I race Wed nights at a paper club that is hosted by a restaurant right on the water overlooking the docks where a bunch of us keep our boats. Membership runs $60 for the entire year and includes racing in the spring, summer, fall and frostbite series. After the races the restaurant puts on a nice buffet and has a boaters beer at cheap price. They also video the races so you can watch it while you eat. Trophies are nicely etched glasses for everything except for BOY who gets a plaque.
Pat On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Martin DeYoung <mdeyo...@deyoungmfg.com>wrote: > I have way to many glasses and little things that collect dust. My > favorite small prize is a Rainier Beer can with a small bronze sheet metal > cut out of a sailboat on top given away after a Friday night beer can > series. > > Recently Seattle Yacht Club awarded hats embroidered with the series name, > finish place (1st, 2nd, 3rd) and the burgee. For a low key regatta or > series I suspect many participants would enjoy the hat/shirt/vest type of > soft award that is usable/wearable and slightly unique. > > My favorite big trophy (perpetual, shared by all of us on the charter over > 2 years then returned) was the compass on a teak binnacle awarded for being > first to finish, class B, Transpac 1985. IIRC the trophy was specifically > awarded to acknowledge excellence in navigation and weather routing but we > the equal charterers all collected it together. > > Martin > Calypso > 1970 C&C 43 > Seattle > > -----Original Message----- > From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of > Knowles Rich > Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 10:05 AM > To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com > Subject: Stus-List Racing prizes > > On a slightly different racing tack: Prizes > > I was at a club meeting last night at which prizes for racing came up for > discussion. The talk ranged from glasses and flags to club services such as > hull washes, and sponsored prizes like coats and other swag. > > I'm in the glass and little flag group which is a throwback to the 70's > and 80's. Others would like much bigger/ more opulent awards. > > What does your club do for the weekly races, series and regattas? > > Rich Knowles > Indigo. LF38 > Halifax > > On 2013-04-12, at 13:54, OldSteveH <oldste...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > > This has been a really good thread, highlighting the risks of casual > racing. > There are some good lessons and solid reminders of the situation we're in > when we do these casual races. > > I started racing again last year after many years away from it. > That made me an experienced but rusty racer, and what's worse, racing > amongst folks with a wide variation in experience and acumen. > For example on one race I starboarded two boats just after the start, > completely in the right, but now realizing in hindsight completely ignorant > of the abilities of those skippers and whether they would respond. Although > there was no problem at the time, I won't do that again. Years ago we raced > against the same competitors week after week and everyone knew everyone > else. The crews were generally the same from week to week, even from year > to year. It produced very close and well run races. I now realize I cannot > expect this beer can stuff to be the same. > > I have to say a couple things about the video. It does not appear the > leeward boat called out in any way. Should they have called "hardening up" > to the windward boat? They did not give any warning of their movements. It > didn't look to me like Blue was barging, they were on a close reach. Blues > crew were indeed clueless, as was the helmsperson, but the tactician also > made mistakes. He appeared to see the other boat but did not do or say > enough until it was too late. I think he acknowledged this in his post. No > question about windward leeward rule though, Blue was in the wrong but also > agree leeward boat seemed to do nothing to avoid the collision. > > Cheers, > > > Steve Hood > S/V Diamond Girl > C&C 34 > Lions Head ON > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:26:59 +0100 > From: Wally Bryant <w...@wbryant.com> > To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com > Subject: Re: Stus-List Race video > Message-ID: <516819b3.8020...@wbryant.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Yup, it's a bummer about Mike (tactician.) He owns the sail loft in La > Cruz and does the morning weather on the local radio net, and is a great > guy. > > Banderas Bay is a major winter cruiser hangout, and the crews on these > races are almost always pickup crews that don't know the boat and have > never sailed together. Probably not a good time to get aggressive at the > start. > > Wal > > Chuck S wrote: > > <snip> The whole crew looked rather distracted and inexperienced. No > > one is looking for traffic. That's everyone's job. <snip> > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com >
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