Saturday Sunfish Series Starts!

Kevin Buruchian Demonstrating the proper rigging of a Sunfish.
The Flying Scot in the background passed out from the depth of Kevin's knowledge

The Massapoag Saturday Sunfish Series kicked off in style this afternoon.  Kevin Buruchian started the events by generously volunteering to lead a Sunfish Rigging seminar.  He used two boats to demonstrate heavy air vs. light air rigging differences. Then he personally inspected the boats of every Sunfish competitor, offering tips and suggesting rig improvements.  His instruction didn't stop on the beach either.  On the water, he spent time with every Sunfish sailor, giving tips, pointers and critiques to the rest of the fleet.

On the water, the racing was spirited.  Kevin did horizon jobs on all of us, including the Laser sailors, but there was close competition betwen Mark Stoughton and Andrew Kline for 2nd and 3rd places and between Alan Dimson-Doyle and Skip Russell for 4th and 5th places.

Today's results are below. Full Series results are here

2013 Saturday Sunfish Series 1

Massapoag Yacht Club

Results are final as of 21:40 on June 15, 2013

Overall

Sailed: 5, Discards: 1, To count: 4, Entries: 5, Scoring system: Appendix A

SailNo	HelmName	R1 6/15/2013	R2 6/15/2013	R3 6/15/2013	R4 6/15/2013	R5 6/15/2013	Total	Nett
3911	Kevin Buruchian	(1.0)	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	5.0	4.0
3918a	Andrew Kline	2.0	2.0	(3.0)	2.0	2.0	11.0	8.0
3929	Mark Stoughton	(3.0)	3.0	2.0	3.0	3.0	14.0	11.0
3901	Skip Russell	4.0	(5.0)	4.0	4.0	5.0	22.0	17.0
None	Alan Dimson-Doyle	(5.0)	4.0	5.0	5.0	4.0	23.0	18.0

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Sunfish Racing Begins with a Clinic

What we hope the beach looks like tomorrow!

The MYC Sunfish Racing Series begins tomorrow!  Festivities are going to start at 1:00, when MYC's own Sunfish champion, Kevin Buruchian, is going to conduct a Sunfish rigging clinic.  He will demonstrate a standard Sunfish rig and a customized racing rig, pointing out the differences and improvements that can be made.  Plus if you'd like he will inspect the rig on your boat and help you tune it to make you faster on the race course.  Bring your questions!

Racing starts at 3:00pm, and we will get in as many races as time allows and we will finish up at around 5:00.

Massapoag Capsize Club Part II

Sailing like this is slow.
(Photo by Bob Gaffney)

This year's Spring regatta picked up right where last year's fall regatta left off. Nearly 30 intrepid Sunfish and Laser sailors braved heavy winds and 30mph gusts at the 6th annual Sunfish/Laser Regatta.  Capsizes and difficult shifty conditions were the order of the day. A lot of people found out just how slow sailing upside down really is.

In the Sunfish B fleet, Mark Stoughton put up 3 firsts and 2 seconds to take first place in the B fleet.  The score doesn't show how close the racing was between Mark, John Houstle and Harvey Davidson, with all three of them trading the lead throughout the races.

After leading at the A fleet at the lunch break, Kevin Buruchian waged a close battle with Amanda Callahan and Bill Brangiforte.  Bill won the day by just two points over Kevin and Amanda, who were tied, with Kevin taking the tiebreaker for 2nd.

John Eckart bested the 14 boat Laser fleet, putting in a solid performance throughout the day.

Diane Kampf has created a Flickr page with a series of excellent photos of the regatta, including some outstanding shots on the water taken by Bob Gaffney.

Sunfish Fleet Results are here: http://mycsunfish.blogspot.com/p/race-results.html

Full results are on the Massapoag yacht Club web site: http://www.sailmyc.org/Racing/MYCRaceResults.aspx

20 Days to the Sunfish/Laser Regatta

Wake up and go racing!
(Photo by Diane Kampf)

The Massapoag Yacht Club 6th annual Sunfish/laser Regatta is only 20 days away!  The NOR and Signup Sheet are available here.  It's an excellent day of racing!  Lunch will be on the menu, plus Burgers and Chicken for after the racing is done.  Good racing and good food, what could be better!

NOR
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The New Sunfish Class Web Site is Online

After several months of effort, the International Sunfish Class Association has unveiled their new web site.  The site is a huge improvement over the old one, and should make life easier for everyone.  

Eric Woodman, the New England Class Representative, and Rich Chapman, Class President both deserve a big thank you and round of applause from the entire fleet for spearheading this site redesign.  

Eric wrote the following note to class members:

Hello everyone,

I’m thrilled to announce that the new Sunfish Class website is live at the same old URL: http://sunfishclass.org!

Getting this site created has been a multi-year effort and something of a personal crusade for me. It was designed and built by WebWorks Café, a San-Diego based company that the class contracted with at the end of 2012. I think you will find that it’s a significant step forward for class communication, branding and general well-being.

 Among the things the new site enables is joining the class online/renewing membership. It will also be self-sufficient, via the sale of online ads. I think you will find it visually exciting and a reflection of what makes our odd little boats so much fun to sail and what makes the Sunfish Class unique in the sailing world – that’s what we were going for anyway!

 The site includes pages for each region. Here you will find the racing calendar, news, events, words of wisdom, etc. Bookmark this page!

 I urge everyone reading this to visit the site, take a look around, provide feedback (we are well aware that the content is a work in progress and will be only improved by contributions from people like you), join/renew your Class membership and visit the sponsors. It’s important that you not only support advertisers on the site but do so by clicking on their ads from the class site (they will know if people are doing this and it will help reinforce that advertising with us is a wise investment).

 Let me know if you are interested in advertising on the site (we can have your ad limited to New England, if you want).

 Credit should go to USCA President Rich Chapman, who since his election last summer has managed to push the rest of the Class Leadership to support investing in online communications.

 Now that the site is done, I can get back to being more involved with keeping you all up to date on what’s going on. It’s been a lot of work!

 Eric Woodman

New England Rep to the USSCA

woodbe67@yahoo.com"

Partying Massapoag Style

Putting the dock together

Sunday was the 2013 annual Spring Work "Party".  All of our intrepid party goers participated in such fun activities as "Pin the Tail on the Dock", "Pick up Kayak Rack Sticks", Hide and go Seek the Leaks" and "Bobbing for Moorings".

And unlike most parties, the club was left in ship shape and there was nothing to clean up at the end!

It was so successful that we're planning to have another one in the fall.

B Strong

Pretty much anyone you talk to around here knows someone who was directly affected by Monday's bombing of the Marathon.  Massapoag's own Dave Ryan was 30 yards away from the blast.  Many MYC members who I've not been able to talk to yet work in Boston. There are three people who live within 100 yards of my house who were there.  One Boston Police Officer, one ER Nurse and one runner.  I know two more people who were in the crowd at the Finish Line.  Luckily they all escaped injury. They saw things that nobody should ever have to see.  They did things that nobody should ever have to do.  

My heart goes out to all of the injured and my condolences to the families of the dead. Nobody should ever go out to a fun event and end up a casualty.

Thanks to everyone who's shown support to us.  We're a big city, but a small community.  Everyone here is pulling together, and we'll get through it.