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<strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>Offshore</strong> Racing Guide Page 1<br />
The<br />
<strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong><br />
<strong>Offshore</strong><br />
Racing Guide<br />
2011<br />
<strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong> Challenge<br />
Susan Hood Trophy Race<br />
<strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> Short Handed Racing Series<br />
Also featuring<br />
The Great <strong>Lake</strong>s Singlehanded Society
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Contents<br />
<strong>Offshore</strong> Racing Calendar 2<br />
The <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong> Challenge 8<br />
Key Dates 10<br />
Registration and Fees 11<br />
An Invitation 12<br />
The 2011 Executive 14<br />
LO<strong>300</strong> Notice of Race 15<br />
The Main Duck Island Course 24<br />
Sperry Cup - Skippers Log 26<br />
The Skippers Plan Team Challenge 31<br />
The Scotch Bonnet Island Course 32<br />
Getting Ready for <strong>Offshore</strong> Racing 34<br />
The Truth About Flares 37<br />
A Corinthian Sport 40<br />
LO<strong>300</strong> Trophies 42<br />
Action Ashore 46<br />
After the Race 48<br />
LO<strong>300</strong> Harken Awards 49<br />
About Rating Certificates 50<br />
Boating Insurance 52<br />
Special Awards 53<br />
The GLSS <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong> Solo Challenge 54<br />
Analysis of the 2010 Weather Event 56<br />
Competing Solo 60<br />
The Susan Hood Trophy Race 64<br />
The Race 66<br />
Details 67<br />
2011 SHTR Notice of Race 68<br />
The <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> Short Handed Series 74<br />
The Organizing Committee 77<br />
Welcome to LOSHRS 78<br />
Race Dates 80<br />
Fees and How to Register 81<br />
What Exactly is LOSHRS? 82<br />
The Story of Screech 85<br />
2011 LOSHRS Notice of Race 87<br />
2011 LOSHRS Equipment Requirements 92<br />
Reading the Wind 97<br />
The 100 Mile Experience 100<br />
LOSHRS Trophies 104
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<strong>Offshore</strong> Racing Calendar<br />
Historically, this was an “across the lake” race. It lapsed for a number of<br />
years but was revived by the club 4 years ago. The new course for this race<br />
is from a marker in front of WYC to a marker in front of the eastern gap.<br />
The start marker is wind dependant and will be provided on race night.<br />
<strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> is a hotbed of offshore racing, which has seen an increase<br />
Other race details will be provided in the sailing instructions and on the<br />
in participation in the past few years thanks in part to the success of the<br />
WYC web site. The race will be run on the night of Friday, June 17 th 2011. A<br />
LO<strong>300</strong> and the LOSHRS Series. There are however, almost 20 offshore,<br />
possible alternative course is from WYC to Newcastle.<br />
or longer distance races planned for 2011 and we have attempted to list the<br />
key ones here.<br />
June 17 th 19:30 Scotch Bonnet Light Race – Genesee Yacht Club (82 miles)<br />
March 30 th 19:30 <strong>Offshore</strong> Racing Presentation – Port Credit Yacht Club<br />
June 3 rd 20:00 Susan Hood Trophy Race – Port Credit Yacht Club<br />
The Susan Hood Trophy race is a 73 mile overnight race that was created in the<br />
spring of 1955 by Doug Hood, a member of Port Credit Yacht Club who offered<br />
to put up a trophy if someone would produce a simple measurement system<br />
for handicapping custom built yachts. George Cuthbertson came up with a rule<br />
where the yacht was measured in the water and not weighed (the “Cuthbertson”<br />
Rule). They decided to try it out with Doug donating the trophy named<br />
after his brand new bouncing baby daughter Susan. Since this time the race has<br />
evolved into the first major offshore race of the season and is organized by the<br />
LO<strong>300</strong> Committee. Fully crewed and Double handed yachts, both white sail<br />
and spinnaker compete for this coveted trophy awarded to best corrected time.<br />
Complete details about this races is included in this guide.<br />
June 5 th 11:00 LOSHRS Race #1 – Course Race – Port Credit Yacht Club<br />
QCYC has hosted this medium distance race for the past 8 years, but due to the<br />
boat sizes, keel depths, and sheer numbers, Queen City’s ability to host the growing<br />
fleet of 90+ boats is limited. QCYC has been a super host and we’re sorry the<br />
race cannot be held there, but the good news for 2011 – the Course Race will start<br />
at Port Credit and finish in Toronto at the Gibraltar Point Buoy. This year’s course<br />
will be a 12 mile zigzag course so all the east end Scarborough, Frenchman’s Bay,<br />
Whitby & Newcastle boats can head for home upon finishing. This year’s race<br />
follows the Susan Hood (June 3 rd , 2011) and provides an excellent opportunity for<br />
yachts to compete in both races on the same weekend.<br />
Complete details about this, and all LOSHRS races are included in this guide.<br />
June 17 th 19:00 Whitby 50 Miler – Whitby Yacht Club<br />
The Whitby Yacht Club hosts the Whitby 50, a long distance night race which<br />
is open to outside competitors.<br />
Photo: Andrea Mooney, 2005<br />
The Scotch Bonnet Light Race is among the oldest and longest invitational<br />
regattas on <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong>. For the better part of 4 decades, the SBLR has<br />
been one of the most engaging sailboat racing traditions on <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong>.<br />
The Scotch Bonnet Light Race began in 1972. It is an invitational event for<br />
sailors from all over <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong>, and all offshore-capable monohull and<br />
multihull sailboats that possess a valid PHRF-LO certificate are invited to<br />
enter. Divisions are established for both spinnaker and white sail fleets.<br />
Spinnaker divisions start at Rochester and first sail west approximately 10<br />
nautical miles to the Wautoma Shoals buoy, then north 34 nm to Scotch<br />
Bonnet Island, and finally south 38 nm back to Rochester - a total distance<br />
of 82 nm for the race. White sail only divisions sail from Rochester straight<br />
across to Scotch Bonnet Island and back, a total distance of 74 nm.<br />
A sailors reception at the club awaits returning sailors, and a complementary<br />
brunch is offered on Friday. A sailors reception takes place on Saturday<br />
afternoon after the race, where finish times will be posted and fresh food<br />
will be available.<br />
June 18 th 10:00 LOSHRS Race #2 – PCYC to Youngstown<br />
June 19 th 10:00 LOSHRS Race #3 – Youngstown to PCYC<br />
The LOSHRS Youngstown 2-day event starts with a pre-race party at PCYC<br />
on Friday evening. The actual race starts from PCYC Saturday morning,<br />
with competitors finishing near the Niagara R2 Mark. After tying up at<br />
YYC, the festivities commence with a dock party, followed by an evening<br />
dinner in the Club. After dinner, many participants make an annual trek up<br />
the hill to the “Stone Jug” for added entertainment.<br />
Sunday is a return race starting at 10:00 AM returning to PCYC.<br />
June 25th - 26th Long Point Challenge – Collins Bay Yacht Club<br />
Recognizing the continent-wide increase in the popularity of distance racing,<br />
and the lack of local, east end contests, the Collins Bay Yacht Club has<br />
initiated the Long Point Challenge. This 106 mile course will be contested<br />
on the last weekend of June, placing it as an ideal warm-up for the <strong>Lake</strong><br />
<strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong> for eastern sailors.<br />
The course will include everything from protected flat water to wide open,<br />
potentially strong conditions, combined with geographic features and ship-
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ping lanes. It will be a true test where the outcome will be defined by the<br />
skills of the sailors.<br />
The course will begin and end in Collins Bay, five miles west of Kingston<br />
Harbour. Crews will leave False Ducks Island to the west, then continue<br />
to the <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> Weather Buoy (ODAS 45012) and return. This course<br />
provides many strategic options, including leaving Amherst Island to port<br />
or starboard, staying in relatively protected Prince Edward Bay or offshore<br />
on the way to Long Point (Prince Edward Point), and then again staying<br />
inshore or offshore towards the turning mark. For the sake of safety, race<br />
management has elected to keep boats east of False Duck Island, as there<br />
are boat-breaking shoals that must be navigated between it and Long Point.<br />
The race is open to all boats that are suitable for an offshore race. We welcome<br />
double-handed<br />
and fully crewed<br />
boats, monohull or<br />
multihull. Race management<br />
is strongly<br />
recommending the<br />
same safety requirements<br />
as the LO<strong>300</strong>,<br />
but will not be doing<br />
inspections. Call-ins<br />
will not be required.<br />
For more information,<br />
please contact Scot<br />
Mundle (613) 354-<br />
6012 or<br />
scot@oldschoolracing.ca<br />
July 16 th 10:00 <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong><br />
<strong>300</strong> Challenge – PCYC<br />
The LO<strong>300</strong> is the premier offshore race on <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong>, and it provides a<br />
challenging circumnavigation of the lake. A group of double handed racers<br />
originally developed the LO<strong>300</strong> as the ultimate double handed challenge in<br />
1990 and it still remains the longest annual fresh water race.<br />
The Main Duck Island course is <strong>300</strong> nautical miles and starts at PCYC. It<br />
includes mark roundings at Gibraltar, the Main Duck Islands, Ford Shoal,<br />
Niagara R3 and finishes back at PCYC.<br />
The LO<strong>300</strong> also incorporates a 190 nautical mile circumnavigation of the<br />
western half of the lake for non-flying sail divisions as well as flying sail<br />
yachts with a PRHF rating over 180. This is called the Scotch Bonnet Island<br />
Course, and it starts at PCYC, including mark roundings at Gibraltar, Scotch<br />
Bonnet Island, Niagara R3 and then finishes back at PCYC.<br />
The LO<strong>300</strong> Main Duck Course<br />
is open to monohull and multihull<br />
yachts and includes a Single<br />
Handed Challenge. A Skipper’s<br />
Plan Team Challenge provides an<br />
exciting inter-club competition<br />
and the Sperry Top-Sider prerace<br />
breakfast is included for all<br />
participants. A mandatory skippers<br />
meeting is held on Friday<br />
July 15 th .<br />
On Thursday and Friday PCYC<br />
will be hosting the sailing school<br />
championship, Steerers Regatta<br />
with 3 separate race courses adjacent<br />
to the PCYC harbour – this<br />
dingy regatta attracts about 400<br />
participants.<br />
Complete details about this race<br />
start are included in this guide.<br />
July 25 th 10:00<br />
Centennial Cup Race – YYC to<br />
PCYC, host of LYRA Regatta<br />
The Centennial Cup was first<br />
awarded in 1977 by the Rochester<br />
Yacht Club to the first PHRF-<br />
LO corrected time winner of the<br />
race from Youngstown Levels<br />
Regatta to the host club of the<br />
LYRA race week. It is generally<br />
held on a Monday and is the first<br />
race of the LYRA race week. This<br />
year the race is from Youngstown<br />
to Port Credit Yacht Club.<br />
July 25 th 10:00 Founders Cup Race –<br />
WYC to Port Credit Yacht Club (LYRA)<br />
The Founders Cup was first<br />
awarded by the Oswego Yacht<br />
Club in 1989 and is used as a<br />
feeder race for yachts going to<br />
LYRA the opposite direction<br />
from Youngstown. This year the<br />
Founders Cup Race will start at<br />
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meet at Whitby and race to LYRA at PCYC.<br />
July 27 th 12:00 Freeman Cup Race – Port Credit Yacht Club<br />
The Charles Freeman Cup & The Louise Freeman Trophy date back to<br />
1921, the preceding years the overnight race was called the Long Distance<br />
Race and the <strong>Lake</strong> Yacht Racing Association began its amazing heritage in<br />
1884. The Charles Freeman Cup is awarded to the fastest yacht competing<br />
in the Freeman long distance course, which is held as part of the LYRA<br />
Race Week.<br />
Typically the length of the race has been over 100 miles and changes from<br />
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course.<br />
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PCYC.<br />
August 18 th 11:00 LOSHRS Race #4 – 100 Miler – PCYC<br />
The 100 Miler is one of <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong>’s most challenging races for short-handed<br />
sailors, and it provides an excellent test of skills. An extension of the race<br />
is provided for those single handed participants wishing to qualify for GLSSS.<br />
The race starts at PCYC then heads east to the Gibraltar Buoy then West to<br />
the Burlington Weather Tower at Hamilton then to Niagara R2 and finishes<br />
at PCYC. To be eligible for overall trophies in LOSHRS, the 100 mile race<br />
is a command performance and must be finished.<br />
August 25 th 09:00 Long Distance Race for CORK <strong>Offshore</strong> – Kingston Yacht Club<br />
This 20 Mile race course is part of the CORK race week and is open to<br />
monohull yachts racing under PHRF.<br />
September 9 th 20:00 GHYRA Overnight Race – Bronte Harbour Yacht Club<br />
The course for this race is from Bronte Harbour Yacht Club, around the CCI<br />
weather tower, Niagara river mark, Gibraltar mark and then finishes at the<br />
Bronte inner harbour light mark.<br />
September 17 th 11:00 LOSHRS Race #5 – PCYC to Port Dalhousie<br />
September 18 th 11:00 LOSHRS Race #6 – Port Dalhousie to PCYC<br />
The Dalhousie 2-day event is the original race of the LOSH series and has<br />
always been its most popular. Features of this race include a great dock<br />
gathering and an informal walk to The Port where the party revs up.<br />
Sunday was originally reserved for an informal race home, but in recent<br />
years has been integrated into part of the series of races.<br />
September 24 th 10:00 Donald Summerville<br />
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The Donald Summerville Memorial<br />
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Summerville, an east-ender who<br />
had close ties with many of the<br />
original members of ABYC.<br />
He was mayor of Toronto in the<br />
early 1960’s.<br />
For many years, this successful<br />
long distance race was 1 of the<br />
4 overnight races in the former<br />
LORC <strong>Offshore</strong> Series.<br />
October 2 nd 10:00 am<br />
Boswell Trophy Race – RCYC<br />
The Boswell Trophy Race was an<br />
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late Commodore A. R. Boswell<br />
and his fondness for long races.<br />
It dates back more than 100 years<br />
and is hosted by RCYC.<br />
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of RCYC during the 1920’s.<br />
The race is now a middle distance<br />
point-to-point race.<br />
Mr. Boswell was also the organizing<br />
representative from RCYC<br />
when LYRA originated in 1884.<br />
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The <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong><br />
Challenge<br />
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Registration and Fees<br />
Key<br />
Dates<br />
The Race Starts<br />
July 16th, 2011<br />
The LO<strong>300</strong> Yacht Race is a 5-day event that includes<br />
pre-race activities, internet tracking during the race<br />
and post race party events. Boats are encouraged to<br />
attend the Open Regatta at PCYC the weekend prior<br />
to the LO<strong>300</strong> and take in the week long festivities.<br />
Date<br />
Event<br />
Friday July 15<br />
Noon onwards Registration<br />
7:00 pm Skipper’s Meeting<br />
8:00 pm Pre-Race Party<br />
Saturday July 16<br />
6:00 am Sperry’s Pre-Race Breakfast<br />
10:00 am Race Start<br />
Sunday July 17<br />
3:00 pm BBQ for Line Honours and Early Finishers<br />
Monday July 18<br />
All day<br />
BBQ for Line Honours and Early Finishers<br />
Tuesday July 19<br />
5:00 pm Post Race Party<br />
Saturday, Sept 24<br />
6:00 pm Award Banquet and Celebration<br />
LO<strong>300</strong> and Susan Hood Trophy Race<br />
The entry fee for 2011 is $240.00 CDN, and this includes a Sperry Top-Sider<br />
skipper shirt and a post race reception during which winners flags will<br />
be presented.<br />
Registration is done online at www.lo<strong>300</strong>.org<br />
You can also catch up on the latest information on Facebook at<br />
www.facebook.com/LO<strong>300</strong>
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An Invitation<br />
Dear Racers,<br />
On behalf of the officers, directors and members of the Port Credit<br />
Yacht Club, the <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong> Committee and the Great <strong>Lake</strong>s<br />
Single Handed Society, it is my pleasure to invite you and your crew<br />
to participate in the 22nd annual <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong> Challenge to be<br />
held on Friday July 16 to Tuesday, July 20 2011.<br />
<strong>Offshore</strong> racing is thriving on <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> and we are extremely<br />
excited about this year’s LO<strong>300</strong> Challenge. The organizing committee<br />
has been working hard to make the LO<strong>300</strong> Challenge a marquee<br />
event. It’s renowned as the most challenging long distance race on<br />
the Great <strong>Lake</strong>s and the longest inland race course in the world!<br />
In 2010, 178 boats and more than 800 people participated in the<br />
exhilarating LO<strong>300</strong> Challenge and we’re anticipating more than 200<br />
boats in this year’s race.<br />
The LO<strong>300</strong> Challenge has something for everyone.<br />
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• Challenge skippers from your club to participate in the Skippers’ Plan<br />
Team Challenge to raise money for your club’s junior sailing instructional<br />
program<br />
• First timers – take on the challenge of the Scotch Bonnet Island Course<br />
or the full Main Duck Island Course<br />
• If you’ve done the Scotch Bonnet Island Course why not try the Main<br />
Duck Course this year?<br />
• Challenge yourself to place at the top of your division<br />
• Are you up for the challenge to win the coveted Sperry Cup?<br />
Thank you to our many returning and new sponsors. The festivities start with a<br />
BBQ and skipper’s meeting on Friday night with live entertainment, followed by<br />
the Sperry breakfast on Saturday morning, race tracking throughout and a great<br />
post race party on Tuesday evening.<br />
Set your challenge! We look forward to seeing you in the LO<strong>300</strong> Challenge.<br />
We hope to see you in July.<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Darren Gornall<br />
Chairperson<br />
2011 <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong>
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The 2011 Executive<br />
2011 Event Chair Darren Gornall PCYC<br />
Past Chair Guy Perrin PCYC<br />
Sponsorship Alex Libby RCYC<br />
Secretary Andrea Mooney TS&CC<br />
Fleet Coordination Greg Nicoll PCYC<br />
Safety Officer Carson Woods BPYC<br />
Jury Officer Pat Lymburner PCYC<br />
GLSS Liaison Brent Hughes FBYC<br />
Registrar Ron Watt PCYC<br />
Shore Coordination Monica Doedens PCYC<br />
Trophies/Awards Ian McAllister PCYC<br />
Treasurer Ulrich Wickardt OYS<br />
Marketing & Promotions Brian Townsend PCYC<br />
LOORG Jonathan Vinden PCYC<br />
Race Officer: Graham Dougall (QCYC) (egd@securefail.com)<br />
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT<br />
Darren Gornall (info@lo<strong>300</strong>.org)<br />
or<br />
Ian McAllister (905-823-1071)<br />
or<br />
Visit our “Contact Us” page on the web site for telephone numbers and e-mail<br />
addresses.<br />
FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION, VISIT<br />
www.lo<strong>300</strong>.org<br />
Please complete the online registration.<br />
The 2011 <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong><br />
Notice of Race<br />
The Notice of Race is a formal description<br />
of the race and outlines key dates, safety<br />
requirements, and the obligations that the<br />
skipper must accept in order to participate. It<br />
is imperative that all skippers, and ideally all<br />
competitors read and understand the Notice of<br />
Race before they accept the responsibility of<br />
competing in the <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong>, or the GLSS<br />
<strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong> Solo Challenge.<br />
The <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>Offshore</strong> Racing Guide has been designed and produced by<br />
Jonathan Vinden.<br />
Printing courtesy of Pitney Bowes.<br />
It is only thorough the generosity and contribution of time from many of the 2011 executive that<br />
this guide to Long Distance Racing on <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> has become a reality. We thank you for this<br />
effort, and look forward to enhancing this booklet during subsequent years.
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1. RULES<br />
1.1 The race will be governed by the rules as defined in The Racing Rules<br />
of Sailing.<br />
1.2 The prescriptions of the Canada Yachting Association (CYA) apply for<br />
the entire race; including in US waters, see<br />
www.sailing.ca/files/racing/rules/CYAPrescriptions2009-12.pdf<br />
1.3 Applicable Class Rules<br />
Sailboats racing in PHRF, the PHRF-LO rules shall apply<br />
Sailboats racing in IRC, the IRC Rules 2011 Parts A, B and C shall apply<br />
For multihull sailboats, the GLMRA rules shall apply<br />
1.4 The <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong> Challenge Race is governed by the following:<br />
L0<strong>300</strong> Race Equipment & Safety Regulations available at the<br />
www.lo<strong>300</strong>.org<br />
Port Credit Yacht Club Visiting Yacht Policy available at www.pcyc.net<br />
For sailboats competing in the Solo Challenge:<br />
2011 <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong> Solo Challenge Notice of Race available<br />
at www.solosailors.org<br />
GLSS Gear and Use Requirements available at www.solosailors.<br />
org with the amendment that a life raft is not required<br />
1.5 Racing rule(s) will be changed as follows:<br />
The provisions of Appendix Q (CYA Prescription) of the Racing Rules<br />
of Sailing shall apply to the period between 20:00hrs and 06:00hrs<br />
Rule 41 – “Outside Help” is modified herein to allow all forms of communication.<br />
Each sailboat may communicate with any person, competitor, sailboat<br />
or outside source of information available using any means available<br />
throughout the race.<br />
The changes will appear in full in the Sailing Instructions. The Sailing<br />
Instructions may also change other racing rules.<br />
1.6 Class rule(s) will be changed as follows:<br />
IRC: Sailboats are allowed to carry one additional spinnaker over the<br />
number listed in the sailboats’ IRC certificate<br />
1.7 This event is designated a Clean Regatta Bronze by the Sailors for the<br />
Sea (www.sailorsforthesea.org). By entering, all competitors agree<br />
to abide by Clean Regatta Bronze level certification requirements.<br />
Sailboats observed discharging garbage or black water (sewage with<br />
faeces) into <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> or harbours will be protested and the penalty<br />
is disqualification from the <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong> Race. Any such disqualification<br />
may be used by the Organizing Authority whether to accept<br />
future registrations by this sailboat or owner.<br />
1.8 In case of differences between this Notice of Race and the Sailing<br />
Instructions, the Sailing Instructions shall apply.<br />
2. ADVERTISING<br />
Sailboats may be required to display advertising chosen and supplied by the<br />
organizing authority.<br />
3. ELIGIBILITY AND ENTRY<br />
3.1 The LO<strong>300</strong> Committee, upon application and subsequent review of<br />
technical evidence as to the heavy weather stability and crew comfort<br />
of a vessel may, at their sole discretion and without appeal, can accept<br />
or reject such vessel as suitable for this race.<br />
3.2 Eligible yachts may be entered in the race by registering online at www.lo<strong>300</strong>.org.<br />
3.3 The race is open to monohull and multi-hull sailboats. Divisions will include<br />
Flying Sails (FS) and No Flying Sails (NFS), either Double Handled,<br />
Fully Crewed or Flying Sails Single Handed for Solo Challenge only.<br />
Divisions shall be divided into Spinnaker and White Sail Fleets. Multihull<br />
Classes shall be spinnaker only. Divisions may be sub-divided into<br />
fleets. The LO<strong>300</strong> Committee may assign sailboats to divisions and<br />
fleets based on number of sailboats registered.<br />
The following table lists the Divisions by Course.<br />
Monohull Division<br />
PHRF-LO No Flying Sails – Double<br />
Handed<br />
PHRF-LO No Flying Sails – Fully<br />
Crewed<br />
PHRF-LO Flying Sails with rating of 183<br />
or greater – Double Handed<br />
PHRF-LO Flying Sails with rating of 183<br />
or greater – Fully Crewed<br />
PHRF-LO Flying Sails with rating of 180<br />
and smaller – Double Handed<br />
PHRF-LO Flying Sails with rating of 180<br />
and smaller – Fully Crewed<br />
Main Duck Course<br />
NA<br />
NA<br />
NA<br />
NA<br />
Only<br />
Only<br />
Scotch Bonnet<br />
Course<br />
Only<br />
Only<br />
Only<br />
Only<br />
IRC – Double Handed Only NA<br />
IRC – Fully Crewed Only NA<br />
Solo Challenge with Flying Sails only –<br />
Single Handed<br />
Only<br />
NA<br />
NA<br />
NA
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Multihull Division<br />
Multihull with Flying Sails only – Full<br />
Crewed<br />
Main Duck Course<br />
Only<br />
Scotch Bonnet<br />
Course<br />
NA<br />
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3.4 Monohull sailboats shall hold a valid PHRF-LO or IRC certificate. Multihull<br />
sailboats shall hold a valid GLMRA certificate. For sailboats from<br />
outside the PHRF-LO area, arrangements must be made in advance<br />
to obtain a PHRF-LO certificate. Contact the Organizing Authority or<br />
PHRF-LO directly, well in advance of the event, to obtain details on accomplishing<br />
this.<br />
3.5 Supporting documentation for a complete entry includes all information<br />
requested in the online entry form as well as the yacht’s valid<br />
rating certificate number, crew information, payment of the entry fee,<br />
a completed, signed L0<strong>300</strong> Race Equipment& Safety Regulations Form<br />
and LO<strong>300</strong> Sail Plan.<br />
Any documentation not already submitted should be handed to the<br />
registrar during check in prior to the Mandatory Participants’ Meeting.<br />
3.6 Sailboats entered in a Double Handed Division shall be crewed only<br />
by a skipper and one other crew, both of whom shall be not less than<br />
18 years of age. Skippers in the Fully Crewed Division shall be not less<br />
than 18 years of age and at least one other crew member shall not be<br />
less than 18 years of age.<br />
3.7 Sailboats competing in the Solo Challenge must meet the eligibility<br />
requirements of Great <strong>Lake</strong>s Singlehanded<br />
Society, see www.solosailors.org.<br />
3.8 Competitors’ sailboats shall only display<br />
a sail number registered specific to the<br />
sailboat at the time of its commission.<br />
Requests, on the Alternate Sail Number<br />
Form, to display alternative sail numbers<br />
to the sailboat’s commissioned sail number<br />
may be approved by the LO<strong>300</strong> Race<br />
Committee and must be filed with the registrar<br />
prior to the Mandatory Participants<br />
Meeting.<br />
3.9 Each competitor provided with bow stickers<br />
shall place the stickers on the port and<br />
starboard bow of the yacht prior to the race.<br />
Solo Challenge sailboats must also place a<br />
white 2’ x 2’ x 2’ triangle on the leech of<br />
mainsail on both sides above any reefing<br />
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points formed with Glofast luminous cloth tape supplied by the Organizing<br />
Authority.<br />
3.10 Sailboats may carry and use a transponder supplied by the LO<strong>300</strong><br />
Committee. The cost of the transponder rental is included in the Entry<br />
Fee. The transponder should be picked up during check in prior to the<br />
Competitors’ Meeting at 19:00 EDT Friday, July 15, 2011. The use of<br />
transponders shall be outlined in the Sailing Instructions.<br />
4. FEES<br />
Required fees are as follows:<br />
All Classes $200.00 CAD until February 28, 2011<br />
$240.00 CAD afterwards<br />
Solo Challenge<br />
5. SCHEDULE<br />
Additional fee payable to Great <strong>Lake</strong>s Singlehanded<br />
Society (GLSS), see www.solosailors.org<br />
5.1 Registration deadline is 18:00 EDT, Wednesday, June 29, 2011<br />
5.2 Mandatory Participants’ Meeting at 19:00 EDT, Friday July 15, 2011 on<br />
the patio at Port Credit Yacht Club. A representative of each boat shall<br />
attend this meeting and is open to all participants.<br />
5.3 Division Organization (Splits) and starting sequence shall be posted<br />
before 21:00 EDT July 15, 2011 on the Official Notice Board.<br />
5.4 The warning signal is at 10:25 EDT, Saturday July 16, 2011.<br />
6. MEASUREMENTS AND<br />
INSPECTIONS<br />
6.1 All sailboats shall be reviewed for the equipment listed in L0<strong>300</strong> Race<br />
Equipment Regulations. Additionally, sailboats competing in the Solo<br />
Challenge will be reviewed against the GLSS Gear and Use Requirements.<br />
This review may be undertaken by a Safety or Flag Officer of<br />
the entrant’s Yacht Club, or by arrangement with the <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong><br />
Safety Officer. A sailboat must successfully complete this review prior<br />
to the start of the race.<br />
6.2 A sailboat may be inspected at any time. The Race Committee may, at<br />
the finish of the race, direct a sailboat to proceed directly to a designated<br />
location at Port Credit Yacht Club. A boat which fails to follow such<br />
directions or which subsequently fails the inspection may be protested<br />
by the Race Committee<br />
7. SAILING INSTRUCTIONS<br />
The sailing instructions will be available at www.lo<strong>300</strong>.org by May 20, 2011.<br />
8. VENUE AND THE COURSE<br />
8.1 Main Duck Island Course shall be a <strong>300</strong> nautical mile clockwise<br />
circumnavigation of <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong>. Starting at Port Credit, then on to<br />
Gibraltar Point Mark, Main Duck and Yorkshire Islands, Ford Shoal<br />
Buoy, Niagara Mark, PCYC Mark and the Finish Mark.<br />
8.2 Scotch Bonnet Island Course shall be a 190 nautical mile course starting<br />
at Port Credit, then on to Gibraltar Point Mark, Scotch Bonnet<br />
Island, Niagara Mark, PCYC Mark and the Finish Mark.<br />
9. PENALTY SYSTEM<br />
The Scoring Penalty, rule 44.3, will apply, with 44.3 (c) is changed so that<br />
the penalty assessed will be 30 minutes added to her elapsed time.<br />
10. SCORING<br />
PHRF-LO time on time formula, IRC Rule and GLMRA shall be used. Yachts<br />
shall be scored in their own Fleets and Divisions. The L0<strong>300</strong> Committee<br />
reserves the right to adjust the scratch sailboat when converting the PHRF-<br />
LO Time on Distance to Time on Time based on the registrations received<br />
by the deadline. The Time on Time ratings will be published along with the<br />
division splits.<br />
11. BERTHING<br />
Boats berthing at PCYC before or after the race must follow PCYC’s Visiting
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Yachts’ Policy including preregistration<br />
available at www.<br />
pcyc.net<br />
12. RADIO COMMUNICATION<br />
Each yacht may communicate<br />
with any person, competitor,<br />
yacht or outside source of information<br />
available using any means<br />
available throughout the race.<br />
13. PRIZES<br />
Trophies and/or flags shall be<br />
awarded to the winning yachts<br />
in each Division and Fleet.<br />
A list of the trophies awarded,<br />
their eligibility requirements and<br />
selection methodology is available<br />
at the www.lo<strong>300</strong>.org web site.<br />
Flags shall be awarded to the winning<br />
yachts in each Division and<br />
Fleet at 19:00 Tuesday, July 19,<br />
2011 at Port Credit Yacht Club.<br />
Trophies will be presented on Saturday September 24, 2011 at PCYC.<br />
14. DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY<br />
Sailing is an activity that has an inherent risk of damage and injury. Competitors<br />
in this event are participating entirely at their own risk. See RRS 4,<br />
Decision to Race. The race organizers (organizing authority, race committee,<br />
protest committee, host club, sponsors, or any other organization or<br />
official) will not be responsible for damage to any boat or other property or<br />
the injury to any competitor, including death, sustained as a result of participation<br />
in this event. By participating in this event, each competitor agrees<br />
to release the race organizers from any and all liability associated with such<br />
competitor’s participation in this event to the fullest extent permitted by law.<br />
15. INSURANCE<br />
Each participating boat shall be insured with a valid third-party liability<br />
insurance policy with a minimum cover of $2,000,000 CAD per event for<br />
Canadian boats and an adequate level of third-party liability insurance applicable<br />
in Canadian and US waters for non-Canadian boats.<br />
16. FURTHER INFORMATION<br />
Scoring Notes<br />
Time on Time<br />
Time on Time handicapping determines<br />
the adjusted finish time by<br />
multiplying the time taken to complete<br />
a race course by a handicap<br />
multiplier.<br />
The <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong> race uses<br />
Time on Time for scoring the race.<br />
Time on Distance<br />
Time on Distance handicapping<br />
determines the adjusted finish time<br />
by subtracting the seconds per mile<br />
handicap, multiplied by the course<br />
distance in miles, from the time<br />
taken to complete the race course<br />
time.<br />
For further information, including social events and for docking arrangements,<br />
please see www.lo<strong>300</strong>.org.<br />
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The Main Duck<br />
Island Course<br />
What is the actual distance?<br />
302 nautical miles on the rhumb line.<br />
How long does it usually take?<br />
Average finishing time for the larger/faster boats is 58 hours and the<br />
higher PRHF rating boats average 78 hours, weather depending.<br />
Which fleets are on this course?<br />
All IRC boats, multi hulls, spinnaker boats that have a PHRF rating<br />
of 180 or lower, and Solo Challenge competitors.<br />
The Main Duck Island Course is a challenging <strong>300</strong> nautical mile clockwise<br />
circumnavigation of <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong>, starting and finishing at the Port<br />
Credit Yacht Club.<br />
The course takes the fleet past Toronto, keeping the Gibraltar Point mark to<br />
starboard. From there, the boats head down the lake and round the infamous<br />
Main Duck and Yorkshire Islands, also keeping them to starboard.<br />
The next mark, the Ford Shoal mark, is on the US shore, just west of Oswego.<br />
It is kept to starboard before the fleet heads west past Rochester towards the<br />
Niagara mark.<br />
The final mark is the PCYC Turning mark, just west of the actual finish line. **<br />
** please refer to the Sailing Instructions<br />
for final definition of the course.
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Sperry Cup<br />
Skippers Log<br />
by Craig Pirie<br />
Afterburn, a Dash 34, at the start<br />
of the race.<br />
The boat won the Sperry Cup,<br />
finishing at 5:04 on Monday<br />
afternoon after 2 days and five<br />
hours of racing.<br />
To the south, <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> glistens in the sun, a parade of boats is feeding<br />
into the growing congestion around the start area for the 2010 <strong>Lake</strong><br />
<strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong>. Afterburn, a Dash 34, is one of the last boats to leave the<br />
confines of PCYC’s harbour. The wind is filling in nicely at 10 to 12 knots out<br />
of the Southwest as forecasted and we are looking forward to a fast downwind<br />
ride towards Main Duck Island. In the back of my mind are the words<br />
of caution from meteorologist Ron Bianchi at the skippers’ weather briefing<br />
last night – warning us that by mid-afternoon Saturday there could be several<br />
lines of severe weather passing through the fleet as we sail up the north shore of<br />
the lake.<br />
Darren and Tim prep the spinnaker for a downwind start as we follow a forty<br />
footer towards the start line. With 20 seconds to the gun I bear off taking the<br />
larger boat’s stern and the crew starts our spinnaker hoist, the gun sounds and<br />
we are racing. The 8 mile leg to Gibraltar is a good stretch of water to get the<br />
crew into the groove as Afterburn settles onto a starboard tack broad reach.<br />
We keep to the north of the rhumb-line, focusing on maintaining clear air. Approaching<br />
the mark we douse the spinnaker in favour of the #1 genoa and steer<br />
a wide line around the Gibraltar mark; leaving a mess of boats struggling for<br />
clear air to the inside. After clearing the mark we take advantage of the #1 and<br />
work our way to windward of the fleet. As we pass the Leslie Spit we bear off<br />
and re-launch the spinnaker, allowing Afterburn to accelerate from 7 knots up<br />
to 9 knots while our crew settles on to the windward rail as the wind continues<br />
to build.<br />
By 2:00pm everyone on the rail has their eyes fixed on the dark storm clouds<br />
rapidly closing in on our position, the exhilaration of the fast spinnaker run<br />
over the past several hours is now replaced by anxiousness as we anticipate<br />
the powerful and erratic winds and rain that will mark the leading edge of the<br />
storm front. As the rain begins to fall and the wind increases, Darren and Tim<br />
raise the #1, followed seconds later by the dousing of the chute, the crew is<br />
in the final stages of stuffing the spinnaker below when the front of storm hits,<br />
blasting through at over 30 knots! Hoisting the #1 was a bad call as we are<br />
completely over canvassed, the helm rapidly loads up and lifts me off my perch<br />
on the deck and pulls me half way across the cockpit. Afterburn rounds up<br />
into the wind; I scramble back up to the high side and struggle to gain control<br />
of the tiller. The noise from the howling wind and flogging sails is deafening,<br />
but eventually I am able to work the bow down. Afterburn comes off the wind<br />
and accelerates to 10 knots. Once the front passes and the winds diminish,<br />
Darren emerges from below deck with the repacked spinnaker, Tim works the<br />
sheets and halyard around the forestay and we re-launch the spinnaker. Two<br />
more severe storm fronts chase us down over the next couple of hours; the<br />
second coming from the south and included a solid pelting of hail.<br />
As late afternoon turns to early evening the waves on <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> build to 6<br />
feet; the skies are clear overhead while bands of darker storm clouds ring around<br />
the horizon. For improved stability we switch to the asymmetrical spinnaker.
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With speeds reaching 16 knots the drag race down the lake is not without its<br />
spills. With over 10 wipe outs and almost as many spinnaker douses, packs and<br />
re-launches we are focused on keeping the lead boats in our fleet within sight.<br />
As our first night draws to a close, morning light creeps across the lake and<br />
boats emerge from the darkness and we begin to take stock of the fleet around<br />
us. After nearly 18 hours of sailing and a 100 mile downwind sprint with two<br />
J105’s the<br />
only thing<br />
decided<br />
is that we<br />
are evenly<br />
matched.<br />
Rounding<br />
Main Duck<br />
Island we<br />
gybe and<br />
head south.<br />
Coming out<br />
from behind<br />
the island’s<br />
lee the fleet<br />
is sailing<br />
on a close<br />
reach into<br />
steep eight<br />
foot waves<br />
This image of Main Duck Island has been<br />
provided by Marinas.com<br />
and 15 to 20 knot winds. After another 30 miles and 3.5 hours of close reaching<br />
the two J105’s have held us off and we round the Oswego mark in third<br />
place. The return course towards Niagara starts as an upwind sail directly into big<br />
waves and strong winds. It doesn’t take long for the J105’s to show their superiority<br />
in these conditions. Twenty miles into this leg, more boats have appeared<br />
and watching the sky it looks like the weather may be about to change again.<br />
We review the weather forecast from our shore crew and the consensus is that<br />
the better wind this afternoon will be out in the lake. Afterburn tacks away<br />
from shore with not much company following suit. By 3:30pm the wind dies<br />
and we are drifting.<br />
At 7:00pm wind ripples become visible on the water and the crew begins<br />
working the sails again. Chris serves up our one hot meal for the race – chili.<br />
By 7:30pm dinner is done and Afterburn is building up boat speed. As night<br />
two begins the lights of Rochester illuminate the shore to windward. A well balanced<br />
Afterburn under the power of the asymmetrical spinnaker slips through<br />
the flat water at 6 knots on a beam reach. Around midnight the south shore<br />
starts to come up to meet us, at the same time bow lights appear to the inside<br />
of us, with no idea which boats they are.<br />
Weather updates indicate that an<br />
approaching storm system has passed<br />
through Windsor and London, is<br />
headed our way and lightning is visible<br />
over both the north and south<br />
shores. With the experience of the<br />
Saturday afternoon squalls fresh in<br />
everyone’s minds the entire crew is<br />
wary of a rapidly developing weather<br />
system.<br />
The predicted storm hits at 3am;<br />
the wind speed rapidly strengthens<br />
and the lights on the shore and the<br />
boats around us disappear as we are<br />
engulfed in a grey shroud moving<br />
out of the darkness from the West.<br />
Suddenly Afterburn is sailing into a<br />
30 knot headwind and heavy rain.<br />
With no time for a sail change the<br />
boat is completely overpowered<br />
flying the #1 genoa and a full main.<br />
Doug and I go into sail preservation<br />
mode, I stuff the nose of Afterburn<br />
into the wind as much as I can to<br />
de-power the first third of the #1,<br />
and Doug is working feverishly with<br />
the main sheet and traveler to keep<br />
only the back 2 feet of the main<br />
powered up. The wind and the now<br />
horizontal rain make it feel like we<br />
are sailing in a car wash! We sail<br />
like this for 10 or 15 minutes which<br />
feels like forever, then as quickly as<br />
it arrived the wind drops to 15 knots<br />
and the wall of grey recedes off our<br />
leeward starboard quarter. Minutes<br />
later another line of weather is upon<br />
us. Similar to the last line we see<br />
30 knot winds and we work hard to<br />
preserve the sails. It passes within<br />
10 minutes. The lights of the South<br />
shore re-emerge but it is difficult to<br />
pick out the other racers. It is now<br />
4am and it starts to feel like morning<br />
light is almost here, we have gotten<br />
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over the south shore hump and are now heading towards Niagara.<br />
As the sky starts to lighten we are left with a cool, grey and damp morning,<br />
worst of all we can see three boats making their way up the shoreline, clearly<br />
ahead of us and with a better line on Niagara. A long morning of tacking in<br />
moderate air with intermittent rain showers ensues. By noon the sun is shining<br />
and we are within sight of the Niagara mark.<br />
The afternoon forecast calls for the winds to continue moving to the right and<br />
as we make our way across the lake to Port Credit the winds build to 12 knots.<br />
The progressive wind shift to the right has opened up a clear path all the way<br />
home. Close reaching at 7 knots, the guys on the rail have a fix on PCYC on<br />
the North shore. Ahead, Sassafras tacks around the turning mark and sails<br />
across the finish line. Gord starts the timer to catch our time differential. We<br />
tack around the turning mark, leaving us less than 1 mile to the finish, one last<br />
tack and the race committee gives us our horn only 8 minutes behind Sassafras.<br />
Someone spots two J105’s approaching the turning mark and we realize Endeavour<br />
and The Usual Suspects have not finished. The LO<strong>300</strong> has delivered once<br />
again and has been a fantastic sailing experience. A hundred little races took<br />
place within <strong>300</strong>+nm miles. Some parts of the lake played out the same as past<br />
years, others offered unique challenges.<br />
On a race that took us 2 days, 5 hours, 4 minutes 3 seconds to complete we<br />
correct out 2 minutes and 34 seconds ahead of the Farr 30 Notorious for first<br />
place overall and the Sperry Cup win!<br />
The<br />
Skippers Plan<br />
Team Challenge<br />
Get YOUR Yacht Club’s team (or teams) together…<br />
Team racing can add additional intrigue and strategy to your race. It can<br />
also add funding to your Club’s Junior Sailing Instructional Program.<br />
The <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong> Skippers’ Plan Team Challenge is an added feature<br />
of the existing <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong>, with a trophy and awards presented to the<br />
winning teams according to the scoring criteria defined below.<br />
Team Composition:<br />
• On the Main Duck Island Course, a qualifying<br />
team must be comprised of three LO<strong>300</strong><br />
competing yachts from the same Yacht Club,<br />
all competing on the same course. Teams may<br />
be any combination of fully crewed or double<br />
handed yachts or any combination of IRC and<br />
PHRF rating.<br />
• On the Scotch Bonnet Island Course – White<br />
Sail, a qualifying team must be comprised of<br />
two LO<strong>300</strong> competing yachts from the same<br />
Yacht Club. Teams may be any combination of<br />
fully crewed or double handed yachts<br />
Robertson & Robertson is<br />
the company behind Skippers’<br />
Plan Insurance.<br />
Their commitment to junior<br />
sailing created the Skippers’<br />
Plan Team Challenge, donating<br />
money to the winning<br />
clubs Learn to Sail program.<br />
• On the Scotch Bonnet Island Course – Spinnaker, a qualifying team must<br />
be comprised of two LO<strong>300</strong> competing yachts from the same Yacht Club.<br />
Teams may be any combination of fully crewed or double handed yachts<br />
• All teams can submit their completed Team Challenge information to the<br />
LO<strong>300</strong> race committee before the end of the skippers meeting using the<br />
Team Challenge entry form or via e-mail. Should you register your team<br />
via e-mail, please provide your team name, the team yacht names and the<br />
yacht club represented.<br />
• Each yacht can only be on one team.<br />
• There is no limit to the number of teams that can be entered<br />
from each Club.<br />
.
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The Scotch Bonnet<br />
Island Course<br />
What is the actual distance?<br />
192 nautical miles on the rhumb line.<br />
How long does it usually take?<br />
About 49 hours for larger boats, and up to 54 hours for the<br />
smaller one, weather depending.<br />
Which fleets are on this course?<br />
All spinnaker boats that have a PHRF rating of 183 or higher<br />
and all white sail boats.<br />
The Scotch Bonnet Island Course was a new addition in 2009, and is<br />
now an event fixture. All white sail boats compete on this course, as<br />
well as spinnaker boats that have a PHRF-LO rating of 183 or higher.<br />
The course is a 200 nautical mile navigation of <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> starting and<br />
finishing at the Port Credit Yacht Club. The course takes the Scotch Bonnet<br />
fleet past Toronto along with the Main Duck fleet. All the boats keep the Gibraltar<br />
mark to starboard, before heading east towards Scotch Bonnet Island.<br />
Keeping the island, with its ancient lighthouse to starboard, the Scotch Bonnet<br />
fleet then turns and heads south west, back towards the Niagara mark.<br />
The final mark is the PCYC Turning mark, just west of the actual finish line.**<br />
S/H version<br />
CMYK, X500 version<br />
Pantone <strong>300</strong> version<br />
North Sails is the world’s<br />
leading sail maker. It has<br />
lofts throughout the world,<br />
including Toronto.<br />
North has been a tremendous<br />
sponsor of the LO<strong>300</strong>,<br />
producing the beautiful<br />
division winners flags<br />
handed out each year at our<br />
banquet.<br />
** please refer to the Sailing Instructions<br />
for final definition of the course.
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Getting Ready for<br />
enjoy exceptional sailing and work towards a common goal without the hectic<br />
course racing and parties of most regattas.<br />
<strong>Offshore</strong> Racing<br />
First time participants in the <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong> are encouraged to set realistic<br />
goals. For some, simply finishing the race constitutes a tremendous achievement.<br />
Newbies are also encouraged to test their skills on a shorter race or an<br />
overnight race like the Susan Hood Trophy Race to determine their comfort<br />
level with offshore / long distance racing. Those that are now to the race may<br />
also elect to compete in a white sails division, and sail on the Scotch Bonnet<br />
Island Course.<br />
The <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong> is acknowledged as the longest annually held<br />
fresh water race in the world at <strong>300</strong> nautical miles and can be different<br />
things to different participants, taking on definitions ranging from<br />
an unbelievable thrill, the greatest challenge on the lakes, a marathon, an<br />
adventure, a test of skills or for some a non-stop cruise.<br />
The LO<strong>300</strong> is the Boston Marathon of <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong>’s yachting events, but there<br />
are many other offshore races here that will challenge your sailing skills and<br />
ambitions. These are listed on page 6 of this guide, and you can learn more<br />
about them by contacting the host club or organizing authority.<br />
Typically, offshore racing refers to long distance ocean racing but can apply to<br />
events on large bodies of water such as the Great <strong>Lake</strong>s. Key features that help<br />
define an offshore race include:<br />
1. A course without temporary marks adjusted to accommodate the wind<br />
2. Long distance legs, usually at least 10 to 15 nm in length<br />
3. Non-stop racing that frequently includes racing at night<br />
4. Racing that is not postponed due to adverse weather conditions<br />
Races that incorporate these attributes take on a personality of their own and if<br />
they are annual events, vary significantly year after year. The challenges different<br />
from short course racing, requiring a different set of tactics, boat handling,<br />
and seamanship skills. The skills needed vary dramatically depending on the<br />
time of year during which the race is run, it’s overall distance and the navigational<br />
obstacles encountered on the course.<br />
Over longer distances, currents and uneven wind conditions become more<br />
of a factor and amplify the effects of tactical decisions made during the race.<br />
Depending on your location to the rest of the fleet your boat may experience a<br />
very different weather pattern thus impacting performance for better or perhaps<br />
for worse. At the same time, the longer distance affords greater opportunity to<br />
make up lost time and/or distance. In an offshore or long distance race it is<br />
common to hear many different versions on the same race for the same year.<br />
This means each boat is constantly challenged to race their best and navigate<br />
the course based on the weather conditions they are facing. <strong>Offshore</strong> racing is<br />
a true test of sailing ability.<br />
Most sailors entering into an offshore race are wanting a new challenge and<br />
looking to test their skills against the other participants. Some, however, are<br />
looking for a more relaxed racing experience that allows time for the crew to<br />
There are a<br />
number of things<br />
to consider<br />
before entering<br />
an offshore race.<br />
These will affect<br />
the outcome of<br />
the race and your<br />
enjoyment of the<br />
experience:<br />
• Determine<br />
your crew<br />
size: double<br />
handed is<br />
popular, in<br />
part because<br />
This image of Scotch Bonnet Island has been<br />
provided by Marinas.com<br />
of the challenge, but also for the simple reason that you do not have to<br />
coordinate a full crew. It is more challenging but your boat needs to be<br />
suitable for short-handed sailing and your partner needs to be committed<br />
and experienced<br />
• Make sure you have the experience necessary to compete. Navigation,<br />
tactics, shift management, night sailing, and even menu planning take on a<br />
different characteristic in an offshore race and it is important that your crew<br />
has some experience in the various areas<br />
• Set your boats rules on safety, shift changes, night time sailing. It is important<br />
on a long race to adhere to a policy of wearing harnesses and PFDs at<br />
a chosen time before dark and keeping regular shift changes every 3 to 4<br />
hours depending on the boat and crew. Harnesses and PFDs should also<br />
be worn at all times in heavy weather and through the night on watch<br />
• It is important to understand the strengths of individual crew members i.e.<br />
some need lots of sleep while others can survive on very little<br />
• Determine whether you wish to compete white sail only or with flying sails.<br />
This is important and ties into the fully crewed decision. White sail, either<br />
double handed or fully crewed is a great way to get started with offshore
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racing. Unlike most offshore races, the LO<strong>300</strong> offers a shortened course for<br />
The Truth<br />
white sail boats, providing similar challenges to the long course, but with<br />
the benefit that you can still get home within a decent time frame if the<br />
About FLARES<br />
wind becomes fickle<br />
• Understand all the events safety and equipment requirements. It is most<br />
important to ensure your boat meets the minimum safety requirements<br />
posted for the various offshore races since safety is a prime consideration<br />
on any offshore distance race. The <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong> is a modified Category<br />
3 race with the most stringent safety requirements. It is recommended<br />
that you review the safety requirements well in advance in order to determine<br />
what your boat and crew require<br />
• Ensure your crew has the time commitment and mind set to compete and<br />
•<br />
•<br />
complete the race. Unlike most regattas you cannot change up crew half<br />
way through the event. Good crew interaction is extremely important<br />
Check your rigging. Ensure you have the right rigging, sails and tools to be<br />
able to compete. Inspect your boat early in the season and look for weak<br />
areas or items that could break under sustained heavy winds and repair or<br />
ensure you have adequate replacements on board for the race. Typically,<br />
rigging failures accounts for 40% of the boats not finishing the LO<strong>300</strong><br />
Training. If your crew has not done an offshore race make sure they go for<br />
a long sail and ensure all crew are familiar with all equipment on the boat,<br />
procedures and safety requirements<br />
• Nutrition is important on any offshore race and it is important to have the<br />
right combination of healthy snacks, fruits and planned meals. Meals should<br />
be a combination of easy to prepare meals for heavy weather and preplanned<br />
meals that can be prepared in normal conditions. It is important to<br />
ensure there is plenty of water and hydrating fluids to last the entire race<br />
• Commercial shipping lanes may have to be crossed and freighters are fast<br />
and unable to make sharp turns or stop quickly. Do not underestimate the<br />
speed at which freighters travel. Ensure that you have a high quality radar<br />
reflector and monitor Channel 16 on your VHF at all times<br />
Participation in the <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong> has increased at a rate of 25% per year<br />
over the last 4 years. Participation in the LOSHRS events has also increased<br />
dramatically over the last 4 years. These trends are evidently being observed in<br />
other offshore racing and have given birth to new long distance races, like the<br />
Whitby 50 miler.<br />
Participation from cruisers represents at least 40% of this new growth, primarily<br />
in white sail, but also spinnaker divisions. Many new participants in offshore<br />
racing are family members, fathers and sons looking for a shared experience.<br />
We urge you to participate in the <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong> (and LOSHRS) for the sheer<br />
fun of it. It is a real challenge, but it is also a fantastic way to enhance your<br />
skills and capabilities on the water.<br />
Lori Mason of “The Store”, has been running safety seminars for many<br />
years, and again this year she is helping out at the LO<strong>300</strong>. She has a<br />
wealth of experience with all boating related safety issues, but has a<br />
real concern that boaters do not fully understand the rules and regulations<br />
related to flares. She has provided this primer for all LO<strong>300</strong> and offshore<br />
racing participants.<br />
The Store, Mason’s Chandlery<br />
is the exclusive dealer<br />
for the complete line of Gill<br />
LO<strong>300</strong> regalia. Please drop<br />
by The Store and see Lori.<br />
Telephone: (905) 278-7005<br />
Toll Free: (800) 263-1506<br />
Email: info@thestoremasons.com
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Flares are for emergencies – nothing else. When you need them – you need<br />
them – so carry only Transport Canada approved flares within the 4-year<br />
lifespan from their manufacture date stamp. And forget about setting off outdated<br />
flares like Canada Day fireworks. It’s illegal and you can be slapped with<br />
a heavy fine.<br />
Types of Approved Pyrotechnics<br />
• Type A: Parachute – a single red star that reaches a height of <strong>300</strong> m (984’)<br />
and with the aid of a parachute, comes down slowly. Burns for at least 40<br />
seconds and is easily observed from the surface or air<br />
• Type B: Multi-star – two or more red stars that reach a height of 100 m<br />
(328’) and burn for four or five seconds each. Easily observed from the<br />
surface or air. Some Type B flares project only one star at a time. When using<br />
this single star type, two flares must be fired within 15 seconds of each<br />
other. You will need double the number of cartridges to meet the requirements<br />
of the regulations<br />
• Type C: Hand-held – a red flame torch you hold in your hand that burns for<br />
at least one minute. It offers limited surface visibility and is best for pinpointing<br />
location during an air search. Avoid looking directly at the flare while it is<br />
burning. Ignite the flare while holding it clear of the boat and down wind<br />
• Type D: Smoke (buoyant or hand-held) – produces a dense orange smoke<br />
for three minutes and is used only as a day signal. Some types only last one<br />
minute and come in packages of three, that package of 3 equals 1 flare. A<br />
canister type burns for 3 minutes and can be tossed over the side freeing<br />
up you hands for the emergency. Position your smoke flare down wind and<br />
follow the directions carefully<br />
Frequently Asked Questions.<br />
• There is no shoot off date! Flares can only be used in an emergency situation<br />
– any other time is prohibited by Annex IV #2 of the Collision Regulations.<br />
You can be fined if caught!<br />
• Flares must be Canadian Approved (DOT) for Canadian Registered vessels<br />
even if you go into the USA. Your safety gear must comply with which ever<br />
country your boat is registered<br />
• Canadian flares are legal for 4 years and it is suggested by both “The Store”<br />
and the Marine Police that you keep them another 4 to 6 years as back<br />
up – if you are in need, you don’t care how old they are. The flares do not<br />
become illegal when they are expired, however you can not count them<br />
as part of your flare package for inspection. We recommend that you write<br />
the expiry date in big letters with markers so it is easy to identify. After<br />
10 years, it is strongly recommended that you dispose of them safely, as<br />
they can become unstable. At “The Store” we have 2 collection dates: our<br />
Safety Day and Environmental Day<br />
in May. Unfortunately, there is no<br />
other easy way to dispose of flares.<br />
Lori is starting to work with Transport<br />
Canada, who is in charge of<br />
the Canadian Coast Guard, to help<br />
find a solution to this problem<br />
• As of 2007, there is now a Type B<br />
12 gauge double star burst shell,<br />
which means 1 shell now equals 1<br />
flare. There are two manufacturers<br />
that each have unique styles: the<br />
Orion flares are elongated orange<br />
shells, whereas the Comet flares<br />
are the same as the older style<br />
of shells (small and red) but have<br />
white print on them<br />
• The visibility range varies between<br />
each flare: Type B flares can be seen<br />
a maximum of 5 miles away; Type<br />
A (parachute flares) can be seen a<br />
maximum of 25 miles away! Type<br />
Ds (smoke flares) have the best visibility<br />
during the daytime – which is<br />
when most of us do our boating<br />
• The Marine Police have been very<br />
active in giving fines for inadequate<br />
safety equipment and the fines can<br />
be administered per each flare that<br />
you are short<br />
Don’t forget that Lori will have a mini<br />
“Store” set up on the PCYC ground<br />
during the lead up to the start of the<br />
LO<strong>300</strong>. There you can pick up last<br />
minute items, or order tiems that will<br />
be delivered from the main store in<br />
Port Credit.<br />
At any time, you are welcome to talk<br />
to the experts at “The Store”, watch a<br />
DVD on Safety Procedures, bring in<br />
your flare kit, and have them help you<br />
put together a great safety package.<br />
Sail now on.<br />
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on many levels. It is suitable<br />
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Available in men’s and<br />
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Offered by ‘The Store”<br />
Mason’s Chandlery<br />
Official supplier of Gill<br />
<strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong><br />
branded apparel.<br />
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Yacht Racing is a<br />
Corinthian Sport<br />
Long distance yacht racing is one of the few competitive sports where<br />
much of each event takes place well out of sight of any form of official<br />
oversight and out of sight of other competitors. It is for this reason that<br />
it is called a “Corinthian Sport”; one that relies on each competitor’s Corinthian<br />
spirit in order to keep the racing fair and equitable.<br />
This is an interesting topic not often discussed, but an article published in the October/November<br />
2010 issue of GAM has resulted in bringing the subject to life.<br />
The instigation for this article is from a new racer competing in the LO<strong>300</strong> for<br />
the first time admitted to running their engine when under difficult circumstances.<br />
While The Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS) apply to the LO<strong>300</strong> Challenge<br />
Race, there are a number of important considerations that must be taken into<br />
account with such a blanket statement.<br />
Firstly, sailing is a self-policing sport and the Organizing Authority and Race<br />
Committee are there to facilitate the racing, not to act as referees. However,<br />
the Race Committee may protest situations that no competitor could have seen<br />
using the protest process.<br />
The basic principles of the sport of sailing as stated in the Racing Rules of<br />
Sailing are:<br />
Sportsmanship and the Rules:<br />
Competitors in the sport of sailing are governed by a body of rules that<br />
they are expected to follow and enforce. A fundamental principle of<br />
sportsmanship is that when competitors break a rule they will promptly<br />
take a penalty, which may be to retire.<br />
Following on from this principle that the rules are always in affect and RRS 4:<br />
Decision to Race:<br />
The responsibility for a boat’s decision to participate in a race or to<br />
continue racing is hers alone<br />
Thus if conditions or circumstances are such that a sailboat believes that she<br />
should not continue to race or that have caused her to break a rule, then she<br />
should retire or take a penalty whichever is appropriate.<br />
The <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>300</strong> Challenge Race is new to many participants each year; either<br />
with sailboats with little racing or with only around the buoys experience. This<br />
means that many of the participants may not be as familiar with the Racing<br />
Rules of Sailing that come into play more often in long distance racing, i.e., to<br />
know what’s permissible or not under the rules in the areas of propulsion, making<br />
fast, leaving the vessel, anchoring, outside help, etc.<br />
Moreover, some of the Racing Rules are amended in the Notice of Race (NOR)<br />
and Sailing Instructions (SI’s) of the LO<strong>300</strong> or other such races to better reflect<br />
the conditions of these races. It’s important for racers to remember that the<br />
NOR, SI’s and other referenced documents in them rank as rules so the Basic<br />
Principle applies to the contents of these documents.<br />
The LO<strong>300</strong> Committee is continuously reviewing the NOR and SI’s to either<br />
change them to better reflect what is needed or improve the wording for clarity,<br />
and it is up to each competitor to make sure they know the rules and have<br />
reviewed the events SI’s and NOR.<br />
If racers realize, after they have finished, that they broke a rule, they can inform<br />
the Race Committee that they wish to Retire After Finishing and receive the<br />
score RAF. Many racers consider this score a badge of honour showing that<br />
they uphold the Basic Principle of the sport of sailing.<br />
ISAF documents are available for free on its web site, www.sailing.org. This includes<br />
The Racing Rules of Sailing themselves and other information that racers<br />
can use as reference sources.<br />
Graham Dougall<br />
Race Officer<br />
LO<strong>300</strong> Challenge Race &<br />
LO<strong>300</strong> Committee<br />
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<strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong> Challenge<br />
Trophies<br />
The LO<strong>300</strong> has over 30 trophies to be awarded. For all previous winners,<br />
please visit us online at www.lo<strong>300</strong>.org and www.pcyc.net.<br />
Overall Winner<br />
THE SPERRY CUP – Overall Combined Winner (PHRF & IRC)<br />
2010 - Afterburn Darren Gornall & Craig Pirie PCYC<br />
2009- Gizmo Marc Doedens & Ric Doedens PCYC<br />
2008- MacIntosh Dick Steigenga & David Street CBYC<br />
Line Honour Trophies<br />
THE TRITON SAILS TROPHY – Line Honours Fully Crewed Spinnaker (Main Duck)<br />
2010 - Gaucho Sandy & Larry MacDonald BCC<br />
2009 - Rampage John Odenbach RYC<br />
2008 - Defiant Rossi Milev PCYC<br />
THE NORTHERN LIGHT TROPHY – Liner Honours, Double Handed Spinnaker (Main Duck)<br />
2010 - Macintosh Dick Steigenga, J. Steigenga CBYC<br />
2009 - Plika Ian Struthers RCYC<br />
2008 - MacIntosh Dick Steigenga & David Street CBYC<br />
THE WINDANCER TROPHY – Line Honours Double Handed White Sail<br />
2010 - Southern Cross V Mike Newberry, C. Campbell RCYC<br />
2009 - Flyer Ron Ciamaga, Jeffery Majka YYC<br />
2008 - Hotfoot E. Kokbas MBSC<br />
THE LAKE ONTARIO <strong>300</strong> COMMITTEE TROPHY – Line Honours, Fully Crewed White Sail<br />
2010 - Sansei Jeffrey Imai QCYC<br />
2009 - Stormtrooper Brian Wright BHYC<br />
2009 - Blaze Glen Yates OC<br />
Overall Fleet Winners, Best Corrected Time<br />
THE STORE MASONS CHANDLERY TROPHY – Fleet Winner, Fully Crewed White Sail<br />
2010 - Impromptu Michael Cullen NCYC<br />
2009 - Stormtrooper Brian Wright BHYC<br />
2008 - Messing About Peter Broecker QCYC<br />
THE SOUTHERN CROSS CUP – Fleet Winner, Double Handed White Sail<br />
2010 - For Pete’s Sake Peter Sandford, Al Parkhill OYS<br />
2009 - Flyer Ron Ciamaga, Jeffery Majka YYC<br />
2008 - Hotfoot E. Kokbas MBSC<br />
PCYC COMMODORES CUP – Fleet Winner, Double Handed Spinnakers<br />
2010 - Upstart Bert & Steel Barrett BPYC<br />
2009 - Gizmo Marc & Ric Doedens PCYC<br />
2008 - Macintosh Dick Steigenga, Dave Street CBYC<br />
OYS COMMODORES CUP – Fleet Winner, Fully Crewed Spinnakers<br />
2010 - Afterburn Darren Gornall, Craig Pirie PCYC<br />
2009 - Rebellion Michael Kahu BPYC<br />
2008 - Jester “B” Blair Dinsdale WYC<br />
continued on next page
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Division Winners, Best Corrected Time<br />
THE GORDON ELLIOT TROPHY – Double Handed Spinnaker Division 1<br />
2010 - Upstart Bert & Steel Barrett BPYC<br />
2009 - Plika Ian Struthers RCYC<br />
2008 - Macintosh Dick Steigenga, Dave Street CBYC<br />
THE MAIN DUCK ROCK – Double Handed Spinnaker Division 2<br />
2010 - Les John Hagen & Gerrt Docherty EYC<br />
2009 - Heart Breaker Michael Judd & D. Leonard BHYC<br />
2008 - Heart Breaker Michael Judd & D. Leonard BHYC<br />
THE DOROTHY TROPHY – Double Handed Spinnaker Division 3<br />
2010 - Not Awarded<br />
2009 - Gizmo, Marc & Ric Doedens PCYC<br />
2008 - Gizmo, Marc & Ric Doedens PCYC<br />
THE PETER TAIT MEMORIAL TROPHY – Fully Crewed Spinnaker Division 1<br />
2010 - Jaeger Leszek Siek PCYC<br />
2009 - Sassafras Colin Brown RHYC<br />
2008 - Mullet Kris Werner RYC<br />
THE JOE FERNANDES TROPHY – Fully Crewed Spinnaker Division 2<br />
2010 - Afterburn D. Gornall, C. Pirie PCYC<br />
2009 - Afterburn Darren Gornall PCYC<br />
2008 - Afterburn Darren Gornall PCYC<br />
THE LIGHTHOUSE TROPHY – Fully Crewed Spinnaker Division 3<br />
2010 - Demon’s Dance Ric Doedens PCYC<br />
2009 - Seaspray Tom Reese DYC<br />
2008 - Jester “B” Blair Dinsdale WYC<br />
THE PCYC ICE BOWL – Fully Crewed Spinnaker Division 4<br />
2010 - Ragtime M. Vander Vaart HBCN<br />
2009 - Umi Taka Dennis Dice ABYC<br />
2008 - Folichon Ian McAllister PCYC<br />
THE TOM BREWSTER TROPHY – Fully Crewed Spinnaker Division 5<br />
2010 - Pardon Moi Dave Goede FPYC<br />
2009 - Folichon Ian McAllister PCYC<br />
2008 - Rebellian Michael Kahu BPYC<br />
THE PAST CHAIRMAN’S CUP – Fully Crewed Spinnaker Division 6<br />
2010 - Silver Bullet Torsten Doering TYC<br />
2009 - Rebellian Michael Kahu BPYC<br />
THE LEONARD ALKSNIS MEMORIAL TROPHY – IRC Division 1 Winners<br />
2010 - Notorious Kevin Brown NYC<br />
2009 - Rampage John Odenbach RYC<br />
2008 - Shock Therapy Gary Benner RCYC<br />
Scotch Bonnet Island Course<br />
JIM WILKINSON TROPHY – Double Handed White Sail, Division 1<br />
2010 - For Pete’s Sake P. Sandford, A. Parkhill OYS<br />
2009 - Flyer Ron Ciamaga, Jeffery Majka YYC<br />
2008 - Windriven Jonathan Vinden, David Richards PCYC<br />
JOHN SEGAERT TROPHY – Double Handed White Sail, Division 2<br />
2010 - Not Awarded<br />
2009 - Anne Bonny John & Alex Ball QCYC<br />
2008 - Hotfoot E. Kokbas, R. Foster MBSC<br />
THE ENDEAVOUR TROPHY – Fully Crewed White Sail, Division 1<br />
2010 - Sansei Jeffrey Imai QCYC<br />
2009 - Stormtrooper Brian Wright BHYC<br />
2008 - Blaze Glen Yates OC<br />
SCOTIABANK TROPHY – Fully Crewed White Sail, Division 2<br />
2010 - Gypsy Wind Ernest Pipiles TYC<br />
2009 - Arc-en-Ciel David Blizzard BPYC<br />
2008 - Messing About Peter Broecker QCYC<br />
LYN TOWNSEND TROPHY – Fully Crewed White Sail, Division 3<br />
2010 - Impromptu Michael Cullen NCYC<br />
2009 - Impromptu Michael Cullen NCYC<br />
2008 - Advantage Glen Sears Wilson YC<br />
THE RIGGING SHOPPE TROPHY – Fully Crewed White Sail, Division 4<br />
2010 - Burnin Rudder Peter Wolniak AYC<br />
2009 - Wayward Jim Wilkinson PCYC<br />
2008 - Glory “B” Ian Robertson WYC<br />
THE YACHTSMAN’S CUP – Scotch Bonnet Double Handed Spinnaker Division 1<br />
2010 - Dolce Vita Frances Doyle, Mark Hahn SBYC<br />
2009 - Doralla Kirk Allan RCYC<br />
2008 - Contessa B. Pfannkuche. T. Bubolz FBYC<br />
EXCALIBUR CUP – Scotch Bonnet Fully Crewed Spinnaker, Division 1<br />
2010 - Red Jacket Peter Milligan RCYC<br />
2009 - Sebana Stewart Lindsay BPYC<br />
THE MOUNT GAY TROPHY – Multi Hull Division<br />
2010 - Flight Simulator Tom Reese YYC<br />
2009 - Triumphant David Fice IYC<br />
2008 - Flight Simulator Tom Reese YYC<br />
THE SOLMAR PERSERVERANCE TROPHY<br />
2010 - Pearl Brent Hughes FBYC<br />
2009 - Awarded to First GLSS Competitors; W. McMinn, D. Pavlat, W. Norris<br />
2008 - Afterburn Darren Gornall, Craig Pirie PCYC<br />
2007 - Time Bandit Bernie Richard, John Hunter ABYC<br />
SKIPPERS’ PLAN TEAM CHALLENGE TROPHIES<br />
2010 - Main Duck Course A35, Starchaser, Jeager PCYC<br />
2010 - Scotch Bonnet Course Impromptu, Wind Dancer NCYC<br />
2009 - Main Duck Course Nick’s Cafe, Defiant II, Seajay PCYC<br />
2009 - Scotch Bonnet Course Ticker Tape, Wayward PCYC<br />
2008 - Main Duck Course IMXteme, Thunder, Defiant PCYC<br />
2008 - Scotch Bonnet Course Windriven, Delta G PCYC<br />
LO<strong>300</strong> CHARITY CHAMPION<br />
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2009 - Nordic Belle Torstein Braaten EYC<br />
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Action Ashore<br />
Arrival at PCYC on Friday, the registration desk will be open starting mid<br />
morning. This is where final documents are handed in, transponders are picked<br />
up and skipper and crew kits are distributed. This is also where the story telling<br />
begins and friendly challenges are made. Once that is done, skippers and their<br />
crew are invited to enjoy PCYC’s bar service and relax and enjoy our hospitality.<br />
Many of our proud sponsors will have tents set up on the lawn overlooking<br />
Although this event’s focus is on having a tremendous time on the<br />
water, there is an amazing amount of action that takes place ashore,<br />
the busy harbour. There, participants can purchase regalia, last minute items<br />
both before and after the race.<br />
they need for the race or browse for items they may want to get in the future.<br />
Please check out www.lo<strong>300</strong>.org for up-to-the-minute details and information.<br />
The Skipper’s meeting is<br />
a command performance<br />
with important information,<br />
music, and valuable<br />
door prizes.<br />
Friday evening - Skippers’ meeting. We<br />
strongly recommend that skippers and crew<br />
attend this meeting. Last minute information,<br />
tips about the race and a meteorologist’s<br />
report are some of the things that will<br />
be discussed with the sailors. The people<br />
who paid attention to the weather report<br />
last year were at quite an advantage as they<br />
knew that storm was on its way.<br />
Following all this important information is a<br />
pre-race party with live entertainment and great food.<br />
Saturday morning. Race day opens with a breakfast sponsored by Sperry Topsider.<br />
Skippers and crew can see the Sperry Cup (presented to the overall winner),<br />
enjoy a last delicious meal on land, and participate in final boasting about<br />
how well they will place in the race.<br />
Throughout the race. A member of the LO<strong>300</strong> committee is available 24 hours<br />
a day to provide any support that is needed. As the boats finish the race, everyone<br />
is welcomed with a smile and a complimentary snack no matter the hour.<br />
Main photo by Jonathan Vinden. Inset photos by Tommie Sue.
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After the Race<br />
Don’t forget that the race, and the activities that lead up to the race<br />
are only part of the overall LO<strong>300</strong> experience. There are two other<br />
“don’t miss” events you need to plan for.<br />
Post Race Party<br />
On Tuesday evening following<br />
the race, skippers, their crew and<br />
guests are welcomed to PCYC to<br />
a special post-race BBQ.<br />
This year we will be giving out<br />
flags to the first, second and<br />
third place clear winners of all<br />
divisions during this party. (If<br />
there is a protest or request for<br />
redress, we obviously will have<br />
to wait to award the flag until<br />
the results are finalised).<br />
A complimentary drink will be<br />
provided by our sponsors and<br />
a live band and slideshow of<br />
race pictures will entertain racers<br />
while they eat, socialise and swap “true” stories about the race.<br />
Awards Banquet<br />
The Awards banquet is on September 24. It will be the yacht racing event to attend<br />
with fabulous food, wonderful company and, of course, the presentation of the<br />
special prizes, trophies for all divisions, and the overall winner.<br />
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LO<strong>300</strong> Harken Awards<br />
John Osborn of Transat Marine & Harken has donated a series of “Special<br />
Awards” to be handed out each year.<br />
This tradition was created in 2009 when Bob Bugbee, owner of<br />
Defiant ll (PCYC) received the first of three 15 Year Recognition Plaques.<br />
The other LO<strong>300</strong> Harken 15 Year Awards went to Jim Johnstone (PCYC) and<br />
Paul Willis (TS&CC).<br />
Jim has raced the LO<strong>300</strong> for 15 years on the same boat - Sea Jay, a Hunter 30.<br />
Paul raced with his father for the first 5 years (1990 – 1994) aboard Moby<br />
Jane and since 1995 has raced an Elvstrom ½ Ton called Emerald. Paul has<br />
raced 19 LO<strong>300</strong>’s.<br />
Harken First To the Mark Award<br />
10 years ago the LO<strong>300</strong> awarded the first boat to the first mark (Gibraltar<br />
Point Buoy) with a “special” award, and now the tradition is back. In 2010 Jim<br />
Wilkinson sailing Wayward, a Hunter 30 from PCYC, competing in the white<br />
sail division on the Scotch Bonnet Course, was the 1st boat to Gibraltar.<br />
Harken Special Award<br />
The LO<strong>300</strong> committee wanted to recognize the universal, lifelong appeal of<br />
sailing and racing. This Harken Special Award was presented to Catchacoma, a<br />
Catalina 42 Mk ll owned by John Lever (PCYC) who sailed with 3 Generations<br />
onboard - grandparents, parents & the children.<br />
Harken Merit Awards<br />
Harken Merit Awards were presented to the rescuers who stood by Ron White’s<br />
Cheekee Monkee after being capsized and Brian Wright’s Storm Trooper after<br />
they were dismasted. 2010 recipients were:<br />
• Mike Newbury aboard Southern Cross (RCYC) for assisting Cheekee Monkee<br />
• Colin Wartman, aboard Proclivity (KYC) for assisting the dismasted Storm Trooper<br />
• Paul Delacourt aboard Cesan and Colin Bantin aboard Pagan both from<br />
BHYC also made sure all were okay before continuing the race<br />
The recipients of the Harken Merit Awards also received a special Rescue Flag.<br />
The presentation of Green Rescue Flags is a long standing PCYC tradition which<br />
recognizes skippers and crews who put the safety of fellow competitors before<br />
their own race. Each boat that helped with the rescues was granted redress (their<br />
time assisting/standing-by was deducted from their finish time). Rendering assistance<br />
in such inclement weather for countless hours in the 2010 race demonstrated<br />
great seamanship abilities and concern for fellow sailors in distress.<br />
Photo by Jonathan Vinden
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About Rating Certificates<br />
Multihull boats on the Great <strong>Lake</strong>s. Certificates are only valid on the great lakes.<br />
In order to get any certificate, you need to have the proper information on your<br />
boat, class of boat, type of keel, type of prop and sail dimensions. A lot of boats<br />
By Graham Dougall, John Crawley, Alison Jones and PHRF-LO<br />
have different versions of the same boat, tall or short rigs, deep or shallow keels,<br />
wing keels, keel centerboards etc. It is important that you provide the correct information<br />
on your application to prevent delays. Sail dimensions should be obtained<br />
from your sailmaker.<br />
In order to race, you need a rating<br />
certificate. There are three handicapping<br />
or rating systems in use<br />
on <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong>, PHRF <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong><br />
(PHRF LO) and IRC for Monohulls<br />
and GLMRA for Multihull boats.<br />
IRC is a measurement rule for cruiser/<br />
racer monohulls that is used around the<br />
world. Boats are measured and sometimes<br />
weighed to get a rating that is a<br />
Time on Time multipler. Certificates in<br />
Canada are arranged through the CYA,<br />
the measurement data is sent to the<br />
RORC in England where the certificate<br />
is issued. IRC is a “Secret” rule, so boats<br />
can not be designed to the rule. There<br />
are three IRC measurers in <strong>Ontario</strong>, 2 in<br />
the Toronto area and 1 in Sarnia.<br />
PHRF (Performance Handicap Rating<br />
Formula) is a locally administered<br />
handicapping system. PHRF-LO is the<br />
PHRF authority for <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong>. Each<br />
member Yacht Club has one or more<br />
club handicappers who look after any<br />
measurement required and process the<br />
application for their club. PHRF-LO<br />
certificates are only valid on <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong>,<br />
as each PHRF regions sets its own<br />
rating for boats and a boat might have<br />
a different rating in another PHRF area.<br />
Boats coming from <strong>Lake</strong> Erie or the St.<br />
Lawrence Valley, can get a PHRF-LO<br />
certificate at no cost by providing a<br />
valid PHRF certificate from their area<br />
to a club handicapper, a new PHRF-LO<br />
certificate will then be issued. For racers<br />
from other areas, a PHRF-LO application<br />
must be completed and a Non<br />
Member fee of $60.00 paid to PHRF-<br />
LO. The fee can be paid on PayPal.<br />
GLMRA (The Great <strong>Lake</strong>s Multihull<br />
Racing Association) issues ratings to<br />
For an IRC certificate, you need to contact an IRC Measurer, you can do this<br />
through the CYA. IRC information can be found at http://www.lorc.org/IRC.htm or<br />
http://www.sailing.ca/racing/offshore_racing_and_regulations/irc_in_canada/<br />
For a PHRF-LO certificate you need to contact your club handicapper if your club<br />
is a member of PHRF-LO or contact PHRF LO direct if your club is not a member<br />
or you are from another PHRF area. PHRF-LO information can be found at http://<br />
www.phrf-lo.org/<br />
For a GLMRA certificate contact GLMRA at http://www.lake-eriemultihull.com/<br />
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Buying Your<br />
Special Awards<br />
Boating Insurance<br />
Perseverance Trophy<br />
The Perseverance Trophy<br />
is awarded at the discretion<br />
of the LO<strong>300</strong> Com-<br />
Goes Beyond the Pricing<br />
mittee. The 2010 recipient<br />
was an understated<br />
A<br />
lower price can be appealing for any product. Insurance is no different.<br />
individual - Brent Hughes<br />
However, a lower price can sometimes translate into lower coverage<br />
aboard Pearl (FBYC).<br />
or poor service. The unfortunate result is that people are surprised<br />
when their policy doesn’t cover everything they thought it did. Unlike auto<br />
insurance, there is no standardization of coverage from one company to<br />
another for marine insurance.<br />
The best way to ensure proper coverage is<br />
to consult your broker and see if they have<br />
a marine specialist on hand. Most brokerages<br />
don’t employ one and direct writers<br />
(companies that don’t use brokers) only<br />
have access to one product so you might<br />
even have to shop around.<br />
Another detail to consider is that coverage<br />
and exclusions vary from company to<br />
company. It is important to inform your<br />
broker of what you will be using your vessel for and where you will be travelling<br />
with it. You do not want to find out at the time of a claim that you do not have<br />
proper coverage.<br />
At HUB, we house the largest variety of insurance companies. We are an international<br />
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Did you know?<br />
The first double-handed all-female team competed in the 1992 race. The boat<br />
Rebel 2 was in division PHRF 6 and was skippered by Vicky Vachon and crewed<br />
by Cathy Rutter. The team was very proud of their accomplishment particularly<br />
given that long distance racing was very new to <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> in 1992. Placing 45<br />
out of the 67 finishers was a tribute to their skill, competitiveness and tenacity.<br />
Brent struggled through<br />
his first single handed<br />
LO<strong>300</strong> dealing with<br />
halyards knotted around<br />
the top of the rigging<br />
while sleep deprived and<br />
physically exhausted.<br />
The 7th Annual Air Canada Draw<br />
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tickets to fly anywhere in North America, including Hawaii & the Caribbean<br />
courtesy of Air Canada.<br />
Air Canada, courtesy of John Segaert, has been a valued sponsor for 7 years.<br />
John is a participant of the LO<strong>300</strong> with his Hunter 33, We’re Here.<br />
In 2010 the winner was Dave Goede and his Beneteau 32s5 Pardon Moi, (FPYC).
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The GLSS<br />
<strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong><br />
Solo Challenge<br />
For diehard sailors, there is now a single handed version of the <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong><br />
<strong>300</strong> called the <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong> Solo Challenge. It is run in partnership<br />
with the Great <strong>Lake</strong>s Single Handed Society, or GLSS.<br />
The Great <strong>Lake</strong>s Singlehanded Society is an organization established for<br />
the perpetuation of the sport of solo sailing. It is one of the few organizations<br />
where no amount of money will purchase a membership, only by<br />
successfully completing a Port Huron to Mackinac, Chicago to Mackinac, Sault<br />
Ste. Marie to Duluth, the <strong>Lake</strong> Erie Solo Challenge, or the <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong><br />
Solo Challenge (LO<strong>300</strong>SC), is lifetime membership conveyed by the Society.<br />
For those who qualify, the <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong> Solo Challenge is the most challenging<br />
single handed race held on <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong>.<br />
It is offered within the larger <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong> Yacht Race, but the rules are<br />
somewhat different than those for the crewed classes. If you are interested in<br />
competing, visit the GLSS web site at www.solosailor.org/lo<strong>300</strong>.php to download<br />
the notice of race, entry form, and required equipment lists.<br />
There are also a number of special requirements for non GLSS members that<br />
want to complete.<br />
Remember that the LOSHRS 100 mile race is a valid qualifier race for the<br />
LO<strong>300</strong>SC, and in the LOSHRS portion of this <strong>Offshore</strong> Racing Guide, we include<br />
information that will help you get prepared.
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A GLSS Analysis of the 2010<br />
“Weather<br />
Event”<br />
by Wally McMinn<br />
2010 was a difficult race, especially challenging for the single handed sailors.<br />
The following is the analysis of the “Weather Event” that occurred about<br />
2 1/2 hours into the race as the fleet was passing to the south east of<br />
Toronto Island. It was prepared by Wally McMinn, a GLSS member and liaison<br />
between GLSS and the LO<strong>300</strong> committee.<br />
All GLSS Challenge events are inherently difficult, characterized by<br />
weather and many other uncertainties. The 2010 LO<strong>300</strong>SC was unique<br />
in terms of the severity of a weather event which moved across the fleet<br />
early in the regatta. From most reports, a series of three squalls hit the fleet as<br />
they passed Toronto and continued eastbound toward Main Duck Island along<br />
the north shore of <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong>. Each was characterized by high winds, with<br />
35 knots reported from the first and third line squalls, and reports of 50-60 knot<br />
winds in the second of the cells.<br />
Eleven of the seventeen solo participants were kind enough to submit reports of<br />
their experience. These provide the basis of this summary. They were asked to<br />
comment on several specific questions, as well as offer any other observations<br />
they thought relevant. It is long standing GLSS policy to use the experiences of<br />
GLSS Challenge participants to guide gear and procedure requirement revisions<br />
for the organization, and to help others make safe long distance shorthanded<br />
passages on the Great <strong>Lake</strong>s.<br />
Background<br />
The second sailing of the LO<strong>300</strong>SC drew seventeen entrants, a significant<br />
increase over the inaugural in 2009 which had three entrants. Seven of the<br />
entrants were current GLSS members; the remaining ten were first-timers in a<br />
GLSS Solo Challenge. All of the new participants had demonstrated significant<br />
prior sailing experience, as well as completing the required 100 mile/24hr<br />
Qualifying Solo Sail. The LO<strong>300</strong>SC constitutes one of many classes within the<br />
LO<strong>300</strong>, and which included approximately 180 boats at the start. Of these, approximately<br />
60-70 retired from the event, many due to the weather event.<br />
Report Summaries<br />
Was the danger anticipated and recognized? Could it have been?<br />
A weather report and prediction was included in the pre-race Skipper’s
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Meeting the evening prior to the start. The meteorologist noted the instability<br />
of the weather systems which would move through the area on race<br />
day, and emphasized the possibility of some severe weather early in the<br />
event. By most accounts, the weather briefing was one of the best pre-race<br />
reports the participants have had. In spite of this, all were surprised by<br />
the power of the squalls. Most were watching as the systems approached.<br />
Note that the solo fleet started last, and were the first to be effected by the<br />
systems.<br />
After recovering from the passage of the first system, they were able to<br />
observe what some described as “devastation”, “mayhem”, “chaos”, and<br />
“carnage” as the cells caught up with the crewed boats. Most were then<br />
surprised by the second, more powerful system. While the seas never built<br />
to high waves, the surface was described as “boiling white water”.<br />
What precautions were taken?<br />
Several of the participants chose not to set spinnakers at the start even<br />
though the weather conditions were ideal for a downwind spinnaker start.<br />
As the storms approached many were able to get spinnakers down, and<br />
reduce sail area. Those who were caught with too much sail area paid a<br />
price as autopilots were unable to control the boats downwind and allow<br />
further sail reductions. Some admitted to remaining “competitive” too long.<br />
Those who were able to sail through the first squall were overwhelmed by<br />
the second.<br />
What effect did the weather event have on the boat and crew?<br />
While seven of the solo boats had to retire from the event, no one reported<br />
personal injury, and the boats did not suffer structural damage. Sails were<br />
the most common equipment damaged, and the reason most who withdrew<br />
did so. The damage affected mainsails, headsails, and spinnakers.<br />
Those who lost only the spinnaker indicated they would likely have continued<br />
if their mainsails were intact. Only one reported having a spare main,<br />
but most had some alternative headsail.<br />
All of the skippers reported a more cautious spinnaker use as the event<br />
continued. One boat retired due to a damaged radio. One of the current<br />
GLSS members retired, and six of the first-time Challenge participants were<br />
forced to withdraw. All were able to bring their boats safely to port. Those<br />
who were able to continue reported accommodating to damaged lines,<br />
sails, and even a fouled spinnaker halyard that banged and clanked for<br />
most of the race.<br />
All also stayed tuned to the weather reports. While the LO<strong>300</strong> did not<br />
require a periodic call-in, most of the solo fleet did participate using the<br />
same schedule used in other GLSS Challenge events. Ironically, once the<br />
fleet passed the half-way point near Oswego, NY, the winds died leaving<br />
the remaining participants to deal with a light, and no-wind beat westward<br />
for the second half of the event.<br />
Of those who were able to continue, they mentioned their sailing, and<br />
previous Challenge experiences as invaluable in allowing them to react<br />
instinctively, avoid serious damage and continue. Equipment redundancy<br />
and sailing instincts were the most often cited. Some also had back-up<br />
autopilots, although none reported having to use them.<br />
Were you knocked down? Any water through the companionway, and were<br />
the hatch boards in?<br />
Most of the boats were knocked down to some degree, some almost<br />
90 o . All tried to release sheets and halyards, some of which got fouled, or<br />
clutches failed to completely release. In retrospect most of the respondents<br />
indicated they would refit with systems to make sail reduction easier<br />
when sailing downwind. Most had hatch boards in and none had sea water<br />
intrusion, even when knocked down. Those who did not have the boards<br />
in got wet cabins from the rain. Those who had ports open also got wet,<br />
but nothing more. Those boats which were not knocked down attribute it<br />
to having recognized the approaching storms astern, and reducing sail area<br />
in time. They also sensed the need to change from racing mode, to survival<br />
mode early on.<br />
Many who reported being knocked down remained so for some time, being<br />
driven sideways for what seemed like an eternity. Those who were able<br />
to clear fouled lines or sheet stoppers found their boats righted themselves<br />
as designed.<br />
Are the current GLSS gear requirements appropriate?<br />
Most agreed the requirements are adequate, with one emphasizing the<br />
need to revisit the issue. The only new gear recommendation / requirement<br />
mentioned was a personnel or ship’s EPIRB. One crewed multihull was<br />
flipped, but the crew was quickly rescued with the help of other LO<strong>300</strong><br />
participants and the Canadian Coast Guard. While all of the boats had<br />
trackers provided by the Race Committee, many of these cell phone based<br />
devices periodically would lose coverage. This underscores the need to let<br />
those ashore know they cannot be depended upon. The LO<strong>300</strong> shore side<br />
RC did a remarkable job of answering the many calls from concerned family<br />
and friends.<br />
I N N O V A T I V E S A I L I N G S O L U T I O N S
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Competing Solo<br />
particularly friendly. So I remained prudent and poled out my headsail, thinking<br />
that might be fine for now. And I was happy. It kept me at hull speed.<br />
But then my pole slipped. It had started raining by then—and the useless rubber<br />
stoppers in my (hated) telescopic pole don’t like to grip anything when<br />
they’re wet, so my 17’ pole unceremoniously parceled itself into something in<br />
by Brian Mitchell<br />
the 10-foot range and my speed dropped proportionally. I was in the middle of<br />
addressing that issue when the weather gods spanked me.<br />
The first squall wasn’t so bad, though I was somewhere on foredeck<br />
when it hit. There was absolutely no warning.<br />
The single-handed fleet was the last to start that morning, so there was<br />
nothing behind us: there were no ripping sails, no flattened boats—no carnage,<br />
in other words—to tip us off as some others reported. We were truly<br />
on our own in that respect. But we were certainly a game fleet. All around<br />
me at the start, I saw boats hoisting chutes, heeled over, going hell-bent for<br />
leather. It’s true, the wind was only about 12-15 knots, but at a very large and<br />
festive skipper’s meeting only the night before, Ron Bianchi (our weather guru)<br />
had warned of unstable systems for the next few days, and the sky didn’t look<br />
By odd coincidence, the thing I remember most vividly was, not my own, but<br />
someone else’s boat. Close on my starboard side, he had his spinnaker up, and<br />
I’ve never seen anyone round up so spectacularly and become so violently out<br />
of control. There was nothing he could do. Eventually I caught sight of his<br />
chute flying from the top of his mast like some wild flag of surrender. I couldn’t<br />
help thinking that if he’d been on my other side, our boats would have mangled<br />
together in one very ugly collision. Otherwise, I really wasn’t in bad shape.<br />
Pointed in an odd direction, as you might expect, I had 35 knots of wind<br />
insistently wrapping my headsail around the forestay. Already on the foredeck<br />
where I’d been caught, I pulled the sheets forward, untangled the mess, then<br />
simply threw the sheets, sail, everything, outboard while I rushed aft to furl the<br />
sail. The sheets stayed horizontal while I furled and I don’t think they touched<br />
the water!<br />
My headsail was a little frayed, but functioning, and it wasn’t long before all of<br />
us, it seemed, were on our feet again. As it turned out, at least two single-handers<br />
I know of had to retire after that squall. Feeling ship-shape and secure again,<br />
I phoned my wife, Maria, to report that I had seen my race-making event, I’d<br />
been tested by the gods, remained unscathed and been found worthy. For<br />
some ridiculous reason, I really did think that the worst was generally over. The<br />
rest of the race would be only a matter of finding my groove, managing sleep,<br />
and grinding away miles.<br />
But then there was the second squall. Ah, the second squall. There was a little<br />
attitude in the second squall—a loud, jeering taunt of “Who’s your daddy?”<br />
The second squall made me wonder if I’d lose sails, mast, everything.<br />
Only moments earlier, I had exchanged greetings and coordinates with a<br />
competitor and was down below when I felt the motion of the boat change a<br />
little. I didn’t waste any time—but immediately after clipping on and getting<br />
above, all hell had broken loose. And everything was up: full main, big number<br />
one. Whether by rounding up, releasing sheets or a combination of both, I<br />
somehow managed to dump power, leaving the boat with flogging sails, a lot<br />
of heel, but pushing ever-so-slightly against the gale under auto pilot. The first<br />
thing I did next was clip my locker hatches shut. The clips were there on the<br />
latches, ready for use, but why I hadn’t simply clipped the lockers shut with<br />
them before the start of the race just seemed now a bizarre act of idiocy on my<br />
part. Somewhere in the corner of my eye, I noticed that all the waves around<br />
me had been suddenly blown flat, that all water thereabouts was just one big
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whitecap. Getting the main down became an imperative because listening to<br />
its horrific flogging and watching the rig shudder was a real cause for concern.<br />
It took everything I had to pull that main down, but I eventually got a tie around<br />
it. Next, still struggling, I furled the headsail, though about two feet remained in<br />
the wind because I’d run out of furling line on the drum (it was a considerably<br />
tight furl, as you might imagine). After that, I knew I was fine—still doing about<br />
five knots—and began assessing damage.<br />
Above decks, there were several things: a more tattered headsail (though it<br />
seemed to be mostly UV stuff); the dislodged mainsail slides (track bolt disappeared,<br />
no spare); some torn canvas (flapping hideously); and the cockpit in<br />
complete disarray. So far, so good. Below decks, on the cabin sole, lay a shard<br />
of lumber about a foot and a half long, with a sizable metal fitting still attached<br />
to it. Though I knew it belonged to the boat, I had no idea what it was<br />
or where it had come from. Still, it couldn’t be good news. With a little forensic<br />
exploration, comprehension gradually dawned: in my rush to get the main<br />
down, the halyard had dislodged a single hinge, and the heel of the boat had<br />
shattered what was left hanging of my wooden companionway stairs.<br />
Try as I did to figure out a way to tie the steps back up again, the best solutions<br />
I could come up with amounted to little more than clever booby-traps waiting<br />
to catch me unawares. I considered carrying on without the steps (just tossing<br />
them forward somewhere), but in due course I took more time, pondered,<br />
and looked around. The winds were not about to go light, there were droves<br />
of mammatus clouds in the sky, and I knew that the waves at the other end of<br />
the lake would be huge. There were times I’d damn near broken my neck at<br />
the dock with the companionway steps removed. So I made my decision and<br />
gradually turned the boat toward home.<br />
“I’m done,” I told Maria on the cell phone (later she told me she was surprised<br />
because the weather at home was fine). I was about seven miles from Bluffer’s<br />
when the weather gods had finally spanked my tail between my legs, so I asked if<br />
she could pick me up at the club. And there was another thing I hoped she could<br />
do for me. I had tried several times to inform the race committee of my retirement<br />
from the race on VHF. Nothing. I heard others trying to hail the RC several<br />
times over VHF. Still nothing. Then I tried using my cell phone and got a busy<br />
signal. Okay, I thought, that made sense, they should be busy. I tried again, and<br />
this time got an answering machine. I also gave Maria an address and asked her<br />
to email someone. An inglorious end, I thought, to my glorious event.<br />
I had spent a year anticipating and preparing for that one race: a 24-hour qualifying<br />
race the summer before; paperwork for the GLSS (who govern the Solo<br />
Challenge) completed in the fall; gathering the required safety equipment over<br />
the winter; a Safety At Sea Seminar in the spring; and, of course, readying the<br />
boat itself in the months prior. I lasted three hours. And that was that.<br />
Next summer? Well, that’ll be another story. Most certainly.<br />
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June 3rd, 2011<br />
Starting at 8:00 p.m.<br />
The Coolest<br />
Race on the <strong>Lake</strong>
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The Race<br />
For those that don’t know, the Susan Hood Trophy Race is the first overnight<br />
race of the season and is sometimes affectionately referred to as the “Coolest<br />
Race on the <strong>Lake</strong>s”. Because the race is run in early June the race offers<br />
some extra special challenges and serves as an great tune up race for the<br />
entire season.<br />
In 2010 there were 77 participants, and it is expected that there will be more<br />
this year.<br />
Details<br />
The Course*<br />
The Susan Hood course is a counterclockwise circumnavigation of the west<br />
end of <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong>. The major marks include:<br />
Port Credit Yacht Club Start Line<br />
Burlington Weather Mark<br />
Niagara R2 Mark<br />
Port Credit Yacht Club Finish<br />
Divisions*<br />
2011 is the second year that double handed boats have participated in the<br />
Susan Hood Trophy Race. The complete list of division include:<br />
Flying Sails – Fully Crewed Non Flying Sails – Fully Crewed<br />
Flying Sails – Double Handed Non Flying Sails – Double Handed<br />
Registration and Fee<br />
Price is $60.00 CDN for 2011, and this includes a Sperry Top-Sider skipper shirt<br />
and a post race reception during which winners flags will be presented. For<br />
those that have seen the fantastic North Sails division winner flags awarded for<br />
the LO<strong>300</strong>, you will be thrilled to know that North Sails will be providing the<br />
division winner flags for the Susan Hood Trophy Race as well.<br />
Registration is done online at susanhood.pcyc.net<br />
You can also catch up on the latest information on Facebook.com/lo<strong>300</strong><br />
* Please refer to the SIs for the final, and official course as well as division splits.<br />
The Susan Hood Trophy Race was created in 1955 by Doug Hood, a<br />
PCYC member who offered to put up a trophy if someone would produce<br />
a simple measurement system for handicapping custom built yachts.<br />
George Cuthbertson of C&C Yachts suggested a rule that was designed by<br />
Colonal Grant from Royal Military College. It was put to the test in an early<br />
season race with a trophy named after Doug’s newborn baby daughter, Susan.<br />
Twenty five boats were measured for the first race using this rule, which become<br />
known as the <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> Rule and was used for 35 years before PHRF<br />
took over. Today, the Susan Hood Trophy is presented to the yacht winning<br />
PHRF overall, with other trophies for the division winners.<br />
Photo by Fred Harding aboard Timorian.<br />
The Susan Hood Trophy race is approximately 72 nm, starting at PCYC and<br />
rounding the Burlington weather tower, and Niagara R2 buoy before returning<br />
to PCYC. The race starts on the Friday evening of the first weekend in June,<br />
making it an overnight experience on very cold water.<br />
The Susan Hood Trophy Race has always been held at PCYC and for many years<br />
was the start of the LORC <strong>Offshore</strong> Series. As of the 2010 event, the race is now<br />
organized and managed by the LO<strong>300</strong> Organizing Committee and is recommended<br />
to anyone planning on participating in the LO<strong>300</strong> or looking for an<br />
offshore challenge early in the season. To ensure it is a proper LO<strong>300</strong> tune-up<br />
race, a double handed division was added in 2010, providing a new challenge<br />
for experienced double handed racers.
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2011 Susan Hood Trophy Race<br />
Notice of Race<br />
The Notice of Race is a formal description<br />
of the race, and outlines key dates, safety<br />
requirements, and the obligations that the<br />
skipper must accept in order to participate. It is<br />
imperative that all skippers, and ideally all competitors<br />
read and understand the Notice of Race<br />
before they accept the responsibility of competing<br />
in the Susan Hood Trophy Race.<br />
Remember<br />
Event Date Friday, June 3rd, 2011<br />
Pre-Race Social & BBQ 17:00<br />
Information Session 18:30<br />
First Gun 19:55<br />
Sperry Post Race Party - Sunday 14:30<br />
Division Winner Flag Presentation 15:00<br />
Trophies will be presented at the LO<strong>300</strong> Awards Banquet<br />
September 24th PCYC<br />
Skippers Shirts supplied by Sperry Top-Sider<br />
Division Flags supplied by North Sails<br />
1. RULES<br />
1.1 The race will be governed by the rules as defined in The Racing Rules<br />
of Sailing.<br />
1.2 The prescriptions of the Canada Yachting Association (CYA) apply for<br />
the entire race; including in US waters, see;<br />
www.sailing.ca/files/racing/rules/CYAPrescriptions2009-12.pdf<br />
1.3 The Susan Hood Trophy Race is governed by the following;<br />
Susan Hood Trophy Race Equipment & Safety Regulations available at<br />
www.susanhood.pcyc.net<br />
Port Credit Yacht Club Visiting Yacht Policy available at www.pcyc.net<br />
1.4 Racing rule(s) will be changed as follows:<br />
The provisions of Appendix Q (CYA Prescription) of the Racing Rules<br />
of Sailing shall apply to the period between 20:00hrs and 06:00hrs<br />
Rule 41 – “Outside Help” is modified herein to allow all forms of communication.<br />
Each sailboat may communicate with any person, competitor,<br />
sailboat or outside source of information available using any<br />
means available throughout the race.<br />
The changes will appear in full in the Sailing Instructions. The Sailing<br />
Instructions may also change other racing rules.<br />
1.5 Class rule(s) will be changed as follows;<br />
IRC: Sailboats are allowed to carry one additional spinnaker over the<br />
number listed in the sailboats’ IRC certificate<br />
1.6 This event is designated a Clean Regatta Bronze by the Sailors for the<br />
Sea (www.sailorsforthesea.org). By entering, all competitors agree<br />
to abide by Clean Regatta Bronze level certification requirements.<br />
Sailboats observed discharging garbage or black water (sewage with<br />
faeces) into <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> or harbours will be protested and the penalty<br />
is disqualification from the Susan Hood Trophy Race. Any such<br />
disqualification may be used by the Organizing Authority whether to<br />
accept future registrations by this sailboat or owner.<br />
1.7 In case of differences between this Notice of Race and the Sailing<br />
Instructions, the Sailing Instructions shall apply<br />
2. ADVERTISING<br />
Boats may be required to display advertising chosen and supplied by the<br />
organizing authority.<br />
3. ELIGIBILITY AND ENTRY<br />
3.1 The LO<strong>300</strong> Committee, upon application and subsequent review of<br />
technical evidence as to the heavy weather stability and crew comfort<br />
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of a vessel may, at their sole discretion and without appeal, accept or<br />
reject such vessel as suitable for this race.<br />
3.2 Eligible yachts may be entered in the race by registering online at<br />
www.susanhood.pcyc.net.<br />
3.3 The race is open to monohull sailboats in a one design class or handicap<br />
class, with a valid rating certificate.<br />
Divisions<br />
Double Handed IRC<br />
Double Handed PHRF-LO Flying Sails (FS)<br />
Double Handed PHRF-LO No Flying Sails (NFS)<br />
Fully Crewed IRC<br />
Fully Crewed PHRF-LO Flying Sails (FS)<br />
Fully Crewed PHRF-LO No Flying Sails (NFS)<br />
Divisions shall be sub-divided into Fleets. The LO<strong>300</strong> Committee shall<br />
assign sailboats to fleets based on number of sailboats registered.<br />
If sufficient sailboats in a one design class register, a division will be<br />
created for them.<br />
3.4 Handicapped monohull sailboats shall hold a valid PHRF-LO or IRC<br />
certificate. For sailboats from outside the PHRF-LO area, arrangements<br />
must be made in advance to obtain a PHRF-LO certificate. Contact<br />
the Organizing Authority or PHRF-LO directly, well in advance of the<br />
event, to obtain details on accomplishing this.<br />
3.5 Supporting documentation for a complete entry includes all information<br />
requested in the online entry form as well as the yacht’s valid<br />
rating certificate number, insurance information, crew information and<br />
payment of the entry fee.<br />
3.6 Sailboats entered in a Double Handed Division shall be crewed only<br />
by a skipper and one other crew, both of whom shall be not less than<br />
18 years of age. Skippers in the Fully Crewed Division shall be not less<br />
than 18 years of age and at least one other crew member shall not be<br />
less than 18 years of age.<br />
3.7 The Double Handed Division for those with experience in either single<br />
or double handed racing and the LO<strong>300</strong> Committee, at their sole discretion<br />
and without appeal, can accept or reject such boat and crew<br />
as suitable for this race in the double handed classes.<br />
3.8 Competitors’ sailboats shall only display a sail number registered<br />
specific to the sailboat at the time of its commission. Requests, on the<br />
Alternate Sail Number Form, to display alternative sail numbers to the<br />
sailboat’s commissioned sail number may be approved by the LO<strong>300</strong><br />
Race Committee and must be filed with the registrar prior to the Participants<br />
Meeting.<br />
4. FEES<br />
4.1 Required fees are as follows:<br />
All Classes<br />
5. SCHEDULE<br />
$60.00 CAD<br />
5.1 Registration online at www.susanhoad.pcyc.net until 23:59 EDT, Monday,<br />
May 30, 2011<br />
5.2 There is an information meeting for competitors at 18:30 EDT, Friday<br />
June 3, 2011 on the patio at Port Credit Yacht Club.<br />
5.3 Division and fleet splits and starting sequence shall be posted by June<br />
1, 2011 at www.susanhood.pcyc.net.<br />
5.2 The warning signal is at 19:55 EDT, Friday, June 3, 2011.<br />
6. MEASUREMENTS AND INSPECTIONS<br />
A sailboat may be inspected at any time. The Race Committee may, at the<br />
finish of the race, direct a sailboat to proceed directly to a designated loca-
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tion at Port Credit Yacht Club. A sailboat which fails to follow such directions<br />
or which subsequently fails the inspection may be protested by the<br />
Race Committee<br />
7. SAILING INSTRUCTIONS<br />
The sailing instructions will be available at www.susanhood.pcyc.net by<br />
May 20, 2011.<br />
8. VENUE AND THE COURSE<br />
The venue is Port Credit Yacht Club, with the start and finish off Port Credit<br />
Yacht Club. The course is 73 NM in length and will be from the start, to<br />
the Burlington Weather Tower, to the Niagara Buoy “R2”, to the Port Credit<br />
Yacht Club.<br />
9. PENALTY SYSTEM<br />
The Scoring Penalty, rule 44.3, will apply, with 44.3 (c) is changed so that<br />
the penalty assessed will be 30 minutes added to her elapsed time.<br />
10. SCORING<br />
For sailboats racing under PHRF-LO, PHRF-LO Time-on-time will be used<br />
to calculate the corrected time. For sailboats racing under IRC, the IRC Rule<br />
will be used.<br />
11. BERTHING<br />
Sailboats berthing at PCYC before or after the race must follow PCYC’s Visiting<br />
Yachts’ Policy including pre-registration available at www.pcyc.net.<br />
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12. RADIO COMMUNICATION<br />
Each yacht may communicate with any person, competitor, yacht or outside<br />
source of information available using any means available throughout the<br />
race.<br />
13. PRIZES<br />
Trophies and/or flags shall be awarded to the winning yachts in each Division<br />
and Fleet.<br />
A list of the trophies awarded, their eligibility requirements and selection<br />
methodology is available at the www.susanhood.pcyc.net web site.<br />
Flags will be presented at the party on the evening of Saturday, June 4, 2011 at PCYC.<br />
The trophies will be presented at the joint SHTR/LO<strong>300</strong> Challenge Race<br />
Banquet on Saturday September 24, 2011 at the Port Credit Yacht Club.<br />
14. DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY<br />
Sailing is an activity that has an inherent risk of damage and injury. Competitors<br />
in this event are participating entirely at their own risk. See RRS 4,<br />
Decision to Race. The race organizers (organizing authority, race committee,<br />
protest committee, host club, sponsors, or any other organization or<br />
official) will not be responsible for damage to any boat or other property or<br />
the injury to any competitor, including death, sustained as a result of participation<br />
in this event. By participating in this event, each competitor agrees<br />
to release the race organizers from any<br />
and all liability associated with such<br />
competitor’s participation in this event<br />
to the fullest extent permitted by law.<br />
15. INSURANCE<br />
Each participating boat shall be insured<br />
with a valid third-party liability insurance<br />
policy with a minimum cover of<br />
$2,000,000 CAD per event for Canadian<br />
boats and an adequate level of<br />
third-party liability insurance applicable<br />
in Canadian and US waters for non-<br />
Canadian boats.<br />
16. FURTHER INFORMATION<br />
For further information, including social<br />
events, please see<br />
www.susanhood.pcyc.net.<br />
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<strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong><br />
Short Handed<br />
Racing Series<br />
2011
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The Organizing Committee<br />
The LOSHRS Stein<br />
Every boat that competes in LOSHRS receives a beautiful glass stein<br />
with the boat name, club, and the year. This is one of the traditions<br />
we hold dear, and many now have a large collection!<br />
PORT CREDIT YACHT CLUB<br />
Phone: 905-278-5578 Fax: 905-278-2519<br />
COMMODORE<br />
Peter Rourke<br />
REAR COMMODORE<br />
Don French<br />
LOSHRS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<br />
(Under the authority of the Port Credit Yacht Club)<br />
Ian McAllister (PCYC) Co-Chair<br />
Jonathan Vinden (PCYC) Co-Chair<br />
Robin Ball (PCYC) Treasurer<br />
Ric Doedens (PCYC) Sponsorship<br />
Joe Doris (PCYC) Member at Large<br />
Carolyn Archibald (PCYC) Communications<br />
Ron Watt (PCYC) Trophies<br />
Alison Jones (OYS) Member at Large<br />
Race Officer: Graham Dougall (QCYC) (egd@securefail.com)<br />
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT<br />
Ian McAllister (905-823-1071)<br />
or<br />
Jonathan Vinden (jvinden@brickworksonline.com)<br />
FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION, VISIT<br />
www.loshrs.com<br />
Please complete the online registration.<br />
The <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>Offshore</strong> Racing Guide has been designed and<br />
produced by Jonathan Vinden.<br />
Printing courtesy of Pitney Bowes.<br />
Double handed boats get two steins,<br />
single handed competitors one.<br />
It is only thorough the generosity and contribution of time from many of the 2011<br />
executive that this guide to Long Distance Racing on <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> has become a<br />
reality.
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Welcome to LOSHRS<br />
Dear Racers,<br />
On behalf of the organizing committee of the <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> Short Handed<br />
Racing Series (LOSHRS), it is our pleasure to invite you to participate in<br />
the 2011 season.<br />
As many of you know, single and double handed racing continues to grow<br />
in popularity here on <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> as well as many other placed around the<br />
world. It is ideal for those that are looking for a challenge trying out their own<br />
sailing ability against a friendly and supportive fleet, as well as those that are<br />
tired of organizing a large crew for weekend regattas. The LOSHRS committee<br />
works hard to make this a fun and safe, yet challenging test of sailing skill.<br />
Remember, LOSHRS is still only four action packed weekends in the summer,<br />
which means the mid-summer sailing season remains open for cruising<br />
or so you can compete in other events such as the <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> <strong>300</strong>.<br />
We are sure that you will enjoy LOSHRS’s focus on long distance, destination<br />
oriented racing, as well the camaraderie amongst the skippers and<br />
their dedicated crew. In 2010 over 115 yachts registered, and the series<br />
averaged 70 boats on the starting line for each race. The yachts were organized<br />
into 12 fleets for tight, fair competition, and over 30 trophies were<br />
awarded to those that overcome challenges in the various races, and also<br />
won in the overall series.<br />
We urge you to join us this year, and really challenge yourself. Short<br />
handed racing is a great way to prove yourself as a sailor while having a<br />
huge amount of fun.<br />
Jonathan Vinden and Ian McAllister<br />
Co-chairs of LOSHRS<br />
Windriven racing back to PCYC from Port Dalhousie, 2010. Photo Val Matison.
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Race Dates<br />
Fees<br />
The <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> Short Handed Racing Series only takes up 4 weekends<br />
LOSHRS works hard to keep its fees as low as possible. This is due in part to<br />
during the year, and it leaves the mid summer months open for cruising or<br />
the generosity of the sponsors, as well as the hard work of the organizing committee.<br />
participation in the LO<strong>300</strong> race.<br />
Each LOSHRS race has a skipper and crew meeting the Friday night before<br />
The cost for the entire series is $140.<br />
the event, except for the short course race that has the meeting the morning<br />
of the actual race.<br />
It costs $40 to participate in a single race and $80 for a two race weekend.<br />
Please put these dates into your calendars.<br />
Date<br />
June 5 th<br />
June 18 th<br />
June 19 th<br />
August 20 th & 21 st<br />
September 17 th<br />
September 18 th<br />
November 5 th<br />
Event<br />
Short Course Race<br />
PCYC to Youngstown Race<br />
Youngstown to PCYC Race<br />
100 Mile, Long Distance Race<br />
PCYC to Port Dalhousie Race<br />
Port Dalhousie to PCYC Race<br />
Awards Banquet<br />
How to Register<br />
Please register online by going to www.loshrs.com.<br />
Click on the link to the LOSHRS online registration system. Fill out the form,<br />
and pay using a major credit card. You will need to read and accept the waiver<br />
before you can complete the transaction and register.<br />
Photo by Bob Ferguson, taken at the start of the 2009 Port Dalhousie to PCYC race. It started out light,<br />
but within minutes of the start, the wind filled, and the majority of the race was in 10 to 15 knots of breeze.
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So What Exactly is<br />
After 20 years of happily cruising on Georgian Bay,<br />
it was time for a new lake and a new challenge.<br />
Up until the move to <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong>, we were<br />
LOSHRS?<br />
racing if we were in front of someone and cruising if we<br />
were behind. We had a lot to learn. Decades of cruising<br />
and overnight anchoring had taught me the exceptional<br />
skill of how to keep your boat absolutely stationary for<br />
extended periods. Good to know for “cocktails” but<br />
by Ric Doedens<br />
not much help in racing. Ready for anything when we<br />
arrived at PCYC in 2004, one of the first race series we<br />
joined was LOSHRS.<br />
Six years later, we have done it all. Besides LOSHRS, we<br />
have raced white-sail, spinnaker, one-design, PHRF, fully<br />
crewed, shorthanded, round-the-cans and long-distance<br />
and have enjoyed them all. But if I were forced to pick<br />
one series only, without hesitation it would be the<br />
LOSHRS. In all the sailboat racing I have done, LOSHRS<br />
has been the most challenging and yet the least stressful,<br />
the most rewarding and without a doubt, the most<br />
fun. How can this be? What creates this kind of magic<br />
combination?<br />
A portion of the 2010 LOSHRS fleet rafted at Youngstown Yacht Club. Some boats elect to stay<br />
on the Canadian side at Niagara, and others are further up the wall to the south.<br />
Photo by Jonathan Vinden<br />
First and foremost – it’s the people. The series seems to<br />
be a magnet for exceptionally remarkable human beings.<br />
Not every race series can boast this quality. Be prepared<br />
to make lifelong friends.<br />
Then there is the inclusiveness. As a PHRF-LO event, the<br />
LOSHRS is open to all boats whether cruising or racing<br />
design that meet the minimum length (20’) and safety<br />
standards. As a result we have Crealock 34’s racing<br />
alongside Schock 40’s and J-24’s racing alongside J-35’s.<br />
Even though you are grouped into classes that have<br />
similar PHRF ratings, everyone is racing together toward<br />
the same finish line at the same time! This is not possible<br />
with most traditional regattas and it is a great treat<br />
to be part of a 75 to 100 boat fleet charging across the<br />
lake together. Better yet, at the end of the race, you can<br />
compare your performance against all other boats in the<br />
fleet. It is not uncommon for the rocket ships in the fleet<br />
to be humbled by a well-sailed “white-sail” cruiser.<br />
Thirdly, there is the challenge. As a short-handed racer,<br />
you must harness all the skills you previously learned on<br />
the race course with your full crew and now do them all<br />
yourself - simultaneously. How hard can it be? Actually,<br />
not as hard as you might think.
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Unlike “round-the-cans” racing where a crack team of<br />
specialists are needed to skillfully complete the course<br />
and where a single split second mistake will cost you<br />
the race, the “point to point” racing in LOSHRS need<br />
only be as intense as you wish and is generally far more<br />
relaxed as you rarely find yourself in close-quarters with<br />
your competition. If you normally cruise with you wife,<br />
you can race with her in LOSHRS and do very well and<br />
have fun doing it.<br />
Lastly, there is the event itself. Depending on who you<br />
speak to, one person will describe LOSHRS as a cruise<br />
disguised as a race while another will describe it as a<br />
race disguised as a cruise. These are long distance races<br />
made up of a one-day event, two back-to-back weekend<br />
events across the lake and a 100 Miler overnight race.<br />
Each long enough to provide challenge and adventure but<br />
short enough to include a healthy dose of pre and post<br />
race socializing with good friends. The skills exhibited on<br />
the water are regularly outdone by the culinary delights,<br />
which appear out of nowhere when the racing has ended<br />
and the re-cap, bragging and trash-talk begins. The ‘yarns’<br />
told on shore clearly prove that ‘embellishment’ is not a<br />
lost art.<br />
In my book, there is no better<br />
combination of challenge, good<br />
fun and camaraderie to be had on<br />
the lake, all the while enjoying the<br />
pure pleasure of sailing at it’s very<br />
best. Add a very gratifying sense<br />
of personal accomplishment and<br />
a very real increase in your sailing<br />
skills and confidence and you have<br />
an unbeatable combination.<br />
Come on out and join us. You may<br />
not win every race, but no matter<br />
what, you can’t lose.<br />
LOSHRS is pleased to introduce you to a<br />
new sponsor - Diamond Estate Wines &<br />
Spirits, and especially their Famous Newfoundland<br />
Screech Rum. Come on out to<br />
our skippers meetings, and there is a good<br />
chance you can win a wee bit of Screech<br />
for yourself!<br />
The Story<br />
of Screech<br />
Long before any liquor board was created,<br />
the Jamaican rum that was eventually<br />
to be known as Screech was a<br />
mainstay of the Newfoundland diet. Salt fish<br />
was shipped to the West Indies in exchange<br />
for rum; the fish became the national dish of<br />
Jamaicans and the rum became the traditional<br />
drink of Newfoundlanders.<br />
Not being overly concerned with alcohol<br />
content, the early fishermen tended to drink<br />
the rum at incredibly high strength with no<br />
attempt made to temper the taste. When the<br />
Canadian government took control of the<br />
alcohol trade in the early 20th century, they<br />
put the rum in a sophisticated, unlabelled<br />
bottle and fortunately did not alter the rum<br />
itself. This delightful product may have continued<br />
indefinitely as a nameless rum except<br />
for the influx of American servicemen to<br />
Newfoundland during World War II.<br />
As the story goes, the commanding officer<br />
of the first detachment was taking advantage<br />
of Newfoundland hospitality for the first<br />
time and was offered a drop of rum as an<br />
after dinner drink. Seeing his host toss back<br />
the liquor with nary a quiver, the unsuspecting<br />
American adhered to local custom and<br />
downed the drink in one gulp.
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The look of shock and the glorious shades of color<br />
The 2011 LOSHRS<br />
on the American’s face were overshadowed by<br />
the bloodcurdling howl made by the poor fellow<br />
Notice of Race<br />
as he managed to regain his breath. Sympathetic<br />
persons from miles around rushed to the house<br />
to assist the poor man in such obvious agony and<br />
of course to satisfy their curiosity as to what was<br />
going on. Among the first to arrive was a garrulous<br />
old American sergeant who pounded on the door<br />
and demanded “What the cripes was that ungodly<br />
screech?”<br />
The taciturn Newf who had answered the door replied<br />
simply, “The screech?” ‘Tis the rum, me son.”<br />
Thus was born a legend. As word of the incident<br />
was passed around, the soldiers determined to try<br />
this mysterious “screech” and finding its effects as<br />
devastating as the name implies, adopted it as their<br />
favorite.<br />
The liquor board immediately pounced on the<br />
name and reputation and began labeling Famous<br />
Newfoundland Screech. Over the years, the alcohol<br />
content of Screech has been toned down and<br />
the flavor mellowed, so that in 2003, Screech Rum<br />
won a gold medal for excellent taste at the International<br />
Rum Festival. Today, Screech remains a<br />
Newfoundland favorite.<br />
The Notice of Race is a formal description of<br />
the race, and outlines key dates, safety requirements,<br />
and the obligations that the skipper must<br />
accept in order to participate. It is imperative<br />
that all skippers, and ideally all competitors<br />
read and understand the Notice of Race before<br />
they accept the responsibility of competing in<br />
any of the LOSHRS races.<br />
1. RULES<br />
1.1 The race will be governed by the rules as<br />
defined in The Racing Rules of Sailing.<br />
1.2 The prescriptions of the Canada Yachting Association (CYA) apply for<br />
the entire race; including in US waters, see<br />
www.sailing.ca/files/racing/rules/CYAPrescriptions2009-12.pdf<br />
1.3 Applicable Class Rules<br />
Sailboats racing in PHRF, the PHRF-LO rules shall apply.<br />
1.4 The <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> Short-Handed Series is governed by the following-<br />
LOSHRS Equipment and Safety Regulations available at www.loshrs.<br />
com and the Port Credit Yacht Club Visiting Yacht Policy available at<br />
www.pcyc.net<br />
1.5 Racing rule(s) will be changed as follows:<br />
The provisions of Appendix Q (CYA Prescription) of the Racing Rules<br />
of Sailing shall apply to the period between 2000hrs and 0600hrs.<br />
Rule 41 – “Outside Help” is modified herein to allow all forms of communication.<br />
Each yacht may communicate with any person, competitor,<br />
sailboat or outside source of information available using any means<br />
available throughout the race.<br />
The changes will appear in full in the Sailing Instructions. The Sailing<br />
Instructions may also change other racing rules.<br />
1.6 In case of differences between this Notice of Race and the Sailing<br />
Instructions, the Sailing Instructions shall apply<br />
2. ADVERTISING<br />
Sailboats may be required to display advertising chosen and supplied<br />
by the organizing authority.
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3. ELIGIBILITY AND ENTRY<br />
3.1 The LOSHRS Committee, upon application and subsequent review of<br />
technical evidence as to the heavy weather stability and crew comfort<br />
of a vessel may, at their sole discretion and without appeal, accept or<br />
reject such vessel as suitable for this race.<br />
3.2 Eligible yachts may be entered in the race by registering online at<br />
www.loshrs.com web site.<br />
3.3 The race is open to monohull sailboats, 20 ft. LOA or greater. Divisions<br />
will include Flying Sails (FS) and No Flying Sails (NFS) either Singled<br />
Handed or Double Handed.<br />
3.4 Handicapped monohull sailboats shall hold a valid PHRF-LO certificate.<br />
For sailboats from outside the PHRF-LO area, arrangements must<br />
be made in advance to obtain a PHRF-LO certificate. Contact the Organizing<br />
Authority or PHRF-LO directly, well in advance of the event,<br />
to obtain details on accomplishing this.<br />
3.5 Supporting documentation for a complete entry includes all information<br />
requested in the online entry form as well as the yacht’s valid<br />
rating certificate number, insurance information, crew information and<br />
payment of the entry fee.<br />
3.6 All skippers must be 18 years of age or older.<br />
3.7 Divisions and Fleets<br />
Division a PHRF Rating Back Stay Flag b<br />
Single Handed - No Flying Sails NFS All Numeral Pennant “1”<br />
Single Handed - Flying Sails FS All Numeral Pennant “2”<br />
Double Handed - No Flying Sails NFS All Numeral Pennant “3”<br />
Double Handed - Flying Sails FS 144 & up Numeral Pennant “4”<br />
FS 75-141 inclusive Numeral Pennant “5”<br />
FS 72 & below Numeral Pennant “6”<br />
a<br />
Divisions will be split into fleets based on PHRF rating. These splits will be published<br />
at the first competitors’s meeting<br />
b<br />
Sailboats shall fly the listed numeral pennant, for their division and PHRF rating for<br />
which they are racing, from their backstay or other prominent position if she has no<br />
backstay.<br />
4. FEES<br />
4.1 Required fees are as follows:<br />
Full Season Until January 31, 2011 $100.00 CAD<br />
On & after February 1, 2011 $140.00 CAD<br />
Single Race*<br />
$40.00 CAD<br />
*Each Saturday and Sunday race of the two day YYC and DYC weekends count as an<br />
individual race<br />
5. SCHEDULE<br />
Race Number Competitors’ Meeting Race<br />
Time Location First Warning<br />
Race 1 09:30 Sun. Jun. 5 PCYC 11:25 Sun. Jun. 5<br />
Race 2 19:30 Fri. Jun. 17 PCYC 09:55 Sat. Jun 18<br />
Race 3 09:55 Sun. Jun 19<br />
Race 4 19:30 Fri. Aug. 19 PCYC 09:55 Sat. Aug. 20<br />
Race 5 19:30 Fri. Sep. 16 PCYC 09:55 Sat. Sep. 17<br />
Race 6 09:55 Sun. Sep. 18<br />
6. MEASUREMENTS AND INSPECTIONS<br />
A sailboat may be inspected at any time. The Race Committee may, at the<br />
finish of the race, direct a sailboat to proceed directly to a designated location.<br />
A sailboat which fails to follow such directions or which subsequently<br />
fails the inspection may be protested by the Race Committee<br />
7. SAILING INSTRUCTIONS<br />
The sailing instructions will be available at www.loshrs.com by<br />
May 20, 2011.<br />
8. VENUE AND THE COURSE<br />
Race Start Course Length<br />
Number<br />
1 South of PCYC PCYC to west-end of Toronto Islands 12 NM<br />
2 South of PCYC PCYC to YYC 28 NM<br />
3 North of YYC YYC to PCYC 28 NM<br />
4 South of PCYC PCYC to PCYC 100 NM<br />
5 South of PCYC PCYC to DYC 25 NM<br />
6 North of DYC DYC to PCYC 25 NM<br />
9. PENALTY SYSTEM<br />
The Scoring Penalty, rule 44.3, will apply, with 44.3 (c) is changed so that<br />
the penalty assessed will be 30 minutes added to her elapsed time.<br />
10. SCORING<br />
For sailboats racing under PHRF-LO, PHRF-LO time-on-time will be used to<br />
calculate the corrected time. The low point scoring system RRS A2 for an<br />
extended series will be used for series scoring.
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For Overall Trophies and Fleet Series Winners (White Flags):<br />
Eligibility: A sailboat must rank as a finisher in the Long Distance Race<br />
Methodology: A sailboat’s score is calculated as follows;<br />
Races scored as completed race<br />
One to four<br />
Five<br />
Six<br />
Races<br />
All races included<br />
From the same fleet as she raced in the Long Distance Race.<br />
11. BERTHING<br />
Long Distance & best three races included<br />
Long Distance & best three races included<br />
Sailboats berthing at PCYC before or after the race must follow PCYC’s Visiting<br />
Yachts’ Policy including pre-registration available at;<br />
www.loshrs.com (in column on right of page)<br />
12. RADIO COMMUNICATION<br />
Each sailboat may communicate with any person, competitor, sailboat or<br />
outside source of information available using any means available throughout<br />
the race.<br />
13. PRIZES<br />
Flags shall be awarded as follows;<br />
Individual Races:<br />
Flags are awarded for first, second and third.<br />
Fleet Series:<br />
A white flag will be awarded for first place in each fleet as with series<br />
scoring as defined in Section 10 Scoring.<br />
Trophies:<br />
A list of the trophies awarded, their eligibility<br />
requirements and selection methodology<br />
is available at the www.loshrs.com<br />
web site.<br />
Awards Night shall be Saturday November 5,<br />
2011 at the Port Credit Yacht Club. www.pcyc.<br />
net.<br />
14. DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY<br />
Sailing is an activity that has an inherent risk of<br />
damage and injury. Competitors in this event<br />
are participating entirely at their own risk. See<br />
RRS 4, Decision to Race. The race organizers<br />
(organizing authority, race committee, protest<br />
committee, host club, sponsors, or any other<br />
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organization or official) will not be responsible for damage to any boat or<br />
other property or the injury to any competitor, including death, sustained<br />
as a result of participation in this event. By participating in this event, each<br />
competitor agrees to release the race organizers from any and all liability<br />
associated with such competitor’s participation in this event to the fullest<br />
extent permitted by law.<br />
15. INSURANCE<br />
Each participating boat shall be insured with a valid third-party liability<br />
insurance policy with a minimum cover of $2,000,000 CAD per event for<br />
Canadian boats and an adequate level of third-party liability insurance applicable<br />
in Canadian and US waters for non-Canadian boats.<br />
16. FURTHER INFORMATION<br />
For further information, including social events and for docking arrangements,<br />
please visit www.loshrs.com.
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The 2011 LOSHRS<br />
Equipment Requirements<br />
PREAMBLE<br />
The safety of a sailboat and her crew is the sole and inescapable responsibility<br />
of the skipper, who must do his/her best to ensure that the sailboat is<br />
fully sound and thoroughly seaworthy. The skipper should be confident that<br />
he/she is physically fit to face bad weather, and is thoroughly familiar with<br />
the sailboat and her systems. He/she must be satisfied as to the soundness<br />
of the hull, spars, rigging, sails and all gear. He/she must ensure that the<br />
safety equipment is properly maintained and stowed, and that he/she knows<br />
precisely where it is kept and how it is used.<br />
In this document, approved means approved by the sailboat’s country of registry.<br />
1. GENERAL<br />
1.1 Neither the establishment of these equipment requirements, nor the<br />
inspection of a sailboat for compliance with the list, in any way limits<br />
the complete and unlimited responsibility of the skipper, to ensure both<br />
he/she and the sailboat are fully prepared to compete in any of the<br />
races of this series, in which she starts.<br />
1.2 It shall be the responsibility of the skipper to ensure that the sailboat is<br />
equipped in compliance with these requirements prior to the skipper’s<br />
meeting of the first race in the series for which she is entered, and that<br />
all required equipment is on board for each race.<br />
1.3 All required equipment shall;<br />
• Function properly<br />
• Be readily accessible<br />
• Be of a type, size, and capacity suitable and adequate for the<br />
intended use, and for the size of the sailboat<br />
1.4 All sailboats shall comply with government regulations of the country<br />
of registry.<br />
2. STRUCTURAL FEATURES<br />
2.1 Hatches and companionway must be essentially watertight, and capable<br />
of being closed securely with hardware.<br />
2.2 Self-bailing cockpit with adequate drains.<br />
2.3 Stanchions, lifelines and pulpits, in good order where such equipment<br />
is a recognized feature of the class of sailboat.<br />
2.4 A longitudinal system of safety lines fitted in such a way that a crewmember<br />
can clip on and move the full length of the sailboat. Such a<br />
system should have a breaking strain of at<br />
least 2,000kg. (4,000 lbs.).<br />
3. THROUGH HULL FITTING<br />
3.1 Sea cocks or valves on all openings below<br />
the water line, except for integral deck<br />
scuppers, shaft logs, speed indicators,<br />
depth sounders, etc. A means of closing<br />
such openings when necessary shall be<br />
provided.<br />
3.2 Soft wood plugs or rigid foam plastic<br />
cones, tapered and of appropriate size to<br />
close all through-hull fittings. Plug shall be<br />
attached with a lanyard to each through<br />
hull fittings.<br />
4. HEAVY OBJECTS<br />
4.1 Ballast, batteries, anchors and other heavy<br />
equipment shall be securely fastened so<br />
as to prevent them shifting.<br />
5. MECHANICAL<br />
5.1 Inboard or outboard auxiliary engine in<br />
good working order.<br />
5.2 Sailboats shall carry enough fuel to motor<br />
at hull speed for at least 4 hours.<br />
5.3 There shall be a means of recharging<br />
the primary operating battery or batteries,<br />
however if batteries are dependent<br />
on shore power for recharging, it will be<br />
acceptable to start any race with two fully<br />
charged batteries.<br />
5.4 Self-steering is recommended.<br />
5.5 At least one manually operated bilge pump, securely mounted and operable<br />
with all hatches closed. The handle shall be fitted with a lanyard.<br />
6. ACCOMMODATION<br />
6.1 Permanently fitted bunks.<br />
6.2 Galley facilities adequate for food storage and preparation.<br />
6.3 Cooking stove securely mounted and with an adequate supply of fuel.<br />
6.4 Propane tanks, if carried, shall be securely fastened and vented overboard.<br />
6.5 Water tanks or containers having two days’ supply of potable water (2<br />
liters per person per day).<br />
6.6 Permanently installed marine toilet.<br />
The Rigging Shoppe is a<br />
family owned chandlery<br />
located at 44 Midwest Road<br />
in Toronto. They have been<br />
supporters of short handed<br />
and offshore racing for<br />
several years.<br />
The Rigging Shoppe can be<br />
contacted toll free at<br />
1-877-752-1711<br />
www.riggingshoppe.ca<br />
The Store, Mason’s Chandler<br />
has supported LOSHRS<br />
for many years, both with<br />
prizes and promotions, as<br />
well as support and training.<br />
Lori demonstrates new and<br />
improved safety equipment<br />
at our presentations<br />
Contact Lori Mason<br />
toll free at (800) 263-1506
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7. NAVIGATION<br />
7.1 Steering compass properly mounted and<br />
adjusted.<br />
7.2 Hand bearing compass.<br />
7.3 Sound signaling device – air horn, bell or<br />
equivalent.<br />
7.4 Knot meter/log, depth-sounder installed<br />
and operating.<br />
7.5 GPS carried and operating.<br />
7.6 Installed 25 watt VHF radio.<br />
In addition, an emergency antenna or a<br />
hand-held VHF radio. If the VHF is not<br />
capable of receiving weather bulletins,<br />
an additional radio capable of receiving<br />
weather transmissions shall be carried.<br />
It is recommended that the 25 watt VHF radio;<br />
• Has a wired or wireless microphone<br />
in the cockpit<br />
• Is DSC capable<br />
• Is linked to the GPS<br />
• Is programmed with MMSI assigned<br />
to it<br />
7.7 Binoculars suitable for marine use.<br />
7.8 Current charts, either electronic or paper.<br />
If electronic, a backup paper set is required,<br />
whether current or not.<br />
7.9 A current copy of Transport Canada’s Safe<br />
Boating Guide.<br />
7.10 A current copy of The Racing Rules of<br />
Sailing (RRS).<br />
7.11 A current copy of the LOSHRS Sailing<br />
Instructions.<br />
8. GROUND TACKLE<br />
8.1 At least one anchor appropriate for the<br />
size of the sailboat with a minimum of<br />
200 ft. of anchor rode, rigged for immediate<br />
use, and easily accessible. It is recommended<br />
that the bitter end of the anchor<br />
rode be strongly attached to the sailboat<br />
by means of a rope lashing, which can be<br />
cut in an emergency.<br />
Alex Milne Associates<br />
strives to develop, manufacture<br />
and market products<br />
that have a positive, smaller<br />
environmental footprint.<br />
Leading Canadian environmental,<br />
boating, and government<br />
organizations continue<br />
to back these industry-leading<br />
products.<br />
www.alexmilne.com<br />
Data Print Management is<br />
owned by George Minarik, a<br />
long standing single hander,<br />
and skipper of Entre Amis.<br />
DPM sponsors the keeper<br />
plaques and helps out with<br />
the printing of SIs and Notice<br />
of Race.<br />
What does GAM mean?<br />
“To call upon, chat with and<br />
otherwise communicate<br />
with, as officers and crew of<br />
another vessel”<br />
After over 52 years, GAM’s<br />
purpose is still to provide a<br />
means of communication<br />
amongst Canadian sailors.<br />
You will see LOSHRS ads<br />
and coverage in GAM.<br />
9. LIFE SAVING EQUIPMENT<br />
9.1 Approved life jacket or personal floatation device (PFD), with whistle<br />
and waterproof light attached. It is recommended that the PFD be<br />
worn at all times while on deck. It is recommended that a waterproof<br />
hand-held VHF radio be securely attached to the life jacket.<br />
9.2 Adequate safety harness and tether for each crewmember. It is recommended<br />
that this have a three point connection.<br />
9.3 Approved life-buoy with whistle, waterproof self-activating light,<br />
drogue and man-overboard pole. The man-overboard pole shall be<br />
permanently extended. It is recommended that it be attached to the<br />
life-buoy. This equipment shall be mounted close to the helm position<br />
and rigged for instant deployment.<br />
9.4 Buoyant heaving line, at least 50 ft. long, carried on deck close to the<br />
helm position and ready for use. The bitter end shall be securely attached<br />
to the sailboat.<br />
9.5 Boarding ladder or other means of re-boarding from the water.<br />
10. EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT<br />
10.1 An adequate means of reefing the mainsail by at least 30% of the luff<br />
length shall be installed (15% shall suffice if a storm jib, number 4 jib,<br />
or roller furling genoa is on board).<br />
10.2 A storm jib is recommended. A furling headsail does not qualify as a<br />
storm jib. The recommended sail area should not exceed 5% of the<br />
height of the fore triangle squared and should have a luff minimum<br />
length 65% of the height of the fore triangle. Any storm or heavyweather<br />
jib shall have a luff wire.<br />
10.4 Effective emergency steering equipment capable of steering the sailboat.<br />
An emergency tiller is required.<br />
10.5 A selection of tools including a hack saw or rigging cutter capable of<br />
cutting the largest diameter of standing rigging aboard the sailboat,<br />
stored in an easily accessible location.<br />
10.6 Approved distress signals are considered to be a minimum requirement.<br />
Distress signals shall be stored in a watertight container in an<br />
easily accessible location.<br />
11. MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT<br />
11.1 Three waterproof flashlights capable of illuminating the ticklers on<br />
the sailboats headsail complete with spare batteries and bulbs, one of<br />
these shall have at least a 3” diameter lens. There is no requirement to<br />
carry spare bulbs for LED flashlights.<br />
11.2 First aid kit and manual.<br />
11.3 Radar reflector assembled and mounted.
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11.4 Blankets, warm clothes, sleeping bag. It is recommended that flotation<br />
suits be carried.<br />
11.5 Approved firefighting equipment.<br />
11.6 A small bag rigged to float (i.e. attached to a fender) containing equipment<br />
for use in the event of abandoning ship (dye markers, flares,<br />
waterproof VHF, mirror, knife, etc.).<br />
The contents of this equipment list are minimum requirements. It is recommended<br />
that all participants are familiar with ISAF <strong>Offshore</strong> Special Regulations,<br />
Category 3 Monohulls which can be found at www.sailing.org/documents/special-regs.php<br />
web site.<br />
Please remember to check the www.loshrs.com web site for final versions of<br />
the Notice of Race, Sailing Instructions and Equipment Requirements.<br />
Don’t forget<br />
the LOSHRS<br />
Banquet.<br />
Enjoy great food and time with<br />
friends. Pick up your flags<br />
and trophies.<br />
Nov. 5th,<br />
2011<br />
Reading<br />
The Wind<br />
by Dick Steigenga<br />
It was time, MacIntosh’s instruments needed to be replaced after 25 years.<br />
Every season saw the loss of another function so that the last year we<br />
sailed with a GPS unit duct taped into an opening port facing the helm.<br />
The old system a, Dana Navigate, had served us well, and a collection of spare<br />
parts donated by other sailors kept it going well beyond the original “best<br />
before date”. In the early 90s we had learned how to tap into the NMEA 0183<br />
data bus and input all the data into a computer. Laptop computers were just<br />
coming on the market and they were terrible in bright light, never mind direct<br />
sunlight. MacIntosh sailed with an IBM 286 with the hard drive removed<br />
strapped into a locker and an amber monochrome monitor bolted onto a shelf<br />
viewable from the helm.<br />
Why? Well, I had attended a course run by a major instrument company that<br />
extolled the virtues of target speeds. By this time we had an IMS certificate,<br />
(which was supposed to solve all rating issues forever and bring about peace<br />
and goodwill to the racing community) and the premise was that if we were<br />
able to sail to our targets, and maybe hit a few shifts, we would win. The problem<br />
was, were we up to speed? And,.... on the beats and runs, were we sailing<br />
too fast or too slow to make the best VMG? The answer was the computer.<br />
The computer read the inputs of boat speed, wind speed and wind angle and<br />
calculated the target speed for the conditions based on an expanded IMS database.<br />
It was like having a coach onboard giving us instant and constant feedback<br />
on how we were doing, but with an off switch. Did it help? Yes it did, but<br />
I think the biggest contribution was that it helped to learn how to get the best<br />
out of the boat. With time, we could tell if we were in the groove.<br />
So now it was time to replace the instruments and I wondered if I could find<br />
a system that provided the same functionality. A search on the internet led me<br />
to Grahame Shannon who was developing software under the brand name of<br />
AVIA. Advanced Virtual Instrument Applications.<br />
The attraction of his system was that the entire instrument array could be on a<br />
computer screen in any combination of digital or analog instruments but the<br />
real attraction was that it has real-time polar charts with a simple indication of<br />
how well you are sailing; Efficiency. Whenever the boat is on the target speed,<br />
you’re at 100% efficiency.<br />
Now, there’s nothing wrong with sailing faster than 100%, except on down-
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wind and upwind legs. In that case the concern is that you may not be sailing<br />
the optimum angles. Too high for the down-wind leg and too low for the beat.<br />
So why not simply use VMG? You can and the AVIA system also shows VMG<br />
but I find it tricky to use as an instant indicator of sailing efficiency. It provides<br />
a good indication of progress over a longer period of time but small heading<br />
changes initially give an impression of improved progress until the speed bleeds<br />
off resulting in an unstable hunting for the magic combination of speed and<br />
heading. Target speeds are a more direct indication of how you’re doing.<br />
To help with this concept we put in 2 versions of the polar charts. The normal<br />
version that gives the VPP for any combination of true wind angle and wind<br />
speed and a special version for windward/leeward situations that forces a<br />
“fixed” target speed for a given wind speed regardless of the actual wind angle<br />
whenever the boat is close to beating or running angles. For instance, if the true<br />
wind angle is less than 52 degrees, the programme gives the best beating target<br />
speed and “coaches” the helmsman to the best target for beating at that particular<br />
wind speed. A simple click of the mouse selects between polar charts while<br />
the programme is operational.<br />
The polars are easy to install from a spreadsheet and the system logs all the<br />
data on the computer for later review and fine tuning the polar data.<br />
So what about instrument sensors? That question eventually led me to the<br />
NMEA 2000 network and the “intelligent” sensors that put information directly<br />
on the network. One of the most interesting developments since I last looked<br />
at the state-of-the-art is the ultrasonic wind sensors. These have no moving<br />
parts and use ultrasonic sensors and<br />
receivers to detect wind flow across<br />
the sensing area.<br />
I found two manufacturers that build<br />
sensors suitable for a sailboat, Maretron<br />
and Airmar. The published specifications<br />
on accuracy did not look too<br />
promising but I wanted to see how<br />
well they worked. The answer was<br />
to build a small wind tunnel in the<br />
sailloft that could generate up to 12<br />
knots of breeze and test these sensors<br />
as well as a conventional masthead<br />
wind sensor.<br />
The results were pretty good, much<br />
better than the published specifications.<br />
The average absolute error for<br />
both ultrasonic sensors was about<br />
3/4 of one degree with a few readings<br />
2 degrees out. The conventional<br />
Furuno masthead sensor we tested was dead on with no measurable error with<br />
our setup.<br />
What finally swayed my choice to the Airmar PB200 was that it also has a GPS,<br />
a fluxgate compass, barometric pressure, air temperature and heel and pitch<br />
angle all built into one device the size of small coffee cup. We built a mount<br />
that elevates the sensor about 4 feet above the masthead and it seems to benefit<br />
from being in clear air away from the sails and mast.<br />
The system worked well during the 2010 season with 2 exceptions. During the<br />
second thunderstorm in the LO<strong>300</strong>, the wind sensor shut down completely, no<br />
reading at all. It resumed normally after the lightening had moved away. The<br />
other time was the LOSHRS 100 mile race during the heaviest downpour. The<br />
wind angle shifted 20 degrees to port but returned to normal when the rain<br />
diminished to “moderate” levels. One remarkable feature of the ultrasonic wind<br />
sensor is how well it works in very light winds. In the last LOSHRS race from<br />
Dalhousie we were able to use this feature to get across the quiet spot in the<br />
middle of the lake.<br />
For displays, we experimented<br />
with a number of options<br />
through the 2010 season. For<br />
the computer I initially used<br />
an IBM laptop that I could see<br />
from the helm. We also had a<br />
Maretron DSM 250 that was<br />
useful for the longer races<br />
because it didn’t take as much<br />
battery power. At the end of<br />
the season we installed the<br />
software on an HP netbook<br />
that provided enough computing<br />
power, a handy size and doesn’t take too much battery power to operate.<br />
For the 2011 season I added an Argonaut Proteus 10”, daylight viewable, waterproof<br />
VGA display to make all the features including chart plotter available in<br />
the cockpit.<br />
So for the 2011 season we will start with the Airmar ultrasonic wind sensor<br />
mounted on a 4’ tall custom-carbon wand on top of the mast, an Airmar boat<br />
speed, water temperature and depth transducer, both communicating over a<br />
an NMEA 2000 network through an Actisense USB interface to the netbook.<br />
The netbook at the navigation station has the AVIA Pro software and Fugawi<br />
ENC chart plotter software and the display in the cockpit will be the Argonaut<br />
10” monitor. If we decide we need additional repeaters in the cockpit we can<br />
always add individual repeaters or the Maretron display to the NMEA 2000<br />
network, at any time.<br />
Now, the question is, will we get 25 years out of the system?
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The 100 Mile<br />
Sailing the 100 Mile Long Distance race, either single or double handed is a<br />
real challenge, and the 2010 race incorporated strong winds, rough water,<br />
and lots of rain into an exciting, but tough test of skill and endurance. This<br />
article, provides a first hand experience of what makes short handed sailing<br />
Experience<br />
in LOSHRS fun and rewarding.<br />
Southern Cross was one of seven RCYC boats that participated in the<br />
LOSHRS 100 mile race August 21 and 22. There were 64 boats in four<br />
classes: single handed white sail, single handed spinnaker, double handed<br />
by Mike Newbury<br />
white sail and double handed spinnaker. The strategy for the race was difficult<br />
to determine due to wildly differing weather forecasts, some predicting light<br />
winds with higher gusts in thunderstorms and the other including Environment<br />
Canada predicting building winds of 15-20 knots increasing overnight Saturday<br />
to 25 plus knots with higher gusts in thunderstorms and 60% chance of rain<br />
showers. The higher gusts in thunderstorms were correct and the rain showers<br />
turned out to be a continual downpour once it started for the wettest weekend<br />
of the year.<br />
One might wonder why an “old guy” would subject himself to wet cold days<br />
and nights to bobbing around on the lake or to fighting wet flogging sails to get<br />
them under control single handed. The short handed series and the LO <strong>300</strong><br />
offer a great test of your sailing skills with a much different strategic approach<br />
than the usual multi race weekend event. The races go regardless of the wind<br />
speed or direction there are no postponements because of too little or too<br />
much wind. In fact most races seem to have periods of too much and periods<br />
of too little wind. The longer distance enables each competitor to select his<br />
own strategy that is usually subject to change as the race progresses. Although<br />
sailing a heavy (20,000 lb.) 40 foot boat single handed is a challenge there is<br />
the advantage of not having to find crew, provisioning is simple, decision making<br />
straight forward and orders are carried out swiftly and effectively however,<br />
there is no one to blame for any mistakes during the race. It is not easy or<br />
simple changing sails or getting things under control when the wind increases<br />
or shifts and the waves build and some stamina is required as the longer races<br />
can take more than 24 hours to complete and it always seems to be 2 or 3 AM<br />
when crap happens. Having a good autopilot is a must as is bringing as many<br />
lines as possible back to the cockpit so that time on the deck is limited. This is a<br />
big factor as one most often has to go forward when the conditions are at their<br />
worst. Single handed encourages you to find ways of doing things in a smarter<br />
way when there is not enough brute force available, this is absolutely necessary<br />
on a bigger boat than a smaller one.<br />
Southern Cross berthed against the wall<br />
at Port Dalhousie with other RCYC boats,<br />
Quelle Surprise alongside.<br />
Photo by Jonathan Vinden<br />
The LOSHRS races are longer than the usual day races; across the lake and<br />
back the next day, the 100 miler or LO <strong>300</strong> such that there is lots of time to<br />
make up for mistakes. A goof at the start does not mean that the whole race<br />
is lost as there is plenty of time to catch up and for your competitors to make<br />
mistakes. It is a great feeling when there is a good breeze, the boat is sailing<br />
well, with good weather and you can be relaxed and enjoying the moment at
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least until the next crisis occurs.<br />
Saturday dawned overcast with a south-east wind of 10-12 at the dock so the<br />
heavy forecast looked like it might be right and since the first leg would be<br />
upwind to the Gibraltar Mark I made a quick (35 minutes which is quick for<br />
single handed) head sail change to a #2 at the dock. The start was uneventful<br />
and the fleet tacked its way in the South-East breeze to the Gibraltar mark<br />
rounded and headed west to the weather tower at Burlington. The wind started<br />
to die down to 5 knots and shift to the East so we were now downwind with<br />
a leftover slop that made for an uncomfortable ride and flogging sails. It now<br />
looked like the light wind forecast was going to be correct so I changed back to<br />
a #1 and wrapped up the #2 and tied it down on the deck. An electric winch<br />
certainly makes hauling up a big sail easier. The spinnaker fleet soon caught up<br />
and passed me, Shock Therapy came by under spinnaker and soon was a speck<br />
on the horizon over near Fifty Point. To keep the mast from shaking itself to<br />
pieces I put on the preventer and pulled it tight, then pulled down the vang so<br />
that the boom wouldn’t move even if the mainsail flapped a bit. It made for an<br />
easier ride.<br />
Late in the afternoon I rounded the Burlington mark and sailed into the usual<br />
dead zone on the way to the Niagara mark. I had lots of company as I now<br />
caught back up to the spinnaker fleet that had been parked for a while. It got<br />
dark and there was some lightning and thunder around but I was getting dizzy<br />
watching the windex spin around as we rolled around in the swell. At one<br />
point I furled the genoa to stop some of the flapping until there was enough<br />
wind to keep it steady. At this point the parking lot collection of about 20-25<br />
boats bobbing around in proximity to each other somewhere off Fifty Point/<br />
Grimsby. That’s when I noticed the freighter that appeared to be heading<br />
straight for us on a direct course from Hamilton to the Welland Canal. I called<br />
the freighter on the VHF radio to make sure he had seen us that also alerted<br />
many of the boats that had not yet noticed it. My message was that we were<br />
a group of sail boats racing in light winds with limited manoeuvrability and he<br />
should by pass us off shore as we were mostly in shore. The answer was that<br />
he was OK to keep his course and was going to weave through the fleet. This<br />
was a <strong>300</strong> foot freighter doing 15 to 17 knots at night not a Seadoo! Just as<br />
the freighter was passing through the fleet about 250 feet from me (and I think<br />
closer to some other boats) the higher gusts in thunderstorms happened. The<br />
wind almost instantaneously went to 18-20 knots and the fleet went every<br />
which way as we all tried to get boats and sails under control. Then it started to<br />
rain, actually it poured so hard for about 10 minutes that it reduced the visibility<br />
to less than a couple of hundred feet.<br />
The freighter went on its way and the wind died back to 8-10 knots and<br />
the rain continued although not as hard but we could at least get underway<br />
towards the Niagara mark. Racing at night in the rain gives an entirely new<br />
dimension to port/ starboard conflicts and having to judge the speed and direction<br />
of an approaching boat by its lights and also hoping that he has seen your<br />
lights while trying not confuse them with all the lights on shore. There is quite<br />
a variety of lights on boats some are bright and relatively easy to see and some<br />
are very dim and in the rain are extremely hard to see particularly against a<br />
myriad of shore lights. Approaching the Niagara mark the wind picked up and<br />
for a while and increased to 18-20 kts blowing down the river. On turning the<br />
mark Southern Cross headed for Port Credit with the boat speed over 7kts the<br />
rain continued. The exhilaration was short lived the wind died down to below<br />
8 kts and came from the east south-east resulting in more light downwind sailing.<br />
Luckily it was a warm night but I was feeling cold having been soaking wet<br />
for about six hours. Even when it is not raining too hard there is a continuous<br />
waterfall off the main and boom that always seems to be flowing right where<br />
you need to stand to do something. My clothes and storm suit looked like I’d<br />
gone for a ride in a washing machine. I went below and changed into some dry<br />
clothes and a dry storm suit had a coffee and felt considerably better. Unfortunately<br />
the rain continued and an hour or so later I just as wet as before. I had<br />
never noticed that when you reach up the water runs down the arm of your<br />
storm suit and down your body to meet the water wicking up from your feet to<br />
make sure you are totally wet.<br />
Since I was sailing white sail the downwind rhumb line did not have much<br />
appeal and I didn’t think I would be able to catch the boats ahead of me so I<br />
gybed over towards Bronte and ran for about six miles. I then gybed back to a<br />
direct course to the finish turning mark, this gave me a better wind angle and<br />
higher boat speed. I sailed a longer distance but I think the increase in speed<br />
more than offset the extra distance and I was able to finish ahead of some of<br />
the boats I had been behind just after the Niagara mark.<br />
Southern Cross finished at 7:14 AM in the rain my hands were white and wrinkled<br />
and looked like I’d been washing dishes for about 10 hours. After tying<br />
up I sat on the dock with some of the other racers drinking a couple of beers<br />
and swapping stories, the drizzle and light rain didn’t seem to matter anymore<br />
everyone was wet. I tidied up the lines and piled up the wet gear and furled<br />
the main properly and headed back to the club in the rain.<br />
Southern Cross had an elapsed time 21 hours 14 minutes the first single handed<br />
boat and the fifteenth overall to finish 44 minutes 38 seconds behind the first<br />
boat (double handed spinnaker) for an average speed of 4.7 knots which was<br />
faster than I thought since the boat is relatively heavy and most of the race had<br />
light winds with a lot of downwind sailing. Out of a fleet of 64 boats 24 retired.<br />
RCYC participants were Shock Therapy, Clockwork, Doralla, Sula Sula, Misty<br />
Isle, Naxos and Southern Cross. Doralla finished 3rd on corrected time in its<br />
double handed spinnaker fleet, Misty Isle 1st in the double handed white sail<br />
and Southern Cross had line honours and second on corrected time in its single<br />
handed white sail division. Another rather wet sailing experience.
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LOSHRS<br />
Trophies<br />
With over 30 trophies up for grabs, there is a lot of silverware<br />
to go round. The next few pages describe the trophies, and list<br />
recent winners.<br />
The earlier winners can be seen by going to www.pcyc.net.<br />
Course Race<br />
Single Handed<br />
YOUNGSTOWN TROPHY<br />
Awarded to the mono hull yacht with the<br />
best corrected time in the single handed spinnaker<br />
divisions.<br />
This trophy was donated by Harvey Kolm,<br />
Past Commodore, Youngstown Yacht Club<br />
and replaces the R. Williams Trophy.<br />
2008 – THE WIND, Stephen Hills, QCYC<br />
2009 – THAT DAMN THANG, Diane Reid. ABYC<br />
2010 – BLACK MAGIC, Al Hansen, NYC<br />
ENDEAVOUR TROPHY<br />
Awarded to the mono hull yacht with<br />
the best corrected time in the single<br />
handed white sail division.<br />
This trophy was donated by Mr. Art<br />
Jurisson, and replaced the Jack Ward<br />
Memorial trophy in 1991.<br />
2008 – WINDRIVEN, Jonathan Vinden, PCYC<br />
2009 – CAT’S PAW, Tom Hand, PCYC<br />
2010 – GONE WITH THE WIND, Bill Eckersley, QCYC<br />
Brent Huges, who single-hands his C&C 35 MK II “Pearl”, picking up the G.S.<br />
Parke Memorial Trophy for the best low point total for the overall series in the single<br />
handed spinnaker divisions, as well as the Palmer Trophy which is awarded<br />
to the competitor with the best total corrected time in the single handed spinnaker<br />
divisions in the two day Youngstown Race.<br />
Photo by Paul Sipos.
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Double Handed<br />
THE SEAGULL TROPHY<br />
Resurrected in 2005 for the double handed series, this<br />
trophy is awarded to the mono hull yacht with the best<br />
corrected time in the double handed white sail divisions.<br />
The trophy is a graceful interpretation of a seagull in<br />
flight and was kindly donated by the Cruising Multi-hull<br />
Racing Association.<br />
2008 – NAXOS, Anita Boudreau, RCYC<br />
2009 – ARIADNA, Oleg Melnikov, APSC<br />
2010 – DAYBREAK, John Skinner, NYC<br />
THE MARTINI SHAKER TROPHY<br />
This trophy is awarded to the mono hull yacht with the<br />
best corrected time in the double handed spinnaker<br />
divisions. It was donated by Dr. Maggie Brander and<br />
awarded for the first time in 2004.<br />
2008 – MACINTOSH, Durk Steigenga, CBYC<br />
2009 – MARDI-GRAS, Allan Sauder, ABYC<br />
2010 – SEAJAY, Jim Johnstone, PCYC<br />
Youngstown Race<br />
Single Handed<br />
THE JACK PITT TROPHY<br />
This trophy is awarded to the mono hull yacht with the<br />
best total corrected time in the single handed white sail<br />
divisions in the two day Youngstown Race. It is named<br />
after Jack Pitt, a long time single handed racer and enthusiast.<br />
2008 – WINDRIVEN, Jonathan Vinden, PCYC<br />
2009 – VAGUE LOCATION, Jim French, PCYC<br />
2010 – MYTHOS, Ted Spanos, PCYC<br />
THE GUENEVERE CHALICE<br />
Awarded to the mono hull yacht with the best total<br />
elapsed time in the single handed division in the two<br />
day Youngstown Race.<br />
The Guenevere Chalice is a gold chalice mounted on<br />
a piece of ancient chalcedony scattered with poppy<br />
jasper, reminiscent of the rock from which King Arthur<br />
withdrew the sword Excalibur. The Guenevere Chalice<br />
Trophy was donated by Mr. David Hunter, one of Port Credit’s early single<br />
handed sailing enthusiasts, who was instrumental in organizing this race in<br />
1975.<br />
2008 – SHOCK THERAPY, Gary Benner, RCYC<br />
2009 – ENTRE AMIS, George Minarik, PCYC<br />
2010 – FINITO, Carl Ricciuti, PCYC<br />
THE PALMER TROPHY<br />
The Palmer Trophy is awarded to the mono hull yacht<br />
with the best total corrected time in the single handed<br />
spinnaker divisions in the two day Youngstown Race.<br />
Mr. Stan Palmer, one of Port Credit’s early single handed<br />
enthusiasts donated the Palmer Trophy. It represents the<br />
steering vane from a dual axis self-steering unit. Since<br />
1987, it has been awarded to the spinnaker division on<br />
the Youngstown two day event.<br />
2008 – KICK A LITTLE, Mark Searle, PCYC<br />
2009 – ENTRE AMIS, George Minarik, PCYC<br />
2010 – PEARL, Brent Hughes, FBYC<br />
Double Handed<br />
WATER COLOURS 1 TROPHY<br />
This trophy is awarded to the mono hull yacht with the<br />
best total corrected time in the double handed spinnaker<br />
divisions in the two day Youngstown Race. Awarded for<br />
the first time in 2004, this trophy was donated by Albert<br />
Beaulieu, Lynn Beaulieu & Andrew McAllister.<br />
2008 – DORALLA, Kirk Allan, RCYC<br />
2009 – COUG, Tal Wolf, Lagoon City YC<br />
2010 – HARRIER , Chris Chapman, NYC<br />
Long Distance Race<br />
Single Handed<br />
THE TARSHISH TROPHY<br />
The Tarshish Trophy is awarded to the mono hull yacht<br />
with the best elapsed time in the single handed fleet in<br />
the Long Distance Race.<br />
Tarshish was a popular port of commerce in the Mediterranean<br />
from 1600 BC to 1900 BC. The fastest sailing<br />
vessels of the ancient Phoenician traders carried wines<br />
and olive oils to Tarshish, lashed down on their decks in<br />
terracotta jugs known as Amphora.
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The Tarshish trophy is a reproduction of an ancient amphora and was donated<br />
by PCYC Past Commodore Gordon K. Piller, who was instrumental in organizing<br />
this race in 1975.<br />
2008 – QUELLE SURPIRSE, Val Matison, RCYC<br />
2009 – SHOCK THERAPY, Gary Benner, RCYC<br />
2010 – STRIKER, Jan Steyn, YYC<br />
Jim has been a member of Port Credit Yacht Club since the mid 1960s, first as a<br />
junior member then instructor. Jim has crewed on many boats at PCYC like Ayesha<br />
& Caliban, and he was the proud owner of maxi-yacht Toscana, a Frers 51.<br />
2008 – XTRA XTRA, Ron Barr, BHYC<br />
2009 – ARIADNA, Oleg Melnikov, APSC<br />
2010 – ARIADNA, Oleg Melnikov, APSC<br />
THE BEROLINA TROPHY<br />
The Berolina Trophy is awarded to the mono hull yacht<br />
with the best corrected time in the single handed spinnaker<br />
divisions in the Long Distance Race.<br />
It was donated by Echardt Priebe whose Redwing 30,<br />
Berolina campaigned on <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong>. The trophy is<br />
a fine Indian totem carving depicting man’s triumph<br />
over the sea. The trophy was hand carved by the noted<br />
D. Nahanee of the famed West Coast Squamish Indian<br />
Tribe. From 1982 to 1986 this trophy was awarded to<br />
the overall winner of the Long course. Since 1987, it is<br />
awarded in the spinnaker division of the Long Course.<br />
2008 – LES, John Hagen, EYC<br />
2009 – GOLDEN EYE, Peter Ashby, QCYC<br />
2010 – LES, John Hagen, EYC<br />
THE WALTER PENZ MEMORIAL TROPHY<br />
The Walter Penz Memorial Trophy is awarded to the mono<br />
hull yacht with the best corrected time in the single handed<br />
white sail divisions in the Long Distance Race.<br />
This trophy was provided in honour of Walter Penz<br />
from the Genesee Yacht Club, New York, who is fondly<br />
remembered as one of New York’s avid single handed<br />
sailors with his yacht Puppy Love. Donated by the <strong>Lake</strong><br />
<strong>Ontario</strong> Single Handed Committee.<br />
2008 – WINDRIVEN, Jonathan Vinden, PCYC<br />
2009 – MYTHOS, Ted Spanos, PCYC<br />
2010 – MYTHOS, Ted Spanos, PCYC<br />
Double Handed<br />
THE JIM SCHOENHARDT TROPHY<br />
The Jim Schoenhardt Trophy is awarded to the mono<br />
hull yacht with the best corrected time in the double<br />
handed spinnaker divisions in the Long Distance Race.<br />
It was awarded for the first time in 2004, donated by Jim<br />
Schoenhardt.<br />
HERMAN SCHNEIDER MEMORIAL TROPHY<br />
This trophy is awarded for the best low point total in the<br />
double handed spinnaker 1 fleet.<br />
This trophy was donated in memory of Herman Schneider,<br />
an avid single handed participant in the LOSHRS.<br />
He was a long standing member of PCYC and ran a<br />
marine store in Port Credit called Distance Horizon.<br />
2009 – PHOENIX, Sheila Smith, RCYC<br />
2010 – EXODUS, Paul Bradbury, CBYC<br />
Port Dalhousie Race Weekend<br />
Single Handed<br />
SPORTECH PLAQUE – FLYING SAILS<br />
Since 2008, this is awarded to the mono hull yacht<br />
for the best total corrected time in the single handed<br />
spinnaker divisions in the two day Port Dalhousie Race<br />
Weekend.<br />
Prior to 2008, it was awarded to the mono hull yacht<br />
with the best corrected time in the single handed spinnaker<br />
division.<br />
2008 – ENTRE AMIS, George Minarik, PCYC<br />
2009 – THAT DAMN THANG, Diane Reid, ABYC<br />
2010 – WHY NOT, Chuck Watson, FBYC<br />
SPORTECH TROPHY – NO FLYING SAILS<br />
2008 – EXPOTITION, David Hymers, EYC<br />
2009 – VAGUE LOCATION, Jim French, PCYC<br />
2010 – MYTHOS, Ted Spanos, PCYC<br />
Double Handed<br />
THE IAN MCALLISTER TROPHY<br />
The Ian McAllister Trophy is awarded to the mono hull<br />
yachts with the best total corrected time in the double<br />
handed spinnaker and double handed white sail divisions in the two day Port<br />
Dalhousie Race Weekend.<br />
Awarded for the first time in 2002, it was donated by Ian McAllister, an avid sup-
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porter of yacht racing, and current Vice Chair of LOSHRS.<br />
2008 – (Non-Flying Sails) THE LITTLE PENGUIN, Malcolm Little<br />
& David Bird, EYC<br />
(Flying Sails) XTRA XTRA, Ron Barr & Sue Sproule,<br />
BHYC<br />
2009 – (Non-Flying Sails) NAXOS, Anita Boudreau, RCYC<br />
(Flying Sails) NO NAME, Jan Steyn, YYC<br />
2010 – (Non-Flying Sails) NAXOS, Anita Boudreau, RCYC<br />
(Flying Sails) 1-800, Alison Jones, OYS<br />
After all the races have been run, overall series trophies<br />
are calculated.<br />
Overall Series Trophies<br />
These are prestigious trophies, awarded to sailors and crew that have exhibited<br />
the skill, consistency and perseverance to come out on top of their<br />
individual divisions, and in some cases, the entire fleet.<br />
Single Handed<br />
THE CAPTAIN’S CUP<br />
The Captain’s Cup is awarded to the mono hull yacht<br />
with the best low point total for the overall series in the<br />
single handed white sail divisions.<br />
This trophy was donated by Mr. Herman Schneider in<br />
1991, and is determined by comparing the lowest low<br />
point total in each fleet within a division.<br />
2008 – WINDRIVEN, Jonathan Vinden, PCYC<br />
2009 – MYTHOS, Ted Spanos, PCYC<br />
2010 – MYTHOS, Ted Spanos, PCYC<br />
THE G.S. PARKE MEMORIAL TROPHY<br />
The G.S.Parke Memorial Trophy is awarded to the mono<br />
hull yacht with the best low point total for the overall<br />
series in the single handed spinnaker divisions.<br />
Frances and Robert Parke donated this trophy. Bob was<br />
active in racing and was Chairman of the Race Committee<br />
at PCYC for many years.<br />
2008 – THAT DAMN THANG, Diane Reid, ABYC<br />
2009 – LES, John Hagan EYC<br />
2010 – PEARL, Brent Hughes, FBYC<br />
THE LABATT LOW POINT SINGLE HANDED TROPHY<br />
The Labatt Low Point Single Handed Trophy is awarded to the mono hull yacht<br />
with the best low point total for the overall series in the single handed fleet.<br />
It was donated by Labatt <strong>Ontario</strong> Breweries to encourage<br />
and promote responsible competition in single handed<br />
racing. In order to qualify for the trophy, a yacht must<br />
finish the Long Distance Race and a minimum of three<br />
other races.<br />
2008 – WINDRIVEN, Jonathan Vinden, PCYC<br />
2009 – DIFFERENT DRUMMER I, Brian Mitchell, BPYC<br />
2010 – MYTHOS, Ted Spanos, PCYC<br />
Double Handed<br />
THE LABATT LOW POINT DOUBLE HAND-<br />
ED TROPHY<br />
As of 2008, this trophy is awarded for the best low point<br />
total for the overall series in the double handed fleet.<br />
It was donated by Labatt <strong>Ontario</strong> Breweries to encourage<br />
and promote responsible competition in single-handed<br />
racing. In order to qualify for the trophy, a yacht must<br />
finish the Long Distance Race and a minimum of three<br />
other races.<br />
2008 – NEMESIS, Michael Innell, CBYC<br />
2009 – NEMESIS, Michael Innell, CBYC<br />
2010 – ARIADNA, Oleg Melnikov, APSC<br />
THE SCOTIA BANK TROPHY<br />
The Scotia Bank Trophy is awarded to the mono hull<br />
yacht with the best low point total for the overall series<br />
in the double handed spinnaker division. This trophy<br />
was donated in 2004 by Maria French to encourage<br />
and promote responsible double handed racing on <strong>Lake</strong><br />
<strong>Ontario</strong>.<br />
In order to qualify for the trophy, a yacht must finish the<br />
Long Distance Race and a minimum of three other races.<br />
2008 – NEMESIS, Michael Innell, CBYC<br />
2009 – NEMESIS, Michael Innell, CBYC<br />
2010 – ARIADNA, Oleg Melnikov, APSC<br />
MEMORIAL CUP<br />
This trophy is awarded to the mono hull yacht with the<br />
best low point total for the overall series in the double<br />
handed white sail divisions.<br />
It was donated by Albert Beaulieu and Lynn McAllister<br />
in memory of Albert’s wife and Lynn’s mother.
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In order to qualify for the trophy, a yacht must finish the Long Distance Race<br />
and a minimum of three other races.<br />
2008 – OTALIA, Pat O’Brien and Susan Slachta, DYC<br />
2009 – OTALIA, Pat O’Brien and Susan Slachta, DYC<br />
2010 – JAEGER, Corey Sawchuk, PCYC<br />
THE LEONARD ALKSNIS LOSHRS MEMORIAL TROPHY<br />
This trophy is awarded to the mono hull yacht<br />
with the best low point total for Weekend Races<br />
(Youngstown and Dalhousie) in the double<br />
handed spinnaker divisions. In order to qualify<br />
for this trophy, a yacht must participate in all<br />
races on both weekends.<br />
It was awarded for the first time in 2008 in<br />
memory of Leonard Alksnis, who successfully<br />
campaigned Trimpus from ABYC.<br />
2008 – NEMESIS, Michael Innell, CBYC<br />
2009 – GIZMO, Marc Doedens, PCYC<br />
2010 – 1-800, Alison Jones, OYS<br />
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This trophy is awarded to the mono hull yacht<br />
with the best low point total for Weekend<br />
Races (Youngstown and Dalhousie) in the<br />
double handed white sail divisions. In order to<br />
qualify for this trophy, a yacht must participate<br />
in all races on both weekends.<br />
Awarded for the first time in 2008 in memory<br />
of Roger Shaw, who successfully campaigned<br />
Southerly Buster from ABYC.<br />
2008 – THE LITTLE PENGUIN, Malcolm Little, EYC<br />
2009 – OTALIA, Pat O’Brien and Susan Slachta, DYC<br />
2010 – LIVELY, Murray Gainer, ABYC<br />
THE PERSEVERANCE CUP<br />
Dedicated in 2002 by Al J.C. O’Marra, this trophy is awarded at the discretion<br />
by the chair or co-chair to the short handed competitor who displays the highest<br />
standards of seamanship and reverence by enduring and overcoming great<br />
obstacles in the <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Ontario</strong> Short-Handed series.<br />
2005 – John Ball – ANNE BONNEY, QCYC<br />
2006 – Carolyn Archibald – EMERALD, QCYC<br />
2007 – Roger Shaw – SOUTHERLY BUSTER, ABYC<br />
2008 – Not Awarded<br />
2009 – Pat O’Brien – OTALIA, DYC<br />
2010 – Not Awarded<br />
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