| 5.Apr.08 |
Here is a note from Dennis Case about Lipton Cup: A brief outline: The Lipton Cup is a yacht club challenge event that is conducted each year in southern California. It is currently sailed in J/105s. The event uses our class rule but modifies them to allow professional sailors, all new sails and unrestricted charters. It has been sailed since 1902 and has a strong and colorful history. This year will be the 97th event. Some of the best professionals will sail in a fleet which will also contain some normal J/105 members and crew. Some of the recent names in this event include Dave Ullman, Vince Brun, Peter Isler, Dennis Conner and Chris Snow. During the 1970s the race was conducted in IOR boats within band limits. Then in 1990 the format was changed to an ocean one design boat the Schock 35. In 2002 the boat type was changed to the J/105. Much money is spent by the yacht clubs for charters, sails and bottom sanding. The number of entrants is at this time unknown since it is the normal practice to enter the event on the last legal day. The expectation is that there will be 10 clubs that will participate. Of special interest to me is the rumor that Masquerade, who is currently is socal waters racing, will hang around a couple weeks and do the Lipton Cup. So we may see how the best boat in our fleet can match up with the best yacht club teams. I suspect they will do quite well. The date of the event is May 17-18 with a practice race on the 16th. SDYC has won the last three events sailing Wings with Bill Hardesty at the helm. Cheers Dennis Case |
| 6.Feb.08 | The "Fleet Procedures" page has been split into a local rules page ("Rules") and a fleet information page ("Info"). No real changes have been made except that the kelp window rule is not a part of the local rules. This change is just to make the local rules more clear. The scoring information is not new. This was information that used to be contained in a link to the ussailing.org site, but that document was removed. This area is the equivalent of the removed page. |
| 15.Jan.08 |
Date Corrections for 2008 Season!!! NOOD is actually March 15/16 (not 22/23) CRW is actually May 31/June 1 (not June 7/8) It is posted Here! |
| 9.Oct.06 | Sharon Case has written a piece on the NAC. Check it out Here! |
| 2.Oct.06 |
The season is over and the final standings are up!! Find them Here! Congratulations to Dennis Case and Wings on their decisive victory!!! Our Road Warriors are Blink and for the 2nd year in a row, Mischief! |
| 22.Sept.06 | Results and standings are posted for after NAC!! Find them Here! |
| 6.June.06 | Results and standings are posted for Long Beach Race Week. Find them Here! |
| 8.June.06 | Latest issue of John's J/105 Regatta News! |
| 6.June.06 | Results and standings are posted for Cal Race Week. I put in two throw-outs since we are half way thorugh the year. Here they are! |
| 27.Apr.06 | Results and standings are posted for Ahmanson. I put in one throw-out since we are 1/3 thorugh the year. Here they are! |
| 3.Apr.06 | Here is issue a special issue the J/105 Regatta News with results from the traveling sails vote. |
| 3.Apr.06 | Here is issue #3 of the J/105 Regatta News. Thanks John for such an outstanding effort!! |
| 27.Mar.06 | Standings are posted. The owner names are not what I want them to be. I havn't successfully merged the co-owner names for the standings display yet in my script. |
| 27.Mar.06 | Voting for traveling sails is this week. Vote here (espeically if you have having problems with the link). |
| 6.Mar.06 | Here is J/105 Regatta News #2 from Fleet Captain John Downing!! |
| 18.Feb.06 |
John Downing has written a new-letter!! Check it out Here!! |
| 18.Feb.06 | Here is the NOR for the Southern Series. These are a high point events, but are one-design J/105 races that all are welcome to. |
| 8.Feb.06 |
Mid-winters is this weekend!! Remember all contestants must weigh-in for the year, and on saturday, the time available is from 8:00am to 9:00am!!! Also, the class roster for 2006 is online now here. |
| 4.Feb.06 |
I am please to announce that a new fleet captain is elected.
Congratulations to John Downing!!! I think he will lead the fleet in a excellent direction. I will be happy to help John in any manner I can. Good luck to you all and have a great North Americans. Thank you so much for all your kind words and I will miss the fleet and my great friends. Scott Birnberg |
| 1.Feb.06 | Jeff Mueller has done a nice workup of hotel accomodations for the Santa Barabra regatta. Waiting till the last minute is not a good idea since the regatta coencides with their yearly festival. Here is his email. Here is a word document of hotels. |
| 1.Feb.06 | Scott Brinberg has had to resign. Vote for a replacement before the end of the week. Send email to: indigo120@aol.com |
| 18.Nov.05 | The Fleet 8 meeting was held last night. A copy of the adjenda and my minutes are posted here. Congratulations to our award winners for 2005!!! |
| 3.Oct.05 | Final standings are posted Here. |
| 23.Aug.05 | Here is the Notice Of Race and Entry Form for the Gold Cup on September 17 and 18th. |
| 15.Aug.03 |
Our J105 Fleet 8 members at SBYC went all out to host an excellent
regatta in their beautiful city July 30-31. With its beach location
where you can watch the racing boats from the deck, SBYC offered a
delightful setting for a regatta. Even what they could not control,
like the weather and wind, was perfect; there was sun and 14 -15 knots
of wind for all but one of the five races. With seven of the fifteen
entries from Santa Barbara, those of us from "down south" here up
against both local knowledge and some fine sailors. The beach with its
kelp was almost always the favored side of the course, and lots of crew
skills were needed on each boat to compete, like use of kelp sticks and
smooth jibe-sets. The top three awards went to local boats Free
Enterprise (Alex Rassmussen), Short Skirt (Peter & Francie Lufkin)
and Repeat Offender (Larry Hardtack), which is not a big surprise since
Alex and Peter are always near the top of our other high point
regattas. Congratulations to all!
Off the water, the regatta was coordinated well by Jane Watkins, the RC work was well done, and the beach luau at SBYC was outstanding, especially thanks to the lady making the mai tais! Having reciprocated this one time, many of us have a greater appreciation of the demands of getting to our fleet regattas that the Santa Barbara members experience every year because of the distance. However, we had such a good time overall in Santa Barbara, we’ll go again next year! We hope more of the fleet will, as well. Doug & Pam Werner - Javelin |
| 15.July.05 | The date for Gold cup as been corrected in the schedule. The regatta is on September 17 and 18th at Newport Harbor Yacht Club! |
| 28.June.05 | Results and standings are up for LBRW. Check out the photos on the LBRW site. |
| 9.June.05 |
Scott Birnberg: First the upcoming regatta is Long Beach Race Week June 24 through 26. We are racing Friday. Regarding crew Weight please if you need to weigh in you make sure you know the times from Karen that you can weigh in. In Addition the weight you used at the beginning of the year is acceptable. You are not locked in with the PCC weight. You may choose the lighter number. |
| WD #5 | Our regatta # 5 is under our belts and we had the Pacific Coast Championships. First went to Masquerade, Tom Coates. A out of town boat from fleet one! Congratulations to them. We were very proud of Mischief giving them a good run for their money till the end of the last race. Cal Yacht club will be the scene of next years Nationals in August. So we know a little more of what to expect. The Results and overall is posted on our fleet 8 web site: http://www.j105.org/fleet8/2005/standings.htm Ed Cummins was seen making an appearance on Sweet Caroline! Thanks Ed for bringing your expertise to other members of the fleet! Our fleet will only get stronger with this help! |
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The most fun was the delivery home. Javelin and Air boss
accompanied me back to Long Beach. Javelin threw apples at me but was
unsuccessful in sinking me. Air boss was the stealth boat with no
running lights on. Some how we made through the ships in Long Beach
entrance. A thought for next year is a high point race back to Long
Beach from Marina Del Rey. Engines will be permissible when under 5
knots of wind and no more than 2 crewman. The J105 predicated log!
See you at Long Beach Race week at hope to have an even better turnout!
Captain Scott out | |
| 7.June.05 | With CRW complete, the standings are posted. I still did just two of the actual three throwouts for the year, but with only three non-mandatory regattas completed so-far, this seems a little more representitive. Way to go Scott B. with good scores on the two mandatory races! |
| 31.May.05 |
As you know, Cal Race Week will serve as the 2005 Pacific Coast
Championships for the J/105 fleet and the Western Regional Qualifier
for the J/24 fleet. This means that your entire crew must weigh in.
Nancy Delosky will be doing weigh in. She will be at registration from: 3-7 pm on Friday 8-10 am on Saturday |
| 20.May.05 | Lipton cup was last week. Results are posted here, and photos some photos (including the new load-path kevlar jibs) are here. Congratulations to SDYC and Wings, as well as Ed Cummins for running the Regatta. |
| 6.May.05 | Results are posted for Yachting Cup and the standings (here) are up as well, but they are my version. I wrote a script to process the results into standings. The script is currently automatically applying the thow-outs as if we had a 4 regatta season. I tried to copy the method that Barney used last year as closely as possible. The 2004 standings are, from the same script and I got the same results to the exact point and position. |
| WD #4 |
Congratulations again to Javelin. They are very fast. Welcome to a
consistent showing from Rock n' Roll the last two regattas. A new
force to be reckoned with! Sorry for the OCS Wings, I guess the
energizer Rabbit let you down on the VHF! Kelp was a factor this
weekend, you San Diego boys just have to much weed! Regarding Race 3.
Sorry we had to throw out such a long race. It certainly changed the
final standings. In talking with the race committee they had rehearsed
the scenario the week before and they had actually talked about the
timing of dropping the leeward mark. This is one where they did not
follow through with the planning. We all know that scenario. The
facts were the anchor had given way and they made a valiant effort to
get another anchor from the weather mark and then back to the leeward
mark. They just didn't make in time to drop it and should have let one
mark stand.
High Point standings after four races should be posted to the web site by this weekend. Barney has not been feeling well and Scott McDaniel will pick it up and keep us to speed. Thanks again Scott for a great web site that is always improving. Thanks to Nancy on Zuni Bear for taking my crew in on the protector so I could make my way North earlier. The crew loved it, first to the bar! I saw the usual assortment of sea life. Plus a killer whale off of San Clemente with seals jumping out of the water like dolphins. I don't think they were to happy to have that guy around! Also saw three Grey whales! Look forward to seeing everyone in Cal Cup in June in Marina Del Rey. For those of you that don't know this is the site of the North Americans 2006.! Tom Carruthers hurry and have that kid so you can get back out on the race course! Captain Scott Out |
| 19.April.05 | Results for Ahmanson are posted here. |
| WD #2 |
Well Regatta 2 is under our belts and congratulations to Wings for
sailing a great regatta. More importantly we had our owners party
hosted by Fleet 8 and JBoats San Diego. The party was given at the
wonderful home of Dennis and Sharon Case. I guess having a view of
the race course and a GPS of the kelp gave Wings the edge. Also of
note was sample drug testing and an enquiry by the executive committee
revealed that none of the drinks were spiked. The smile on Dennis'
face leaves us circumspect and his wish not to talk to reporters citing
the Barry Bonds amendment, we will keep you posted.
I had a chance to visit with Scott McDaniel from Off The Porch and he mentioned one of the attributes of being in the class was the friendship and teamwork as one of the most enjoyable aspect of J105 sailing. Scott has only been sailing 4 years and is enthusiastic even when his finishes are not in the top. Scott reminds us that racing is more than winning, it is being with each other! Keep at it Scott! The Cases are what teamwork is all about with their long standing crew ! Of other note Off the Porch and Flambouyant have had engine trouble. Flambouyant with a fuel pump and OTP with fuel lines, perhaps the old 105 design issue. This reminds us to remember our engine maintenance though! Great work for Escapade to make it to the regatta after shearing off the blades on their propeller on the delivery down from Santa Barbara. One last thought as I slug it out delivering the boat home to Long Beach at a whopping 5 knots VMG. I passed three whales a school (as in 200 plus) dolphins. I realize how lucky we are and how the journey is just as important as arriving! Don't forget to take that time between competitions. Captain Scott out |
| 24.Feb.05 | Proofs for the photos from midwinters are here. The results are on the DPYC website here. |
| 3.Jan.05 | Updated 2005 Memebership Application here. |
| 15.Dec.04 | Updated 2005 Information on web site. Schedule is here. |
| 18.Nov.04 | The Fleet 8 meeting minutes are online here. |
| 13.Nov.04 | Scott B. sent me this photo that is worthy wallpaper. |
| 21.Sept.04 | Here is a photo that Ed sent me!! |
| 20.Sept.04 |
J105 Fleet 8 is proud of Bold Forbes skipper and crew
for their second place finish at J105 Nationals, sailed off Cape Cod,
Massachusetts, Sept 16-19!
With 52 boats from the US and Canada competing in 8 races, Ed Cummins
and crew took 6 single digit finishes to earn the 2nd place trophy.
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| 20.Sept.04 | John Downing of Chili Pepper sent this write up of the big-boat series at St. Francis YC. Also there was Short Skirt and Zuni Bear. Results are here |
| 16.Sept.04 | NAC Starts Today:
Nelson (from the national website) is going to post some
stuff during the regatta. He has Ed as his #2 pick. Read it here. The NAC website is here. |
| 14.Sept.04 | Gold Cup Details: Weigh in for this event will be from 8:30 am until 10:00 am on Saturday and by appointment on Sunday. Please let me know if you will need special arrangements for Friday afternoon. Event Registration is on Saturday morning from 8:30 until 10:30 - and your skipper’s meeting is at 9:30 am. |
| 22.Feb.04 | 2004 High Point opener at Dana Point for SCYA MidWinters. Photos here. |
| 14.Dec.03 | Annual Owners Meeting - Minutes are here. |