Any remaining Transpac trauma must be over, since I’m trying to plan this winter’s racing, and decide what to do next season.
The Olson 911 is a member of the SFBay 30 class, so we’ll race where the majority of the fleet does this winter. It seems to be down to the Golden Gate YC (first Saturday of the Month, November-February) or the Berkeley YC (second Saturday of the Month, Nov-Feb) midwinters.
It seems like several people also do the Corinthian mids, which seems to be a full weekend in January and a full weekend in February. I remember that being a fun series, but it might conflict with Sundance.
As far as the summer goes, I’m torn between doing the OYRA series (maybe doublehanded again) or getting a full crew together and racing the HDA series. That’s how I got my start in bay racing, so it would be nice to race and be competitive in that fleet.
Several people (including a couple O911s) race in the Singlehanded Sailing Society series. That’s another option. They have one of the coolest races around, the LongPac: A 400 mile race from San Francisco to any point on Longitude 126°40′ West and return, open to singlehandled and doublehanded yachts. Since they also have the 3 Bridge Fiasco and the Singlehanded Farrallones race, it looks like I will be racing that series almost by default.