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Race Committee Volunteers Needed!

Dear Club Members,

We need Race Committee Volunteers!

Edit: Thanks for all the new signups since this posting! Just a few to go.

There are 35 sailboat races at Lake Champlain Yacht Club this summer. A Principal Race Officer (PRO) has been assigned to each race, and he/she will be responsible for all of the mechanics of running the race and for making the difficult decisions. Each race also needs a Race Committee comprised of a leader and two assistants. Racing skippers and others have volunteered for most of the races, but we need RC teams for a few more events. Would you be willing to serve?

The events needed are listed in the RC Signup sidebar.

You do not need to be a racer to serve as a Race Committee leader. You will help the PRO aboard the comfortable RC Boat Dinse (stable, sheltered, full marine head) to conduct the race. Your duties would be to recruit 2 adult friends to help you, assist the PRO with getting the Dinse off and on the dock, check in boats on the race course, raise and lower signal flags on command from the PRO, observe the weather and events on the course, and record the finish time of each of the racers as they cross the finish line at the Dinse. No special skills required – just a willingness to do some work and follow instructions.

Serving as RC is a great way to learn more about sailboat racing, and provides a front-row seat for an exciting event. Please contact me or Keith Kennedy, the Chief PRO, if you would like more information about what is involved.

If willing, please sign up for a Race Committee assignment on the LCYC website (http://lcyc.info/) . On the right-hand side of the main web page you will see a section labeled “RC SIGNUP” where available races are listed. Click on the race you are interested in, and follow the instructions. If you have any difficulty completing the process, please contact Jason Hyerstay or me.

Thank you for helping with this important work for our Club,

Gerry

Gerald S. Davis, MD
Regatta Chair

Lake Champlain Championship Series - 2015 Modifications

This will be the third year of the Lake Champlain Championship Series. The 2015 Notice of Series is now posted on the Series website http://www.lcchampionshipseries.org Here are a few changes or modifications you should note (the numbers refer to the 2015 NOS):

Crew Match is Up and Running

Looking for crew? Or looking for a boat to crew on? Don't forget Crew Match is up and running and is starting to fill up with potential boats and crew. If you need crew or a boat please add your information to the list.

Race Committee Sign-Up

LCYC member racers are reminded that service as volunteer race committee is required at least every other year! In volunteering, the member racer agrees to provide three persons to assist the Principal Race Official assigned to manage that race.

Member racers may volunteer for the race of their choice on a first come first served basis up until April 15. After that date member racers will be assigned races beginning first with those members who did not serve as race committee volunteers last season. As there are not sufficient member racers to allow for service only every other season, it is expected that some members who served last year will be asked to repeat this year.

We still have a large number of open race committee spots, so please do your part and sign-up today!

You will need to be logged in to the LCYC website to register for Race Committee duty. Please contact admin (at) lcyc (dot) info if you have trouble logging in.

Crew Match is Live

It may still feel like the middle of winter (again) but the sailing season is right around the corner. To try to do a better job matching up crew looking for boats and boats looking for crew, the Regatta Committee has launched an updated Crew Match page under the Racing section of the LCYC web site. If we achieve our goal no wannabe crew should be left sitting on shore and no boats should be sailing shorthanded. Skippers: If you have crew you only use periodically and are willing to share them with other boats, please consider posting their names and details on this list.

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