SOLO Type J/133 Jeanneau 37 Contessa 33 Cal-25 B-25 Ranger 23 Ericson 38 The newsletter of the Pacific Singlehanded Sailing Association JUNE 2007 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 SOLO The newsletter of the Pacific Singlehanded Sailing Association JUNE 2007 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. SOLO The newsletter of the Pacific Singlehanded Sailing Association JUNE 2007 (My apologies for this. I was in a mood. Kaminskas, please don’t take offense. ed.) SOLO The newsletter of the Pacific Singlehanded Sailing Association JUNE 2007