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2009 Annual Meeting minutes

Recap of the Annual meeting held at the Nac’s at Huntington Lake on June 20, 2009

The meeting was called to order by the Vice Commodore, David Rumbaugh at approximately 8:10 pm. Also present was Vincent Paternoster as Rear Commodore and Sue Fishman the Secretary/Treasurer. Ryan Schofield was absent as Commodore.

 

Fleets present were; Fleet 20-Sacramento; Fleet 15- Half Moon Bay, Fleet 2- Marina del Rey, Fleet 16- West Lake.

 

The board talked about the change last year to the forestay. High Tech line can be used in place of the current forestay stainless line.

 

There was much discussion about positive ways to build the fleets, ranging from a newsletter to email notices and content from the mainsheet to the website. The consensus was for Vincent to follow up with John Richardson as to the development of the website. The website should include past content from the Catalina magazine, The Mainsheet. The web could be used to publish all C-15 events and have a place to host a C-15 forum. There should be fleet locations with email address of their fleet captain. A maintenance forum would be cool along with a page for boats for sale. There were many new photos taken this year at Huntington that could be used effectively on the website. The bylaws should be updated to include new changes made over the past several years. The goal for the website is to make it exciting and fun place to go for C-15 information.

 

The second item for new business was a motion to give the hosting yacht club more flexibility in developing the Sailing Instructions. The motion was passed by a 10-1 vote.

 

This change reads; The hosting yacht club must submit to the Executive Board of Directors, the NAC sailing instructions at least one month before sailing the regatta. The board can approve or not approve the Si’s provision that deviate from the C-15 NAC Racing Policy. If requested the hosting fleet must then change the Si’s to conform to the boards demands.

 

There was much discussion as to merits of having a regatta without throw outs and having all the races, including the Sid Corp races to count for the championship.

 

Most of the discussion centered on what would be best format for the enjoyment of the racers.

 

There was some discussion to travel to the Beau Arts Club in Seattle to join in their district regatta with the idea of getting them more involved with the NAC’s.

 

After much discussion, it was decided that Fleet 2 would host the 2010 C-15 NAC’s. David Rumbaugh suggested that each fleet host a different night for that evening entertainment. Vincent will talk to his Yacht Club and report back the possible dates. For 2011, Charlie Quest volunteered the HMB Yacht Club as host. Thank You Charlie!

 

 

The following were nominated for the C-15 executive board.

 

Commodore-David Rumbaugh

Vice Commodore-Vince P

Rear Commodore-Kevin Wasbauer

Secretary/Treasurer-Steve Fishman

 

A motion to adjourn was made and seconded and carried. The meeting came to an end at 9:20 PM.

2008 NACs Results

HMBYC 2008 C15 North American Championship Class: C15-A. One design (Finish position) Overall Score: Last Race Date:08/17/08

Sail Skipper 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
1 2218 Rumbaugh, David 1 1 2* 1 1 1 1 1 1 8
2 3686 Fishman, Alex 3 2 1 3 3 3 2 5* 2 19
3 3627 Paternoster,Vince 2 3 3 4 2 2 5* 4 4 24
4 3406 Wasbauer, Kevin 4 4 12*2 7 11 3 2 5 38
5 2938 Vance, Kiersten 6 6 4 6 10* 4 8 6 3 43
6 3570 Schofield, Ryan 5 5 7 9* 6 6 4 7 6 46
7 97 Stokes, Jeff 7 9 8 5 9 10* 7 3 9 57
8 1944 Charlie, Quest 11*8 6 7 4 5 9 10 8 57
9 3253 Lazzaro, Mike 9 10* 9 10 5 7 6 8 7 61
10 3538 Flick, Karen 8 7 5 11 * 8 8 11 11 11 69
11 2068 Day, Mike 10 11 *10 8 11 9 10 9 10 77

Allowed Drops 1. Shown by ‘*’

HMBYC 2008 C15 North American Championships Class: C15-B.
One design (Finish position) Overall Score: Last Race Date:08/17/08
Sail Skipper 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
1 3546 Arndt, Kent 1* 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8
2 5461 McCluney, Richard 7* 2 3 2 2 2 2 3 2 18
3 2088 Choy, Marcus 5* 4 4 3 3 3 4 2 4 27
4 1555 Winans, Rick 3 3 5 7* 5 4 3 6 5 34
5 3067 Richardson, John 2 5 2 5 4 6* 6 5 6 35
6 549 McLean, Lachy 6* 6 6 4 6 5 5 4 3 39
7 13600 Amir, Ofer 4 7 7 6 7 7 8* 8 8 54

Allowed Drops 1. Shown by ‘*’ Race Officer: Kelly Pike

2008 NACs Syd Corp Results

HMBYC
2008 C15 SYD CORP
Class: C15. One design (Finish position)
Overall Score: Last Race Date:08/15/08

 

Sail

Skipper

1

2

3

4

5

Total

1

3686

Fishman, Alex

2

1

1

3

5*

7

2

2938

Vance, Kiersten

3

6*

3

1

1

8

3

3627

Paternoster,Vince

1

2

4*

2

3

8

4

3406

Wasbauer, Kevin

4*

3

2

4

2

11

5

3570

Schofield, Ryan

8*

5

5

6

4

20

6

3061

Stokes, Jeff

6

7

6

9*

6

25

7

3538

Flick, Karen

7

4

9*

8

7

26

8

2068

Day, Mike

5

11*

7

10

9

31

9

3546

Arndt, Kent

10*

8

8

5

10

31

10

2088

Choy, Marcus

11

12*

10

7

12

40

11

1944

Charlie, Quest

17*DNS

10

11

13

8

42

12

3067

Richardson, John

12

13

13

14*

11

49

13

1555

Winans, Rick

13

14*

12

11

13

49

14

5461

McCluney, Richard

9

9

17*DNS

17 DNS

17 DNS

52

15

549

McLean, Lachy

14

15*

14

12

14

54

16

xxx

Amir, Ofer

17*DNS

17 DNS

17 DNS

17 DNS

17 DNS

68

Allowed Drops 1. Shown by ‘*’
Race Officer: Kelly Pike

Created on 08/20/08 13:10:18 Scoring program: RaceSail (1.2.37)

2007 NAC’s

 

2007 North American Championships

by David Rumbaugh

 

This years Championships came back to Southern California and the ABYC. I would first like to say thank you to Mike Shea for putting together a quality event. ABYC, for those of you that have not been there before, is an exceptional club that hosts many top level racing events though out the year. Last of all I would like to thank all the participants at this year’s event. The other people on the race course, is what truly makes a regatta special! It was a pleasure to meet some of the long time C15 racers from SoCal that I have not gotten a chance to meet and sail against before.

Steve Fishman and I showed up on Thursday with some big plans for the day. He needed to fit a new centerboard into his boat and I had plans of cleaning and polishing the bottom of my boat. We also wanted to get out on the water and get a feel for the conditions out there. As we started working on the boats, it became clear that we would not get out on the boat that day. The forecast was calling for lots of heat over the weekend which many people around the yard muttered about having no wind as well. Not what we had hoped for!

Friday morning was a complete surprise to everyone at the club. The temperature was warm but the breeze was already up. We got out to the racecourse and the winds were blowing in the mid-teens and we would see winds up to about 18 that day. With the wind came lots of chop. Not the best conditions if your boat is from 1979. Terance showed his local knowledge and was blazing fast upwind. He posted a perfect day with three bullets and took home the Syd Corp trophy. Mike Shea also showed his local knowledge and boat speed this day posting a 2,2,3 for second. Anne and I finished the day with scores of 3,3,2 and third place. Not the first day we had hoped for, but now we were hoping that the CURSE (Syd Corp Curse) would come back to haunt the SoCal boys.

Saturday morning saw higher than normal temps for the area and a little less wind. Winds were more in the lower teens, something like 8-12 maybe 14 range. Less wind meant less wind chop and Anne and I were very happy to see these conditions. The first race started and our start was at the pin end of the line and underneath a boat (Not a good one!), but we were able to tack out to the right for clean air. When we came back onto Starboard we were ahead of the fleet and feeling good. These conditions are perfect for Anne and I. It was nice to look around and see that at times she was the only person on the trap. With three good starts we ended the day with scores of 1,2 (it does not pay to over stand the windward mark), 1, 1. Since the rest of the fleet was really mixing it up behind us we had a solid cushion of around 9 points on this regatta and the title. Terance had a total of 14pts, Alex Fishman finished with 15 pts, Mike Shea had 17 pts, and Joe O’Reilly had 18.

Sunday came and Anne and I talked about being somewhat conservative so as to not make any big mistakes that would hurt our chances. We liked the conditions at first. Winds were even lighter on Sunday which would seem to favor us again. Boy would we be wrong. Mike Shea came out to battle and showed great boat speed and tactics finishing with a 1, 1, 3. Sunday’s strong finish allowed Mike to jump into second place for the regatta. Steve and Alex Fishman also showed there true form with scores of 2, 2 and then leading the last race until the second lap they decided to split with the rest of the guys. They went from first to eighth at the last weather mark, but were able to catch up a few spots to finish the last race in 5th. Terrence ended the event with scores of 5, 5, 1 and could not catch the Fishman’s for 3rd place. He finished one point behind them in 4th. Anne and I finished the regatta with scores of 3, 3, 2 which meant we had done enough to secure the crown this time around. This was our third try at the Championship and boy was it a sweet ending for us. It was a great sail back to the club knowing that we had finally won the big one. The Cup would be coming home with us to Northern California!

On a final note we decided to have next years Championships in Half Moon Bay, Ca. We hope to see everyone again at next years event. IF you didn’t make it out to this event please make it next year. Charlie will provide the wind this time around.

Vang Rigging Instructions

A cascading 16:1 vang for the Coronado 15

This guide is written with the assumption that you are replacing an existing (underpowered) vang on
your Coronado 15. Any particular part may be different for your application but shouldn’t be too far
off base. It’s your boat, so it’s your responsibility to make sure things work correctly and are safe. I
also assume here that you’re familiar with basic line work. Whip or melt the ends of any cut lines to
prevent unraveling and make sure you’re using lines that are strong enough for the purpose.
This project is simple, quick, and relatively inexpensive. Expect to spend an hour or so on it once
you have all the parts together

Vang rigging instructions