All, We are excited to host this years Coed and Team Race conference championships!
Below is some important information on each regatta: Coed (Friday and Saturday) Report time each day is 9:30am, please don't be early on Friday as we have a rowing team training and leaving at 9am. Parking is always an issue so please help us out and park in the right spots. Short answer is if you are in a legal spot and on pavement you are good to go, if you are on Gravel move! Parking is open around the boathouse on Friday. Saturday we can park in the lot to the left of the boathouse as you drive in as well. If you have parents or friends coming to watch the sailing on Friday and saturday it is not a good idea. We will not have spectator boats and we will be out in the bay with no areas to watch. Sunday for team racing they are more then welcome as we will be inside. We will be sailing outside in the bay, this is a great open water venue. Everyone will be going on the water either sailing or on coach boats. We have 3 inflatables for coaches and any extras that you think might sail. We will have a limit to how many we can carry on these inflatables and we will allow the coach boats to go back to the sailing center to pick anyone up that they might need. If we have too many sailors and coaches for the boats we will ask some sailors to stay on shore. Coaches you will be driving these three inflatables, please bring a life jacket to have on the boat. All food should go on the coach boats and we will have water jugs on the boats to refill water bottles. The outside venue is restricted by the tide we can only be out there within 3 hours of High Tide. On Friday that means we need to be done racing by 3:30 and on Saturday by 4:30 or so. If we are struggling to get racing in we will move inside and race inside, this will be a last resort. Realistically with no bathrooms we will sail for 3-4 hours each day outside to get racing in. This worked well this Fall with the women's and singlehanded champs. Courses will be on the board in the sailing bay but we plan to run Trapezoid inner and outer courses. We do have an option for a W4 as well. Stay masters will not be allowed to adjust except by the permission of the regatta chairman and PCCSC Rep. All Stay masters are set and taped at 6 and will most likely stay there the whole regatta. This is how it is going to be handled at nationals so we will do the same. Team Racing (Sunday) 9:30am report time Same parking situation We will sail inside with great tide! We will run the regatta like the McIntyre. Rotation will be off the rowing docks. Our very ambitious plan is for 2 round robins then a final four. We have great umpires for you: Grant Baldwin Daniel Richards (CHUMP) Zander Kirkland Kevin Laube Mateo Vargas We will have 3 umpire boats going with at least 1 umpire boat per race. Realistically we will only have 2 races on the course at a time so this should be no problem. We will use limited umpiring (Yellow Flag) just in case as we might only have one umpire boat on a tight race. Sailing Instructions will go up on techscore today. See you all tomorrow, John -- "The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses- behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those light." - Muhammad Ali John Vandemoer Head Coach, Sailing Stanford University [email protected] 650.387.2674 @stanfordsailing gostanford.com | (800)-STANFORD
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