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SCUTTLEBUTT No. 671 - October 19, 2000
US OFFSHORE CHAMPIONSHIP
Wednesday, October 18, 2000 - Long Beach Yacht Club, organizing authority
for the 2000 U.S. Offshore Championship, today announced the "final"
standings for the top five places at the regatta.
1. Gordon Hall, Massachusetts Bay, Area A 16 points
2. John Leitzinger, Tacoma Yacht Club, Area H 18 points
3. Keith Ives, Alamitos Bay Yacht Club, Area J 19 points
4. Scott Sonnier, Southern Yacht Club, Area D 24 points
5. Wiley Crockett, Hull Yacht Club, Area A 29 points
These "final" results reflect the decision by the Jury to effectively
penalize Keith Ives and his Alamitos Bay Yacht Club team for exceeding the
1,400 crew team weight limit in races 1, 2 and 3. The Jury's announcement
is included in full below.
The Jury has asked the US SAILING Appeals Committee to confirm or correct
its decision to penalize Keith Ives' Alamitos Bay Yacht Club team and so
results will not be truly final until the Appeals Committee has made its
decision. Outstanding protests against Tom Sutton from Galveston Bay
Cruising Association, Area F are still pending but will not effect the
results for the first five places in the regatta. - Bill Uniak
The Jury announced:
1. Upon protest by the Jury, Boat #3 (skippered by Keith Ives of Alamitos
Bay Yacht Club) was found to have broken paragraph 5.3 of the Notice of
Race for the regatta in races 1, 2 and 3 and was disqualified from those races.
2. Upon consideration of redress initiated by the Jury, Boat #3 (skippered
by Keith Ives of Alamitos Bay Yacht Club) was granted redress as
follows: The original finishing positions for all the boats, before the
disqaulification of Boat #3 from races 1, 2 and 3, shall be reinstated
except that Boat #3 shall be given a 20% scoring penalty, calculated as
provided in rule 44.3(c) of the Racing Rules of Sailing, for those
races. This means that in races 1, 2 and 3 there may be more than one boat
with the same score.
3. Pending protests against Boat #3 (skippered by Keith Ives of Alamitos
Bay Yacht Club) for breaking fundamental rules 2 and 3 of the Racing Rules
of Sailing in races 4 and 5 were dismissed.
Protests against Boat #10 are still pending.
The Jury has sent its decision regarding the disqualification of, and
subsequent award of redress to, the Alamitos Bay Yacht Club team to the US
SAILING Appeals Committee for confirmation or correction. It is not known
how long that process will take.
Event website: http://www.lbyc.org
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CHANGE OF COMMAND
At the United States Sailing Association's Annual General Meeting held in
New Orleans, LA, October 12-15, 2000, James P. Muldoon passed the helm to
David D. Rosekrans of Cincinnati, OH.
In his comments at the meeting, Rosekrans outlined his ambitions for his
term. "We must put US SAILING on a sound financial basis. Several steps
forward have been taken at this meeting. We need to be better at fund
raising. We have a five-part plan, including donations by members,
building the President's Club, large gifts, endowments, and sponsorships.
"We need to come together as one organization, whether it be windsurfers or
multihull, big boat or dinghy, Olympic or pond sailor, cruiser or racer,
youth or adult, able or disabled and man or woman. All must be treated
fairly to earn their trust. Our communications still need improvement,
although we have made great progress with our web site. We especially need
to improve the communications to our members about key issues in sailing."
The Board of Directors also announced the following new Board of Directors'
members: Vice Presidents Charley Cook and Mike Schoettle; Secretary Sarah
Alger, and Treasurer Stephen Jeffries. The new Directors at Large are Dean
Brenner, Mark Reynolds, Mark Herman, Janet Baxter, and Darline Hobock. Also
announced to new positions were Area Directors Brad Buell (Area B), Bill
Ross (Area D), Betsy Beddow (Area F), TK Wegg (Area H), and Charles L.
Fuller (Area J), as well as Women's Representative Vicki Sodaro and Youth
Representative Fred Hagedorn. - Penny Piva Rego, http://www.ussailing.org
AWARDS
Craig and Nora Te Struth were presented US SAILING's Arthur B. Hanson
Rescue Medal by then-US SAILING President Jim Muldoon at the organization's
Annual General Meeting on October 14, 2000. The Te Struths were honored for
their assistance in rescuing sailors in San Francisco Bay. The United
States Coast Guard additionally presented a Commendation to the Te Struths,
who are graduates of US SAILING's Certified Keelboat Training program. -
Penny Piva Rego, http://www.ussailing.org
LETTERS TO THE CURMUDGEON (leweck@earthlink.net)
Letters selected to be printed may be edited for clarity, space (250 words
max) or to exclude unfounded speculation or personal attacks. This is not a
bulletin board or a chat room - you only get one letter per subject, so
give it your best shot and don't whine if others disagree.
-- From Keith Ives, Long Beach CA - I have read over & over how cut & dry
This Lloyd Phoenix Cup protest is. I think the only people it is cut & dry
to is the people who have something to gain.
Several boats were told by RC officials there was not going to be weight
limits. If anyone was worried about the weight limits there should have
been something said by competitors the practice day or at the skippers
meeting on the first day of racing when RC & Jurors stated there will be NO
weigh-ins. Now we have huge controversy & a regatta with no final results
in sight.
"Ruined by an appearance of favoritism to the local boat". Sunday night of
the regatta the things I heard were unbelievable. RC putting marks were
they could only be beneficial to my team, my dive company cleaning our boat
better than others. My company doesn't even clean those boats. I can't ever
remember competition being so sour. Races are won on the water.
-- From Jeff Melville - Scott Ridgeway needs to know that of the three
Aussies nominated for ISAF Sailor of the Year, the Gold medal winning
ladies in the 470's both Jenny and Belinda are NOT actually Australians -
Jenny is a KIWI and Belinda come from Zimbabwe ... and all of us in New
Zealand are proud of both of them, no matter their country of origin nor
who they sailed for. They are just a brilliant couple of girls who have put
in some really hard yards in a sport that can be both solitary and
downright cold - and to get good you practice no matter the weather like
many other yachting adventures.
-- From Ray Wulff, Annapolis, Maryland (re sponsorship) - Piggybacking on
Gov. Bush's theme, Give the power to the local governments!!! - Why not let
the local YRAs determine what the level of advertising should be in their
area. We want to grow the sport on a local level, get more people involved,
however one of the greatest barriers of entry is cost, and our National
Body won't budge on sponsorships. Am I missing something? Sounds like the
UK local YRAs wanted to give the power back to the locals.
-- From Tim Prophit (Re: New Sponsorship Rules) - Some object that
sponsorship will make the playing field uneven, as sponsored boats will
have more money to spend on sails, etc. What difference does it make if a
sailor's source of funds come from sponsorship, vs. getting a new, higher
paying job, inheriting it, marrying it, winning the lottery, robbing a
bank, finding it on the street, etc. I know, some will say "but I will be
forced to look at advertising on otherwise pristine, pure, hulls and
sails". If you consider the amount of external stimuli we are subjected to
in all areas of life, a couple ads on a boat are no big deal.
From Peter Godfrey - Over more than 50 years of racing sailboats, I have
observed that many an owner's level of expenditure tends to rise to consume
slightly more than the funds available to support his/her racing
habit. For example, an owner who could easily afford to campaign a Star or
an Etchells instead opts to campaign a 40-footer. I have trouble grasping
why, since competition in the smaller boat classes is as good as, and
certainly broader and more frequent, with less travel, than, say, classes
like the Farr 40, or big-boat handicap racing. Now that so much big boat
racing is done on short courses, in enclosed waters, the formats and the
venues tend to be the same as for the smaller boats. So the only
attraction of the bigger boats must be that the organizational effort and
the cost are bigger. This phenomenon applies all the way up and down the
scale, and it produces the cost/revenue gap, out of which grows the
interest in and support of sponsorship.
Now, I don't anticipate being able to change human nature, so I expect the
gap to persist forever. That doesn't make me sympathetic to sponsorship,
however. Business-supported sailing is professional sailing, and it is a
different game from amateur sailing; it needs to be kept separate, lest
amateur sailing disappear altogether. This, I think, is the tragedy all
sailors, professional and amateur alike, should work to avoid.
-- From Rick Hatch - If the NOR and/or SI's for any event prescribe a crew
weight limit, the regatta committee for the event has to conduct a weigh-in
of all the crew by a certain time prior to the first race (at registration
works). Furthermore, for the international one-design class championships I
have officiated at, permitted crew substitutions during the regatta usually
are requested in writing and approved by the jury chair/chief judge (i.e.,
after weighing in the substitute crew).
Regatta committees on events with prescribed class weight restrictions are
advised to have a bathroom scale on hand at registration and in the
regatta office throughout the event.
As for the case at hand, the rules either were or were not infringed,
depending on: (1) whether the protest is valid (including, in particular,
the timeliness), and (2) the facts found from the evidence presented and
available to the jury. The relationship between the protested party and
the regatta chair should be viewed as entirely circumstantial or
coincidental and beside the point.
The whole thing sounds like another regrettable procedural oversight that
the judges are stuck having to deal with, all because the weigh-in wasn't
conducted prior to the first race.
-- From Paul Cayard - Correction: Il Moro III won the first IACC World
Championship in 1991, not Il Moro I.
ISAF MATCH RACE RANKINGS
October 10, 2000 - OPEN: 1 Bertrand PACE, FRA; 2 Dean BARKER, NZL; 3 Sten
MOHR, DEN; 4 Magnus HOLMBERG, SWE; 5 Jesper BANK, DEN; 6 Peter GILMOUR,
AUS; 7 Jes GRAM-HANSEN, DEN; 8 Jesper Radich JOHANSEN, DEN; 9 James
SPITHILL, AUS; 10 Roy HEINER, NED; 19 Ed BAIRD, USA; 20 Peter HOLMBERG, ISV.
WOMEN: 1 Dorte O. JENSEN, DEN; 2 Betsy ALISON, USA; 3 Klaartje ZUIDERBAAN,
NED; 4 Cordelia EGLIN, GBR; 5 Malin KALLSTROM, SWE; 6 Paula LEWIN, BER; 7
Marie BJORLING, SWE; 8 Shirley ROBERTSON, GBR; 9 Malin MILLBOURN, SWE; 10
Christine BRIAND, FRA; 12 Cory SERTL, USA; 13 Dru SLATTERY, USA; 14 Hannah
SWETT, USA; 25 Dawn RILEY, USA:
Complete rankings: http://sailing.org/iyru/oct00mrrankings/22mrranking.html
MIDDLE SEA RACE
Robert McNeil's 75 foot racing yacht captured line honours in the Cape to
Rio Race, set a new race record and is now hoping to write his name down in
the Royal Malta Yacht Club history books by coming to Malta to compete in
this years Middle Sea Race. Zephyrus IV managed to claim line honours, a
new course record and an overall handicap fleet win for owner Robert
McNeil, skipper John Bertrand, navigator Mark Rudiger and the rest of the
'Zephyrus IV' team in the 3435-nautical mile 2000 MTN Cape to Rio Race.
"Zephyrus IV" is a Maxi-Sled Rachel-Pugh design and is being shipped out to
Malta from the West Coast of the United States just for the Middle Sea
Race, which starts on October 21. She is hoping to set a new course record
this year and should be arriving in Malta within the next two days.
Quite a few boats, including Italian hot favourites and course record
holder "Riviera di Rimini" and "Magic Sailing Team", both "Open 60's" have
now confirmed that they will not be able to get to Malta in time for the
start of the Middle Sea Race due to severe weather in the Adriatic. Medex,
a local entry were also stuck in Marsala, North of Sicily, with winds in
excess of forty knots. Originally, the Race Committee received enquiries
from no less that nine Maltese boats wishing to participate in the Middle
Sea Race, however, these have now dwindled to just five which include
Allegra, skippered by Alfred Manduca, Victoria Moody, with Paul Chetcuti on
the wheel, Medex-Powered by RedBull from the Ripard Consortium and Latina,
a Beneteau 42s7 with Winston Azzopardi at the wheel.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
The Sailing Company, a unit of New York-based Miller Sports Group, has
named Darrell Nicholson associate editor of Cruising World, a leading
magazine for sailing enthusiasts. experienced sailor who's logged some
30,000 ocean miles, Nicholson joins Cruising World from SportsYA!, Miami,
where he was assistant editor in chief. His editorial background also
includes a term as copy editor/assistant sports editor at the Pacific Daily
News in Guam and as a reporter for The Virgin Islands Daily News. A 1987
graduate of Emory University where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa,
Nicholson currently resides here with his new wife, Thesesa.
PARALYMPIAD
With Opening Ceremonies for the Games of the XI Paralympiad behind them,
U.S. sailors are set to make history in Sydney, Australia. Sailing, along
with wheelchair rugby, makes its debut as a full-medal sport at the 2000
Paralympic Games (both were exhibition events in 1996 in Atlanta). The
Paralympic Regatta is scheduled for October 20-27, 2000, with sailors
racing in the three-person Sonar and the singlehanded 2.4 Metre.
First held in Rome in 1960, the Paralympic Games grew from the need to
offer sporting opportunities to athletes with disabilities. Paralympic is a
derivation of the word parallel, and in the 40 years since they were first
established, the Paralympics have become to disabled athletes what the
Olympics is to able-bodied athletes an opportunity to defy physical
limitations. Paralympic sailors will utilize Rushcutters Bay, the same
venue used for the Olympics, and racing will take place in Sydney Harbour
on course B between Bradleys Head, Shark Island and Clark Island beginning
with a practice race on October 20. A nine race series with two drops is
planned for each class (competitors will drop their worst result after five
races are completed, and a second drop will count after nine races).
Entries are limited to 17 boats/countries in both events. As host of the
2000 Paralympic Games Australia received an automatic entry in each class.
Members of the USA's 2000 Paralympic Sailing Team are: 1998 World Disabled
Sailing Silver Medallists Paul Callahan (Palm Beach, Fla. and Providence,
R.I.) and Keith Burhans (Irondequoit, N.Y.) and 1998 World Disabled Sailing
Gold Medalist Corky Aucreman (Dana Point, Calif.) sailing in the Sonar
class; Tom Brown (Northeast Harbor, Maine) will compete in the 2.4 Metre
class; and alternate Jim Leatherman (Glen Arm, Md.), who was elected Team
Captain. Supporting the athletes are: Team Leader Serge Jorgensen
(Sarasota, Fla.); Coach Betsy Alison (Newport, R.I.); Boatwright Carl
Eichenlaub (San Diego, Calif.); and Personal Care Attendant Aaron Davis
(Providence, R.I.).
For team bios, a complete schedule of racing and daily updates:
http://www.ussailing.org/swsn/paralympics/
REGATTA REPORT
The 2000 Tasar North Americans were hosted by the Corinthian Yacht Club,
October 7 and 8, in Seattle, Washington. Saturday was a beautiful day for
sunbathing, but not for sailing as the fleet did not even venture off the
dock. Sunday brought a 10-knot Southerly, which held for the first 3 races
and faded badly for the 4th and final race. The current which was running
against the wind made for relatively short beats and long offwind legs.
Final results: 1. Carol/Carl Buchan (4) 2. Thilo Giese/Sandra Towers (14)
3. Kent Powley/Cathy Sherwood (16) 4. Allan Johnson/Sharon Moran (23) 5.
Fritz/Tina Lanzinger (23) 6. Jay/John Renehan (33) 7. Tyler Bech/Carol yn
Bersch (37)
THE CURMUDGEON'S QUOTATIONS
"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." -
Muhammad Ali
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