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Official publicationof the InternationalLaser Class Association,North American Region2812 Canon StreetSan Diego, CA 92106 USAPhone: (619) 222-0252Fax: (619) [email protected]

EEddiittoorrssSherri Campbell & Jerelyn BiehlILCA-NA

OOffffiicceerrssTracy UsherChairman22 Creekside LaneSan Mateo, CA 94401Phone: (650) [email protected]

Eric FaustVice Chairman821 East 53rd StreetAustin, TX 78751Phone: (512) [email protected]

Ben RichardsonTreasurer5 Beachmont AvenueGloucester, MA 01930Phone: (978) [email protected]

Lauralee SymesSecretary3576 SW Mt. Adams DrivePortland, OR 97239Phone: (503) [email protected]

Tommy WhartonAt Large118 Glouchester Ave.Oakville, ON L6J 3W4 CanadaPhone: [email protected]

Sherri CampbellExecutive Secretary2812 Canon StreetSan Diego, CA 92106Phone: (619) 222-0252Fax: (619) [email protected]

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District Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

President’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Membership Stats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

From the Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Laser Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-13

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District Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16-21

2006 Event Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Laser World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .center

2007 Fleet Listing & Regatta Schedules . . . . . . . .pull-out

Olympic Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Masters Sailing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Winter Storage Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Blog Review - MMT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

2006 Grand Prix Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Regatta Reports

ISSA High School Championships . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

ICSA Singlehanded Nationals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

USVI Championship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Florida Championship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Cedar Point Champs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

ILCA-NA Financial Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Membership Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Sailing Fit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

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Annually and according to the By-laws, ILCA-NA elects sailors to fill theofficers positions to run the Class inNorth America. Any member may makea nomination through your DistrictSecretary the beginning of October.Nominees may campaign mid-Octoberwith elections taking place the end ofOctober, voted on by District Secretaries.

This year, there were no nominationsreceived, so the current slate will standand these officers have agreed to governfor one more year. Thanks to our volun-teers who meet monthly to steer ILCA-NA forward!

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2007 ILCA Class Rules updated

The updated Laser Class rules, which come into effecton December 1, 2006, have been posted.

There are four changes to the Class Rules:1) The addition of the new “Boom Sleeve and Clew Hook”for the outhaul,

2) You are now allowed to tape the bailer pin (with thedrain plug removed) to the cockpit floor to prevent kickingit closed,

3) The centerboard stopper may now be secured togetherby glue, screws, bolts, nuts and washers,

4) The rule on how the centerboard shock cord is run hasbeen modified to allow passing it around the bow (to keepit clear of the vang fitting at the mast).

Note also rule interpretation #2 which allows you to tape thebottom/top mast joint around the outside to prevent rotation.

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The International Sailing Federationselected, from a tough field of candidates,the North American Region’s own PaigeRailey to honor as its female ISAF RolexWorld Sailor of the Year! Congratulations toPaige for this fantastic accomplishment!Since the Radial became Olympic, Paigehas been the person to beat, often showingthe ability to completely dominate an eventin a Robert Scheidt like fashion. Getting tothe Olympics will not be an easy task (withISAF World #1 Anna Tunnicliffe directly inher path) but it would be hard to bet againsther!

I’m writing this column on the officialfirst day of winter, a time when most of ushave put the boat away for the off seasonand are busy with other things. Some fleetsjust don’t seem to understand this, though,and are seeing some huge turnouts for theirfrostbite series. Two that come to mind areCedar Point Yacht Club fleet and theNewport/Fleet 413 group, both of whichhave seen well over 50 boats on the startline for some of their events. Still, activityis not confined to just a small part of the

North East… for example, we areseeing lots of activity in fleets allalong the West Coast, from Seattleall the way to Southern California.These events offer a great opportu-nity to keep your sailing skillssharp, get in practice for next sea-son and, above all, have lots of fun!If you have the itch to go sailing and arenot sure if there is any activity in your area(and, of course, the water is still in its liquidstate), check the fleet listings attached inthe insert, or online at the Laser Class web-site, to find a fleet near you and see whatmight be going on!

While it may seem like a slow time forsailing, it is probably the busiest time of theyear for the Laser Class office. Besides theflood of membership renewal processinggoing on right now, this is also the time ofthe year when the schedule for the upcom-ing season gets finalized. While the majorevents are normally pinned down wayahead, the real work comes in trying toround up the remaining Grand Prix events(mostly District Championships) as well asthe full schedules for each of the districts inour region. Every year there are somewherebetween 400 and 500 Laser/Radial/4.7events across North America and collectingall of this information and putting it intothe calendar is a daunting task. Theattached insert shows where this process isas of the first day of winter, and you cansee that we are around ⁄ of the way there.

The calendar is updated daily;you can get the latest informa-tion from the Laser Class web-site (where you can even printyour own version of this insert).And the same insert will beincluded again in the SpringEdition of TLS. Help us to get

your event into the calendar by letting yourDistrict Secretary and the Class Officeknow about it!

Speaking of website, by the time youare reading this we will have turned on thefirst round of web infrastructure improve-ments by putting the membership databaseonline in a secure environment. WhatILCA-NA members will see is a newrenewal form which allows them to imme-diately update their information in the data-base (plus collect some missing informa-tion for family members, etc.). DistrictSecretaries will have tools available forgenerating mailing lists, email lists, etc., inthe hope that it will be easier to contact youabout things going on in your district.Eventually this will grow in to a member’sonly section of the website, more informa-tion on that will be coming soon.

Ok, another year of Laser sailing haspassed and we are already looking forwardto an even better year in 2007! I hope to seelots of you out sailing in the coming year!

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District Members1 102 103 614 35 156 517 1268 469 1110 5411 7612 4413 5114 715 3816 417 818 3519 3420 5521 1822 123 1724 4825 8226 5

ILCA-NA MembershipAs of December 19, 2006

Regular 622Junior 149Family, 1 102Family, 2 45Family, 3 0International 1Total 919

Complimentary 59

Honorary 5

New 133

Renewals 719

Yacht Club 3

Total 919

Age Categories:• 209 Juniors (not 18 in2007)• 547 Masters (35+)

Gender Categories:• 769 Male• 129 Female• 21 “undisclosed”

Boat Categories:• 195 Radial• 13 4.7• 695 Full Rig

4.7 Sailors!Are you going to the 2007 4.7 Worlds inSouth Africa next December/January?If you are and would like to be considered for a US

SAILING grant through ILCA-NA, please forward yourresume to the ILCA-NA office by September 1, 2007.

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NED JONES

2006 & 2007: A Look OverThe Transom and theView Over The Bow

Another year has passed us by, but notwithout lots of changes for our favoriteboat.

This fall in Rhode Island saw anotherround of sail testing Radial compositeupper masts. The latest versions of thisspar, from different manufacturers from thelast versions, are very promising. The origi-nal mission was to create a spar that willwiden, and lower the competitive weightrange for the Laser Radial. This latest mastseems to be accomplishing this. Thebuilders, including Laser Class TechnicalOfficer Adam French sail tested the sparsagainst each other and against the alu-minum upper. The results are promising.While the composite spar does not seem tobe a panacea, it does show indications thata lighter weight sailor will remain competi-tive into heavier wind conditions than waspossible with the aluminum. Further testingis warranted and Adam French will be sail-ing with the spars this summer in Australiaand collecting data to be used in makingdecisions in the future. While a new sparsuch as this can not be approved for use byISAF in this current Olympic quadrennium,the Class and builders will continue todevelop and test the composite Radialupper masts in order to get the sparapproved as soon as possible.

You may have heard that compositecenterboards and rudders are under devel-opment in Australia. The process has beenon-going for several years, trying to perfectthe process to allow mass production of theparts, while meeting the Laser Class speci-fications. The blades do meet the LaserClass specs, and specifically the shape,weight and flex of the boards is identical tothe existing PPL Crompton foam blades wecurrently use. The durability of the finishedproduct is where we believe any advantagewill come from. The composite bladesshould be less susceptible to warping, chip-ping and breaking. They will be moreexpensive, but should last longer.

The stainless steel clew sleeve has beenrecently approved and is available throughauthorized Laser dealers. The reviews ofthis product have been all positive. The ini-tial rigging of the sleeve takes a little morework, but once the sleeve is installed onyour boom, the rigging of the sail is much

easier. In this writer’s opin-ion, the jury is out whetheryou can tie your clew tighter,and have it stay tighter to theboom than the clew sleevehook. In most cases, andespecially in a “must rigquickly” situation, the newclew sleeve appears to befine choice.

My personal favoritechange this year is the approved method forsecuring the centerboard stopper in the cen-terboard. The blue centerboard stoppershipped with Vanguard centerboards maynow be secured with glue, screws, bolts,nuts and washers provided the originalshape and dimensions of the stopper are notreduced. I am always tightening and replac-ing my centerboard stopper. Now I can fas-ten the stopper with a screw provided thescrew does not come in contact with thehull when the board is in the full downposition. The option I will most likely useis a bolt and nut with large washers. Images

of these options, as well as the new clewsleeve are available on the ILCA websitewww.laserinternational.org.

There are two other rule changesapproved this fall. One allows the taping of

the cockpit bailer activation pin tothe floor of the cockpit while sail-ing. Sailors have been doing this forsome time. While it was technicallyillegal prior to this approval, now itis fully approved and legal. Theother rule change allows your cen-terboard bungee cord to be ledaround the bow of the boat. It maynot be clipped or otherwiseattached to the gunwale. This too

has been in practice for some time and isnow legal.

As you can see, these last two changesare minor and rather insignificant inregards to how fast it may make a Lasersail. The point is, and the greatest strengthof the Laser Class rules is, that unless therules specifically allow an action or fitting,that action or fitting is not allowed.

2006 has been a very successful andpositive year, and 2007 is looking just aspromising. Thank you all for being a part ofthe Laser family. Best wishes in 2007, andsee you on the water.

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CCiittyy//ssttaattee//pprroovviinnccee:: Provence,

SwitzerlandAAggee:: 7722II ssaaiill aa radial rig LLaasseerr

II’’vvee bbeeeenn ssaaiilliinngg ssiinnccee II wwaass 2, with my dad. I

had the first Laser in Switzerland #3113, still

using the same hull, but use a newer hull for racing.

IInn tthhee llaasstt yyeeaarr,, II’’vvee ssaaiilleedd mmyy LLaasseerr 80

nnuummbbeerr ooff ddaayyss aanndd rraacceedd iinn 45 rreeggaattttaass..

TThhee ccrraazziieesstt mmoommeenntt iinn mmyy LLaasseerr ssaaiilliinngg wwaass

sailing in the middle of the Atlantic, 15 kts of

wind, 10 foot swell and my wife in our 36’ cata-

maran as coach boat. I also made a 7 day trans-

euro raid from Switzerland to the Med along the

Rhone River. Just one beg in front of the mast

and sleeping on the bank, under my Laser, cap-

sized on the beach, sail acting as tent for the

night. In Barbuda, I rescued a boat goat fi mile

from shore. The goat survived, I got bruised and

the Laser quite a few scratches.

AAtt tthhee eenndd ooff aa lloonngg ddaayy ooff ssaaiilliinngg,, II lliikkee ttoo

stay on the water and sail for another hour or

2..

II’’dd lloovvee ttoo help any US sailor visiting

Switzerland bboossccoo@@bboossccooyyaacchhtt..cchh

NNaammee:: SSyyddnneeyy BByyrrnnssOOccccuuppaattiioonn: StudentCCiittyy//ssttaattee//pprroovviinnccee:: Saskatoon,SaskatchewanAAggee:: 18II ssaaiill aa radial LLaasseerr

II’’vvee bbeeeenn ssaaiilliinngg ssiinnccee II wwaass 6, but racingsince I was 12 aanndd ssaaiilliinngg aa LLaasseerr ffoorr 2 years

IInn tthhee llaasstt yyeeaarr,, II’’vvee ssaaiilleedd mmyy LLaasseerr 56nnuummbbeerr ooff ddaayyss aanndd rraacceedd iinn 11 rreeggaattttaass..

TThhee llaasstt rreeggaattttaa II ssaaiilleedd iinn wwaass the PA AnnualRegatta ,, wwhhiicchh was a fun wrap-up to the season.

MMyy hheerroo iiss Logan Campbell bbeeccaauussee of hisenthusiasm and the way he never gives up.

MMyy ffaavvoorriittee ppaarrtt ooff rraacciinngg aa LLaasseerr iiss whenthere is wind enough for me to hike hard on theupwind and surf waves on the downwind.

AAtt tthhee eenndd ooff aa lloonngg ddaayy ooff ssaaiilliinngg,, II lliikkee ttoo relax and hang out with other sailors. Don’t forgetthe ice cream!

WWhhaatt ootthheerr LLaasseerr ssaaiilloorr hhaass hheellppeedd yyoouu tthheemmoosstt wwiitthh yyoouurr LLaasseerr ssaaiilliinngg?? Mark Lammens,also my competitors.

IIff II hhaadd aann uunnlliimmiitteedd bbaannkk aaccccoouunntt,, II’’dd travelthe world, making frequent sailing pit stops.

II’’dd lliikkee ttoo sseeee mmoorree LLaasseerr ssaaiilloorrss come out tothe prairie events- we get some of the best racingconditions one could hope for.

NNaammee:: KKrryyssttaa RRoohhddee

OOccccuuppaattiioonn: high school studentcciittyy//ssttaattee//pprroovviinnccee:: Richmond Hill, GAAAggee:: 17

II ssaaiill aa radial and full rig LLaasseerr

II’’vvee bbeeeenn ssaaiilliinngg ssiinnccee II wwaass 77 aanndd ssaaiilliinngg aa LLaasseerr ffoorr 2 (1/2)yearsIInn tthhee llaasstt yyeeaarr,, II’’vvee ssaaiilleedd mmyy LLaasseerr a lot aanndd rraacceedd iinn 14 rreeggaattttaass..

TThhee llaasstt rreeggaattttaa II ssaaiilleedd iinn wwaass Cressy High School Singlehanded Nationals aanndd it blew 50 and we only got3 races in, but it was fun anyways.

MMyy hheerroo iiss Mr. John McIntosh Sr.bbeeccaauussee he is always positive and at 82 is still out there cheering us on - wekeep him young and he helps us grow up.MMyy ffaavvoorriittee ppaarrtt ooff rraacciinngg aa LLaasseerr iiss getting bow out on the start … and seeing everyone!AAtt tthhee eenndd ooff aa lloonngg ddaayy ooff ssaaiilliinngg,, II lliikkee ttoo take a showerWWhhaatt ootthheerr LLaasseerr ssaaiilloorr hhaass hheellppeedd yyoouu tthhee mmoosstt wwiitthh yyoouurr LLaasseerr ssaaiilliinngg?? John PotterIIff II hhaadd aann uunnlliimmiitteedd bbaannkk aaccccoouunntt,, II’’dd get new gear and travel

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LLaasseerr PPrrooffiilleessNNaammee:: RReenneeee RRuuaaiiss

OOccccuuppaattiioonn: IT Specialist

CCiittyy//ssttaattee//pprroovviinnccee:: AAuussttiinn,, TTXX

AAggee:: 3377

II ssaaiill aa Full, Radial sometimes LLaasseerr

II’’vvee bbeeeenn ssaaiilliinngg ssiinnccee II wwaass 1122 aanndd ssaaiilliinngg aa LLaasseerr ffoorr 5 years

IInn tthhee llaasstt yyeeaarr,, II’’vvee ssaaiilleedd mmyy LLaasseerr 4400 nnuummbbeerr ooff ddaayyss aanndd rraacceedd iinn 55 rreeggaattttaass..

TThhee llaasstt rreeggaattttaa II ssaaiilleedd iinn wwaass Wurstfest (District 15 Circuit Regatta) aanndd I lost a close finish becauseI shot the line too early and had to power back up to actually cross the line.

MMyy hheerroo iiss Anyone who makes a living off of sailing related activities! bbeeccaauussee Corporate desk jobs justaren’t as much fun

MMyy ffaavvoorriittee ppaarrtt ooff rraacciinngg aa LLaasseerr iiss knowing that for almost every person who kicks your butt locally,there are 10 more that can kick his butt at the next level (or even locally J).

AAtt tthhee eenndd ooff aa lloonngg ddaayy ooff ssaaiilliinngg,, II lliikkee ttoo relax at the lake and enjoy the post-race beverages.WWhhaatt ootthheerr LLaasseerr ssaaiilloorr hhaass hheellppeedd yyoouu tthhee mmoosstt wwiitthh yyoouurr LLaasseerr ssaaiilliinngg?? I can’t name one…I’dhave to say mostly the new sailors who ask me questions and make me think….I’ve never learned so muchas when I tried to teach or explain things to someone else.

IIff II hhaadd aann uunnlliimmiitteedd bbaannkk aaccccoouunntt,, II’’dd love to launch a serious campaign, get really fit for sailing,get some professional coaching and see how far I could take it.

II’’dd lliikkee ttoo sseeee mmoorree LLaasseerr sailors traveling to District Circuit and other regattas.

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II ssaaiill aa full and radial LLaasseerrII’’vvee bbeeeenn ssaaiilliinngg ssiinnccee II wwaass two years old aanndd ssaaiilliinngg aa LLaasseerr ffoorr 5 yearsIInn tthhee llaasstt yyeeaarr,, II’’vvee ssaaiilleedd mmyy LLaasseerr 97 nnuummbbeerr ooff ddaayyss aanndd rraacceedd iinn 15 or so rreeggaattttaass..TThhee llaasstt rreeggaattttaa II ssaaiilleedd iinn wwaass Laserlips in Columbus aanndd It was cold with shifty wind

but I got first on radial.MMyy hheerroo iiss Anna Tunnicliff bbeeccaauussee she started sailing out of district 18MMyy ffaavvoorriittee ppaarrtt ooff rraacciinngg aa LLaasseerr iiss a screaming reach with a death roll at the end.AAtt tthhee eenndd ooff aa lloonngg ddaayy ooff ssaaiilliinngg,, II lliikkee ttoo hang out with my friends.

WWhhaatt ootthheerr LLaasseerr ssaaiilloorr hhaass hheellppeedd yyoouu tthhee mmoosstt wwiitthh yyoouurr LLaasseerr ssaaiilliinngg?? Tyler

Andrews, my dad, Wayne MyersIIff II hhaadd aann uunnlliimmiitteedd bbaannkk aaccccoouunntt,, II’’dd buy everyone in the world a laser. II’’dd lliikkee ttoo sseeee mmoorree LLaasseerr ssaaiilloorrss hold more regattas..

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TTeecchhnniiccaall TTiippssMICHAEL KALIN

Growing up in Kingston, Ontario, I wasblessed to learn how to sail in great SWthermal breezes and a nice 3-foot chop. Iloved surfing waves downwind, planing athigh speed on reaches and I didn’t mindhiking the boat down upwind. In short,heavy air became my reason for sailing.When the wind dropped and the hikingstopped, this all changed. I would lose con-centration, get aggravated, frustrated andtell myself: “this is not even sailing, whyare we doing it?”. I was probably just likeany typical teenager. I seldom practiced mylight air skills and would rather go and liftweights so I could get bigger and strongerin the breeze. I hated light air sailing,detested the “pinners” and “lightweights”and would dismiss shifty conditions as a“crapshoot”. It wasn’t until years later thatI realized that light air sailing is not aboutluck, bad karma or your bodyweight — it isall about your attitude. If the three wordsthat I just mentioned, or variations of thosewords (plus curse words), come out of yourmouth when talking about light air game,I’m sorry to say that you are already defeat-ed in the light stuff, my friend.

There have been many great articles onlight air sailing and technique. Light airtechnique is covered very well in BenAinslie’s book and Ben Tan’s book (the bestbook written on Laser sailing, in my opin-ion). Here are some of my brief observa-tions on light air sailing:

Imitate, imitate, innovate – plagiarizingis legal in sailing! Watch the best and copyEVERYTHING about their sailing style –how they hold the tiller, how they tilt theirhead, the way they bend their knees, theirposture, their body language and how theyshift their weight when sailing. Study theirrigging and set-up and always try to matchit. Watch how much they trim their sail andmove their tiller. It may not make sense atfirst why panhandling the tiller extension isfast, but once you get a knack for it, youwill reap the benefits, then be able to putyour own little twist on it and make it yourown.

MMeennttaall sskkiillllss – Intensity, concentration,focus – light air should be every bit asmentally taxing and exhausting as any othercondition.

BBooddyy wweeiigghhtt aanndd pphhyyssiiccaall ttrraaiinniinngg –a fit 180lb body will perform in the breeze,but will also be able to throw the boataround in boat-handling maneuvers. Aimfor this bodyweight and you will perform inall conditions. Read World Champion

Michael Blackburn’s book – it is the bestbook written on sailing fitness.

CCrroossss ttrraaiinniinngg – find the best one-design fleet in your area and race in lightair! The lessons learned and techniqueshoned in V15s , Tech Dinghies or evenFlying Sidewalks will go a long way toimproving your Laser technique.

Reading the wind on the water – essen-tial to assessing what wind direction andspeed is about to hit the fleet. I break downmy wind reading into three categories: 1)Long range planning (strategy) – scanningthe water color one mile upwind. This willhelp you plan a strategy for the first beatand thus your starting strategy. Knowingwhat phase (leftie or rightie) and pressureyou are likely to be sailing in ten minutesfrom the start is key information and mustbe obtained as close to the start as possible.2) Medium term planning (tactics) – scan-ning the color of water and wave angle 50-200 yds upwind. This will help you placeyourself tactically amongst the fleet todetermine how best to execute your strategyand beat out the boats with a similar plan as

you. 3) Short term planning (boatspeed) –scanning the direction of the ripples within10-50 yds of the boat. This will give youadvance warning of windspeed changes andwindshifts so you can adjust your main-sheet, body trim (hiking), and boat angle(steering) to give yourself maximum heightand speed. These visual skills are acquiredthrough practice and constant assessmentand reflection. Also, a good pair of polar-ized sunglasses (Kaenon Kore are the bestpair for this) and a visor will help shieldyour eyes so you can see the subtle ripplesthat will cue you into what is coming next.

CCoonnqquueerriinngg yyoouurr mmeennttaall ddeemmoonnss::It wasn’t until I started coaching at MIT

and sailing in the Tuesday night summerrace series on the infamous “Rivah Chuck”that I developed a love for flexing my lightair muscles in the venerable Tech Dinghyand matching up with New England’s finestsailors from all walks of the sailing world.What I noticed over my years of coachingis that every good college sailor will comeinto Boston and freak out about the sailingconditions on the rivah and the 13’ bathtubdinghy that I happen to think is the greatestsailing invention ever. But, there are fewrare exceptional sailors that can turn on aswitch in their attitude, rise up to the chal-lenge and learn to love the madness, skilland concentration it requires to excel in thewhacky stuff and actually love the technicalaspects of the 13’ highly tunable racingmachine. There are many lessons that Ihave learned from the Charles and the TechDinghy and these lessons and skills havegone a long way in helping my overall sail-ing game and, crazy as it might sound, theyhave helped me become a better person.Here is a summary of these attributes andskills:

MMaattuurriittyy:: The most important mentalskill needed for light air sailing. The real-ization that your job in light air is three-fold: risk management, calculating proba-bilities, and executing well-rehearsed boathandling maneuvers. You are not playingWeather God and trying to control thewind’s unpredictable fate. You neither cursethe wind and your “bad luck”, nor do youcelebrate your “good fortune” and yourinnate and God-like ability to predict thewind. An emotional attachment or reactionto outside factors (wind shifts, other com-petitors, race committee blunders, motor-boat wake, weed) is just a waste of mentalenergy and will affect your ability to ration-alize and effectively process variables onthe water. You can tweak your risk man-agement model and learn new lessons about

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risk vs. reward; you can refine your boathandling and the methodsin which you execute your strategy. In other words: you can con-trol what you can control; don’t sweat the other stuff — a greatlife lesson.

SSeellff--TTaallkk:: Your inner voice, the person in your head withwhom you have the most conversations, has a huge impact onyour outlook and attitude on everything you do. If you can hearyour inner voice telling you negative things, squelch it and influ-ence yourself with more positive talk. This all starts in practice.Tell yourself you love the challenge of light air; tell yourself thereason you are so good in the light stuff is because you are smart,patient and calculating. Continue to convince yourself that youare a genius and a wizard and no matter what is thrown at you,you will always be able to deal with it. Most importantly, get overyour blunders and realize that EVERYONE makes mistakes – howyou deal with them will separate the winners from the losers.Learn your lesson and move on – there is always another race.

NNeevveerr lloossee yyoouurr ccooooll:: A temper tantrum signals to yourcompetitors that you are defeated. It is draining to your positivestate of mind and transfers confidence and positive energystraight to your competitors. At all costs, learn to manage angerand keep it contained. You can practice this in every part of yourlife. Keep cool, rational and level-headed – when you get a park-ing ticket, get cut-off on the highway in your car, get flipped offwhile in traffic or deal with a seemingly moronic person – be likethe Fonz. Anyone who excels at anything in life practices his orher trade with a calm state of mind, no matter what the circum-stances. Sailing is no different, keep it professional.

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DDiissttrriicctt RReeppoorrttssDDiissttrriicctt 22DDeennyyss DDeesscchhaammbbeeaauullttTTrrooiiss RRiivviieerreess,, QQuueebbeeccHello to all the district laser and radial sailors.Thisis the time of the year when the clubs publish theirannual report;most of the clubs show a slightincrease in activity. For the class the membership isup slightly mostly due to junior programs andfemale radial racers.As for the senior and masterssailing next year will lprobably not have anyimprovement as far as the numbers of regattas isinvolve.I’m now working to change that by trying tocreate a new gold cup type of events. I have talkwith laser dealear to work out a prize system likewhat they have in district 3 with the hull exchangeprogram.To accomplish that we need to have at least5 new venues or club to hold a laser regatta .I havecontacted a few clubs that have not yet held a laserregatta , that means regional clubs that have sailingprograms but only a limited amount of personnaland management it looks promising but it might notbe completed in time for the 2007 season.On thesame subject another good news is that district 3 iswilling to exchange regatta; for exemple they couldhold one of their regattas in D2 and we could haveone of our regatta in their district with the pointscounting in each gold cup,or sailors from either dis-trict could attend the other’s races and have pointscounted in their system. More to come on that aswe are still working out the details.Thanks to Bradley Green we now have a web sited2.laserforum.org of course there is no informationyet so it is up to you to send me infos, pictures arti-cle or anything you think would interest your bodies.

DDiissttrriicctt 33 NNiiggeell HHeeaatthhHHeeiinnzz GGeebbaauueerrPPaauull MMuullddoooonnOOnnttaarriioo,, CCaannaaddaa

The District 3 executive have been busy schedulingevents for the 2007 sailing season. It can be a majorchallenge trying to fit so many regattas into our rel-atively short peak sailing season, while minimizingthe conflicting events within the district and withmajor regattas in neighboring districts. By the timeyou read this everything should be in place, but ifyou know of another event that you want posted onthe District 3 website (www.d3.laserforum.org),send an email to Paul Muldoon([email protected]). All our contact infois available on the website.

We will be introducing some new concepts for theGold Cup events in 2007. Firstly, we will be holding“District 3 Debriefs” whereby the winning sailor(s)will be asked to talk briefly about what went welland not so well for them during the event. The aimhere is to have a short Q&A session and give every-one a chance to learn from the winner’s successes.Ultimately, we hope this helps enable the mid-fleetsailor to move up to the top-of-the-fleet, and enablethe deep-in-the-fleet sailor to become a mid-fleet

sailor. While this is not exactly a new concept, it isdesigned to help improve the competitiveness ofDistrict 3 sailors overall. Secondly, the laser classwinner of each Gold Cup event will be awarded withanother “prize”: he/she will be volunteered to writea regatta event summary for the Laser Sailor maga-zine. If you have other realistic and reasonableideas on how to improve events within the district,send us a note (a dozen Tim Horton donuts for thewinner probably won’t work, although it may evenout the fleet).

Just a reminder that Fogh Marine has agreed to onceagain provide 3 hulls (in exchange for existing hull)to the District 3 Gold Cup Series winners for the2007 season. They will go to the top laser, radial andjunior (16 & under in radial fleet) sailors, as perrules set out on the website.

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Although there is still snow on the ground and iceon the lake, I can sense the weather slowly begin-ning to change. With the days getting longer and thecold milder we can only hope for another earlyspring.

This year the 2007 District 4 Championships will beheld at the Falcon Yacht Club in conjunction withSail West & WISC (July 12-15). The event is expect-ed to attract additional numbers as it will also serveas the qualifier for the Canadian YouthChampionships.

Make sure to check out the 2007 regatta schedulefor all racing information, www.sailmanitoba.com.Good luck and happy racing.

DDiissttrriicctt 55MMaarrkk LLaammmmeennssSSaasskkaattoooonn,, SSaasskkaattcchheewwaann

‘Sail West’, the multi class CYA title event forWestern Canada has changed its format for 2007. Ithas been the Western Canadian Championships inthe Canada Games classes, with the 1999 eventbeing the first. This year it will also be the WesternCanadian Championships for the different agegroups. In 2007 the 16 and under, and the 18 andunder will be included with ‘Sail West”. The plan isto try to make this a Sailing Festival with youth,open and masters sailing for the Western Provinces.

This year’s Sail West will be hosted at the FalconLake Yacht Club in Manitoba, July 13-15 with atraining camp for the Provincial Teams before theevent.

The first Sail West was hosted at the LakeDiefenbaker Yacht Club in 1978, the brain thrust ofthe late John Merz. Might be a good idea to host the2008, 30th anniversary event back at Elbow, SK.1978 Sail West was also the National LaserChampionships, the first big win by Terry Neilson,who went on to win a few more Nationals, LaserWorlds and an Olympic Medal in the Finn.

2007 is also the Western Canada Summer Games,hosted at the Wabamun Sailing Club, one ofAlberta’s best sailing venues and Race ManagementTeams. The 4 Western provinces, BC, Alberta,Saskatchewan and Manitoba will have teams in 17and under Radial and 19 and under Laser for theBoys and 19 and under Radial for the Girls. Otherclasses include the 17 and under Byte and 19 andunder 29er for the Girls and the 19 and under 29erfor the boys. Contact your provincial associationregarding each provinces qualifications, this event isa limited closed event. The dates are August 3rd -7th.

District 5 sailor Keamia Rasa has qualified for theCanadian Sailing Team again for 2007. She has avery busy year planned; a week ago was in Hawaiitraining with American Daniel Myrdal and ispresently in AUS at the Sydney regatta. District 5sailor Mike Simms, who finished 2nd in the 2000Olympic Trials has moved back to Calgary with hischild bride Lee and 2 young kids. Mike, a lawyerhas agreed to sit on the CYA appeals committee forthe 2008 Canadian Olympic Trials.

More details in the new years as we get the dates forthe Districts, the different Provincials and WesternCanadian Masters determined in the New Year

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The regatta season but not the club season is over inDistrict 6 for 2006.The Corinthian Yacht Club of Seattle and to a lesserextent, the Royal Victoria Yacht Club will be havingwinter racing programs for the next few months.CYC has taken over as the place to be for winterracing from the Royal Victoria Yacht Club. Therewill be racing in Seattle on January 7,21 and February 18, 2007. There has been somewindy regattas the last few months. Here is a reporton some recent regattas.The Fall Dinghy Championships and Octoberfestwere held on September 30 and October 1 at theRoyal Victoria Yacht Club and at the CorinthianYacht Club / Sail Sand Point. The Fall DinghyChampionships was one of those regattas that hadlots of wind on one day and considerably less on theother day. On September 30, the winds were gustingat around 20 knots. Lots of the sailors either did not go out altogether ortried to race and decided to retire. On October 1,the winds were a lot less (5-8) with some holes andthe race committee decided to move the course clos-er to the yacht club. There were 34 full rigs and 23Radials. There were seven races in total. The topten in the full rigs were: Abe Torchinsky, RVAN,

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11.00; Kevin Grierson, RVAN, 17.00; Luke Ramsay,RVAN, 21.00; Bob Britten (M), RVIC, 25.00;Andrea Biagioni, Italy, 34.00; Maurice Bond, RVIC,35.00; Ben Scott, RVAN, 42.00; Geoff Abel, RVIC,44.00; Jacek Suski (GM), JSCA, 47.00; RyanCutting, WVYC, 48.00. The top ten Radials were:Jen Spalding, RVAN, 7.00; Jon Scott, RVAN, 15.00;Alanna Vitteray, RVAN, 20.00; AlexanderHeinzemann, RVAN, 30; Catherine Richards,RKYC, 34.00; Chris Tulip, RVAN, 41.00; RicardoMontemayor, RVAN, 42.00; Robert Berry, RVIC,45.00; Adrian Passier, HSC, 57.00; Sebastien Fritz,RVAN, 59.00. For Octoberfest, there were 6 full rigs and 29Radials. I have been unable to find the wind condi-tions but there were 5 races for each of the Laserfleets. The results of the full rigs are as follows:John Tenneson, 6.00; Zach Forcade, 10.00; JamesRhyne, 12.00; Johan Jorna, 16.00; Hugh Runyan,21.00; Alex McClanahan, 21.00. The top tenRadials were: Madeline Jackson, 6.00; MollyJackson, 7.00; Elliott Drake, 14.00; Matt Pistay,18.00; Josh Larsen, 20.00; Casey Tone, 31.00;Monica Mader, 31.00; Nate Karle, 34.00; EmmaHartmann, 41.00; Erica Vranizan, 44.00. The RoyalVancouver Yacht Club was host for the 2006 Laserand Laser Radial CYA National Qualifier Regatta.Whoever was top youth, would qualify for the 2007ISAF Youth Worlds, to be held in Kingston, Ontario,Canada in 2007. Also on the line, was funding fromCYA. Sailors started showing up early to get insome pratice. The actual regatta ran from Thursday,October 12 to Sunday, October 15, 2006. Most ofthe sailors were out practicing on the Wednesdaywhich was sunny, warm and had moderate breeze.The same conditions prevailed on Thursday.The winds picked up on Friday and peaked at 16knots. It was a complete reversal on Saturday andthe race committee got in one light air race. The winds came from the west on the Thursday,Friday and Saturday. However, on Sunday, it was an easterly wind ataround 16 knots with lots of rain. There were 10races in total and there were 36 Lasers and 26Radials. The top five Lasers were: Luke Ramsay,BC, 17.00; David Wright, ONT, 19.00; Mike Kalin,ONT, 30.00; Michael Leigh, BC, 33.00; AbeTorchinsky, BC, 38.00. The top male youth sailorwas Robert Davis from Ontario who had 78 points.The top five Radial sailors were: Danielle Dube,NS, 16.00; Lisa Ross, NS, 24.00; Jen Spalding, BC,34.00; Keamia Rasa, BC, 35.00; Victoria Crowder,ONT, 39.00. The top female youth sailor wasIsabella Bertold from BC who had 55 points. TheWest Vancouver Yacht Club was host to the PumpkinBowl on October 21 and 22. There were6 races and one throwout race. The Radials outnum-bered the full rigs 29 to 17. The top ten Radialswere: Jon Scott, RVAN, 11.00; Michael Schalka,SYC, 11.00; Ricardo Montemayor, RVAN, 23.00;Robert Berry, RVIC, 25.00; Kelsey Shugg, RVAN,26.00; Byron Roehrl, RVAN, 30.00; Chris Tulip,RVAN, 33.00; Alanna Vitteray, RVAN, 36.00;Alexander Heinzemann, RVAN, 40.00; AdrianPassier, HSC, 53.00. The top seven full rigs were:Elliott Drake, WSC, 22.00; Abe Torchinsky, RVAN,23.00; Geoff Abel, RVIC, 23.00; Kevin Grierson,RVAN, 31.00; Ryan Neilson, RPSA, 36.00; AndyWong, RVAN, 36.00; Ryan Cutting, WVYC, 36.00. Itried to find the results of the Bluenose Regatta butthey have not been posted on the website of theKitsilano Yacht Club. The winds were moderate

both days, November 4 and 5. I was on the racecommittee on the second day and I think that mostof the sailors seemed to enjoy themselves. I hope tobe able to get the results posted on the District 6website ASAP. The last regatta for 2006 was theTurkey Bowl, hosted by the Corinthian Yacht Clubof Seattle. Unfortuneately, there was no wind on the first dayand so much wind on the second day that only onerace was completed. There were 18 Lasers and noRadials. Top ten Lasers were: Dan Falk, CYC, 1.00;James Johnston, CYC, 2.00; Todd Willsie, CYC,3.00; Jacek Suski, JSCA, 4.00; Michael Cenname,CYC, 5.00; Dalton Bergan, SYC, 6.00; MichaelSchalka, SYC, 7.00; James Lyle, CYC, 8.00; JayWinberg, CYC, 9.00; Pat Schrimer, CYC, 10.00.The Laser and Radial sailors of the Royal VancouverYacht Club benefit immensely from the coaching ofAl Clark and Tine Moberg-Parker. Michael Leigh,Luke Ramsay and Hayley McLean all received pres-tigous CYA awards. Details can be found on theRoyal Vancouver Yacht Club’s website: www.royal-van.com. Please visit the District 6 website for the2007 schedule and more information. Finally, theJericho Sailing Centre will be host for the 2007Canadian Laser Master Championships onSeptember 1 - 3, 2007. Details to follow.

DDiissttrriicctt 77SSaallllyy SShhaarrppEEnnffiieelldd,, NNeeww HHaammppsshhiirree

Here in the northeast it’s been unusually mild thelast couple of months. Maybe that’s why the NewEngland area frostbite fleets have been seeing recordattendance this fall: Cedar Point (Westport CT) had116 sailors registered, and 51 qualified for seriesawards – terrific! Newport RI always has a largeand really competitive fleet, and other growing fleetsinclude Stamford YC (CT) and Cottage Park YC(Winthrop MA). Check out the D7 fleet list onnalaser.org or on the D7 website (d7.laserforum.org)– there’s bound to be a fleet near you-!

And this year it’s more important than ever to getslots of practice in before the summer regatta seasonhits. We’re incredibly lucky to have TWO majors inD7 in 2007: the North American Championship willbe in Hyannis MA in mid-June, and the US “Nats”are coming to Malletts Bay (Lake Champlain VT)August 10-12. On top of that, in mid-SeptemberCedar Point YC will host the Last-Chance OlympicTrials Qualifier, which will also attract a ton of tal-ent. Finally, Newport RI will be the site of the 2008U.S. Olympic Team Trials in early October. D7 isdefinitely the place to be in ’07-!

The full (preliminary!) 2007 schedule is printedelsewhere in this issue. There are still some openweekends, so regatta hosts - please send me yourregatta date if you don’t see it on the list. Again thisyear there will be a three-regatta Radial champi-onship series (sail two to qualify). The new Laser(full rig) series will be similar: 3 regattas, sail 2 or3: one northern regatta (at a ME/NH/VT venue), onecentral (MA or RI), and one southern event (CT orRI). We sure hope this will lead to much better par-ticipation than the six-regatta series has had lately.And the plan is to also have a separate “D7Northern Series” - sail 2 of 3 regattas in

ME/NH/VT. Details on these series will be provid-ed in the Spring issue of TLS and on our D7 web-site.

Happy New Year to all – have a great winter andtrain hard for all the big events coming up next sum-mer!

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There has not been much racing recently, but therehas indeed been some sailing around these parts -surprisingly so - right into December!We have not yet had a really cold period up here,and in fact some of our hardy fleet at Ithaca YChave still been sailing right up to this last weekend -17 Dec 2006, just like the sailors at Willowbank do!! Well done lads !One thing I would like to say is how excited I amthat Ithaca YC is building up its fleet from almost noolder sailors 3 years ago, to a good number of usnow. Much of this increase is due to my prodigyWade Leftwich, who is older than me, but looks outfor the “Yeehaaa” weather as he calls it. White capcity ! He just adores flying off the waves at topspeed, and is a salt of the earth sailor. We now havea bundle of sailors coming out each week for friend-ly sparring on the water, normally Wed nights andSundays. Good job to Jim Scarpulla who justbought a Laser from Hobart William Smith (ScottIkle). So we now have our Commodoro ByrneO’Brien, Wade Leftwich, Jim Scarpulla, ChasWilliamson, Clare Fewtrell, Pedro Gould, DaveFiliberto out there sailing together. Pedro went toaround three regattas last season. Things are hap-pening - Thanks to you great sailors. This groundroots growth can happen at any club. Now we needto get more of the younger sailors out there like 5years ago.One of our youth sailors of 2000, now a product ofScott Ikle’s HWS College national championshipwinning team, namely John Pearce, has been on theUS National Team for the past two years, and wewish you the very bext in this coming season JohnnyP! We think of you often !I also want to say how fantastic some of the charac-ters are that you meet sailing Lasers. Of course weall love Peter Seidenberg, Tracy Usher, Chris Raaband Sally Sharp and many other super sailors likethat. But some of the younger sailors are so superb,and I think now of Kurt Taulbee. (OK - He is notrecently a school-leaver, but “young” in compari-son). I called him amd Meka up before a confer-ence in November 2006 in Tampa, and he and Mekasaid straight away “Great to hear you - Yes there willbe a boat waiting for you” - I had a most fantastictime sailing with Kurt in 25 knots plus in Clearwater(Florida) after three days of intense stuffy fluiddynamics seminars at the Tampa conference.Lamimar Academic fluids transitioned to the practi-cal turbulent fluids experiments. The main pointhere is that Kurt and Meka are magnificently friend-ly and I count myself lucky to have met themthrough sailing the Laser. That’s what it is all about!Congratulations on your totally cute little boy !

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July 2-13

ISAF WorldsCascais, Portugal

July 2-13

HermanusRep. of S. Africa

Dec. 26,’07-Jan. 4,‘08

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Hyannis YC, MA

June 14-17

Hyannis YC, MA

June 14-17

Hyannis YC, MA

June 14-17

Austin YCAustin, TXJune 1-3

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Buffalo Canoe Club, ONwww.buffalocanoeclub.com

June 22-24

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June 22-24

Jerico Sailing CenterVancouver, BC

Sept. 1-3

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Colchester, VTwww.mbbc-vt.org

Aug 10-12

Colchester, VTwww.mbbc-vt.org

Aug 10-12

Wrightsville Beach, SC

May 18-20

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Kingston, ONwww.cork.org

August 18-22

Kingston, ONwww.cork.org

August 18-22

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California YC, CA

March 23-25

California YC, CA

March 23-25

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Miami, FLwww.ussailing.org/olympics

Jan 22-27

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Rock Hall, MD

Sept 29-30

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August 10-12

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Sept. 28-30

KingstonOntario, Canada

Sept. 28-30

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I look forward very much to a fantastic season for2007 - more concrete details will emerge in the nextLaser Sailor magazine.

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District 10’s fall regatta schedule started the week-end after Labor Day at Surf City’s 57th AnnualRegatta. 17 full rigs and 4 radials raced over the 2days. Conditions were great over the two days withthe winds ranging from 12-25, causing a short post-ponement on Sunday. Royce Weber from IslandHeights Yacht Club sailed well winning all but 2 ofthe races and dominating the regatta. Eric Reitingerfrom Brant Beach Yacht Club was second and apoint behind was Rich Warren from Surf City YachtClub. In the Radials, Tyler Menninger from BarnegatLight Yacht Club won with Doug Brown fromHunterdon Sailing Club second.Brant Beach Yacht Club hosted a 3 weekend fallseries going from the middle of September to thebeginning of October. 9 Lasers competed with EricReitinger winning overall, Skip Swikert fromShrewsbury Sailing Yacht Club was second andDennis Russom from Greater Wildwood Yacht Clubthird. Multiple short course races were run each dayin only in a few hours time and then the sailors weretreated to a wonderful hot dog lunch after just intime to watch some football.The weekend after the end of the BBYC Fall Series,the first annual (and will continue being run everyyear) Laser Radial Mid-Atlantic Championshipswere held at BBYC. 20 sailors arrived on Saturdayto a blow out, with breeze reaching up to 25+ milesper hour. This gave the sailors a chance to socializeand enjoy Long Beach Island. The next day arrived abrisk temperature and 12-15mph of breeze. 6 raceswere sailed with half of them raced in the 12-15mphand the rest in a dying 5-8mph. At the end of theday Brenden Faria from Ida Lewis Yacht Club andFAST prevailed, being more consistent than EricReitinger, winning by a point. Dan Nickerson fromRam Island Yacht Club and FAST was third, NicoleHeinl from team FAST won a tiebreaker for 4thbeating out Mike Hecky from Riverton. Big thanksgo out to Brant Beach Yacht Club and the Kovacsfor running a regatta that the Laser Class decided tomake it an annual event.Every November sailors come together to frostbiteLasers at Cooper River Yacht Club in Collingswood,NJ. For 5 days (including Thanksgiving morning)sailors tackle the tough conditions where on anygiven day, anyone can win a race. As with anyseries, consistency pays off, not being too aggressivegoing for the win, yet being able to stay up in thefront pack most the time. A combination of boatspeed and boat handing are important to help getyou to the top of the fleet. Many of the sailors comefrom different backgrounds, from club sailors, toregional travelers, to Olympic hopeful. The racing isalways close which makes everyone mentally tiredafter racing due to the constantly changing condi-tions.The first day started out slow, with a short postpone-

ment due to lack of wind which ended quickly whena light breeze crept in. The races were short andafter the 4 races, Eric Reitinger from Brant Beachtook the day with Mark Oberg from Cooper River aclose second and John MacCausland from CooperRiver third. The second weekend we had warmweather and better breeze resulting in more racesand longer courses, once again Eric Reitinger wonthe day with Mark Oberg close behind again andDave Breder from Cooper River third. The third dayhad the course near the route 130 bridge allowingfor some crazy auto tack conditions and lot of pile-ups at mark roundings. Consistency paid off onceagain for Eric with Mark taking second and DylanRogers from Greater Wildwood in third.Thanksgiving brought the coldest and windiest con-ditions of the series with the winds 5-20 out of theNE. Bob Oberg from Severn Sailing came up forThanksgiving from Annapolis and walked away withthe day, winning 4 of the 6 races. Mark Oberg fin-ished 2nd and John MacCausland third, bringing theoverall series points closer. Going into the final daywith the max amount of throw outs, Mark was only1 point behind Eric. The last day had the biggestturn out of the series, causing some condensed start-ing lines and crazy mark roundings. Consistencypaid off once again and Eric took the day with JohnMacCausland second and Carl Oberg from CooperRiver third. Overall, for the series, Eric was first,Mark second and Rob Seidelmann from CooperRiver third. Dylan Rodgers was first junior, DaveOberg from Cooper River the first Grandmaster andFaye Flam from Cooper River the first female.

There were several young first timers forthe series with some picking up the conditions well,so we hope to see them back in the coming yearsand as always the sailors who have been there yearin and year out have always been the ones to lend ahelping hand and help push everyone to get bettereach race. Come and sail at one of the most chal-lenging places to sail in NJ.

A big thanks goes out to Jim Greenfield,for without him, we would not have someone to runthe races. He is always out there doing such a greatjob and we all thank him for it, because without himthis series would not be there.Look for some big events in District 10 in 2007including the Laser, Radial and 4.7 ACCs.We also have a new District secretary, SkipMoorehouse, who will be trying to get moreinvolvement out of our District in terms of overallscheduling and results posting. So keep a lookout onthe Laser class website and here for a completeschedule as well as results from every regatta in thedistrict.

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I’d like to start by thanking JR Futcher for her serv-ice to our district. Her work has been greatlyappreciated by many of the sailors of our district.

I’m excited to be taking on this new role. First letme introduce myself. My name is Jon Deutsch. I’m

a somewhat recent college graduate living and work-ing in Richmond, Virginia. I sail out of Fishing BayYacht Club in Deltaville, Virginia. I started sailinga laser in 1994 at Chautauqua Lake Yacht Club inwestern New York and later moved to Richmondwhere I’ve sailed ever since on the Chesapeake Bay.I am on my second laser which is a 1996 BlueOlympic Laser.

We’ve had a great season with many sailors partici-pating in quite a few competitive events. Wrappingup our fall sailing the 25th Annual Chesapeake BayLaser Masters Championship saw 39 competitors onthe waters of the Piankatank. They got in 11 racesin two days and between that and the fabulous din-ner Saturday night, it was a great weekend. SevernSailing Association saw a competitive fleet for theirCrab Claw regatta in October. There were 27sailors there and Keith Davids took top honors fol-lowed by Chris Legg and Mike Waters.

Our District Championship was marred by aNortheasterly storm that came through Friday nightand Saturday scaring many sailors away for theweekend. The storm surge and high tides made thebayside road to the club impassible for much of theday on Saturday. Sunday the weather and tide wascooperative and despite a later start than planned afull 6-race regatta was held. Henry Amthor fromHampton Yacht Club took the championship. Hewas followed by Mike Waters (SSA), Ted Morgan(SSA) and Mike Schmidt (MRSA). Our radial win-ner was Jerry Tullo (MAST) and our first femalewas JR Futcher.

Frostbiting is well underway this winter. Four ofour fleets have weekly frostbiting and a couple morefleets have less-regular frostbiting. Severn SailingAssociation, Potomac River Sailing Association,Havre de Grace Yacht Club and Rock Hall Yachtclub all have frostbiting every Sunday. Check outthe district website for links to photos, articles andvideos of frostbiting as well as details on where andwhen all of this frostbiting is taking place.

Next year our district has several big events planned.Our District Championship Regatta is planned forMay 5-6, 2007 at Severn Sailing Association. The2007 Chesapeake Bay Laser Masters Championshipwill be held at Fishing Bay Yacht Club September 8-9. And finally, Rock Hall Yacht Club will be host-ing the Atlantic Coast Masters ChampionshipSeptember 29-30. Mark your calendars now as youwon’t want to miss these great events.

The rest of the District calendar is starting to cometogether. There will be laser events around the bayand throughout the district nearly every weekendfrom March – October. Keep an eye on the districtwebsite: http://www.laserdistrict11.org/ and join ouremail list to say informed.

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Glenn Walker won the fifth of our ChampionshipSeries (best 3 out of 5 events) in Beaufort, SC inOctober. In doing so, he won the D12 OverallChampionship trophy. Congratulations Glenn. Manythanks to Rob Bowden for putting on a great regatta.

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56 Boats. Everyone had a great time despite thevery difficult sailing conditions. Some of theteenagers were chanting/spelling out “Glass” regatta.We had such a current pushing us over the startingline and the wind just decided to not show. Sincethat was our first D12 event since June, everyonewas catching up on each other’s news. It was morelike a reunion. D12 Fun Police showed up with thefun awards. Rob Bowden deserves a long winter’snap for all of his hard work to get us all there andmake it such a fun event. Beaufort Yacht & SailingClub was a great host.Congratulations to all our other D12 championshipseries winners:1st Overall: Glenn Walker1st Junior: Krysta Rohde1st Female: Krysta Rohde1st Radial: Ryland Martin1st Master Overall: Glenn Walker1st Apprentice Master: Glenn Walker1st Master: Martin Willard1st Grandmaster: John FragakisWe are grateful to all of the 5 sailing clubs andevent chairmen who hosted our races and made it agreat year for D12.We are working on some new changes to our greatseries for 2007. Next year we will determine theoverall masters using the Masters handicap system.Why not tighten up things a little for the masters?We also hope to offer a separate Grand Prix for thefulls and a separate Grand Prix for the radials. Somany of our fulls now own radials, so why not putthem to the test? As of the printing deadline for TheLaser Sailor, we do not have the official confirma-tion on the radial Grand Prix location, so be sureand watch the D12 site.Check the D12 site for all of the frostbiting plannedfor the winter. Y’all must be crazy.The Laser Masters US Nationals will be held atCarolina Yacht Club-NC, May 18-20. Show up a dayearly on May 17 and you can get in on the practicerace in the Atlantic. CYC-NC was host for the USNationals in 2005 so many of you will be familiarwith the venue in the Atlantic. Great place to bringyour families as this is a family/sailor friendly cluband beach.Our thanks to Charlie Usher, Mark Aspland andMartin Willard for their help in being the schedulecommittee.Several of us will head to Laser events in Florida inFeb. Check the D12 site and email list for who’sgoing where.We wish to thank all of the National Laser classofficers for their help in this our first year finishedas D12 secretaries.

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Things are really heating up in our district this win-ter. WE have some of the best sailors in the worldtraining here. On the East coast we have AnnaTunnicliffe who has brought in sailors from Britain,Mexico and Canada. On the West coast we havePaige Railey who has brought in sailors fromLithuania, Britian and her coach from Poland.

Training on both coasts we have Brad Funk who hasbrought in two sailors from Poland. Also on the westcoast we have a group of Canadian sailors who havemade camp in Clearwater and have brought inSailors from Britain and Mexico. Joining in on allof this training is also Andrew Campbell from SanDiego. Our local sailors are really getting a treatwatching all of this high caliber training going on.Some of them have even been lucky enough to goout a few times with some of these sailors.In the midst of all of this we had out D13

Championships. What a great regatta! We had anentry fee of only $20 and everyone was invited towatch the Christmas boat Parade on Saturday night.This event is meant to bring out the old, young,beginner and novice and I think we really achievedthat. With 24 full rigs, 40 radials and 10 4.7’s wehad some great fleets. We had sailors come fromOrchard Park, NY, Houston, TX, San Diego, CAand Annapolis, MD. Thank you to those sailors fortraveling all that way to come sail with us. In theFull rig fleet we had two of the top sailors in NorthAmerica join us. Andrew Campbell and Mike Kalinbattled it out until the end just giving us an exampleof what they can do. For a better blow by blowplease visit http://www.campbellsailing.com/. Thiswill explain what really goes on up in the front. Atleast at this regatta! We had some of our regulars atthe Treasure Coast series, like David Hartman andCindy Taylor. These guys are out there all the timejust for the pleasure of sailing and after all that’swhat it should be about. Also sailing was our fatherand son team of Buzzy and Ian Heausler and a realnovice Greg Barrett. Way to go Greg! What a greatgroup of people he had to learn from this weekend.Let’s not forget our coaches like Brett Davis, IanLineberger, Kurt Taulbee, Marek and all of the oth-ers who were there. Thanks for encouraging yourkids to participate and for adding to the success ofthe regatta.There were 6 races in total with one drop race. OnSaturday we started in the afternoon and got threeraces in. That night there was the Christmas boatparade for everyone to enjoy. Then on Sunday westarted bright and early and got another three racesin and had an early finish so everyone could gethome. Below are the results from each Fleet.Thank you again to everyone for making this such agreat event. I hope you all enjoyed it and are lookingforward to another great D13 Championships inMiami next year.Next up is the Orange Bowl in Miami followed bythe Miami OCR and Master and Open Mid-WintersEast. D13 is in full swing and looking forward to agreat season! Wishing everyone smooth sailing inthe year to come. Happy Holidays.

DDiissttrriicctt 1188JJaanneett RRuuppeerrttCCoolluummbbuuss,, OOHHLaserlips Regatta, submitted by Janet Rupert. Themorning of October 14th was just above freezing,with the water temperature at 58 degrees, and a Westwind. We had 23 boats, including a delegation ofyoung people from Eagle Creek Sailing Club fromIndianapolis. They were led by their coaches Wayne

Myers and Katie Williams. Bill Hanson fromDayton was there, and Peter Huston returned homeafter a very long absence. The rest of the gang wasfilled in by fourteen intrepid sailors fromLeatherlips, including a few who hadn’t touched aLaser in many a year.Before lunch, Scott Graham set three windward/ lee-ward races, with the West club mark as windwardand number two leeward, and we sailed twice aroundstarting from the cove. We managed three moreraces after lunch with a triangle offset to the northadded to the formula for some broad reaching. As any seasoned ‘Lipper knows, wind from the Westcreates swirling air coming off the trees. With thebreeze already likely at 15 with higher gusts, thefirst race was excitement itself. There were intenseexpressions even before the numerous capsizes.Those without proper attire made sure in some wayto never do that again. Some did it with extremeathleticism to get over the gunwale to stand on thecenterboard. Others did it by retiring after the firstrace. That is a shame because the air actually easedas the day went on. Only one sailor needed assis-tance throughout the day.Wayne Myers loved the conditions, saying they weregreat for catching a shift and getting up frombehind. For some of us, it led to the opposite out-come. On at least one leg I lost four or five boatsby tacking too soon on a shift, numerous times.Yikes! In the next races I held on for a bit to makesure that it was a true shift. I’ll take that lesson tothe bank, but this sailor did experience the joy ofstarting near last in one race and rounding the wind-ward mark fourth. At least I know to stay with asteady lift.The funniest moment was to witness the slowestcapsize ever. As I approached the windward mark,I saw a sailor who shall remain nameless trying toround. However, he was heeled to windward withhis bum in the water. And if he was making aneffort to get up to the high side, it was not apparent.His backside dipped out of sight, and he and hisboat ever so slowly tipped over to a full capsize. Ihad to make an extra wide rounding. He most cer-tainly would have made a heroic effort to avoid thedunking if he hadn’t been wearing a full dry suit.Later, he said he just couldn’t get his body to movebecause he hadn’t been on a Laser in years. Keith Cruickshank took First, and he was also FirstMaster sailor. Dick Harmon was Second and WayneMyers Third. R.J. Graef was First in the Radials andFirst Youth, Tyler Cruickshank was Second Radialand Second Youth, and Cameron Borkowski wasThird Radial and Third Youth. Anne Filbert wasFirst Woman.At the end of the day we ate fried chicken and had adrawing for prizes donated by Dieball Sailing ofToledo and also Strictly Sail of Cincinnati. Special thanks to Marla Cruickshank for the won-derful Expresso at breakfast.

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District 21 again thanks Pat Flood for his outstand-ing organization and execution of D 21’s Grad Prix event at the Okoboji Yacht Club.But, he overdid the winds. Last year had 20pmhdown to almost calm, with rain and fog. But this

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year it just blew and blew some more. 20 to 25 mph,gusting to 30 to 35 mph. My mental image ofOkoboji is one just like the cover picture on my justdelivered copy of the Laser World with the title“Typhoon Dominates Worlds”. That is not whatone expects on an Iowa lake, at least not me. And, Idoubt if the Laser World’s article on “Avoiding aDeath Roll in a Laser” would have helped either. Idon’t think I avoided any death rolls.Ben Coutts (The Couts name may be familiar tothose who follow the America’s Cup. It is the samefamily) did seem to avoid death rolls. He claimedthe pin end of the line, sailed almost to the lay line,then port tacked the field, rounded first and thenimproved his position. That tactic gave him 5straight bullets. Dave Schmitt was second and BruceMartinson was a point behind in third.

In much lighter winds, D21 finished the season withthe traditional Thanksgiving Day races, The J boatwas already in storage so 8 boats used rabbits startsand completed 6 races in tome to make it home forfamily festivities. Participants ranged from racefounder Lars Hansen to high schooler Eric Bowers.Eric was fast and did not show any deference to hiselders on the course. We hope to see more of Ericnext year.

Evening racing starts next year at the end of April atWayzata YC. The first D21 event will be the“Heckl” at White Bear in early May.

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It was a great season for District 24. We increasedour participation with larger fleets and more events.We have lots of new boats and I hope that translatesinto more fun for all levels and ages of competitor.

The inaugural Northern California Grand Prix seriesconsisted of 9 regattas spread across the district,with racing on the Pacific Ocean, San FranciscoBay, and several of California’s beautiful lakes.Congratulations to the winners:

1st overall - Walt Spevak2nd overall - Simon Bell3rd overall - Tracy Usher1st woman - Taylor Robinson1st radial - Nick Dugdale1st master - Walt SpevakBest Participation - Walt Spevak - 7 of 9 eventsattended

Many thanks go out to Svendsen’s for sponsoringthe event and supplying fantastic awards and a beau-tiful perpetual trophy. The series would never havehappened without the effort of Ralph Pombo. Heconceieved of the series and provided the organiza-tion and scoring. Ralph really contributed a lot thisyear: driving the district series, actively particpatingat Treasure Island, hosting the TISC party, and fos-tering communication on the website and mailinglist. There are many other volunteers to recognizearound the area, incuding Roger Herbst who keepsthe Shoreline fleet going.

Our season wrapped up at the Saint Francis YC Fall

Dinghy Regatta. The see breeze kicked in late in theday, but it was worth the wait. Racing on the CityFront is always an unforgettable experience. On thefirst day, the Stanford Sailing team was there withEmery Wager, as well as his dad Wayne fromSeattle. SFYC sailing coach John Pearce also com-peted Saturday. Results – Full Rig: 1) Vince Porter,2) Mehmet Sevnic/D. LaPier, 3) Tracy Usher; 4) BillSymes, 5) Walt Spevak (30 Boats) Results –Radials: (1) Nicholas Dugdale, (2) Katie Maxim, (3)Evan Brown. (4 Boats).

Next year, we plan to hold the district Grand Prixagain. Treasure Island Sailing Center will host theLaser Pacific Coast Championships on the greatracecourse that is just south of the Berkeley Circle.It should be excellent sailing and a great party too.

In addition to great racing for at every level, ourgoal for the district in 2007 is for more opportunitiesfor everyone to build their skills. My friend TomBurden said, “Lasers are easy to sail, but hard to sailwell.” As dingle-handed sailors, many of us aremotivated to do our very best and continuallyimprove. It’s true whether we are teen-agers, mas-ters, women or men. Plus it’s so much fun to com-pete in a large and diverse community of sailors, andits fun to practice too. With this in mind, we aregoing to try to have clinics and practice days withcoaching added to our calendar.

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2006 was great for our class here in SothernCalifornia. We are anticipating a very good 2007;although we don’t have any International regattasthis year. I lot of new boats have been sold here dur-ing the fall. I know because I got one of them.

It all starts with the Southern California YachtingAssociation Midwinters hosted by Alamitos BayYacht Club (ABYC) February 17-18, 2007. AMasters event has been added to that regatta.www.abyc.org . The same date MBYC will also hostthe Lasers for SCYA Midwinters. Then we have theLaser Midwinters West on March 23-25. Host clubis Cal Yacht Club. www.calyachtclub.com

On April 14-15 we will sail California Masters andthe California Women’s Radial Championship. It’s ajoint event hosted by Mission Bay Y.C.www.mbyc.org The CWRC is open to any age; youjust have to be a Laser class member.

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Olympic OutlookISAF

Rankingas of Dec

Sailor Country website

1 Anna Tunnicliffe USA www.annatunnicliffe.com

4 Paige Railey USA www.paigerailey.com

8 Lisa Ross CAN www.lisaross.ca

17 Victoria Crowder CAN

26 Keamia Rasa CAN

27 Jen Spalding CAN

ISAFRankingas of Dec

Sailor Country website

2 Michael Leigh CAN

7 Bernard Luttmer CAN

21 David Wright CAN

33 Andrew Campbell USA www.campbellsailing.com

34 Brad Funk USA

3377 Mike Kalin CAN

ISAF Radial Rankings ISAF Laser Rankings

SSeenniioorr WWoorrllddss Basic Assumption: The North American Region will be allocated at least 12 berths to the 2008 Laser World Championship in Australia

to be held in February, 2008. The Canadian Yachting Association and US Sailing will each be permitted to allocate one berth by November1, 2007.

OOvveerrrriiddiinngg RRuulleess::1) Competitors qualify for the 2008 Laser World Championship through the first berth for which they are eligible. For example, a

competitor who wins the Laser Mid-winters East and is first in the Laser Grand Prix rankings qualifies through the Mid-winters Eastberth.

2) In order to qualify for a berth at one of the ILCA-NA regattas listed below in Opportunity #1, the competitor must finish amongthe top-six ILCA-NA members, except that this rule will be relaxed to the top-nine for the North American Championship.

QQuuaalliiffiiccaattiioonn OOppppoorrttuunniittiieess::1) Berths will be awarded at the following 2007 ILCA-NA major regattas subject to overriding Rule #2:One berth at the Rolex Miami OCR.One berth at the Laser Mid-winters East. One berth at the Laser Mid-winters West. One berth at the Laser U.S. National Championship.One berth at the Laser Canadian National Championship.Two berths at the Laser North American Championship.One berth at CORK.(a) At the completion of each regatta, the first eligible competitor(s) will have 14 days in which to accept his/her spot at the Worlds.

If this, or subsequent competitors declines the spot, the class office will continue to contact eligible competitors up to a maximum of 28days after the event. If no eligible competitor(s) accepts the spot(s), it(they) will be awarded at a later date according to opportunity #2.

(b) If a competitor who has accepted the spot within the original 28-day period subsequently decides not to use their spot that spot willbe awarded according to opportunity #2.

(c) Competitors who decline a spot through either, scenario described in 1(a) and 1(b) may still qualify for the Worlds, but it mustoccur at an event after the date on which they notify the class office of their intent not to attend the Worlds.

2) Any berths not allocated though Opportunity #1 and #2, and any additional berths awarded to the North American Regionbeyond the twelve mentioned in the Basic Assumption above, will be allocated using the 2007 Laser Grand Prix rankings as of October31, 2007. If necessary, these berths may be allocated to ensure that the ILCA-determined country quotas are satisfied.

22000088 WWoorrlldd QQuuaalliiffiiccaattiioonn SSyysstteemm

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WWoommeenn’’ss RRaaddiiaall WWoorrllddssBBaassiicc AAssssuummppttiioonn: The North American Region will be

allocated at least 6 berths to the 2008 Laser WorldChampionship in New Zealand in March, 2008. The CanadianYachting Association will allocate one berth and US SAILINGwill allocate one berth by November 1, 2007.

OOvveerrrriiddiinngg RRuulleess::1) Competitors qualify for the 2008 Women’s Radial

World Championship through the first berth for which they areeligible.

2) In order to qualify for a berth at one of the ILCA-NAregattas listed below, the competitor must finish among the top-five female ILCA-NA members.

QQuuaalliiffiiccaattiioonn OOppppoorrttuunniittiieess::1) Berths will be awarded at the following 2007 ILCA-

NA major regattas subject to Overriding Rule #2:Two berths at the Women’s Radial North American

Championship. One berth at the Laser Mid-winters East. One berth at the Laser Mid-winters West.(a) At the completion of each regatta, the first eligible com-

petitor(s) will have 14 days in which to accept her spot at theWorlds. If this, or subsequent competitors declines the spot,the class office will continue to contact eligible competitors upto a maximum of 28 days after the event. If no eligible com-petitor(s) accepts the spot(s), it(they) will be awarded at a laterdate according to opportunity #2.

(b) If a competitor who has accepted the spot within theoriginal 28-day period subsequently decides not to use theirspot that spot will be awarded according to opportunity #2.

(c) Competitors who decline a spot through either, scenariodescribed in 1(a) and 1(b) may still qualify for the Worlds, butit must occur at an event after the date on which they notify theclass office of their intent not to attend the Worlds.

2) Any berths beyond the six mentioned in the BasicAssumption above, not allocated through the QualificationOpportunities above, will be allocated using the 2007 LaserGrand Prix ranking as of October 31, 2007. If necessary, theseberths may be allocated to ensure that the ILCA-determinedcountry quotas are satisfied.

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Laser 1/9/07 10:47 AM


MMaasstteerrss SSaaiilliinnggMasters World

Championship 2006

JJeejjuu IIssllaanndd,, KKoorreeaaPETER SEIDENBERG

If it hadn’t been for the last day of theregatta, the 72 Masters sailors (33Standards and 39 Radials) from 13 coun-tries would have left the venue hating it.However, 3 races on the last day in a per-fect 15-20 mph ESE sea breeze with bigwaves made up for the almost daily on-shore postponements and several unsuc-cessful racing attempts. The wonderful sail-ing conditions on the last day alsoexplained why this venue was chosen in thefirst place.

Whereas the Seniors were plagued bytoo much wind due to a nearby typhoon,the Masters were suffering from too little.Every day, a south-easterly sea breeze wastrying to over-power a weaknorth-westerlygradient wind.For three days,this battle pro-duced a virtualstalemate withwinds too lightor too shifty tostart or, in onecase, continue arace. On twodays, the fleet was called out to the racecourse only to be sent in again after severalstarting attempts and several hours of wait-ing for the wind to stabilize. On one day,the boats never left the beach. A sufficientnumber of tents with tables and chairs inthem provided shelter from the sun whilepassing the postponement time. One of thetents accommodated a Korean field kitchenso that nobody had to suffer from hunger orthirst.

After two races on the first day, oneshortened race on the second day, no raceson the third, fourth and fifth day, a crisismeeting was convened by the PRO, JeffMartin, to seek the competitors’ agreementto allow the regatta to stand with only threeraces instead of a minimum requirement offour, as announced in the SailingInstructions. As it turned out, this rulechange was not necessary due to the threeraces run on the sixth and last day for atotal of six with one discard.

The US team of 11 sailors was the sec-

ond in numbers to the Australian with 21,but the most successful team in terms ofmedals: 4 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze. BrodieCobb, Tracy Usher and Mark Bear sweptthe medals in the Standard Rig Mastersdivision, Doug Peckover won gold in theStandard Rig Grand Masters, BruceMartinson won silver in the Radial RigMasters division, Alden Shattuck won goldin the Radial Rig Grand Masters, and PeterSeidenberg won gold in the Radial RigGreat Grand Masters division.

For the results go to: http://www.laser-international.org/W2006/Results/Standard.HTM andhttp://www.laserinternational.org/W2006/Results/Radial.HTM

TRACY USHER REPORTSThe opening ceremony for the Masters

Worlds was nothing short of spectacularwith a traditional Korean folk dancingshow.

The next day we headed to the beachto rig before the first race, as shown in thepicture below. Note the sunny skies andlack of wind, a trend for the first half of theregatta (3 races in 3 days!!!)....

Racing hasbeen tough. Thefirst day saw tworaces in 7-9 knotsof wind from theSoutheast butshifting through15-20 degrees and,as the day pro-gressed, a 2-3 knotcurrent runningWest to East. Thesecond day saw a

long onshore delay after which we waitedon the water while the wind clocked fromaround 210 to 125 before settling in longenough to get in one race. Day three sawanother long shore delay followed by thepromise of a seabreeze which never reallymaterialized once on the water.

Three more days of racing start tomor-row!

Thursday morning saw the eagerMaster sailors hit Hwasun beach early inanticipation of getting in some good racing.

The North American Masters wereundaunted.... they decid-ed to get together for ateam photo while waitingfor the breeze. Here isthat it looked like:

In the end we hit thewater and started a racein about 5 knots of wind(which is a generous esti-mate). Brodie jumped offthe line well and sailed

out to a big lead, followed by AndreMartinie but with all the other “players”either deep or OCS. Unfortunately, thewind shut down and the race was aban-doned....

Friday is another day!Once again, the faithful set off for

Hwasun Beach with dreams of getting in asolid day of racing.

The really truly faithful held out until4:00pmwhen itwasclearthat thedaywouldbe lost:

Noracing on Friday. The Sailing Instructionshave been modified to move the start timeahead one hour, the latest race time back ahalf hour and to allow for the series to becompleted after only three races. The reallyand truly faithful believe we will have threeraces on Saturday. Stay tuned!

On Saturday we all arrived early toHwasun Beach for the 10:00 am start time.Things looked pretty grim, with no wind.

However, as you can read from thereports on the championship website, thisturned out to be the very best day of racingwith 3 races in winds ranging from 15-18knots! The regatta was completed with 6races and the North American contingentfared really well with:

1st Master Standard Rig: Brodie Cobb1st Grand Master Standard Rig: Doug

Peckover1st Grand Master Radial Rig: Alden

Shattuck1st Great Grand Master: Peter

SeidenbergCongratulations to the NA Region’s

World Champions!The end of the regatta also saw anoth-

er major milestone: the retirement of BobSpillman from actively campaigning aLaser. Bob is 75 years old and felt that hewanted to retire from racing Lasers whilehe was still feeling good about it.

Bob has attended numerous Master’sWorld Championships, including 4 of the

last 5. He, and all the GreatGrand Masters, serve as aninspiration to all the “young-sters” in Masters sailing. We aresad to see him go but fullyunderstand his reasons and wishhim the best of luck in whateverhe chooses to pursue next!

Laser 1/9/07 10:58 AM


WWiinntteerr SSttoorraaggee TTiippss

TThhee FFiinnaall WWoorrdd –– VVAANNGGUUAARRDD -- NNEEDD JJOONNEESS

The strongest part of a Laser is the deck, and I recommend storage on a rack upside down with the biggest cross section of paddedrack bar that is reasonable. It is best not to use a rack pad that will hold moisture. If storing inside, say in the garage, a Harken hoistertype system is nice.

Using two rack bars, the aft bar is just forward of the back edge of the cockpit, and the forward bar is across the deck near the maststep.

Avoiding snow build up is recommended and covers are always nice, but be sure water and animals do not make their way inside. Always make sure the hull is as dry as possible and avoid any water from pooling in the bailer cavity on the bottom. If you are moti-

vated, removing the bailer prior to long winter storage can be done to preserve the plastic from the cold, and prompt you to replace thebailer o-rings prior to installing in the spring. Place a dab of silicone in the bailer mounting screw hole after removing the bailer.

It is important to avoid water or moisture form pooling in any voids, cracks, hull/deck separations, etc. Expanding ice in these areascan cause further damage.

If the boat must be moved in frozen conditions, be extra cautious to avoid bangs and bumps as the hull will be more susceptible tofractures when temperatures are extra cold.

If the boat must be stored on a dolly or otherwise right side up, cover the boat with a standard cover then add a tented tarp to keepwater/snow from pooling on the deck. I have made a tented tarp using a standard hardware store “blue tarp” over a top mast section thatis resting on wood blocks on the deck to raise it up a bit. Tension the tarp with tarp clamps and line to the dolly or trailer. Tarp clampsare available at Home Depot. Make sure the hull is supported at the rails, and clean off any large accumulations of snow as soon aspractical.

To avoid any of the above mentioned hassles, go frostbiting!

BBrruuccee MMaarrttiinnssoonn,, MMiinnnneessoottaa:I actually have 7 or 8 Lasers, but who’s counting. Some are very old and will be scraped. The good ones go inside a shed out in the

cold, stored on their side. The OK ones get stored on their side outside with a cover on the top and bottom in an area where the snowwon’t build up on them. I’ve never really inspected a boat to see if its shape has changed. It probably would be best to store them withsupport under the rails like the good Laser trailers do, but that would take a lot of space. Probably the most important think is to makesure there is no water in the hull or mast step. You probably want to keep the inspection ports on so animals don’t nest inside. I let peopleborrow my Lasers all the time so I’m not too particular on keeping them perfect. As far as the Laser in the basement… that one was setup on a rack held by the rails so I could practice hiking…Nancy would come down and throw a glass of water at me….big wave! I’venow bought a nice hiking bench and varnished up nicely and have it upstairs in the living room to use when I watch TV with her.

BBeenn RRiicchhaarrddssoonn,, MMaassssaacchhuusseettttss::My boats have always been in Florida on my van…. “Buy an extended wheel-base van and insert Laser.”CChhaass.. WWiilllliiaammssoonn,, UUppssttaattee NNeeww YYoorrkk::I simply keep the boat on the dolly, using the strap rather than the Seitech

wedges at the side of the dolly. I like the idea of almost uniform stress around thehull rather than the point contacts. I also undo the hatch (I have one to the side ofthe centerboard.) I cover the boat to keep off dust of course. Sitting on a Seitechdolly the whole winter inside the garage is very comfy for my nice new boat !! Notso nice for the Honda Odyssey......

DDaavvee AAbbbbootttt,, WWiissccoonnssiinn::RRuullee ##11:: KKeeeepp iitt ddrryy,, ssttoorree iitt ddrryyBeing a fat guy (over 200), I always attempt to have a boat that is dry on the

inside. I figure, after a while water gets inside the hull while sailing. I used toalways put an inspection port in a boat as soon as I bought it so that I could dry it outbetween sails. Driving with the boat on top of your car w/ 1 or 2 inspection ports uncovered has to be the fastest way of drying out adamp boat!

Chicago Laser ace Adam Bowen suggested that ports always leak so put it on the driest part of the boat. So I put my port on the reardeck close to the traveler line (see picture #1). I used to put it next to my centerboard trunk but have found that my boat stays much dryerbecause Adam was right! I also put extra clothes, lunches, ect. in the port when racing so I have easy access and I am less likely to have awave come into my hull when open between races.

The worst thing that could happen to your boat is to store it with water or dampness that is at the hull-deck seam and your boat isexposed to freezing temperatures. I have seen major leaks develop from this. Especially if the boat is stored on its side! So again, beforeyou store it for the winter make sure the boat is drained and kept dry. If you store the boat outside in the elements, you may want to makesure the hull is absolutely dry and then put the inspection port back in. I have experience a dry boat getting moisture in it via condensa-tion when stored with ports open outside in the elements – even upside down and several feet off the ground (like on a rack).

RRuullee ##22:: SSuuppppoorrtt tthhee bbooaatt oonn tthhee ddeecckk,, wwhheerree iitt’’ss tthhee ssttrroonnggeesstt..If you must store the boat on it’s side, support it at as many places along the gunwale as you can. Usually, a couple of tires will suf-

fice. The best way to support your boat is upside down, flat on the deck. A 2x4 with carpet on it makes a nice support. My favorite way to store the boat for winter is the way I do it whenever I am not sailing or storing it on the dolly, and that is to sus-

pend it from the ceiling of my garage so that when the ice breaks, I just drive underneath and drop it on my car top carriers. I used to rigpulleys and ropes and then one Father’s day, my wife gave me the Harken Hoister that makes life very easy! This rig comes with a magiccleat and ball bearing blocks. It does for car topping what the new vang /outhaul setup does for sailing – easy and fun! Well that’s every-thing I know. It’s time to pray for cold weather and no snow so I can race my DN!

The ILCA-NA office has received some requests on how best to store your Laser overthe winter. We took a poll of some of our more noteworthy winter residents and here istheir sage advice:

Laser 1/9/07 11:04 AM


BBlloogg RReevviieeww

US Olympic campaigner Andrew Campbell has come upwith a unique approach to reviewing the weekend’s racing. AsAndrew states on his website: “To keep the site up to date andactive, I’m adding a column called “Monday MorningTactician” in which I will attempt to hash out the blundersand victories of the weekend’s racing. Monday morning usu-ally seems to be the best time to be sitting back at the deskand have a light bulb switch on suddenly in your head leavingyou saying “I wish I’d done that better,” or “We probablyshould have done this instead.” Even when I was sailing atschool at Georgetown, there was never enough time to talkthrough the thousands of mark roundings, starts, leebows,ducks, and mistakes. My teammates and I could sit and talksailboat racing for hours Sunday night all through Mondayand still not come to real conclusions before practice startedagain Tuesday afternoon. Once the week’s practice began,there was hardly any point worrying about the previous week-end because a hundred more situations had materialized whilesailing at practice.

This column will be a small attempt to get some of thosesituations figured out and on the table. Contexts may be broador detailed, but all within the experience of winning in sail-boat racing.”

MMT is a make you think lesson in hindsight. Or better,after a restless night of sleeping on “why did I do that bone-head move,” Andrew has given those of us who want to live

vicariously through an Olympic campaign and be involved in “on therace course” tactics a chance to be involved!

HHooww iitt WWoorrkkssAndrew outlines a situation from assorted regattas and analyzes whatcould have been done differently/better/worse. He engages other sailors’views, offers discussion and the MMT’s view. The neat part is that JoeSailor then can jump into the fray providing different views to the situa-tion. Andrew’s website provides the opportunity for feedback from amultitude of Monday Morning Tacticians. What a concept!

Andrew is currently on MMT #8 with the previous topics:#1 First Race of the Pan Am Trials at Third Beach, RI Oct, 2006

#2 Jr. Commodore’s Regatta, MBYC, 1994 Nov. 6, 2006

#3 Juries & Umpires Nov. 13, 2006

#4 Vocabulary Nov. 27, 2006

#5 How do I get Around the Weather Mark in a Laser? Nov. 27, 2006

#6 Getting the Most out of Practice Dec. 4, 2006

#7 Matchracing Tactics in Fleetraces Dec. 11, 2006

#8 Simple as Windward/Leeward? Think again… Dec. 17, 2006

The graphics are outstanding and getting better with each isue. Tochallenge your mind, your sailing skills & rules knowledge, visit:www.campbellsailing.com

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Cullman Cam 4 63Rothenbuhler Rick 4 61Hochart Steven 3 58Funk Brad 2 57Hurley Peter 4 55Lamphere Gordon 4 55Marks Zack 3 52Grierson Kevin 2 51Brikis Paul 4 50Lockett Graeme 3 47Parkhill Lee 3 46Breder Dave 3 44Martinson Bruce 2 43Paine Caleb 3 43Richardson Ben 2 43Usher Tracy 3 42Wenner Chris 3 42Hall Mitch 3 41Wilson Vann 2 41Cobb Brodie 3 40Kiss Michael 3 39

Leigh Michael 1 39Tee Barry 2 39Drasnin Peter 2 38Elliott Ian 2 38Fidler Sean 2 37Peckover Doug 3 37Plutenko Roman 2 37Spector Mark 3 36Sterett Matt 2 36Tullo TJ 2 36Childs Andrew 1 35Hebert Francois 2 35LeConey Travis 3 35Symes Bill 2 35Strilky Rick 3 34Toole Pat 3 34Keane Andrew 2 33Crane Rob 2 32Tautz Steve 2 32Hernandez David 2 31Minth Ryan 2 31Shockey Kevin 2 31Amthor Henry 2 30Raney Brian 3 30Holtze Kurt 2 29Patin Paul Jon 2 29Thompson Cy 2 29Coleman Gerard 2 28Fuller Sam 2 28Hegstrom Erik 2 28Potter John 2 27Beck Geoff 2 26Bugiak Mark 2 26Greene Philip 2 26Morgan David 3 25Schmitt David 2 25Brown Ken 1 24Shockey John 2 24Tripp Chuck 1 24Dyer John 1 23Feaver Jay 1 23Brooks Daniel 2 22Byrns Payton 2 22Fox Andrew 2 22Weiksnar Alex 1 22Wilton Brendan 1 21

Bear Mark 1 20Falk Bob 1 20Himler Tedd 1 20Ingram Theo 2 20Johnson Clay 1 20Lucas Rick 1 20Moran Jamie 1 20Purinton Michael 1 20Raab Chris 1 20Walker Glenn 1 20Duke Allistair 1 19Hecky Mike 2 19Pitts Tim 1 19Rodgriquez Ernesto 1 19Tulk Eric 1 19Waters Michael 1 19Willard Martin 1 19Wurtzebach Paul 2 19Brousseau Royden 1 18Hart Doug 1 18Jones Tim 1 18Kolius John 1 18McRitchie Thomas 1 18Morgan Ted 1 18Myrdal John 1 18Wenner Peter 3 18Wenner Matt 3 18Avery Fletch 1 17Bowers Michael 1 17Kovacs Kyle 1 17Pasley Jonathan 1 17Schmidt Mike 1 17Schroth Fred 1 17Swetka Ken 1 17Wright Travis 1 17Holtzer Ethan 1 17Beal John 1 16Coberly Chad 1 16Cowan Chris 1 16Dickson Glen 2 16Forgione Phil 2 16Griffin Blake 1 16Mah Evan 1 16Rohde Krysta 1 16Tan Bob 1 16Bentley John 1 15

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Brousseau Scott 1 15Buffaloe Bryan 1 15Conlin Thomas 1 15Donat-Pierre Luigi 1 15Elliott David 2 15Emmer Willem 1 15Haverstock John 1 15Koci Rob 1 15Lammens Mark 1 15Melander Scott 1 15Miller John 1 15Parker Dick 1 15Phelan Peter 1 15Putnam Josh 1 15Avery Fletcher 1 14Deermount Adam 1 14Hewitt Lindsay 1 14Hodson Robert 2 14Jackson Greg 1 14Legg Chris 1 14Mahoney Michael 1 14Nighswander Tristan 1 14Oteruelo Lewis 2 14Pawlyshyn Mick 1 14Poor Tex 1 14Sevlnc Mehmet 1 14Van Schoor Colin 2 14Bernard Andreas 2 13Cremer Ted 1 13Enger Chris 1 13Flood Pat 1 13Knab Jim 1 13Magno Dave 1 13Maxim Rob 1 13Spevak Walk 1 13Zurinskas Martine 1 13Baker David 1 12Cenname Michael 1 12Cook Brady 1 12Frechette Robert 1 12Hartranft Randy 1 12Heath Nigel 1 12Hutcheson Curtis 2 12Lapier David 1 12Pasley Larry 1 12Rutledge Mike 1 12Shingledecker Luke 1 12Young Scott 1 12Zinn Jack 1 12Bowen Adam 1 11Brochard Colin 1 11Burzycki Zig 1 11Cottrell Brian 1 11Gebauer Heinz 1 11Gould Peter 1 11Hahl Greg 1 11Kosacz Stephan 1 11Kubicik Bill 1 11Link Roger 1 11Palmer Marty 1 11Pickford Ben 1 11Simon Eric 1 11Wright Brett 1 11Andersson Nils 1 10

Bell Simon 1 10Brick Had 1 10Denison Paul 1 10Garn Paul 1 10Hancock Cleve 1 10O’Brien Tim 1 10Suarez Jorge 1 10Young Charlie 1 10FoghMorten 1 10Babel Tom 1 9“Fox, Jr.” Bill 1 9Gamble Peter 1 9Hood Phillip 1 9Hotz Carl 1 9Kavanaugh Peter 1 9Knoles Lauren 1 9Lagace Paul 1 9Moore Bruce 1 9Plaxton Bill 1 9Simon Mike 1 9Vessella Peter 1 9Vincey Alain 1 9Wait Rich 1 9Witter George 1 9Wong Andy 1 9Woodworth Don 1 9Davis Robert 1 9Abel Geoff 1 8Deutsch Jon 1 8Ericson Rick 1 8Evans Austin 1 8Feeny Richard 1 8Orosz Stephen 1 8Page Craig 1 8Rupert Janet 1 8Saltmarsh Robert 1 8White Bailey 1 8Wittpenn Jack 1 8Yioulos George 1 8Byrns Patric 2 7Friedman Cameron 1 7Hubbard John 1 7Kuehn Daniel 1 7Landt Tim 1 7Parker Seth 1 7Purinton Jim 1 7Shatford Leland 2 7Stroppel Dave 1 7Warren Rich 1 7Bennett Ros 1 6Carlson Doug 1 6Everitt Eric 1 6Gallagher Terence 1 6Hahl Jeff 1 6Hartman David 1 6Jay Matthew 1 6Kramer Mac 1 6Lake Randy 1 6Leonard Graham 1 6Meyer Jim 1 6Milne Austin 1 6Reichenfeld Stephen 1 6Rudolph Gavin 1 6Weiksnar Sam 1 6

Weiss John 1 6Brooks Ward 1 5Cook Duncan 1 5Cooper Craig 1 5Jackson Chris 1 5Maiden Carolyn 1 5Pombo Ralph 1 5Stanton Peter 1 5Tillman Dick 1 5Tobin Quinn 1 5Avery Fletcher 1 4Colins Nathan 1 4Dudenhoefer Robert 1 4Evans Austin 1 4Gilbert Matthew 1 4Harrison Vaughn 1 4Johnston Paige 1 4Laube Tom 1 4Lepis Joe 1 4May Henry 1 4Murphy Frank 1 4Offer Paul 2 4Palmgren Dave 1 4Poulos Michael 1 4Sherwood Doug 1 4Williamson Charles 1 4Brown William 1 4Campbell Mark 1 3Dickey Charlie 1 3Duran Mike 1 3Hahl Don 1 3Hendricks Kenton 1 3Heussler Brendan 1 3Hughes JT 1 3Pihl Paul 1 3PriorTrevor 1 3Ross Paul 1 3Taulbee Kurt 1 3Walsh Devin 1 3Ward Stephen 1 3Berenbaum Edward 1 2Hendricks Steve 1 2Hulings Mark 1 2Mitchell Jay 1 2Napier Matthew 1 2Roy Andy 1 2Russell Ben 1 2Seestrom John 1 2Taylor Mike 1 2Tilly Randy 1 2Wattis Newt 1 2Wirt Steve 1 2Allsopp Cole 1 2Anderson Jim 1 1Doyle Kevin 1 1Fragakis John 1 1Futcher JR 1 1Grinder Mark 1 1Hamilton Ashley 1 1McBride Dave 1 1McLaren Fraser 1 1Smith Brian 1 1Tupinamba Alex 1 1

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1 Crowder Victoria 5 1332 Smith Colin 7 1303 Sutherland Ian 5 1184 Griffin Genoa 7 1145 Tullo Jerry 6 1126 Doane Justin 5 1097 Crain Philip 8 1068 Bertold Isabella 5 1059 Schalka Michael 6 9310 Tunnicliffe Anna 3 9311 Shea Maggie 5 9212 Norris Phillip 4 9013 Lihan Sarah 4 8814 Dennis Claire 5 8715 Dube Danielle 3 8516 Himler Tedd 3 8217 Spalding Jennifer 3 8218 Ross Lisa 3 8219 Maxim Katie 5 8220 Dugdale Nick 5 7721 Padnos Sam 4 7322 Railey Paige 2 7023 Smith Cory 4 6824 Hartranft Randy 3 6625 Bertrand Alex 4 63

Prioleau Carolyn 4 63Archibald Matthew 2 62Porter Clifford 3 58Palmeter Alex 2 56Howard Will 3 55Lezin Ben 3 55Scanlon Alex 3 55Rasa Keamia 2 51Cameron Rex 3 46Drake Elliot 2 46Byrns Sydney 2 45Lombard Jessica 3 44Barnard Chris 3 43Bonneau-Marcil M 2 43Merry Claire 3 43Brosky Tom 2 42Muhleman Jake 2 40McNay Stuart 2 38Prokop Joanne 3 38Forrer Juan 5 37Kestenbaum Erin 3 37Haeger Annie 2 36Schmitt Simon 2 35Billing Emily 2 34Lark Lauren 2 34Brennan-Myrdal D 1 33Cordero Eduardo 2 32Davis Robert 2 32Hoeven Ryan 3 32Kriedt Rogan 3 32Peterson William 2 32Cullman Cam 1 30Smutny Tanja 1 30LeConey Travis 1 28Witkowski Kim 2 28McLean Hayley 2 27Abels Fred 1 26Clunies Gregory 1 26Conrad Edward 1 26Bussin Isaac 1 25Norwood Carlisle 2 25Thompson David 1 25Kiss Mitchell 1 24Danielle Dube 1 23Deermount Adam 1 23Furnary Scott 1 23Hern Ian 1 23Raab Chris 1 23Russom Mike 2 23Taylor Chris 2 23Toole Oliver 3 23Wilson Morgan 1 23Buckingham C 1 22

Davis Michelle 2 22Drake Ryan 1 22McLaughlin Dirk 1 22Richards Catherine 1 22Bestoso Alexa 1 21Corrin Paloma 1 21Dexter P F 1 21Merry Ingrid 2 21White Brady 1 21Cremer Christian 1 20Gagnon Maxime 1 20Swatta Chip 1 20Zacher Tim 1 20Boylan Brendan 1 19Clark Al 1 19Kiss Alex 1 19Leon Collin 1 19Summers Cameron 2 19Chimney Catherine 1 18Ferber Lee 1 18Hornett Sarah 1 18Liebl James 1 18Thomas Chris 1 18Van Middlesworth Kari 1 18Declerq Robert 1 17Grierson Kevin 1 17Kiss Morgan 1 17Lepis Joe 1 17McLaren Jocelyn 1 17Subramanian Ravi 1 17Wefer Paul 1 17Wright Caroline 1 17Zuber Andrew 1 17Barry Elizabeth 1 16Byrnes Michael 1 16Cowan Chris 1 16Donnelly Saraid 1 16Fisher Hannah 1 16Renehan John 1 16Ross Kyle 1 16Strebel Jeff 2 16Boardman Emily 1 15Craz Geoff 1 15Jones Sydney 1 15Kana Austin 1 15Koubrak Olga 1 15McLaughlin Kyle 1 15Reichenfeld Lesley 1 15Ryan Shawn 1 15Alley Philip 2 14Christopher Jim 1 14Deardorff Scott 1 14Driver Jon 1 14Frey Linda 1 14Harrison Luke 1 14McClatchyBo 3 14Muller Kate 1 14Robitaille Paul 1 14Rohde Krysta 1 14Rudolph Gavin 2 14Scott Ben 1 14Vallette Norman 1 14Blouin Sam 1 13Denison Paul 1 13Easton Kate 1 13Ewanchuk Robert 1 13Friedman Cory 1 13Leibowitz Ben 1 13Martin Billy 1 13Muselet Caroline 1 13O’Riordan John 1 13Van Shie Corey 1 13Wands Chris 1 13Bernard Andreas 1 12Freidman Cameron 1 12Herbst Roger 1 12Hill Charlotte 1 12Laube Kevin 1 12

Ross Tanner 1 12Strebel Michelle 1 12Vranizan Erika 1 12Wallace John 1 12Faria Brendan 1 11Moriarty Ian 1 11Redwin Roger 1 11Richards Julian 1 11Roehrl Byron 1 11Rose Brit 1 11Runyan Hugh 1 11Simoes Re Andre 1 11Tebo Dalton 1 11Vaught Alex 2 11Jesberg Peter 1 10Robitaille Danielle 1 10Ross Kendall 1 10Ryan Patrick 1 10Savage Brady 1 10Cherin Jay 1 9Drake Rachel 1 9Gowell Matthew 1 9Johnston Paige 1 9Martinelli Dennis 1 9Sweeny Frederick 1 9Han Lloyd 1 8Michas Jason 1 8Saunders Ashleigh 1 8Vittery Alanna 1 8Wright TJ 1 8Cottrell Brian 1 7Donnelly Katherine 1 7Dube Tiffany 1 7Jackson Molly 1 7McRae Dominic 1 7Urbina Rebekka 1 7Beaudoin Clautier C 1 6Hoepfner Leah 1 6Soto Julian 1 6Ahearn Justin 1 5Crawford Marshall 1 5Green Ted 1 5Kaschak Nick 1 5Lozier Philip 1 5Ramshaw Tom 1 5Robin Allison 1 5Emond Gabriel 1 4Garrity Jon 1 4Hathaway-Zepeda Case 1 4Killeen Kiel 1 4Largess Peter 1 4Page Colin 1 4Seidenberg Peter 1 4Walsh Cameron 1 4Fidler Sean 1 3Holloman Lindsay 1 3LeGros Ashley 1 3Mace Mac 1 3Teeft Alex 1 3Bertrand Dominique 1 2Fast Nate 1 2Luigi DP 1 2McNeill Andrew 1 2Segerblom Chris 1 2Woods Kristopher 1 2McNaboe Ryan 1 1Provensal Margot 1 1Wedlake David 1 1Zupon Matthew 1 1

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SSaattuurrddaayy’’ss rreeppoorrtt:: The day started with 30+ kts of winds, rolling seas, and a postponement ashore. The weather forecasters werepredicting a mid-afternoon window where the breeze would die down to 15-20 kts, so we braced and prepared. After weathering a squallline on the water, the RC was able to squeeze in three races per division before the front cleared and brought with it strong WNW winds.

SSuunnddaayy’’ss rreeppoorrtt:: Even with an arrival time of 0700, the weather did not cooperate. Winds gust consistently in the 25-35 kt rangeprevented any sailing. The RC waited until 1000 before abandoning for the day. Indian Harbor YC treated the competitors, their coaches,and their families to a wonderful awards lunch compete with a raffle (compliments of Vanguard) and pictures for all of the competitors(from photoboat.com compliments of the IHYC membership).

Complete results are posted on the Indian Harbor website: http://www.indianharboryc.com/cressy07.htm

Great pictures can be found at: http://www.thephotoboat.com/

Special thanks to Jonathan and Karin Nye (Event Chairs), Jeff Merz (PRO), Ron Hopkins (Chief Judge), and the many other volun-teers and staff from the Indian Harbor YC.

FFuullll RRiigg:: RRaaddiiaall RRiigg::Blake Warner Calvary Chapel School 8 Joe Morris Severn School 8Caleb Paine Pt. Loma High School 14 Brendan Faria Providence CD 12Cam Cullman The Hotchkiss School 15 Philip Crain St. John’s School 18

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Conditions were optimal for the first day of the Singlehanded National Championships. Chilly 8- to 12-knot winds shifted between thenorthwest and southwest throughout the day’s races. The action began at noon and finished at 4 p.m., and no protests were filed during theday. One course three windward/leeward/windward (WLW) was set up for the first race, and then four W5 (WLWLW) courses were sailedto end the day with a total of five for both the men’s and women’s divisions. The current, which is typically strong in Mount Hope Bay,was slack at the beginning of the day but came in strong by the last race.

The top sailors in both divisions were the most consistent racers on today’s course. Kyle Kovacs of Harvard University had a spectacularshowing in the men’s division, his worst finish being a fourth. The point spread in the women’s division is much narrower after five races,with Charlotte Hill and Allison Blecher tied at the top with 27 points.

Race Day 2: Saturday, November 4

Light breeze shifting again from the northwest to the southwest in the morning made for busy work for the race committee. Only threeraces were completed before the 12:30 lunch break. After lunch, the wind cooperated and generated a solid westerly that held for Races 8through 12. No protests were filed during the day’s action.

In the men’s division, Emery Wager of Stanford stepped it up, posting two bullets and three second-place finishes to climb atop the stand-ings at the conclusion of Day 2. Shannon Heausler of the College of Charleston edged into first place today in the women’s championshipafter finishing in the Top 10 consistently throughout the day.

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The final day…and not much action: Insufficient wind kept competitors on land until 12:30, when the sailors finally got their boats on thewater. The Race Committee attempted to complete a race in each division, but a dying breeze forced them to abandon. Eventually, theycancelled all races for the day.

That left yesterday’s leaders, Emery Wager of Stanford in the men’s division and Shannon Heausler of the College of Charleston for thewomen’s divisions, as the champions. Congratulations to the two winners, the entire group of competitors and to Matthew Barry andKendall Reiley, who won the Team One Sportsmanship Award for the event.

MMeenn’’ss SSiinngglleehhaannddeedd WWoommeenn’’ss SSiinngglleehhaannddeeddEmery Wager Stanford 6 Shannon Heausler Charleston 55Trevor Moore Hobart 71 Allison Blecher Charleston 61Clay Johnson Harvard 77 Charlotte Hill Navy 62Kyle Kovacs Harvard 79 Emily Hill Yale 65Chris Branning Kings Point 81 Evan Brown Stanford 76

2006-2007 ICSA Singlehanded Nationals

2007 HighSchool Singlehanded Cressy Championship

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USVI Championship Regatta Report

C-VANE SAILING STAFF

Early in 2006 and just after the ISAFGrade 1 winter regatta series of SoFL, TimPitts (2004 USVI Olympian, Laser) invitedme down to his home island of Saint Croixfor a week of training. I accepted, but howlittle did I know what was in store. Ourfirst day (which followed directly after theBVI Spring Regatta, nuts fun) was an epicday that easily covered fourteen or moremiles of sailing; beginning at Saint CroixYC, over the reef at high tide (scary),beyond the eastern-most point of US terri-tory, then downhill forever to the JonesMaritime Marina facility in the city ofChristiansted. It even included a fortyminute break to sail inside the Buck IslandMarine Garden (where the white sandmakes it appear that one is sailing blade-less). Sea turtles everywhere! Tim stated anumber of times that the Laser Worldsshould be held in Saint Croix. It did nottake me long to agree with him and evenadd “SOON!” And that was only Day One.

When presented with the opportunity tohelp out with this year’s USVIChampionship Regatta, host-ed by Jones Maritime, Ijumped at the chance. Theonly hurdle was convincingmom and dad that I would beenjoying Thanksgiving Daydeep in the Virgin Islandsand not at my parent’s bythen chilly north Texashome. Boo hoo.

The event format is fan-tastic: A one day sailingclinic incorporating boat-handling, upwind/downwind, and startingdrills, with full video debriefing; followedby a two day regatta. Video coverage ofeach day’s racing was also available withcommentary for everyone. The improve-ments made over the long weekend werecertainly carried away by each sailor fromthe event. Equally as impressive was theamount of gear handed out at registrationby Jones Maritime: a huge draining mesh

back-pack wet-gear bag, rash guards, t-shirts, hats, Cadillacs, and small USVIvillas were carried away by all.Seriously, look for the USVI Champslogo on all of the gear dolled out at yournext event (the SUVs and villas won’tbe there, too hard to carry off theisland).

Before the first race on Saturday,the participants of the clinic held aweather briefing (for those that haveshoveled snow recently, suffice to say itincluded “warm with great racingbreeze”) followed by a short skipper’s meet-ing. Everyone then launched and sailed outthe channel, hoping to time the neighboringsea-plane’s arrivals/departures from theirlanding strip just boat lengths away. Thearea around Saint Croix in embedded byreefs that easily could wreck havoc on aLaser, making navigation is important. Thechannel in and out of Christiansted Harboris no exception. Fortunately though, thevisibility through the water is seeminglymeasured in miles, not feet, and areas of

reefs are easily identi-fied.

The RC set up bothdays west and just northof the Buccaneer Resort,tucked into a picturesquecove close enough sothat those on the beachcould view the action atthe weather mark. Withthe wind passing over-land, staying in phasewas critical. After thethird race, it was clear

that getting near the starboard lay-line withabout 150 meters to the mark was critical,as most all beat winners were coming fromthat top-right corner. Staying in phase toget there though was even more important,as many outsmarted themselves by gettingright too early and just getting hammered.

Beecher Higby, the longest-standingLaser sailor of the USVI, when able to con-

nect the areas of pressure while staying inphase, was able to post some impressiveraces with huge leads. Higby won theevent overall and the Laser class. Stillmore impressive were the number of timeswhere numerous Radial sailors (and even a4.7!) were able to find their way to the frontat the first mark when the Laser sailorswere way less than perfect up these trickybeats. This was no regatta for a corner-banger! Chris Schreiber, sailing a Radial,posted a fantastic Sunday score-line movinghim from third to first in the Radial Class.William Bailey, sailing a 4.7 rig in his firstLaser event, scored all bullets against a

hard charging Dante Hodge from the BVIs.If you think that the frostbiting weather

in the Northeast has been great, you owe itto yourself to get down to the USVIs andgo sail a Laser! Actually, no matter whereyou sailed in 2006 (save for Andrew Lewis,the Myrdal/Brennans, or longstanding D-

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Sec Guy Fleming in Hawaii), it just does not getbetter than this when aboard a Laser. Imagine sail-ing with every perfect condition of your favoritevenues. The nice ocean swells of SoCal (MWW),the great summer sea-breezes of the northeast, theperfectly warm weather of RMOCR, the stunningbackdrop of The Bay, all in the crystal-clear water

of the Caribbean. While there, it seems that it willNEVER get any better than this. Ever.

The USVI Championship Regatta is scheduledduring a nice gap between big NA events, normallynear Thanksgiving. Contact Jones Maritimehttp://www.jonesmaritime.com/ and see how easyand economical it can be to get down and sail in theabsolute greatest venue in our NA region.

More event coverage and photos may be foundon ISAF URL and its links:http://www.sailing.org/default.asp?PID=19802.


LLaasseerr SSttaannddaarrddBeecher Higby III, St. Croix, USVI Josh Curtis, St. Croix, USVIJames Woods, Tortola, BVISam Woods, Tortola, BVI

LLaasseerr RRaaddiiaallChris Schreiber, St. Croix, USVI Peter Stanton, St. Croix USVI Sydney Jones, St. Croix, USVI Jae Tonachel, St. Croix, USVI Tyler Rice, St. Thomas, USVI Morgan Bryan, St. Croix, USVI Max Nickbarg, St. John, USVI Felice Quigley, St. Croix, USVI Christopher Schreiber, St. Croix, USVI Ryan Murphy, St. Croix, USVI

LLaasseerr 44..77William Bailey, St. Thomas, USVI Dante Hodge, Tortola, BVI

Photos from Rob JonesMore photos available on www.robjones.smugmug.com

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setting in led to a few death rolls.

Back on shore prizes were awarded to the top five finish-ers in each fleet as follows. SSS sailors also shown:

Laser 4.7 (boats): 1. Cam Hall, St Pete’s, 6pts; 2. Eric Lawrence, Jupiter, 10pts; 3. Mason Willett, Seminole, 14pts; 4. Jason Kue-bel, Clearwater, 19 pts; 5. Alex Woolston, Ft Myers, 27 pts.

Laser Radial (40 boats): 1. Colin Smith, Ft Lauderdale, 6pts; 2. Jerry Tullo, Staten Island, 9pts; 3. Lames Liebl, Titusville, 16 pts; 4. David Mendelblatt, St. Petes, 23pts; 5. Genoa Griffen, Tampa, 23 pts; 10, Dalton Tebo, SSS, 46 pts; 32. Rheanna King, SSS,160 pts; 36. Victor Wettergren, SSS, 173 pts; 39. Jasper Curry, SSS, 184pts; 40. Ian Nora, SSS, 186 pts.

Laser Full Rig (24 boats): 1. Mike Kalin, Clearwater, 7 pts; 2. Andrew Campbell, San Diego, 7pts; 3. Luke Lawrence, Jupiter, 14pts; 4. Zack Marks, St. Petes, 26pts; 5. Dave Hernandez, iami, 27pts; 6. Zeke Horowitz, SSS, 29pts; 7. Jeff Olson, SSS, 35pts; 8 Chris Enger, SSS, 38pts; 18. Dave Olson, SSS, 89pts; 21. Phil Karcher, SSS, 101pts.

I’d like to thank the following whose work made the re-gatta a great success: Pat Murphy for making sure the break-fast food was at the club; Wanda Purzycki for making sure the breakfast was laid out and the coffee ready, Lainie and Mar-shall Pardey for setting marks and helping with scoring; BillBrandenberg, Freddie Sambolin, Tom Tullo from NJ, TomBarrett from Clearwater for providing me with their excellentexperience on the race committee boat; and my wife Jocelyne for registration and scoring.

Allan Broadribb RC Chair.

Laser Florida Championships - December 9-10

We had a great turn out for the Laser Florida Champion-ships on December 9-10. I’d expected 60 Lasers maximumbut by the time registration was completed we had 74, andbest of all there ten 4.7 rigs which qualified them for theirown start.

Racing started on Saturday at around noon with an easterly wind, typicallyshifty, in the 10-14 knot range. Threeraces were held in these conditions on triangle windward leeward wind-ward courses.

Saturday evening was fun for those who stuck around to see the Christ-mas boat parade – my favorite thisyear was the “leaping dolphins”.

Sunday we started at 9:30 am withall the fleets on the line – quel sur-prise. Three more races were held inconditions similar to Saturday onwindward leeward courses and withthe completion of the fifth race com-petitors were allowed to discard their worst result. In the last race the wind was as heavy as we’d seen it all

weekend which combined with the leeward legs and fatigue

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The final day of the Cedar Point Laser Fall Series turnedaround the standings. Although Andrew Scrivan, serving his RCduty, held on to win the Series, Charles Stanley leaped into 2nd

overall, passing juniors Alex Weiksnar and Scott Furnary, leavingPaul Craine in 5th. Former champion Marc Jacobi missed the dayand lost a throwout, dropping him all the way back to 6th overall.Blake Marriner’s win for the day raised him from 18th to 10th

overall.If we have any protests in the Spring Series, we should have

no problem convening an International Jury. Yesterday we hadcompetitors from England, Sweden, Hungary, Russia, Israel,Spain, and France! One eager sailor has been commuting fromToronto several weekends, a 17-hour round-trip. The age range ofour 116 registered sailors is 13 to 66, and 23 different people wonat least one of the 53 races.

Records were set in most of our statistical categories. The116 registered for the Series were 25 more than last Fall, with atotal of 136 people sailing at least once. The 51 qualifiers (50%of races sailed) beat last Fall by 4. Our average participants ineach race were up to 52.8! Adam Szabo continued his Ironmanstreak, now up to 333 consecutive frostbite races.

Next up is the 25th Annual Hangover Bowl on Monday,January 1. Our Spring Series starts on March 11.

Eric Robbinswww.cedarpointyc.org

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June 14-17 Laser/Radial/4.7 N. A. ChampsHyannis YC, MA

June 30-July 1 D 7 Grand Prix – SaltmarshNew Bedford, MA

July 27-29 District 7 Radial Grand PrixHyannis YC, MA

August 3-5 Buzzards Bay RegattaNew Bedford, MA

August 10-12 Laser/Radial U.S. ChampionshipMallets Bay BC, VT

September 8-9 New England MastersNewport, RI

September 14-16 Laser/Radial Olympic Trials QCedar Point YC, Westport, CT

October 3-14 Laser/Radial Olympic TrialsNewport, RI

See District 7 website for more information:http://d7.laserforum.org/

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to be a card-carrying memberto anxiously await my quarterly copy of The Laser Sailorto give my 2¢ worth on the Laser Forumto vote my opinion oN the proposed rules changesto swap stories around the keg after racing to experience the “fire hose” on a screaming reachbecause the deck feels better than my couchcoming up with a new excuse each Monday morning for my sunburnto earn Grand Prix points and be eligible for the cool prizes at seasons endbecause Laser sailors are the best and I’d rather support ILCA!

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Top 10 Reasons to Join the North American Laser Class

to be a card-carrying memberto anxiously await my quarterly copy of The Laser Sailorto give my 2¢ worth on the Laser Forumto vote my opinion oN the proposed rules changesto swap stories around the keg after racing to experience the “fire hose” on a screaming reachbecause the deck feels better than my couchcoming up with a new excuse each Monday morning for my sunburnto earn Grand Prix points and be eligible for the cool prizes at seasons endbecause Laser sailors are the best and I’d rather support ILCA!

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Getting ReadyA large part of my job is to just

observe. You learn a ton by just closingyour mouth and watching and listening.That being said, I have been doing just thatand it has lead me to this next article. Myquestion to you is what do you do to getready for a regatta? Do you prepare mental-ly or physically or do you just go out thereand let it rip and hope for the best? How farin advance do you start preparing? Thesealong with many other questions made methink that this is something that I wouldlike to point out to everyone.

I am fortunate enough to live in aplace that has a lot of high caliber sailors aswell as a lot of club sailors and I am alsofortunate enough to have the pleasure ofknowing a lot of sailors in the laser class.Over the years I have been able to watch avariety of different training styles. Needlessto say everyone has their own “Method ofMadness”. Right now there are a handful ofsailors who are camped out in Florida alltraining for that next big event. For somethat event is a month away and for some it

is a few months away. In either case thesesailors are spending hours in their boatsworking on specific skills to makethem better. They have brought intraining partners who will chal-lenge them and whom they canlearn from. These training partnersare getting the same in return.

Aside from spendingtime in their boats I have noticedsome great workout routines thatare implemented on a regular basisand some routines that are rathersporadic. Some are concerned withtheir nutrition every day and someare just worried about it during aregatta. Some are making sure thatthey are mentally focused on theirgoals and again some don’t give itany thought. These sailors are allgreat sailors no matter how theychoose to get ready. What worksfor one may not work for another, but wecan all learn from each other and maybeeven find something we would like toincorporate into our own program.

What kind of sailor are you?What kind of sailor do you want to be? Iask Think about this a little. Over the nextfew weeks I have decided to interview avariety of sailors in North America. Someof the sailors are highly competitive andsome are weekend warriors. They willrange in age from junior to Master and I

will ask them all the same questions:Ask yourself the same questions and

see how your answers compare to othersailors you may be competing against. Ifyou’d like to hear from someone in particu-lar let me know. I’ll see if I can get them toparticipate.

I’m always here to answer anyquestions you may have on any topic. Ifyou want me to address a certain topic, letme know and I’d be happy to. You canalways reach me at www.sailfit.com [email protected].

•Do you do anything specific to prepare for a regatta?

•How far in advance do you start preparing?

•How many hours do you spend in your boat on aver-age?

•When you practice do you have specific things youwant to work on each time?

•Do you like to train with a partner/group/coach orwould you rather train alone?

•What do you do physically to prepare?

•Do you work on your fitness goals regularly or justbefore the regatta?

•How about Nutrition? Do you work on this regularlyor just before the regatta?

•Do you do anything to Mentally Prepare?

•Do you like to keep your training program secret or doyou share with anyone who asks?

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