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JimB517
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Initially Posted - 03/08/2005 :  11:57:13  Show Profile  Visit JimB517's Homepage
Last night I was at the Newport - Ensenada race seminar at our local West Marine (whos one of the sponsors). WM put up quite a few prizes for a free raffle. There were about 20 people and 6 prizes. I won the first drawing and got fiberglass cleaner, boat polish and polishing cloths. They also gave away a toolkit, a rigging knife, a 12 volt cordless drill (won by my skipper, Ken), a marine CD player with speakers and a $350 handheld GPS chartplotter.

I had a long talk with the NOSA Commodore after the official seminar on race tactics, strategy, which class we should enter (it will be Cruising Class B + Gennaker).

Cruising Class is allowed to run the engine from 8 PM Friday until 8 AM Saturday. There are major penalty points (basically if you run for 30 minutes, one hour is added to your finish time, but its more complicated than that). If you ran the entire 12 hours you could have 24 hours added to your time.

The basic engine strategy was if you fall below 2 knots VMG, power up. Run out and try to find wind.

The Commodore also suggested a crew strategy for our 4 man operation. 3 up, 1 down. Let the 1 down have 4 hours off.

The seminar was very good and the Commodore was very approachable and only gave me the 100% feeling that we were invited, welcome, and our participation was highly desired in this, the world's largest international offshore yacht race.

Indiscipline 1978 FK SR #398
Edited by - JimB517 on 03/08/2005 13:25:26

Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 03/08/2005 :  12:05:28  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
We got no West Marine.
Talk to them about becoming annual sponsors of our nationals.
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