Boating Safety Film

You are cordially invited to the premier of

COLD WATER BOATING

An exciting & educational film presented by the
Alaska Office of Boating Safety
& hosted by the Anchorage Museum

February 13, 12 noon-1pm
Anchorage Museum auditorium, corner of A Street and 7th

All are welcome and admission is FREE! Come learn about cold water immersion, boating preparation, preventing fatal accidents while on the water, and much, much more!

For more information, please contact the Office of Boating Safety at 269-6042.

Polar Bear Jump-Seward,AK

Jay, in background, enters the water wearing his Aloha trunks. A Coastie assigned to the USCGC Mustang jumps in the foreground.


Lindsay and Louisa showed the crowd the "Jump for Germany" sign printed on their shorts then did cannon balls into the 32 degree water.

skipjack in color

"LUCKY"

is wearing the very fashon forward Jade Green with a Snow White bottom.

She will be doing her best to show the rest of the skips her transom not her bottom

Technology Committee Update - Sailwave Sailing Scoring Software

As promised, we are implementing Sailwave Sailing Scoring Software for the 2008 racing season. This will provide a robust and easy to use system for recording, calculating and posting race results. It also provides the option to use different handicap systems and wind indexed ratings as well as different scoring systems, e.g. .75 pts for 1st place vs. 1.00 pts for 1st place.

Any member can tinker around with Sailwave. Just download the free software. The Portsmouth tables and our race files are contained in small, separate files that are easily emailed.

For a trial I've entered the last two races of the 2007 Governor's Cup (no big boat data entered yet). And yes, it will show crew as well. You can see the test results here:

ASC Test Results using D-PN ratings
This sheet gives exactly the same corrected times we've been generating using our Excel template, but data entry and results are both faster and easier. We can even post to the web right after the race.

ASC Test Results using Wind Indexed Ratings
This sheet uses the same elapsed times, but includes an additional correction based on wind speed ranges. To use this we'll need a handheld wind meter, at least two wind readings during each race and complete Portsmouth ratings for each boat. For some boats (like the RL) there are no additional ratings available for all the wind speed ranges.

If you print out and study these two sheets you'll find the differences in Race 6 results in the USPN and Corrected Time columns.

Soft water is just around the corner!

Racing Crew Need / Want List - Governor's Cup Regatta

The Race Committee is off and running for the 2008 sailing season.

One item from today's meeting was a suggestion for a Racing Crew Need / Want List. I'll start this one off with a suggested format. Feel free to change as needed. The samples will be marked as such. Since we can't edit previous posts (other than our own) the best way is to post continuous comments to this original post.

We'll break it up into the various regattas to keep each list manageable and easier to read and search.

Racing Crew Need / Want List - Governor's Cup Regatta
August 30-31 (1) Sept, 2008

Racing Crew Need / Want List - Fireweed Regatta

The Race Committee is off and running for the 2008 sailing season.

One item from today's meeting was a suggestion for a Racing Crew Need / Want List. I'll start this one off with a suggested format. Feel free to change as needed. The samples will be marked as such. Since we can't edit previous posts (other than our own) the best way is to post continuous comments to this original post.

We'll break it up into the various regattas to keep each list manageable and easier to read and search.

Racing Crew Need / Want List - Fireweed Regatta
August 2-3, 2008

Racing Crew Need / Want List - Firecracker Regatta

The Race Committee is off and running for the 2008 sailing season.

One item from today's meeting was a suggestion for a Racing Crew Need / Want List. I'll start this one off with a suggested format. Feel free to change as needed. The samples will be marked as such. Since we can't edit previous posts (other than our own) the best way is to post continuous comments to this original post.

We'll break it up into the various regattas to keep each list manageable and easier to read and search.

Racing Crew Need / Want List - Firecracker Regatta
July 4-5, (6), 2008

Racing Crew Need / Want List - Icebreaker Regatta

The Race Committee is off and running for the 2008 sailing season.

One item from today's meeting was a suggestion for a Racing Crew Need / Want List. I'll start this one off with a suggested format. Feel free to change as needed. The samples will be marked as such.

Since we can't edit previous posts (other than our own) the best way is to post continuous comments to this original post. We'll break it up into the various regattas to keep each list manageable and easier to read and search.

Racing Crew Need / Want List - Icebreaker Regatta
May 24 - 25 (26), 2008

Racing Instruction Clinic

When: June 7, 2008 beginning at 10:00 am.
Where: ASC Big Lake, Alaska
What: Receive racing instruction from some of the club's top racers. First some "chalk talk" on shore, then some on the water instructions.

More details to follow.

Sign up by posting a comment to this post, or emailing Tom Harrison, our race committee chair.

Skipjack repair

Just an update on your skipjack-- the Yellow one-- the color may change
Her new name is LUCKY
The pictures are a bit boring-sorry