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.
Bob Iz. writes:
Latitude 38 publishes an annual calendar and most clubs post their schedules on-line. Some regattas have “fixed” dates from year to year. The fixed dates are (1) GGYC on the first Saturday of Nov-Feb; (2) BYC on the second Saturday of Nov-Feb; (3) CYC the third weekends of Jan and Feb. Almost every club does some sort of local winter racing. EYC’s Jack Frost almost died from lack of participation because it used to be on the fourth Saturday of Nov-March, which meant conflicts with Thanksgiving and Christmas. Now it has a schedule which avoids those conflicts, but I don’t know the dates off hand.
The BYC series is on the Olympic Circle and typically will draw about 10-12
boats from our fleet. It’s the best attended by far. The CYC series usually gets 6 or 7 of us, and it’s a much more social series because of the weekend racing, the Saturday night dinner and the start and finish right off
the CYC race deck.
Any day sailing is usually pretty good, so you can’t really go wrong.