Hawaii Yacht Racing Accociation

News Update

Hawaii Yacht Club
HYRA News Update, March 7th, 2012

Upcoming Events

Mar 10/11 - HYC Pokai Bay Race (NOR, Register Online)
Mar 11 - KYC Classboat D
Mar 17 - WYC Doc Rice Beach Fleet (Register Online)
Mar 25 - KYC Classboat E
Mar 31 - PHYC Wahine Regatta
Apr 1 - KYC IRF B-1
Apr 7 - HYC Rabbit Island
Apr 15 - KYC Classboat F

Recent Results

Feb 26 - KYC Classboat C

REMINDER: Tonight 6pm skippers meeting at HYC for this weekend's Pokai Bay Regatta.

Please be reminded that the race is Saturday/Sunday and advised the racers who wish to stay at Ko'Olina and get the special rate that they must have their representative give Marty Loo a check payable to Ko'Olina Marina with boat specs and emergency contact information. Marty will go down and pick up the keys and packets on Thursday and have them back at HYC on Friday. Otherwise racers can contact Chuck Martin at Ko'Olina themselves for the Kamaaina rate (which is .50 cents more a foot).

The start time will be changed to 11:00. Please check for updates at the skipper meeting and forthcoming addenda and sailing instructions.

Hawaii Recreational Boating

Aloha,

If you are interested in recreational boating in Hawaii, you might like to check out the new articles I have recently posted at http://www.examiner.com/boating-in-honolulu/ray-pendleton.

Please don’t hesitate to leave your comments at the bottom of any article, or click on “subscribe” if you would like to receive them automatically.

Mahalo,
Ray

Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

February 21st, 2012

Upcoming Events

Feb 22 - TOMORROW: 6pm Skipper's Meeting at HYC lower deck for Kokohead Regatta
Feb 25 - HYC Kokohead - HYRA Season Points Opener (NOR and SI - Regatta Network Registration required!)
Feb 26 - KYC Classboat C
Mar 3 - HYSA #1 PYC
Mar 4 - KYC IRF A-3
Mar 10/11 - HYC Pokai Bay Race (Note: Date Change! NOR)
Mar 11 - KYC Classboat D
Mar 17 - WYC Doc Rice Beach Fleet (Register Online)
Mar 25 - KYC Classboat E

Recent Results

Feb 19 - KYC IRF A-2 and Laser #3 at PHYC (see attached)

Nawiliwili Yacht Club Racing Calendar

Click here for the 2012 NYC Calendar.

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

January 26th, 2012

OPENING DAY REGATTA UPDATES

Racers & cruisers, Opening Day is looking like it will be a blow-out event. Registrations are strong with boats in all PH and multihull classes participating.

DON”T MISS THE Waikiki Yacht Club & Hawaii Yacht Club OPENING DAY BEER CAN BASH

TWO THREE Race Courses to choose from, a Friday-Night-style Beer Can Bash, a multihull triangle or an Off-Shore Buoy Race !
PARTY OFFSHORE ON THE RED DOLPHIN AFTER THE RACE Sponsored by Waikiki Ocean Club
Awards Ceremony on the Red Dolphin
Complimentary Beverage (BEER & BBQ) for all Race Crews!!! On the Red Dolphin

Take a look at the attached information sheets.

The skippers meeting will be held on Saturday at 11:45 AM at WYC. You can register online, get a copy of the NOR or just take a look at who is racing by clicking on

http://www.waikikiyachtclub.com/RE/Regatta-Network.aspx

Scott Bradley
4676 Sierra Dr.
Honolulu, Hawaii 96816
808-347-3003

Upcoming Events

Jan 28 - KYC Classboat B and Laser #1 at KYC (see attached NOR and post below)
Jan 29 - Pacific Cup Seminar (PCYC Flyer) and Probowl
Feb 4 - Annual Boat Blessing KYC and Laser #2 at WYC
Feb 5 - Superbowl
Feb 8 - HYRA Spring General Membership Meeting
Feb 11 - WYC Opening Day Blessing and Beer Can Bash
Feb 11/12 - Double Handed Clinic at Keehi
Feb 12 - KYC Opening Day and Bulkhead Race
Feb 19 - KYC IRF A-2 and Laser #3 at PHYC
Feb 25 - HYC Kokohead - HYRA Season Points Opener
Feb 26 - KYC Classboat C

Recent Results

- 21 Jan - HYC Mid-Winters Regatta - Revised

Opening Day

DON'T MISS THE Waikiki Yacht Club & Hawaii Yacht Club OPENING DAY BEER CAN BASH on Saturday, 11 February 2012.

· TWO Race Courses to choose from, a Friday night style Beer Can Bash or an Off Shore Buoy Race!

· PARTY OFFSHORE ON THE RED DOLPHIN AFTER THE RACE Sponsored by Waikiki Ocean Club!

· Complimentary Beverage (BEER & BBQ) for all Race Crews!!! On the Red Dolphin!

Opening Day will be EPIC. Have your boat blessed, join the Beer Can Bash Regatta and then anchor off Waikiki and let the Red Dolphin Crew pick you up and shuttle you to the party on their new rib inflatables!

To Register for the Regatta follow this link. https://www.regattanetwork.com/clubmgmt/applet_registration_form.php?regatta_id=4816

Please check the attached flyer for more info and feel free to post anywhere where we can reach more boaters!

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Up-Coming Laser Regatta at KYC

Aloha HYSA members, Parents, and friends,

This Saturday, January 28, Kaneohe Yacht Club will be hosting the first Hawaii Laser Assn (HLA) regatta of the year. The NOR is attached. This is an open event - open to both adults and youth sailors.

Registration is ON_LINE at Regatta Network. Here is the link to the registration page:
https://www.regattanetwork.com/clubmgmt/applet_registration_form.php?regatta_id=4857

US Sailing members receive a $2 discount on the entry fee. If you are not a US Sailing member (or if you need to renew your membership), here is a link that will give you a 20% discount on your membership to US Sailing:

https://www1.ussailing.org/membership/MPP/Default.aspx?ycid=125779E

Hope to see you there.

Kai Andrade
V. Commodore, HYSA

Marine-Based Charities Sought By West Marine:

Hawaii’s Largest Boating Superstore
Benefit Hawaii marine-based charities in a time when non-profit funding is a huge challenge!

And, if you have a personal favorite marine-based 501c3 that you'd like to apply for this very generous West Marine charitable fundraiser....go ahead and forward them the release. Contact information is at the bottom.

WEST MARINE SEEKS MARINE-BASED CHARITIES TO PARTICIPATE IN
GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION OF HAWAII’S LARGEST BOATING SUPERSTORE

“Cruising for a Cause” Seeks Non-Profits That Serve the Marine Environment and
Hawaii’s Boating, Fishing and Sailing Community

HONOLULU, HI. (January 23, 2012) - West Marine, the largest specialty retailer of boating supplies and accessories, today announces their search for Hawaii marine-based non-profits to be the beneficiaries of the “Cruising for a Cause” charity celebration. Set for Thursday, March 22nd from 6:00 – 9:00 pm, the event will be held at the newest Honolulu flagship location at 420 N. Nimitz Highway (across from K-mart). In keeping with the company’s mission of protecting our waters and supporting local non-profits across the country, West Marine is eager to work with Hawaii-based charities that serve the marine environment and local boating, fishing and sailing communities.

“Cruising for a Cause” earns money for local charities by offering 100% of ticket proceeds for the event. West Marine holds similar events around the country that help charities as varied as local non-profit youth-sailing clubs, beach clean-up expeditions, and organizations that preserve local marine life among others.

“All of us at West Marine are pleased to offer Hawaii an even larger location to find all they need to enjoy a day on the water, and we appreciate all of our current West Marine Customers from Hawaii and abroad,” says Susan Lynch, General Manager, West Marine, Honolulu. “We look forward to hearing from Hawaii non-profits who would like to join us for “Cruising for a Cause.”

The evening’s festivities will include a live auction, educational displays by each non-profit group, Hawaiian music, local food, and community leaders in attendance.

For full details on how to apply to be a beneficiary of “Cruising for a Cause” send an inquiry via e-mail to grantsandsponsorships@westmarine.com. Any non-profit chosen for the Hawaii celebration must have a 501c3 status with the Internal Revenue Service or be a youth boating program.

About West Marine

West Marine, the largest specialty retailer of boating supplies and accessories, has 319 company-owned stores located in 38 states, Puerto Rico and Canada and three franchised stores located in Turkey. Our call center and Internet channels offer Customers over 70,000 products plus the convenience of exchanging catalog and Internet purchases at our Store locations. Our Port Supply division is one of the largest wholesale distributors of marine equipment serving boat manufacturers, marine services, commercial vessel operators and government agencies. For more information on West Marine's products and store locations, or to start shopping, visit westmarine.com or call 1-800-BOATING (1-800-262-8464).

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

January 12th, 2012

Upcoming Events
Jan 21 - HYC Mid-Winters (NOR, SIs, and entry form)
Jan 22 - KYC IRF A-1 (Series A NOR)
Jan 28 - KYC Classboat B and Laser #1 at KYC
Jan 29 - Pacific Cup Seminar (PCYC Flyer) and Probowl
Feb 4 - Annual Boat Blessing KYC, Laser #2 WYC
Feb 5 - Superbowl
Feb 8 - HYRA Spring General Membership Meeting
Feb 11 - WYC and HYC Opening Day Blessing and Beer Can Bash

Recent Results
- 15 Jan - KYC Classboat A

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2012 HYRA Calendar and Ratings
Please visit the HYRA website for the latest 2012 HYRA Sailing Calendar and current HPHRF ratings.

Opening Day Blessing and Beer Can Bash
Here is the schedule for the Opening Day festivities:

0930 Welcome Reception with Coffee & Pastries at WYC
Registration for Brunch Guests
Registration of Boats for Blessing of the Fleet
1000 Seating in the Dining Room
1015 Introduction & Invocation
1030 Brunch Buffet
1045 Program and Guest Speakers
1145 Beer Can Bash Regatta Skippers' Meeting
1200 Embark Boats and Rendezvous in Turning Basin
1230 Boats Pass in Review/Blessing of Fleet Offshore Waikiki
1330 Beer Can Bash Regatta
1400 Awards Presentation for Best Dressed Boats
1630 Beer Can Bash Regatta Awards Following Race

There will be two courses for the beer can race. One for windward/leeward buoy racing and another one similar to a Friday night. Registration for the regatta will only be available through Regatta Network. The link is below.

http://www.waikikiyachtclub.com/RE/Regatta-Network.aspx

Pacific Cup News - 48 New Entries! -
Seminar Moved to Jan 29 - Tip of the Month - More!

Hawaii Recreational Boating

Aloha,

If you are interested in recreational boating in Hawaii, you might like to check out the new articles I have recently posted at
http://www.examiner.com/boating-in-honolulu/ray-pendleton

Please don’t hesitate to leave your comments at the bottom of any article, or click on “subscribe” if you would like to receive them automatically.

Mahalo,

Ray Pendleton

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

January 4th, 2012

2012 Mid-Winter Regattas

Attached please find the Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions for Hawaii Yacht Club's first race of the year, the Mid-Winters Regatta. Also attached the HYC 2012 Regatta Entry Form which you may fill in Adobe and email to the RC Sail directly or drop off at the HYC office.

Happy New Year!!

Supplemental Files

Upcoming Events
Jan 7 - KYC RC Workshop (see attached flyer for details)
Jan 8 - KYC Bulkhead Race
Jan 7/8 - KYC El Toro Clinic (see attached HYSA flyer)
Jan 14 - KYC Cowenshield (see attached NOR and entry form)
Jan 15 - KYC Classboat A (see attached NOR)
Jan 21 - HYC Mid-Winters (stand-by for NOR and SIs)
Jan 22 - KYC IRF A-1 (see attached Series A NOR)
Jan 28 - KYC Classboat B and Laser #1 at KYC
Jan 29 - Pacific Cup Seminar (see attached PCYC Flyer) and Probowl

RC Workshop at KYC

9am - Saturday, January 7, 2012
For more info please see the attached notice. 2012 RC Sails of our yacht clubs are encouraged to attend along with race committee personnel that is intending to participate in the 2012 racing season. Great refresher for your skippers and crew as well.

Pacific Cup Seminar - 29 Jan 2011 at Berkeley Yacht Club
and available as Webcast

"Across an Ocean Or Down the Coast - Get Prepared at the Pacific Offshore Academy"
Topics:
--Navigation systems
--System, spares and repairs
--Optimizing for Offshore
--Return Trip (or Shipping)
Sign Up for a Seminar, Or the Race! The Fun Race To Hawaii - www.PacificCup.org

HYRA 2012 Calendar

Click here for the 2012 HYRA Sailing Calendar in color for posting and black/white for easier b/w XEROX reproduction. Thank you for your patience and we hope to see you on the race course!

Friday Nights

Please check your new start time here:

Friday Night Results can be found here.

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Scuttlebutt

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

December 28th, 2011

RC Workshop at KYC

9am - Saturday, January 7, 2012
More info here. Upcoming 2012 RC Sails of our yacht clubs are encouraged to attend along with race committee personnel that is intending to participate in the 2012 racing season. Great refresher for your skippers and crew as well.

HYRA 2012 Calendar

It is in it's very last finalizing stages and will be sent out as soon it is available. We apologize for the delay this year. Hang tough and get ready for a great season!

Friday Night Races

Please check your new start time here.

Results can be found here.

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Scuttlebutt

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

December 1st

Upcoming Events

- 3 Dec - HYC Awards Banquet
- 3/4 Dec - HYSA Laser Clinic at WYC
- 10 Dec - KYC 420 States
- 10 Dec - Christmas Boat Parade (see info attached)
- 10 Dec - KYC Commodore's Ball
- 11 Dec - KYC Sunday Bulkhead Race
- 17 Dec - KYC Lighted Boat Parade

Recent Results

- Nov 27 WYC Phil Drips Results and Pictures

Hawaii Yacht Club - Awards Banquet and Trophy Nominations

Check out the attached flyer!! Please get your tickets for this Saturday's Awards Banquet!
Call the HYC Office today: 949-4622 x10

Here a list of boats that will receive perpetual and take-home trophies, please make sure your boat is represented!
Addiction, Asylum, Bob Sled, CaZan, Coyote, Demasiada, Genevieve, Gerontius, Gung Ho, Heartbeat, Hokulea, Hoku Pa'a, Illusion, Ikaika, Mana O Ke Kai, Mel Temi, Patience, Prima Donna, Urban Renewal, Whisper

Presentation and Awards:
Junior Sailing Trophies
Friday Night Seasons Points
HYC Season's Points
Kokohead
Lahaina Return
Holoholo Non-Stop
Rabbit Island
Pau Wahine Regatta
Sailing of the Bulls
Beer Can Bash
Race Committee Recognition

Information needed at time of registration:
- Number of Adult/Youth tickets
- Credit Card
- Where do adults/youth want to sit? Boat name / Friday Night Race Committee / General Race Committee / Junior Sailing / HYC Board of Governors / Officers etc.
- If you are leaving a message, please leave a call back number

5.30 No-Host Cocktails
6.30 Dinner
7.30 Awards

Adults $25 - Juniors (21 and younger) $18

We also ask for your opinion on whom to nominate for a few assorted HYC awards. Below you can find the description of trophies that we would appreciate your input for.

Note that certain trophies can only be awarded TO HYC members (HYC Glenn Taylor Perpetual Trophy, HYC Karl Myers Memorial Trophy) and some can only be nominated BY HYC members (HYC Doc & Dottie Tanner Memorial Trophy, HYC Kimberly M. Greenhow Perpetual Memorial Trophy).

Please email your nominations to Johanna Katzman jlevenius@hawaii.rr.com asap.

Details

- Da Whiners Perpetual Trophy – Biggest whiner of the year (HYC Member Only) – The deed of gift states: that the Race Committee will decide which Hawaii Yacht Club Member who met said qualifications (the person who whines the most) during Hawaii Yacht Club’s competitive yearly racing schedule.

- HYC United States Yacht Racing Union Sportsmanship Award Trophy (Male HYC Member in good standing) – A man who is enthusiastic about and participates in sports, qualities and conduct befitting a sportsman – The deed of gift states: This award will be decided annually by the Rear Commodore of Sail, Principal Race Officer, Vice Commodore and Any Board of Governors as to the recipient and it does not have to be awarded annually.

- HYC Doc & Dottie Tanner Memorial Trophy – Hawaii Yacht Club Outstanding Cruise of the Year, HYC Members only, cruise abroad sailing vessel. – The deed of gift states: Each nomination should be done in writing and submitted to the Rear Commodore of Sail.The Rear Commodore of Sail, Principle Race Officer, Vice Commodore and Any Board of Governors should decide on the recipient and does not have to be awarded annually.

- HYC Glenn Taylor Perpetual Trophy – Awarded to HYC members’ contribution to competitive sailing, includes Junior Sailing Program, Regular Season, International Sailing by the Member or the Race Committee. The deed of gift states: That it be awarded each year to the person who most contributed to competitive sailing during the past year at the HYC based on recommendations made by the Rear Commodore for Sail and approved by the Commodore. This award need not be awarded each year if no person is deemed to have made a contribution to competitive sailing during the year. Competitive Sailing shall include the Junior Sailing Program, or its successor, Regular Season Points Sailing, International Sailing by a member of the HYC, or a member of the Race Committee of the HYC.

- HYC Kimberly M. Greenhow Perpetual Memorial Trophy – Hawaii Yacht Club Outstanding Wahine (Woman) Sailor of the Year. The deed of gifts states: It is a special condition of this DEED that should the Board of Governors deem that there is no suitable recipient for this trophy, it shall not be awarded.

Members of HYC shall submit to the Rear Commodore for Sail, all nominations for recipient of this trophy. The Rear Commodore for Sail shall, in turn, review the nominations and submit them to the Board of Governors for their determination of recipient.

- HYC Sparky Putzker Memorial Trophy – Hawaii Yacht Club Wahine (Woman) awarded for: Seamanship afforded by competitive sailing or race management.

- HYC Karl Myers Memorial Trophy – Hawaii Yacht Club Outstanding Sailing Crewmember of the Year (HYC Member Only, nominations in writing). The deed of gifts states: A crewmember is someone who is extremely motivated in sailing, duties aboard a sailing vessel, sportsmanship, safety and being counted on by their pears. Their pears shall in writing give reasons they feel their nominee should get this award. These nominations shall be given to the Rear Commodore of Sail, Principle Race Officer or Director and Vice Commodore who shall determine the recipient.

New Friday Night Start Times

Please check the attached file for your start time for the Friday Night Beer Can Races.

Upcoming HYSA Events

Here are a two great events that are coming up in December that are open to all sailors.

HYSA's Laser Clinic will be held at Waikiki Yacht Club on December 3 & 4:
This is a 2 day clinic that will feature rigging, boat handling and much more. It is open to both Junior and Adult sailors.
Registration is ON-LINE only. Cost for the 2-day Laser Clinic is $75. Cost for one day only (either Saturday or Sunday) is $45. Non-HYSA member and adult participant fee may apply. Email to HYSA.Regatta.Info@gmail.com if you have questions.

Here is a link to the registration page on Regatta Network: https://www.regattanetwork.com/clubmgmt/applet_registration_form.php?regatta_id=4670

Or go to RegattaNetwork.com and click on Calendar tab, then click on Show Junior Events Only and scroll down to find our Laser Clinic on Dec 3.

If you have any questions or if you need to charter a boat, contact your club's Junior Sailing Director.

420 Hawaii State Championship Regatta will be held at Kaneohe Yacht Club on December 10:
This is a traps & chutes regatta open to all sailors. Registration will be on-site on the morning of the event.

Hope to see you at one or both of these events.

Kai Andrade

Hawaii Recreational Boating

Aloha,

If you are interested in recreational boating in Hawaii, you might like to check out the new articles I have recently posted at
http://www.examiner.com/boating-in-honolulu/ray-pendleton

Please don’t hesitate to leave your comments at the bottom of any article, or click on “subscribe” if you would like to receive them automatically.

Mahalo,

Ray Pendleton

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--
Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

November 17th, 2011

HYRA Sailing Awards Banquet

Saturday, 19 Nov 11

The WYC will run the shuttle Saturday Night for sailors that would like to park at the club or Ala Moana. The first shuttle will depart at 5.15pm in time for the cocktails.

If you haven't bought your ticket yet, you need to call the HYC Office at 949-4622.

The HYRA Sailing Awards Banquet ticket sale has been extended through 2pm Nov 18th, as only about half of last year's tickets have been sold so far.

You can still get your ticket by calling the HYC Office at (808) 949-4622.

WYC Phil Drips Regatta

Sunday, 27 Nov 11

Attached please find the NOR and Entry Form for the Phil Drips regatta. This will be a no-season's point, fun event with different starts and courses (inshore, DH, HH) for beach fleet type boats, big boats, and cruisers. For more info please contact Ted Miller <tedmiller@hawaii.rr.com> and Scott Bradley <scottbradley@hawaii.rr.com>.

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

November 15th, 2011

Upcoming Events

- 19 Nov - HYRA Awards Banquet (see flyer) and KYC Myhre Miniature
- 20 Nov - Cy Gillette Day and KYC Awards Banquet
- 27 Nov - WYC Phil Drips Regatta
- 30 Nov - HYRA Fall General Membership meeting at WYC
- 3 Dec - HYC Awards Banquet

Recent Results

- KYC Joe Cochran Memorial (see attached)

HYRA Sailing Awards Banquet - Hawaii Yacht Club - 19 Nov 2011

Order your tickets by tomorrow!!

5:30 pm - No host cocktails
6:30 pm - Dinner served
7:00 pm - Guest Speaker
7:30 pm - Program and awards presentation

Tickets
$25 Adults
$18 Youth (21 years old and under)
Tickets must be purchased by 5pm Wednesday, November 16 through the HYC Office (949-4622 x10)

Dinner Menu
Salad: Caesar salad with Portuguese sweet bread croutons
Adults Entrée: Choice of either
- Pulehu sirloin steak with a Big Island mushroom demi-glace, fingerling potatoes and chefs vegetable
or
- Panko Crusted Mahi Mahi served with a pesto cream sauce, rice and chefs vegetable
Youth Entrée:
- Chicken and pesto penne served with chef’s vegetable
Dessert: Strawberry Cheesecake

Tickets are available through the Hawaii Yacht Club office
Office: (808) 949-4622 (9:00 am – 4:00 pm) ext. 10
Information Needed: Name
Number of adult/junior tickets
Meal Selection
Credit card information (Name on card, number, expiration date)
Name of yacht to be seated with.

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

November 9th, 2011

Attached Files

2011 HYRA Banquet Flyer.pdf	2011 CCO Rules.pdf
20111130 Notice of HYRA Fall Gen Memb Mtg.pdf

Upcoming Events

- 13 Nov - KYC Joe Cochran Memorial Race (NOR) and PYC Chili Cook Off (rules attached)
- 19 Nov - HYRA Awards Banquet (see attached flyer) and KYC Myhre Miniature
- 20 Nov - Cy Gillette Day and KYC Awards Banquet
- 27 Nov - WYC Phil Drips Regatta
- 30 Nov - HYRA Fall General Membership meeting at WYC (see attached notice)
- 3 Dec - HYC Awards Banquet

Recent Results

- KYC IRF E-3
- WYC Masaji Beach Fleet - Pictures (Thanks to Hiudeki Hayashi!)

Friday Night Race

4 Nov 2011 was the last race of the 2011 season.
This Friday, 11 Nov 2011 is cancelled due to APEC Harbor Security restrictions.
Next Friday, 18 Nov 2011 will be the first race of the 2012 season.

HYRA Sailing Awards Banquet - Hawai‘i Yacht Club - 19 Nov 2011

5:30 pm - No host cocktails
6:30 pm - Dinner served
7:00 pm - Guest Speaker: Captain Joanna Nunan; US Coast Guard - Preparing Your Vessel and Yourself for a Tsunami
7:30 pm - Program and awards presentation

Tickets
$25 Adults
$18 Youth (21 years old and under)
Tickets must be purchased by 5pm Wednesday, November 16 through the HYC Office (949-4622 x10)

Dinner Menu
Salad: Caesar salad with Portuguese sweet bread croutons
Adults Entrée: Choice of either
- Pulehu sirloin steak with a Big Island mushroom demi-glace, fingerling potatoes and chefs vegetable
or
- Panko Crusted Mahi Mahi served with a pesto cream sauce, rice and chefs vegetable
Youth Entrée:
- Chicken and pesto penne served with chef’s vegetable
Dessert: Strawberry Cheesecake

Tickets are available through the Hawai‘i Yacht Club office
Office: (808) 949-4622 (9:00 am – 4:00 pm) ext. 10
Information Needed: Name
Number of adult/junior tickets
Meal Selection
Credit card information (Name on card, number, expiration date)
Name of yacht to be seated with

KYC Myhre Miniature Race - 19 Nov 2011

Please email Andrew Meade <drewdotcom@gmail.com> if you are thinking about bringing your boat out.

HYRA Fall General Membership Meeting

Aloha HYRA Club representatives and delegates,
Attached is the Notice of HYRA Fall General Membership Meeting to be held on November 30th at Waikiki Yacht Club.

The focus is to elect the officers of HYRA for 2012 and to approve modifications to the HYRA Manual. The revisions to the manual are to simplify and eliminate sections that are covered in the US Sailing Rulebook. The names will be modified as received for 2012.

Voting is by club delegate so please remind your delegates to attend this meeting.

Mahalo,
Mike Rothwell
HYRA Secretary

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e-USSailing Weekly Newsletter - Safety Reports Published
Sail-World.com Newsletter USA - Chicago - Mackinac 2011 - the Independent Review report
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Scuttlebutt

Hawaii Yacht Club - Trophy Nominations

It is that time of the year again that we ask for your opinion on whom to nominate for a few assorted HYC awards. Below you can find the description of trophies that we would appreciate your input for.

Please email your nominations to Johanna Katzman jlevenius@hawaii.rr.com by Monday, November 21, 2011. The trophies' plaques need time to be engraved, so please respond as soon as you can.

And save the date of Saturday, December 3, 2011 for our annual HYC Sailing Awards Banquet. More details to follow on the banquet.

Details

- HYC Sparky Putzker Memorial Trophy – Hawaii Yacht Club Wahine (Woman) awarded for: Seamanship afforded by competitive sailing or race management.

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

November 2nd, 2011

Attached Files

2011 J-24 M24 Soling Championship Results.pdf	2011 Classboat Series P.pdf
2011 CCO Rules.pdf	HYSA Clinics 2011_2012.pdf
NOR 2011 Joe Cochran Race Final.pdf	WYC Awards Banquet 11 Flyer.pdf

Upcoming Events

- 5 Nov - WYC Masaji Beach Fleet (NOR) and WYC Sailing Awards Banquet (flyer attached)
- 6 Nov - KYC IRF
- 13 Nov - KYC Joe Cochran Memorial Race (NOR attached) and PYC Chili Cook Off
- 19 Nov - HYRA Awards Banquet
- 20 Nov - Cy Gillette Day and KYC Awards Banquet
- 27 Nov - WYC Phil Drips Regatta
- 30 Nov - HYRA Fall General Membership meeting at WYC (see attached notice)
- 3 Dec - HYC Awards Banquet

Recent Results

- KYC Melges 24 - J/24 - Soling States
- KYC Classboat P

5 Nov 2011
This Saturday: Masaji Beach Fleet and WYC Sailing Awards Banquet
Please don't forget the upcoming WYC Beachfleet Regatta on November 5, 2011. Also that day, starting at 5:30 PM with Cocktails, the WYC Sailing Awards Banquet with a 6:30 PM Dinner and 7:30 PM Awards Presentation.

13 Nov 2011
KYC Joe Cochran Memorial Channel Race
Please find the NOR attached.

13 Nov 2011
PYC's 3rd Annual Iroquois Lagoon Commemorative Chili Cook Off
Please see attached flyer and rules.

Wahine Racing Series Email List

The Wahine Racing Series committee is working on their email list to spread the news of upcoming Wahine events. If you would like to be included in the email list, please send an email to: Wahine.Racing.Series@gmail.com

This Week’s Online Sailing Newsletters

Sailing Anarchy
e-USSailing Weekly Newsletter - Safety Reports Published
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Sailing World Newsletter
Scuttlebutt

HYSA News

Maui Divers Interscholastic Challenge Cup
Waikiki Yacht Club - Saturday, Nov 5th

The event is open to sailors in 7th-12th grade. It will be sailed in Laser Radials and 4.7's. Entry Fee is $10 for US Sailing Members and $12 for non-US Sailing Members.
Schedule:
On-Site Registration begins at noon
Skippers meeting at 12:45
1st start at 1:30
3-5 races will be sailed. There will be one throw out if 5 races are completed. The top High School sailor will be on the perpetual.

HYSA Laser Clinic
Waikiki Yacht Club - Dec 3 & 4

As the racing season wraps up for the year, Hawaii Youth Sailing Assn is gearing up for a great series of sailing clinics - starting with the Laser Clinic in December, followed by the El Toro Clinic in January and the Double-Handed Clinic in February. See the attached flyer for additional information.
HYSA's Laser Clinic will be held at Waikiki Yacht Club on December 3 & 4. This is a 2 day clinic that will feature rigging, boat handling and much more. It is open to both Junior and Adult sailors.

Registration is ON-LINE only. Cost for the 2-day Laser Clinic is $75. Cost for one day only (either Saturday or Sunday) is $45.

Here is a link to the registration page on Regatta Network: https://www.regattanetwork.com/clubmgmt/applet_registration_form.php?regatta_id=4670

Or go to RegattaNetwork.com and click on Calendar tab, then click on Show Junior Events Only and scroll down to find our Laser Clinic on Dec 3.

If you have any questions or if you need to charter a boat, contact your club's Junior Sailing Director.

Kai Andrade
Vice Commodore, HYSA

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

DISCLAIMER ***************************************
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October 27th, 2011

Attached Files

NOR 2011 J 24 et al State Champs.pdf	2011J-24 et al Champs SI .pdf
NOR 2011 J-24 et al Amend1.pdf	20111130 Notice of HYRA Fall Gen Memb Mtg.pdf
WYC Awards Banquet 11 Flyer.pdf	APEC_security_plans_ZIPPED.zip

Upcoming Events

- 29 Oct - KYC J/24 - Melges 24 - Soling States NOR SI (attached)
- 30 Oct - KYC Classboat
- 5 Nov - WYC Masaji Beach Fleet (NOR) and WYC Sailing Awards Banquet (flyer attached)
- 6 Nov - KYC IRF
- 13 Nov - KYC Joe Cochran Memorial Race
- 19 Nov - HYRA Awards Banquet
- 20 Nov - Cy Gillette Day and KYC Awards Banquet
- 27 Nov - WYC Phil Drips Regatta
- 30 Nov - HYRA Fall General Membership meeting at WYC (see attached notice)
- 3 Dec - HYC Awards Banquet

J-24, Melges 24, Soling Championships

Attached please find the NOR and SIs for the States this weekend (and pray for wind).

Yachtswoman of the Year Nominations

Please be reminded that nominees for Yachtswoman of the year are due by Monday! Just reply to this email and your nomination will be forward to Kim Ickler.

Masaji Beach Fleet and WYC Sailing Awards Banquet

Please don't forget the upcoming WYC Beachfleet Regatta on November 5, 2011. Also that day, starting at 5:30 PM with Cocktails, the WYC Sailing Awards Banquet with a 6:30 PM Dinner and 7:30 PM Awards Presentation.

HYRA Fall General Membership Meeting

Aloha HYRA Club representatives and delegates,

Attached is the Notice of HYRA Fall General Membership Meeting to be held on November 30th at Waikiki Yacht Club.

Voting is by club delegate so please remind your delegates to attend this meeting.

Mahalo,
Mike Rothwell
HYRA Secretary

Hawaii Boating

If you are interested in recreational boating in Hawaii, you might like to check out the new articles I have recently posted at http://www.examiner.com/boating-in-honolulu/ray-pendleton

Please don’t hesitate to leave your comments at the bottom of any article, or click on “subscribe” if you would like to receive them automatically.

Mahalo,
Ray Pendleton

Hawaii Yacht Club - Trophy Nominations

Please email your nominations to Johanna Katzman jlevenius@hawaii.rr.com by Monday, November 21, 2011. The trophies' plaques need time to be engraved, so please respond as soon as you can.

And save the date of Saturday, December 3, 2011 for our annual HYC Sailing Awards Banquet. More details to follow on the banquet.

Details

- HYC Sparky Putzker Memorial Trophy – Hawaii Yacht Club Wahine (Woman) awarded for: Seamanship afforded by competitive sailing or race management.

APEC Information

The APEC 2011 Hawaii Host Committee would like to inform you that the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) and the Department of State (DOS) have each released their security plans for APEC 2011 Hawaii Leaders Week today, October 20. All information is subject to change.

For the U.S. Department of State Foreign Press Center APEC 2011 Information Update, visit: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/10/175912.htm. This press release covers areas around the Hawaii Convention Center for November 7-13, 2011.

The USSS Press Release and maps (attached) cover affected areas on November 12-13, 2011, not including the Hawaii Convention Center. The attached documents are:

1) Press Release: Law Enforcement and Public Safety Agencies Announce Security Restrictions for the National Special Security Event

2) Map: Parking Restrictions for 2011 APEC Leaders Meeting, Hale Koa Hotel

3) Map: Vehicle and Pedestrian Restrictions for APEC Leaders Meeting, Hale Koa Hotel

4) Map: Vehicle and Pedestrian Restrictions for APEC Leaders Meeting, JW Marriott Ihilani Resort & Spa Ko Olina

5) Map: Ala Wai Small Boat Harbor Restricted Areas

6) Map: APEC Security Water Zones: Waikiki East and West Offshore Security Zones, Ala Wai Harvor and Canal Security Zone, Ko Olina Offshore Security Zone, and Honolulu International Airport Security Zone.

Aloha,
Ashley
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Ashley Wang
APEC 2011 Hawaii Host Committee
1601 East West Road
Honolulu, Hawaii 96848
ashley@apec2011hawaii.com

Files are attached as one zipped file. To unzip please download free software like: 7-zip http://www.7-zip.org/

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

October 19th, 2011

Upcoming Events

- 23 Oct - HYC Seafest
- 29 Oct - KYC J/24 - Melges 24 - Soling States NOR
- 30 Oct - KYC Classboat
- 5 Nov - WYC Masaji Beach Fleet (NOR) and Sailing Awards Banquet
- 6 Nov - KYC IRF
- 13 Nov - KYC Joe Cochran Memorial Race
- 19 Nov - HYRA Awards Banquet

Sir Thomas Lipton One Design Challenge Cup

Results and pictures (thanks to Pam MacChlerie and Phil Sammer)

SEAFEST

Attached please find the donation request letter and a poster for the Seafest to be held next Sunday at HYC. The HYC Vice Commodore Ron Pestel is asking that all donations be delivered to HYC office by Friday, Oct 21st.

2011 First ever.... Big Boat Paddle Derby Buoy Race!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HYC Seafest Sunday October 23 12:30pm

Remember the Topper Regatta – Remember the Kite Packing Contests

All boats need to be represented at this to support the Hawaii Sailing Foundation and Seafest!

Skippers get ready! We will be racing on stand-up paddleboards around the buoys in the harbor. US sailing rules will not apply.

Signed up already are …
- Prima Donna/Joust
- Gerontius/Blah Blah Blah/Oink

Cost to enter is only $25 per paddler.

And in normal Dee and Rick style – there will be many ways to either support or detriment a competitor……….. For a small contribution

Come on and represent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please email Dee Darby ay dee_darby@yahoo.com with the name of your vessel and paddle derby paddler.

This Week’s Online Sailing Newsletters

Sailing Anarchy
e-US Sailing Weekly Newsletter - 2011 C of C This Week in Dallas
Sail-World.com Newsletter USA - Scooting South, Fast - Sailing news from the U.S.and beyond
Sailing World eNews - U.S. Teams Rally in Mexican Mashup
Scuttlebutt

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

October 10th, 2011

2011 Seafest.pdf	SeaFest request donation letter Oct 21 2011.pdf
DocRiceOceanScoring.pdf	2011 IRF Series E-2.pdf
HYSA.Clinics.1.pdf	2011 HYSA-7_KYC.pdf

Upcoming Events

Sat/Sun 15/16 Oct – Hawaii Sir Thomas One Design Challenge Cup at WYC
Fri/Sat 21/22 Oct – HYC KoOlina Regatta (stay tuned for the NOR)
Sun 23 Oct – SEAFEST at HYC
Sat 29 Oct – Melges 24, J/24, and Soling State Championships at KYC
Sun 30 Oct – KYC Classboat
Sat 5 Nov – WYC Masaji Beach Fleet and WYC Sailing Awards Banquet
Sun 6 Nov – KYC IRF
Sat 19 Nov - HYRA Sailing Awards Banquet at HYC

HYSA - Save the Date - Advanced Racing Clinic Series

Please find the flyer attached.

Study Questions for Hawaii Judges Training Workshop and Test Participants (and Racers)

You think you know the rules, try these questions!

Aloha All,

The link for the US Sailing Judges Test Study Questions is:
http://bit.ly/nXF2iz

It is on the Judges page under links and documents. Good luck and please feel free to ask me any questions.

Michael Roth

Seafest

Recent Results

KYC IRF Series E-2
WYC Doc Rice Offshores
HYSA 7

This Week’s Online Sailing Newsletters

Sailing Anarchy - e-US Sailing Weekly Newsletter - U.S. Match Racing Championship, Training News
Sail-World..com Newsletter USA - College Sailing's Biggest Regatta - Sailing news from the U.S.and beyond
Sailing World
Scuttlebutt

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

October 5th, 2011

2011 HYSA-7 NOR.pdf	2011 HYSA-8 NOR.pdf
Judges_JWT_WYC.pdf	Seafest_Announcement_HYRA.pdf
US Sailing Intro Membership.pdf	Masaji NOR Entry.pdf

Upcoming Events

Sat 8 Oct – KYC IRF E-2, HYSA 7, and Pacific Cup Yacht Club Seminar #2 at Kaneohe Yacht Club
Sun 9 Oct – WYC Doc Rice Offshore and KYC Sunday Bulkhead and HYSA 8 at KYC
Sat/Sun 15/16 Oct – Hawaii Sir Thomas One Design Challenge Cup at WYC
Fri/Sat 21/22 Oct – HYC KoOlina Regatta (stay tuned for the NOR)
Sun 23 Oct – SEAFEST at HYC
Sat 29 Oct – Melges 24, J/24, and Soling State Championships at KYC
Sun 30 Oct – KYC Classboat
Sat 5 Nov – WYC Masaji Beach Fleet and WYC Sailing Awards Banquet
Sun 6 Nov – KYC IRF

Hawaii Judges Training Workshop and Test

Aloha All,

The Hawaii Judges Training Workshop and Test is on the web for registration. Please see the attached flyer for more information and visit the link below to register. It is the only way to register.

https://secure.ussailing.org/ussis/register/index.asp?eventid=588441

Passing this workshop and test qualifies you to apply for US Sailing Judge certification.

To participate in the workshop you must be a US Sailing member. An application for a Special Introductory Membership is attached.

Michael Roth
US Sailing Sr. Judge
www.ussailing.org

HYSA Regattas No. 7 and HYSA NO. 8

Aloha HYSA Sailors,

The HYSA regatta season wraps up for 2011 with 2 regattas in Kaneohe Bay. Kaneohe Yacht Club will host HYSA No. 7 on Saturday Oct 8th and Makani Kai Yacht Club will host HYSA No. 8 on Sunday Oct 9th. The NORs are attached (Number 7, Number 8).

Registration is on-line at Regatta Network for both regattas. These are separate regattas, so you will need to register for them separately.

On-line registration for HYSA No. 7 is available at: https://www.regattanetwork.com/clubmgmt/applet_registration_form.php?regatta_id=4609

On-line registration for HYSA No. 8 is available at: https://www.regattanetwork.com/clubmgmt/applet_registration_form.php?regatta_id=4608

Or go to RegattaNetwork.com, click on the Calendar tab, then click on "show junior events only." These events are listed for October 8, 2011 and October 9, 2011.

A special note regarding HYSA 8: Registration will be at KYC. After the regatta, Makani Kai Yacht Club will host a BBQ and present awards at their club house at 45-995 Wailele Road in Kaneohe. It is a short boat ride from KYC and there will be power boats available to ferry the kids from KYC and back again.

And a final note regarding US Sailing membership: if you are not a US Sailing member and you want to join (or renew), here is a link that will give you a 20% discount on your US Sailing dues:

https://www1.ussailing.org/membership/MPP/Default.aspx?ycid=125779E

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Kai Andrade
Vice Commodore, HYSA

Waikiki Yacht Club – Sailing Awards Banquet and Beach Fleet

The WYC Banquet has been rescheduled for November 5 instead of November 12. The original date is also a major day for APEC and access to the Ala Wai will be limited.

WYC will also host the Masaji Beach Fleet Regatta on November 5. If you are planning on attending the WYC Sailing Awards Banquet, why not go for a nice sail beforehand? Skippers meeting is at 10 am, start at noon, and there are usually three inshore races. Attached please find the Notice of Race and Entry Form.

Friday Nights

Reminder that start times and results can be found on the HYC website.

Seafest

Aloha Sailors and Sailing Enthusiasts,

Attached please find an invitation to join Hawaii’s sailing community at SEAFEST, a fundraiser for the Hawaii Sailing Foundation.

This year's SEAFEST will be held at Hawaii Yacht Club on Oct 23rd. It will be a day filled with fun activities, including food, silent and live auctions, and a Coast Guard helicopter demonstration.

HYC is in need of volunteers, donations of auctionable items, and participants.

PLEASE contact Ron Pestel at hycvicecommodore@gmail.com to find out how you can help out and give back to the organization that gives so much to Hawaii sailors. I look forward to seeing you all at SEAFEST in just a couple of weeks.

Recent Results

HYC Holoholo

1. Heartbeat (finish time 04:03:30)
2. CaZan (finish time 04:10:29)
Prima Donna DNF

This Week’s Online Sailing Newsletters

Sailing Anarchy
e-US Sailing Weekly Newsletter
Sail-World.com Newsletter USA
Sailing World e-News

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

September 28, 2011

WYC Doc Rice 9 Oct 2011

Please find the Notice of Race and Entry form attached. You can also find NORs, SIs, and results on the WYC website.

Home for a Lost Sailor's Kitty

Hello gang!

Louis Valenta had a cat and I cannot keep her, so she is looking for a new home with people to love her! Mamma kitty is a bit older, but very smart, and still loves to play with a string or sit around outside. She loves to snuggle up and sleep with you, she doesn't eat much, and she is in excellent health (just had a check up). She can live with other cats or other animals, and would do fine as an outdoor/indoor cat or as an indoor only. Lu loved her very much!

If you would like more information or can provide her with a good home, please call 808 599 0614. Thank you!

Becks (Rebecca Prescott)

Two Announcements

(1) Invitation to nominate for Hawaii Yachtswoman of the Year
(2) Webcast of Pacific Cup at KYC on October 8

Thanks,
Kim Ickler

NOR Holoholo Non-stop Around the Island

Please see attached. Skippers meeting tonight at HYC 1800 hrs.

NOR Melges and J/24 States

Please see attached.

Hawaii Judges Workshop and Test

Aloha All,

HYRA is sponsoring a Judges training and test on November 1 & 2, 2011. Please see the attached flyer.

Michael Roth
Area H RAJ
Sr. Judge

Keelboat Championship Results

Please see attached for results and pictures of the winning team.

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

September 21, 2011

Kaneohe Yacht Club Results

Please find the following results attached:
- Bullship
- El Toro States
- IRF Series E-1

Waikiki Yacht Club Results

For results of this past Sunday's McFaull Beach Fleet and other recent WYC regattas please visit the new WYC website.

Hawaii Sir Thomas Lipton One Design Challenge Cup

On behalf of the Waikiki Yacht Club as Defender of the Hawaii Sir Thomas Lipton One Design Challenge Cup, and as required by the HTAB Authorization to Award, I would like to announce the following list of challengers:

Hawaii Yacht Club
Nawiliwili Yacht Club
Keehi Boat Club
Lahaina Yacht Club
Kaneohe Yacht Club
Maui Boat and Yacht Club
Pearl Harbor Yacht Club

We will be sending out the NOR and Sis shortly.

Thank you for your participation. We look forward to seeing you on the water.

Sincerely,

Scott Bradley
Rear Commodore Sail
Waikiki Yacht Club
808-347-3003

Sailing Expedition Opportunity

I'm writing about the opportunity to join a sailing expedition on S.V.Sea Dragon with Pangaea Explorations.

Attached is a flyer announcing an ocean sailing expedition from Mexico to Hawaii which may be of particular interest
to your network. Other expeditions are listed on our website www.panexplore.com.

At Pangaea we exist to fill a critical gap between the many ocean threats and the awesome challenges of going to sea. Our team, vessel and capabilities allow us to enable critical marine conservation work. In the last 18 months Sea Dragon has sailed 35,000 nautical miles traversing four ocean regions, five continents and both hemispheres...

Through the dead calm of a mid-ocean gyre, to five days of 60+kt winds, over 80 unique individuals including scientists, journalists, photographers, educators and conservationists from multiple nationalities have done critical conservation work. The team have carried out 12 expeditions working on issues ranging from plastic pollution research, remote island coral surveys, to isolated community journalism.

Now we are gearing up for massive year in 2012 focusing on critical issues in the Pacific Ocean and in the process of signing up crew for each of the expeditions across the Pacific. Contact us at info@panexplore.com or visit our website ww.panexplore.com for more details.

Kind regards
Emily

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Emily Penn | Programme Director
PANGAEA EXPLORATION www.panexplore.com
skype: emilypenn | UK: +44 (0)7890 890 475 | US: +1 (305) 582-5574
| NZ: +64 (0)211 166 177

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

September 13, 2011

2011_HYC_Lahaina_Return_Results.pdf	2011_KYC_Bullship_NOR.pdf
2011_HYC_Pau_Wahine_Results.pdf	2011_KYC_Classboat_Series_N.pdf
2011_IMU_Entry_Form_2011-08-21.pdf	2011_KYC_El_Toro_State_Champs_NOR_SI.pdf
2011_IMU_NOR.pdf	2011_KYC_State_Keelboat_Championship_NOR.pdf
2011_IMU_Schedule_2011-09-01_Draft_1.pdf	HPHRF_Ratings_20110817.pdf

2011 Hawaii High School IMU Invitational Regatta

Here are the NOR, Entry Form, and Schedule. For more information stay tuned to the HYSA 2011 IMU section on the HYRA website.

Upcoming KYC Events

17 Sep - El Toto State Championship
18 Sep - Bullship
24/25 Sep - State Keelboat Championship

You can find all NORs above, and posted on the HYRA website. http://hyra.us

WYC McFaull Beach Fleet Regatta

Please remember that the entry deadline for this Sunday's WYC beach fleet is tomorrow, Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 1800 hrs. Late entries will be accepted with a $10.00 addition to the entry fee. Notice of Race and Entry Form can be found here.

Updated HPHRF Ratings

Click here. If you see "APP Questions" or "NO APP" next to your boat, notice missing or wrong sail numbers or boat types, or are missing off this list all together, please contact the HYRA Ratings Committee. You can find the HPHRF Ratings Applications here.

Committee members: "Clark Fremgen" <clarkfremgen@gmail.com>, "Corey Christopher" <corey@hawaii.rr.com>, "EV Flanders" <cbi@maui.net>, "Fuzz Foster" <fuzz@sales.northsails.com>, "Greg Gillette" <gcgillette62@gmail.com>, "Phillip Katzman" <pkatzman@gmail.com>, "Richard Osborne" <rickosbornejr@gmail.com>
Or just reply to this email with your comments and it will be forward accordingly. Thank you!

Updated Friday Night Start Times

Please check your start times here and visit the HYC website for current results.

HYC Lahaina to Honolulu Race

Please click here for the results of this year's HYC Lahaina to Honolulu Race. We all prayed for more breeze but all boats that started on Labor Day Monday made it back safely eventually (some on Tuesday). It was another spectacular Lahaina weekend filled with a fun LYC Lahaina Lights Regatta (controversially with more wind than the return), a terrific WIN of the Oahu softball team, now widely known as the Oahu Thundercocks (their winning motto was "You cannot spell Dynasty without Nasty"), and wild sabot racing in front of Lahaina Yacht Club. Thank you Dan O'Hanlon, Ashley Olsen, John Pope, and all the wonderful LYC staff for arranging moorings, rides to the boats and the game, hosting us Oahu sailors in your club, providing us with food and drinks when we needed it the most. As one of the Lahaina Return participants adequately put it: "It just keeps getting better every year!" Thank you PRO Johanna Katzman, Race Committee Mike Rothwell, Elise Leroux, and Doug, and of course Phillip Katzman and Joseph Shacat for dealing with Regatta Network, setting up, and scoring the race. Special thanks go to Cecilia Jansson for designing the first ever Lahaina to Honolulu regatta shirt. Send us your ideas for next year!

Class A: 1st CaZan, 2nd Gung Ho, 3rd Heartbeat
Class B: 1st Demasiada, 2nd Whisper, 3rd Ikaika
Class C: 1st Genevieve, 2nd Urban Renewal
Multi: 1st Illusion, 2nd Bob Sled, 3rd Hokulea
Overall: 1st CaZan, 2nd Demasiada, 3rd Gung Ho

Complete results here: http://hyra.us/race_admin/all_results/all_results.html

Wahine Pau Regatta and Wahine Racing Series Conclusion

Here are the results from this past weekends HYC Pau Wahine Regatta. First place went to Elise Leroux on the Melges 24 Asylum, second place to 'Ailana Warren on Ikaika, and third place to Christin Shacat on Gerontius. Thank you race committee for being out there so we could play. Thank you boat owners for supporting the sailing fleet through all of our races. The overall winner of the Wahine Racing Series and the recipient of the North Sails Wahine Skipper of the Year trophy is: LINDSEY ANDRADE! Congratulations, you rocked it!! The trophy will be presented at the HYRA Awards banquet on November 19, 2011. Season Results can be found here: http://hyra.us/wahine/results/results.html If you are interested in participating next year as a skipper or crew, please contact me now!

KYC Classboat Series N

Please click here for results of the September 11, 2011 classboat regatta. All classboat and IRF results can be found here: http://hyra.us/race_admin/all_results/all_results.html

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

September 8th, 2011

Safe Boating Flyer.pdf	2011 Laser States NOR.pdf
NOR Entry McFaull.pdf	NOR_Wahine_Pau_2011.pdf
NOR_Add_Pau_Wahine_2011.pdf	HYC_Regatta_Entry_Form_2011_fillable.pdf

HYC Lahaina to Honolulu Race

The official results and awards ceremony will be held this Friday (tomorrow) after the Friday Night Race at Hawaii Yacht Club.

Wahine Racing Series - Pau Regatta

The skippers meeting for this Saturday's Wahine Pau Regatta will be held at HYC tonight at 6pm on the poop deck. Sailing Instructions will be available at the skippers meeting. Skippers can enter at the meeting or by filling an entry form (see attached) and submitting it to the HYC Office by 1600 hrs today. Awards and presentation of the North Sails Wahine Skipper of the Year trophy will be held at Waikiki Yacht Club following the races on Saturday around 4-5pm, depending on sailing conditions. It would be great if you could bring two potluck-style dishes per boat to the after party. Every sailing wahine and male companions are invited to join the festivities on Saturday afternoon, as this will be our end-of-year celebration.

WYC McFaull Beach Fleet Regatta

Attached please find the Notice of Race and Entry Form.

PHYC Boating Safety Class Starts Sept. 8 (today)

Safe Boating Flyer

The Pearl Harbor Yacht Club will be hosting two classes this Fall.

(1) US Coast Guard Auxiliary "About Boating Safely": Taught by USCGA instructor Jerry Mershon.

Thursday evenings, 6:30 to 8:30 pm at the Rainbow Bay Marina classroom (under Schooners Restaurant).
The first class is September 8th . Class will also be held on

September 15th
September 22nd
September 29th
October 13th (grading of take home test)

Contact Ann Ford at 808-282-8782 for more information.

(2) American Sailing Association's Coastal Navigation Class: Taught by Ann Ford on Thursday evenings, 6:30 to 8:30 pm:

October 20th
October 27th
November 10th
November 17th
December 8th (grading of take home test)

Contact Ann Ford at 808-282-8782 for more information.

New Coast Guard Permit Requirements

Greetings all,

The Coast Guard's Waterways Management Office has recently created a new e-mail address for handling marine event permits and requests. Anything sent to this e-mail address will be accessible by all members of the Waterways Management staff. Please use the following as the primary e-mail address when sending anything to the Coast Guard concerning marine events and permits:

D14-DG-SH-SecHono-MarineEventPermits@uscg.mil

Please share this information with everyone in your boating/canoeing/paddling/swimming community.

Please be aware that the Coast Guard requires permits for the following events in addition to the State/DLNR/DOBOR permits:

- Island-to-island events/races
- Fireworks events (on or over the water)
- Events/races that take place in one of Hawaii's major ports
- Events/races where Coast Guard assets are requested or required
- Canoe events/races where crew change-outs will occur

In addition to the Coast Guard permit application, a copy of a written Safety Plan for the event, the details of the Communications Plan, and copies of any insurance documents pertaining to the event are required (ed.: contact HYRA PUBLICITY under this email address if you have any questions about this, as we just prepared all this for the Lahaina to Honolulu Race).

Additionally, I'm also requesting that any permits or requests for permits that have been submitted to the Coast Guard since August 20th, 2011 to Mr. Karl Alejandre be re-submitted to the address listed above. Mr. Alejandre typically receives all permits and requests for the Coast Guard however, he is working in another location until the end of September. Any permits or permit requests that were sent to him have not been reviewed by anyone else in our office.

Mahalo,
LT Scott O. Whaley
U.S. Coast Guard
Sector Honolulu
Waterways Management
work: 522-8264 ext. 352
cell: 291-2923
Scott.O.Whaley@uscg.mil

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

September 4th, 2011

Aloha from Lahaina!

LYC Lahaina Lights Results

http://www.lahainayachtclub.org/lahaina_yacht_club_regatta_resul.htm

HYC Lahaina to Honolulu Race

Click here for Sailing Instructions.

Louis Valenta Memorial

There will be a memorial service for Louis Valenta Jr. at La Mariana in Honolulu, Wednesday, September 7th, starting around 6pm. Louis passed away Sunday, August 28th. Ashes will be scattered at sea around sunset with talk story about Louis at 7pm. Pupus and drinks are provided. Please fee free to send flowers or leis to La Mariana on Wednesday or bring them along. Any questions about services, please call Rebecca (Becks) at 808.599.0614.

Cheers,
Becks

HYC Wahine Pau Regatta

Click here for NOR Addendum. The skippers' meeting will be held at 1800 hrs this coming Thursday, September 8, 2011 on the poop deck at Hawaii Yacht Club.

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

August 31st, 2011

HYC Wahine Pau - Notice of Race
Saturday, September 10, 2011

KYC Bullship - Notice of Race
Sunday, September 18, 2011

State Keelboat Championship - Notice of Race
September 24-25, 2011

KYC IRF Results
Results for the IRF D-2 and D-3 Series.

Upcoming APEC Meeting, Security Measures, and Ala Wai Life

2011 APEC Leaders’ Meeting will take place in Honolulu on November 12 and 13, 2011. Leaders of APEC’s 21 economies are expected to attend.

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, or APEC, is a 21-member association of economies from the Asia-Pacific region working together to advance regional economic integration and prosperity.

Letter from Reg White:

Hi,

I attended the Hawaii Ocean Safety Team meeting today and the first presenter was the CG with a report of their involvement in the security preparations for APEC. This was their first presentation on the subject.

There are some 13 agencies locally who will each have their own area to secure and each of them is entirely independent of the other 12 agencies, their only outside communication being to the U.S. Secret Service. No inter agency co-ordination except through the SS people.

The CG said that the port of Ala Wai will be closed from Magic Island, 2600 yards along shore to the east border of Ft Derussy and out to 1500 yards offshore from Thursday mid day through late Sunday, Nov 8 - 13.

No vehicle entrance into Ala Wai Harbor except for registered tenants who will only enter at the shipyard and leave via Hobron with all persons wishing to enter or leave being vetted by the U.S. Secret Service ahead of time and issued a special parking permit.

No Public parking in the harbor area will be allowed.

No vessel movement in or out of the harbor, no vessels within 1500 yards of shore along the coast.

Honolulu Harbor is secured from the Pearl Harbor border of the airport to the East side of Honolulu Entrance channel.

Kewalo Basin is not secured.

Keehi is completely closed.

I asked how many Waikiki roads are closed to traffic? The response was that this is HPD's department and only they can answer the question.

No one knows when a motorcade will pass through and when that happens, all bets are off and everything comes to a stop. They will not allow any notice of motorcade schedules to be let out at all.

On Sunday the area off of Kalailoa will be off limits from Barbers Point Harbor entrance to the Kahe Point electric plant, out 1500 yards. The big doings and closing ceremony are at Ihilani that day. Also the freeway past the airport may well be off limits Thursday and Sunday and we have to use the inland route. Only HPD knows.

They emphasized that now is the time to spark up and become very observant as terrorists will plan far ahead for any act they might want to try to pull off during the meetings.

The Secret Service is here and will want to vet our tenants far ahead of the start date. They have lots of time to waste for us in the process.

Best plan is sail out on a vacation trip on the 8th and return on the 14th, or put lots of food and booze onboard and just stay home and watch TV and drink from Thursday through Sunday.

Getting out to go to work and coming home again in the Ilikai, Hawaii Prince etc or any boat in the harbor will be a very long and frustrating experience each time you try to go one way or the other from the present sound of things.

Reg

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

August 25th, 2011

Wahine Racing Series - Location Update

Hickam Harbor will not be ready to host the Wahine regatta this weekend at Pacific Yacht Club. We have moved the Saturday, August 27 Wahine regatta to Pearl Harbor Yacht Club at Rainbow Marina instead, same day, same times. Racing will be in Catalina/Capri-18s. The Notice of Race remains the same. No vehicle/ID check in case anyone else decides to join us. Please remember to bring a pupu! There will be coolers. Mahalo Linda Ladeira & her crew for doing all there hard work in holding this regatta.

Next Regatta will be the last of the Wahine Racing Series on Saturday September 10, 2011. More info to come asap.

HYC Lahaina to Honolulu Race - Additional Info

Please keep checking the Official Notice Board for the 2011 Lahaina to Honolulu Race

There is still time to register! If you have had problems, here the run-down:

Or You Can:

Type into your browser: http://www.regattanetwork.com .
Click on "Calendar" and scroll down to the line
~ 9/5/11 - 68th Annual Lahaina to Honolulu Race
Then click on [Register Online]

After you fill out the form, click "Enter My Registration." The next page will have information on how to pay, and will also ask you to upload some documents. You should also get an email confirmation with instructions on how to pay online. Questions, just email hyc.racecommittee@gmail.com or reply to this email.

Please be reminded that early registration closes August 29. You can still enter until September 4, unfortunately without the $50 discount.

If for some reason the online payment does not work for you, you have the option to drop off a check at the Hawaii Yacht Club. You can also email us a copy of your insurance document instead of uploading if you would like.

T-shirts can only be ordered until tomorrow, Friday, August 26, 10am http://tinyurl.com/2011-Lahaina-Shirts

Current entries: http://tinyurl.com/2011-Lahaina-Entries

Again, if you know of a skipper that has not yet registered but has expressed intentions of entering, please reply to this email with their name and contact info. I will try to get in touch with them to see if they are having any issues.

In Lahaina - Water Taxi

The $5 per head Lahaina Water Taxi service schedule will be as follows and can be hailed on Channel 69:

Friday Sept. 2; 10am, 3pm, 8pm
Saturday Sept. 3; 9am (before Lahaina Lights Skippers Meeting), 11am
(time to get back out to race), 4pm or race end (time to come in and party), 8:30 pm
Sunday Sept. 4; 8 am (before Lahaina Return Skippers meeting), 4pm, 8:30pm

We realize this might be a bit steep, but this service is provided by a professional company and it presents an option we would not have otherwise. For some this may be the only way to get out to their boats. Please be understanding and appreciative, we are still dealing with the aftermath of a tsunami... We are also accepting ideas and plans (including commitments) for similar issues in the future.

Volunteers will provide rides between the softball game and the club on Sunday morning.

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

August 23rd, 2011

HYC Lahaina Return - Additional Info

As of today, we have 18 entries! Thanks to all the skippers that have already signed up using US Sailing's Regatta Network. We really hope this way of registering is effective and will save everyone time. Please check the following link for current registered vessels:

http://tinyurl.com/2011-Lahaina-Entries

Please be reminded that early registration closes August 29. You can still enter until September 4, unfortunately without the $50 discount.

If you know of a skipper that has not yet registered but has expressed intentions of entering, please reply to this email with their name and contact info. I will try to get in touch with them to see if they are having any issues.

Shirt Sale: Lahaina Return T-shirts can only be ordered until this Friday 10am, August 26.

Please use this link: http://tinyurl.com/2011-Lahaina-Shirts

Spread the word to your friends and crew members!

In Lahaina - Water Taxi:

A $5 per head Lahaina Water Taxi service schedule will be as follows and can be hailed on Channel 69:

Friday Sept. 2; 10am, 3pm, 8pm
Saturday Sept.3; 9am (before Lahaina Lights Skippers Meeting), 11am (time to get back out to race), 4pm or race end (time to come in and party), 8:30 pm
Sunday Sept. 4; 8 am (before Lahaina Return Skippers meeting), 4pm, 8:30pm

Volunteers will provide rides between the softball game and the club on Sunday morning.

More later,
Dan (Dano') O'Hanlon

WYC Duke Offshore Results

See attached.

US Sailing Survey

Please consider completing this survey if you have any recommendations and comments for Gary regarding US Sailing.

View the survey in your browser.

Take the Survey and Help US SAILING Serve our Sport

Dear Sailor,

As a dedicated member of US SAILING and Yacht Club Summit attendee, we know how important sailing is to you and your understanding of sailors’ needs is invaluable.

We want to hear from you on how US SAILING can improve our programs to better serve members and attract new sailors to our organization. We know you have ideas. Please use this opportunity to share them with us again.

We have developed a short survey to help gather information about sailors' interests and what they know about US SAILING. Please take five minutes to complete this survey.

We also ask for your help in distributing this survey among sailors in your community using the following methods:
Post on your club’s website.

Include in your social media outlets.
Send emails with the survey to your fellow sailors.
US SAILING members and non-members are encouraged to participate.

Thank you for your time and support.

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Our mailing address is:
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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

August 19th, 2011

HYC Lahaina Return Shirt Order

Hawaii Yacht Club
Lahaina to Honolulu Race - Labor Day

For the first EVER Lahaina Return shirts are available! Please use the following link to order your t-shirt(s) NOW:

http://tinyurl.com/2011-Lahaina-Shirts

Anybody can visit this site, you do not have to register for the race in order to buy shirts from the regatta storefront.

Please note that you can only order shirts until this Friday, August 26 at 10:00 AM. The printers need about a week to finish all the shirts. We will get a few extra of each size, that will be available in Lahaina. But please don't count on just getting your shirts then. They may all be gone by the time you find us.

Skippers: one shirt is already included in the registration fee for the regatta. Please purchase additional shirts for your race and ground/support crew. There are men and women's versions available and the shirts are Hanes Tagless ComfortSoft 100% open-end cotton fabric with a digital print. See attached pictures.

Your ordered shirts will be available for pickup in Lahaina. Joseph and I will arrive Saturday morning and we are staying at the Aina Nalu. Are planning on bringing the shirts to the Lahaina Lights skippers meeting that morning, as well as to the Lahaina Return skippers meeting on Sunday morning. Additionally, we will be around LYC for the Sabot racing to distribute more shirts. Any leftovers will be available during the awards at HYC Monday evening.

Thank you!
Joseph and Christin Shacat
from the HYC RC Sail team

Wahine Racing Series

Next Wahine event will be at PYC on August 27. If you haven't yet, you need to register today: http://hyra.us/files/2011/wahine/PYC_Wahine_NOR_2011.pdf

The HYC Wahine Pau Regatta had to be rescheduled from it's original date due to APEC being in town in November and the security details disallowing any ocean events that involve channels. We came up with a new date which has been quite the challenge; as you are all aware our HYRA schedule is already jam-packed. We chose Saturday, September 10, which did not conflict with any Beach Fleets, Classboats, or IRF races and allowed all our competitors to attend. Stay tuned for the NOR.

HYC Sailing of the Bulls

Racing results from the second Monday Sailing of the Bulls race by Marty Loo:

Racer	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Overall
Tony Miller	1	2	1	2	4	10
Gram Eder	3	6	6	4	3	22
Les Vasconcellos		41	4	1	7	15
Larry Stenek	4	3	7	7	5	23
Ariel Stenek	5	5	5	5	dnf	26
Matthew Widlansky	7	7	8	6	6	34
Clay Markle	dnf	dnf	3	8	1	30
Marty Loo	6	4	2	3	2	17
Harry Price	9	dnf	dnf	dnf	dnf	33

There was a little screw up in the finishes but I think they are correct now. Turns out I still have 2 boats left with Ariel leaving for the mainland for school and Harry declining the last race. Marty Loo

WYC Duke Beach Fleet Pictures

Here is the url for the pictures from last Sunday's beach fleet races. A great day for sailing!
http://gallery.me.com/philsammer#100144

Aloha
Phil Sammer

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

August 15th, 2011

WYC Duke Offshore Invitational - 21 Aug 2011

Please see attached for NOR and entry form.

PYC Wahine Regatta - 27 Aug 2011

The next Wahine Regatta of the 2011 Wahine Racing Series will be held at Pacific Yacht Club on Saturday, August 27, 2011. Attached please find the NOR.

WYC Duke Beach Fleet Results

Please see attached.

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

August 11th, 2011

WYC Duke Beach Fleet - Sunday 14 Aug 11

Attached please find the NOR and Entry

KYC ORF Waimea and Return

For anyone interested in racing from KYC to Waimea Bay and back on August 13th and 14th, attached, please find the Notice of Race and an image showing the finish/start line in Waimea Bay.

This year there may be something new - a Family Class. To be eligible for the family class, two immediate family members shall be racing, one of which shall be the person in charge. Sounds like fun to me. Nottage, Denzer, Sanborn and Berg are all interested, so pack up your fishing gear, bring your spouse and children and whoa, scary, there might be some fun to be had! "And what about significant others?" your say. Make your case, I'm all ears. Hey Dan, sounds like the perfect race for you, Lori and Lea. Frederic is going with Pascale, Luca and Ondine. Email Frederic Berg <808.284.4221@earthlink.net> with questions.

HYC Lahaina Return

Registration for the Lahaina to Honolulu Race is now open. A number of skippers have already taken advantage of the early registration discount by registering online. All of the information you need to find for the event, including the official notice board, list of entrants, and the registration form, can be found at the following site:

https://www.regattanetwork.com/clubmgmt/applet_club_events.php?CLUB_ID=652

There have been a number of questions regarding mooring. We are working closely with Lahaina Harbor and Lahaina Yacht Club to prepare for the boats that are planning to race. The earlier you register, the better we can prepare. Unfortunately, HYC cannot directly assign moorings. Please review the NOR for contact information at Lahaina Harbor. We will also be posting information regarding suggested anchorages in the area. Additional information will be posted as we finalize the plans.

LYC is going "all out" once again for the softball game (rumor is that the Maui team has already practiced a few times), so break in that mitt and warm up that throwing arm!

Finally, we're working on the t-shirt designs. Once pricing has been finalized, t-shirt orders will be available through the RegattaNetwork website.

HYC Sailing of the Bulls

The first ever Sailing of the Bulls went off with a bang on Monday night! With the top mark located directly in front of the HYC poop deck, the peanut gallery had a great view of the action. A great time was had by all. Results are attached.

We have a few boats available for additional sailors next Monday (August 15), so please contact Marty Loo at (831) 278-2800 or martyloo2@gmail.com to register.

KYC Classboat M Results

See attached.

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

August 3rd, 2011

Hawaii Yacht Club
2011 Lahaina Return

Here is a copy of the poster and the Notice of Race for the 2011 Lahaina Return. We're using the US Sailing RegattaNetwork website for race registration this year. Instructions can be found in the NOR. Please let us know if you have any questions. The entry price includes a T-shirt and HYC Monday Night BBQ.

Thanks,
Joseph Shacat
RC Sail HYC

Hawaii PHRF Ratings

ALOHA,
All new or updated HPHRF applications for ratings shall be submitted by August 15th. Any application submitted after that date shall not be issued a rating for Lahaina and will not be issued a rating till the next Rating Meeting in late fall.

Aloha,
Rick Osborne, Jr.

Hawaii Yacht Club
Sailing of the Bulls

The Sailing of the Bulls has generated a lot of interest, especially amongst the old-timers who remember racing el toro's "back in the day." Attached is the Notice of Race, with updated pricing for folks who can bring their own boat. HYC only has 10 boats, so sign up soon to reserve your boat. We may be organizing a practice session for this Saturday - please contact Marty Loo if you'd like more info about the practice session.

This is a Monday night El Toro racing series scheduled for August 8, 15, & 22. We'll meet each Monday night at 5:30 PM to rig the boats, with the first start scheduled for 6:00 PM. With short courses set up inside the turning basin we'll run as many races as we can by 7:30 PM.

Bring your own food to grill after racing for the Monday night BBQ. We'll have a great peanut gallery to watch the races and cheer you on!

For more information, please contact Marty Loo at martyloo2@gmail.com or Clay Markle at celkram@gmail.com.

Thanks,
Joseph Shacat
RC Sail HYC

Kaneohe Yacht Club
Classboat Series L

Thanks to Bob Ale for sorting out the Cal 20 finishing positions in last Sunday's Classboat Series L. In spite of his good work a couple of minor errors remained. Here are the revised results.

John Thorne

Melges States

The Melges 24 State Championship will not be held on August 13th, as originally proposed. The new date will be announced as soon as more information becomes available.

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

July 30, 2011

The Sailing of the Bulls - (Flyer)

HYC is pleased to announce the first ever Sailing of the Bulls, Hawaii style. This is a Monday night El Toro racing series scheduled for August 8, 15, & 22. We'll meet each Monday night at 5:30 PM to rig the boats, with the first start scheduled for 6:00 PM. With short courses set up inside the turning basin we'll run as many races as we can by 7:30 PM.

The series is open to adult sailors (21+) who already have dinghy experience and are HYC members or guests. The entry fee includes boat rental, safety boat, and a drink ticket for after sailing. You can sign up for a single night of sailing, or get a discount by entering the whole 3-week series.

Bring your own food to grill after racing for the Monday night BBQ. We'll have a great peanut gallery to watch the races and cheer you on!

For more information, please contact Marty Loo at martyloo2@gmail.com or Clay Markle at celkram@gmail.com.

Classboat Results

Hello all,

It has been brought to my attention that there were some scoring errors on the final results posted for last Sunday's Class Boat regatta. As the PRO, I accept responsibility for this and in fact it was my error and for that I apologize to the fleet. Good help is hard to find....I believe the attached reflects the correct scoring based on the various conversations I have had with several skippers. The scoring on the last race was in question and was particularly challenging due to the fact that most of the fleet finished within 10 seconds.

So, please take the time to review the attachment and should it be in need of further correction, please contact me immediately.

Thanks
Bob Ale

Waikiki Offshore Results

Please click here, and here.

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

July 18th, 2011

Special News Update

NYC Kauai Channel Race Cancellation Notice

It is with deep regret that NYC must announce the cancellation of this year's Kauai Channel Race. The race committee met last night and determined that with only four Oahu boats and two Kauai boats entered, there was not enough participation to warrant the running of this event this year.

We are very sorry for the inconvenience that this has caused those boats that did enter the race and hope you will understand and forgive us for this cancellation.

We will begin planning for next year's race almost immediately and welcome any suggestions that will help us to promote this race to our HYRA neighbor clubs.

It is a fun race and a fun party and we hope to see everyone again NEXT YEAR.

Nawiliwili Yacht Club
P. O. Box 3661
Lihue, Kauai, HI 96766
808-742-2512
http://www.nawiliwiliyachtclub.org
info@nawiliwiliyachtclub.org

Aloha Racers:

Here it is, already July 8th. The Kauai Channel Race takes place on July 29th.
You have until next Friday, July 15th to enter without penalty.
Race packets with the Notice of Race and Entry Forms have been mailed to all HYRA clubs and should be posted on your bulletin boards. You can also find all of the information and forms on the KCR Website:
www.KauaiChannelRace.com

We have a lot of planning to do over here and the sooner we know who to expect, the sooner we can make the arrangements to accommodate you. Please try not to wait until the very last minute.

Mahalo nui loa,
Nawiliwili Yacht Club
P. O. Box 3661
Lihue, Kauai, HI 96766
808-742-2512
http://www.nawiliwiliyachtclub.org
info@nawiliwiliyachtclub.org

Please NOTE: Anyone planning on doing the Kauai Channel Race must have there HPHRF application in by July 22nd, after that no new ratings shall be issued.

Download and send your HPHRF app here (Word format).

2011 Sir Thomas Lipton One Design Challenge Cup (aka. Lipton 2)

Ahoy HYRA Clubs-

Click here for the Authorization to Award #9 and here for the the Invitation to Challenge for the 2011 Lipton One Design Challenge Cup.

Good luck!

Aloha,
The Advisory Board

Mike Rothwell – Chairman (HYRA)
Tony Miller (HYC)
Fuzz Foster (KYC)
Gil Budar (WYC)
Geoffrey Bourne (MBYC)

TRANSPAC

It is happening now! If you haven't been following Transpac, been to Hawaii or Waikiki Yacht Club lately, and/or the amazingly revamped Transpac Headquarters Shack and Transpac Row, you are missing out!! Get your butt down there and stare at these boats in awe (that's what I'm doing anyways ;) talk to the sailors that just crossed the Pacific Ocean, and don't forget to attend the Okole Maluna Party at HYC this Wednesday and the Mt. Gay (Red Hat) Party at WYC on Thursday!

Here's The TransPac News: That's where you can find great pictures, articles, daily position reports and standings.

KYC IRF Corrected D-1 Results

See attached.

KYC Classboat Corrected Series K Results

See attached.

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

July 6th, 2011

Supplemental Files

Wahine KYC IRF Amendment #2

Above, please find the amendment #2 to the amended Notice of Race (NOR). Sorry for the confusion: "A female must be at the helm from the warning signal to the finish of each race. To qualify for 2011 Wahine Series points, at least one-third of the crew, including the skipper, must be female."

WYC Beer Can Bash

Above, please find the NOR for this Saturday's WYC Beer Can Bash.

WYC Waikiki Offshores

Above, please find the NOR and Entry Form for this years Waikiki Offshores to be held 23-24 Jul 2011.

Kalakaua Cup results

Please find the official results, above.

Transpac News: First start from July 4th is underway,
Second start will be this Friday, July 8th

Los Angeles, California, July 6, 2011

Transpac Leaders can Smell the Breeze

Transpac leaders are beginning to smell the ocean breeze they crave as they clear the inner coastal waters for the open Pacific. The 1D35 owned by Alex Farrell, Alpha Puppy, continues as the handicap leader of Racing Division 6 today, which is always energizing for the crew even though they know very well it is too early in the game for the standings to matter.

The fickle winds of the first night have given way to steadier breezes, especially for the fleet leaders who favored the north side of the track and focused from the get-go on making distance west. Along with Alpha Puppy that would be Harry Zanville's SC37, Celerity, the boat farthest-north, and Charles Browning's J/130, BeBe.

Larry Malmberg's Catalina 38, Hassle, has a grip for the moment on the handicap lead in the Aloha Class. Elsewhere among the eight boats in this race-division-for-cruisers, we get a glimpse of the first-night blues from this follow-up report by Michael Lawler, who used the 2007 race as the first leg of a circumnavigation aboard Traveler, his North Wind 47. Now he's back for another go, at the race, not another circumnavigation. Lawler's report: "At midnight on a moonless night we got stuck in the mother of all kelp paddies. It took an hour to get free, and early the next morning, Ric Sanders had to dive in, with a filet knife in his teeth, to cut kelp from the prop shaft. This was not good, but now we have a half-decent excuse for being in 5th place (out of 8 boats in our class.) Lots of dolphins on our bow, and they swam with us playfully for a half hour or so. For centuries sailors have claimed this as a sign of good luck. We need it."

Prior to the start, Traveler was at the dock proudly flying the country flags from its circumnavigation, as we see below. Social note: Traveler was the only boat to leave the dock with a bagpiper piping.

Photo by Kimball Livingston/Transpac
Today's best reported 24-hour run was the 105 miles made by Crash, Jeff Braugh's Aerodyne 43. That's hardly fast for this race, but the numbers should improve beginning today as the fleet advances into the synoptic breeze blowing from the northwest, down the California coastline. Historically, distance south is desirable in this 2,225-mile classic race from Los Angeles to Honolulu. In 2011, however, the two boats that made an early effort to "take a bite" out of the south side of the track have fared badly. Wind Dancer (some 55 miles south of Celerity) and Second Chance may look good soon, if and only if they also get the new breeze quickly. The daily leaders to the north are going to have to come back south, to the rhumb line, at some stage, and that's why they call this a navigator's race.

To view the fleet and Division breaks for 53 boats, 32 feet to 80 feet, entered in the Transpacific Yacht Race click here.

Kimball Livingston

ABOUT TRANSPAC

Transpac, the Transpacific Yacht Race, pioneered the sport of ocean racing in 1906 and remains a leader more than a hundred years on, building for the 21st century. Transpac has lived and driven the evolution from heavy wooden schooners to high-tech hotrods that cross oceans at speeds fast enough to pull a water skier - if you could find a skier who could take the ocean. Once, gentlemen lowered their sails at night and waited for dawn. Today the only question is whether or not to take down "the big one" when a black squall rises. Transpac also embraces family crews who fall between the extremes, people who are looking for not-so-simply the experience of a lifetime.

The 2,225-mile course from California to Hawaii, San Pedro to Honolulu, is home to the legends. The greatest ocean racing boat of her generation, Dorade, in 1936 was also the first to sweep Transpac as first-to-finish, first in class, and first overall. Late in the 20th century, we saw the advent of lightweight boats that reveled in the downwind, down-wave route to Hawaii and introduced "big-boat surfing" to ocean racing. Cal 40's,Windward Passage, Chutzpah and Merlin come to mind. The monohull course record now belongs to an all-carbon fiber 98-footer from New Zealand, Neville Crichton's Alfa Romeo, which in 2009 made the Diamond Head finish in 5 days, 14 hours, navigated by world-record holding navigator, Rolex Yachtsman of the Year, and Transpacific Yacht Club Board of Directors member Stan Honey.

Transpac is run by the Transpacific Yacht Club, which also conducts occasional races to Papeete, Tahiti. Membership is open to all sailors who have completed a TPYC race to either of these splendid destinations.

www.transpacrace.com
For more information contact:
Kimball Livingston, Transpac 2011 Communications Officer
Kimball.Livingston@yahoo.com
+1 415 831.1001

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

July 1st, 2011

"Voice of Transpac" Radio Report Schedule

Bobbie Jennings' reports will air on Hawaii Public Radio stations in the morning and afternoon.
The times: KPPR - 6:30 am and 4:30 pm. KIPO - 8:30 am and 12:30 pm.

King Kalakaua Cup

Attached are the Sailing Instructions (SIs) and the Amendments to the SIs. In case you haven't seen the coverage yet, Hawaii News Now's Malika Dudley had a great segment on the Kalakaua Cup featuring Mike Rothwell and Rick Osborne as well as the crew of Troubadour http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/15005610/2011-kalakaua-cup-regatta

KYC IRF Wahine NOR Amendment

Please click here.

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

June 30th, 2011

King Kalakaua Cup

Sailing instructions.

Wahine Racing Series

KYC IRF Wahine Regatta - 9 July 2011

Please stay tuned for the amended NOR which will change the wahine requirement from 50% to 1/3 of the crew being female to qualify for the Wahine Racing Series.

Nawiliwili Yacht Club

Kauai Channel Race

The Kauai Channel Race happens Friday July 29. The 78 mile race begins at Ko'Olina Marina on Oahu at 7 AM with the first boat arriving Nawiliwili Harbor, Kauai that afternoon. This race is traditionally a Fun/Challenging sailing race with the boats being greeted upon their arrival at Nawiliwili and an awards party Saturday evening July 30 at the Nawiliwili Yacht Clubhouse. As of this writing our sponsors are Ko'Olina Marina and Resort, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, and the Kauai Inn. For more info contact Ron Wagner: 808-639-3425.

Kaneohe Yacht Club

IRF Summer Circuit

Please find the results of the third day of the KYC IRF Summer Circuit along with the final standings.

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

June 10th, 2011

King Kalakaua Cup
Notice of Race and Entry Form.
Please note: ANY PARTICIPANTS WHO DO NOT HAVE A VALID HYRA RATING CERTIFICATE AND WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN KALAKAUA CUP ON JULY 4th WEEKEND MUST SUBMIT AN APPLICATION BY JUNE 25th OR WILL NOT BE ISSUED A CERTIFICATE FOR THE REGATTA.

Wahine Racing Series - IRF
Please stay tuned for Notice of Race of the upcoming Wahine IRF on July 9th at KYC.

WYC Beer Can Bash
Keep your eyes open for more information on another Beer Can Bash that WYC will host on July 9th.

KYC Classboat Series I Results
See attached.

WYC King Kam Results
See attached.

KYC IRF Summer Circuit Results
Day 1 and Day 2 results attached.

WYC DJJ Three-Day-Around-Oahu Results
See attached, Day1, Day 2, and Day 3. Here is the link to photos of the finish of the 3rd leg of the DJ Johnson Circle Isle Race.
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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

June 1st, 2011

KYC Summer Circuit Skipper's Meeting
TONIGHT at 1830, Wednesday, June 1 on the upper deck at Kaneohe Yacht Club. Very important for all skippers to attend. NOR and Entry here.

WYC DJ Johnson Three-Day-Around-Oahu - Regatta Results
Click here!

Road to Rolex Women's Clinic - Regatta Results
Click here!

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

May 25th, 2011

HYC Rabbit Island Results
Click here.

KYC Summer Circuit SI Amendments
Click here for 3rd amendment to KYC's Standing Sailing Instructions.

Road to Rolex Women's Clinic
34 women were able to participate last weekend in the Road to Rolex Women's Clinic!

The conditions were windy, as usual for a wahine event, but they helped us progress enormously. The kites went up and we jibed our hearts out until our coach Allie decided that we...could race.

We had a great time, with Cash Flow and Actuation finishing ahead and everyone giving their all for their teams. And what teams! On the same boat you could find ladies from 14 to 70 (no, we won't reveal who), from yacht clubs all over the island (or, rather, islands! thanks Maui and Boat YC), with all sorts of backgrounds.

This weekend, it didn't matter if you were a teacher or a lawyer, we were all under the scrutinizing eyes of our Road to Rolex coach Allie telling us we could do everything better and faster!

So thank you once more for the owners generosity, for lending us your boats and making this happen. You now have a pool of 34 excellent crew who can rig, tune, tack, jibe, jibe under kite in 25 knots, make the start line, sail upwind, downwind, steal air, repair on the fly and have a great time.

So let us know if you need some extra hands (and brains ;)) to sail with you.

See you on the summer circuit!

Aloha,
Annick Cros

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

May 18th, 2011

WYC DJ Johnson Three-Day-Around-Oahu Regatta

NOR and Entry Form

KYC IRF Summer Circuit Information

Poster and two Amendments to the KYC Standing Sailing Instructions.

KYC Classboat and IRF Results
Series H Results.
Series B-3 Results.
Series B Final Results.

Back to the Future - Transpac News

What's a perfect Transpac ride? A lot depends on what you're doing, this time.

Philippe Kahn was plenty happy in 2009 when he and Mark Christiansen set a new doublehanded record in an Open 50 named, as all the man's boats are named, Pegasus. For 2011, however, the maestro of mobile software is going retro.

After seven months in the shed at Dencho Marine, Kahn's Andrews 70 has been "de-turboed" as he says: "We cut 12 feet off the mast, shortened the fin and went to a smaller bulb with a few thousand pounds of lead in the bilge. We also took out the bow sprit, and the new, shorter pole gybes easily inside the forestay. Combine that with a simplified deck, and three to five of us can handle her at full potential in 35 knots of wind. A perfect Transpac ride!"

Pegasus 70 is now close to the configuration of a stock Santa Cruz 70, Kahn says. "We plan to sail her surfing to Honolulu like a Moore 24 as opposed to sailing across the waves, reaching, like a Melges 24. I surf, and I love surfing, and what we want is to have fair racing with the other 70s using the Transpac ORR rating. We hope to get more people wanting to do this and have some great Pacific Ocean sailing."

Gee, it seems only yesterday that the cool thing was to go "turbo."

The upper end of the fleet for the 2011 race has seven 70-footers entered, two 68-footers and, of course, good ole Ragtime. The fleet has two starts, July 4 and July 8, and no one is more qualified to decide how he wants to do it "this time" than Philippe Kahn. He has sailed 12 races to Hawaii, three of them doublehanded. The new record he set in 2009 with Christiansen stands at 7 days, 19 hours, which got them to the Diamond Head Buoy ahead of all the 70s, turboed or un, and lopped two days off the doublehanded record.

He was already a more accomplished sailor-competitor than most, years ago, when he declared to your reporter, "I have to learn how to sail before I die."

Kimball Livingston

ABOUT TRANSPAC

Transpac, the Transpacific Yacht Race, pioneered the sport of ocean racing in 1906 and remains a leader more than a hundred years on, building for the 21st century. Transpac has lived and driven the evolution from heavy wooden schooners to high-tech hotrods that cross oceans at speeds fast enough to pull a water skier - if you could find a skier who could take the ocean. Once, gentlemen lowered their sails at night and waited for dawn. Today the only question is whether or not to take down "the big one" when a black squall rises. Transpac also embraces family crews who fall between the extremes, people who are looking for not-so-simply the experience of a lifetime.

The 2,225-mile course from California to Hawaii, San Pedro to Honolulu, is home to the legends. The greatest international raceboat of her generation, Dorade, in 1939 was also the first to sweep Transpac as first-to-finish, first in class, and first overall. Late in the 20th century, we saw the advent of lightweight boats that reveled in the downwind, down-wave route to Hawaii and introduced "big-boat surfing" to ocean racing. Cal 40's,Windward Passage, Chutzpah and Merlin come to mind. The monohull course record now belongs to an all-carbon fiber 98-footer from New Zealand, Neville Crichton's Alfa Romeo, which in 2009 made the Diamond Head finish in 5 days, 14 hours, navigated by world-record holding navigator, Rolex Yachtsman of the Year, and Transpacific Yacht Club Board of Directors member Stan Honey.

Transpac is run by the Transpacific Yacht Club, which also conducts occasional races to Papeete, Tahiti. Membership is open to all sailors who have completed a TPYC race to either of these absolutely splendid destinations.

www.transpacrace.com
For more information contact:
Kimball Livingston, Transpac 2011 Communications Officer
Kimball.Livingston@yahoo.com
+1 415 831.1001

May 9th, 2011

NYC Kauai Channel Race Announcement

Aloha Sailors,

Nawiliwili Yacht Club is pleased to announce its 2011 Kauai Channel Race and invites all yacht racing enthusiasts to join in this year’s fun.

This year’s race is scheduled for Friday July 29, 2011 starting off Ko Olina, Oahu and finishing at Nawiliwili,Kauai. There will be the usual beautiful lei greeting and great refreshments on arrival at Nawiliwili Yacht Club and a rousing awards party at the Nawiliwili Clubhouse on Saturday evening July 30.

We want to give all past and new participants an early heads up to plan for this year's event. Find the Notice of Race on the KCR website. New information will be added there as it becomes available.

We look forward to seeing you all and sailing together again,

Ron Wagner, Rear Commodore
Nawiliwili Yacht Club
http://www.kauaichannelrace.com

Rabbit Island vs Ko Olina

The Rabbit Island Race has been rescheduled for Sunday, May 15, 2011. Sailing Instructions, NOR, and addenda are attached. If any additional boats wish to sign up, please contact Joseph Shacat at hyc.racecommittee@gmail.com or
808-497-9155.

Ko Olina Spring Race

The Spring Ko Olina Race is postponed until further notice.

aloha,
Joseph Shacat
RC Sail HYC

Lipton Cup
Additional pictures taken by PJ Value can be found here: http://gallery.me.com/philsammer#100120

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

May 4th, 2011

Hawaii Yacht Club wins the Sir Thomas Lipton Challenge Cup One!
Great weekend of racing!

Thanks to Waikiki Yacht Club and all Race Committee for hosting a fantastic event!

Congratulations to Team Ikaika with skipper Tony Miller, racing crew Lyn Silva, Jimmy Fowler, Joe Bakos, Dave Kelly, Phillip Katzman, Rich Smith, Joseph Shacat, and Christin Shacat; and support crew Tiffini Lopez, Ailana Warren, Christina Peters!!

Click here for Race Results. Pictures of Day 2 by Phil Sammers can be found here.

Hawaii Yacht Club
Rabbit Island and KoOlina

Sailors, please be reminded that the Skipper's Meeting for the Rabbit Island Race is tonight, Wednesday, May 4, 6:00 PM at Hawaii Yacht Club. The Rabbit Island Race will be held this Saturday, May 7.

Also, the rescheduled Ko Olina Regatta will be held next weekend, May 14 - 15. The skipper's meeting will be next Wednesday, May 11. For those skippers that entered back in March, you are still entered in the regatta. However, the checks for the mooring fees were destroyed by Ko Olina, so please attend the skipper's meeting next week to resubmit mooring fees.

If you need to withdraw from the Ko Olina regatta due to scheduling issues, your entry fees will be credited to a future HYC event, or returned to you upon request.

Of course, you can still enter the Ko Olina Regatta if you are interested. Call or email me if you have any questions.

aloha,
Joseph Shacat
808-497-9155
hyc.racecommittee@gmail.com

Road to Rolex Clinic for Women

This is to let you know that your beloved wahine sailor has an opportunity to improve her sailing skills here in K Bay via the Road to Rolex Clinic. There is still time to sign up! Our own Jennifer Warnock is assisting USSA instructor Allie Blecher during a 2 1/2 day clinic on May 20-22. Your ladies can choose to hone or improve their racing skills on either a J24 or Cal 20.

Please support her growth and encourage her to sign up @: roadtorolex.org.

Happy Mother's Day to all our mom's in and around our fleet.

Leslie

Welcome a Transpac Yacht!
14 Boats still need a welcoming host! This is your chance to get involved and give back! Please reposnd to this email for more information or contact Barbara Silvey directly hawaiipianolady@aol.com. Thank you!

The Power of the Sea
Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters

Is the fascinating new book by Bruce Parker, former Chief Scientist of the NOAA's National Ocean Service, published by Palgrave Macmillan.

A few reviews:

"Whether you love history, science, or just want to know how the world shapes our lives, this is both an informative and enjoyable read." — Margaret Davidson, Director, NOAA Coastal Services Center

"Mixes hair-raising descriptions of disasters with efforts to understand them... a lucid, original contribution to popular-science writing." – Kirkus Reviews

"Riveting readers with analyses of catastrophes such the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Parker delivers science in dramatic and digestible form." - Booklist

"Compelling personal stories ... make the book immensely readable ... Be warned, you may never look at the ocean the same way again." - John Kretschmer, Sailing magazine

"An engaging and essential history of science. It?s also a terrific account of survival on our wild blue planet." - David Helvarg, author of Saved by the Sea: A Love Story with Fish

"Rarely does a book written by a practicing scientist grab you like this one. Intelligent, accurate, and accessible ... read Bruce Parker?s wonderful book." - Richard Ellis, author of The Empty Ocean

"The Power of the Sea is the best book I have ever read about tsunamis, storm surges, or rogue waves." - Jerry Schubel, President, The Aquarium of the Pacific

"You will come away with a better understanding of why the sea will leave us in awe till the end of time." – Jim Cantore, The Weather Channel

The Power of the Sea tells the story of our long struggle to understand the physics of the sea so we can use that knowledge to predict when the sea will unleash its power against us (so we can get out of its way and survive). It interweaves compelling stories of unpredicted marine disasters with fascinating stories of scientific discoveries, beginning with ancient mankind's strange ideas about the sea and working up to our latest technological advances in predicting the sea's moments of destruction. Besides the three phenomena highlighted in the book's subtitle, the book also vividly describes how we learned to predict the tides, El Nino, and certain aspects of climate change.

Over the centuries, while scientists and mariners were trying to learn how to predict the motions of the sea, the sea has killed millions, destroyed untold billions of dollars in property, and had more than one impact on history. The 300,000 lives lost to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the millions lost to storms surges in Bangladesh and India over the centuries, the thousands of ships lost at sea to rogue waves, and the millions killed in Asia by the droughts and famines caused by two strong El Ninos at the end of the nineteenth century are but a few tragic examples portrayed in this book.

In addition to helping us escape natural catastrophes, marine prediction has also been critical for other purposes, as is dramatically illustrated by several World War II stories, including the (first-ever-told) story of the tide predictions for D-Day, and the story behind the surf forecasting used by the Allies in amphibious landings on the beaches of North Africa and Normandy. And there are also some lighter stories. How did Benjamin Franklin "magically" make ocean waves disappear (and how did this help him understand how wind waves were generated – 200 years ahead of his time)? How did a perigean spring tide almost ruin the Boston Tea Party? How do elephants "hear" a tsunami coming? Did the parting of the Red Sea begin with a tide prediction by Moses? How did a rogue wave begin the myth of the Bermuda triangle? Could the story of Noah's flood have been inspired by a huge storm surge from a very rare tropical cyclone in the Persian Gulf?

Written for a general audience, The Power of the Sea is a history of marine prediction that dramatically shows how the oceans (and marine science) impact all our lives. It is entertaining while also clearly explaining the science behind the ocean's most powerful phenomena.

For more information and pictures from the book see BOOK FLYER (pdf),
or
the book's Facebook page: http://Facebook.com/thepowerofthesea (with over 28,000 "likes"), where many stories are posted,
or
the book's Website: http://thepowerofthesea.com/ (which has more reviews, as well as links to online bookstores)
or
go to the book's page on Amazon (which has all 5-star reviews):

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

April 26th, 2011

USCG Seminar - Suddenly In Command

Taught by the USCG Auxiliary - Does your crew know what to do if you go overboard?
Sponsored by the Pearl Harbor Yacht Club
Location: Rainbow Bay Marina Classroom (below Schooners Restaurant)

Thursday, April 28, 2011 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Classroom presentation
$5. Fee for course materials

Sunday, May 1, 2011 1:00 – 5:00p.m. On the water practice in various keelboats.
(boat assignments and schedule to be determined on April 28)

To register or for more information-
Please contact Ann Ford 808-282-8782 or email.

KYC Classboat Series G Results
See attached.

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

20 April, 2011

Supplemental Files
Transpac_Hosting_Promotion_KYC.jpg Wahine Regatta - 16 Apr 2011.pdf 2011_KYC_Summer_Circuit_NOR_and_Entry_Form.pd	Lipton_Challenge_Cup_One_NOR_AMD_2011.pdf RacingRulesForCruisers.pdf

HYC Racing Rules of Sailing for Cruisers - Seminar
TONIGHT at 6pm at Hawaii Yacht Club. See attached flyer.

KYC Promotion Event - Welcome a Transpac Yacht
Be at Kaneohe Yacht Club tomorrow! Starting at 5pm come talk to the Transpac Hosting Committee about your possibility of welcoming a Transpac Yacht! See attached flyer.

WYC Lipton Cup Amendment to NOR
See attached. In addition to entry fee and insurance verification, crew lists and entry forms are now due at the skippers meeting next Wednesday, 27 Apr 2011 at 1800 hrs at Waikiki Yacht Club.

KYC Summer Circuit NOR
See attached for entry form and Notice of Race.

PHYC Wahine Regatta Results

Aloha all,

Mahalo to PHYC for running a wonderful race this past Saturday, in beautiful new boats. When I went aboard, the thought that came to mind was: "is this what a Cal 20 could've looked like in it's hey day?" The boats handled nicely, the race committee work & round robin were carried off smoothly, and of the potluck was extensive & yummy. Mahalo to MWR for reaching out to the community and allowing this event which joins civilian & military/dependents in camaraderie.

For anyone who is interested in seeing the results, they are attached. There will be photos from both KYC & PHYC regattas on the Facebook group soon.

I look forward to seeing the women who have been out there racing, and women who want to be involved in racing, at the Road to Rolex Women's clinic and then at our next regatta: the IRF on Saturday, July 9.

Everyone take care & thanks for lots of fun racing.
Leslie Foster

Transpac News Update

Los Angeles, California, April 20, 2011

TRANSPAC WEBSITE
ENTRY INFORMATION
SPONSOR INFORMATION
MEDIA CONTACT
MERCHANDISE

Looking Good

The 46th Transpacific Yacht Race takes off on July 4, and the lifestyle brand Tommy Bahama has created a new sportswear collection in honor of the race in its 105th year. The lineup includes a technical sailing shoe aptly named the 'Transpac,' with water drainage ports for traction and a choice of three colors. The rest of the tightly-focused collection features casual sportswear pieces: long and short sleeve T-shirts in pima cotton with the Transpac logo and 'Downwind to Paradise' tagline, a half zip pullover in French rib, cotton canvas cargo shorts and logo cap.

At the center of the collection, echoing Tommy Bahama's success at creating Collector's Edition shirts for Major League Baseball, is a Collector's Edition classic camp shirt. Rich silkscreening and embroidered graphics combine the Transpac and Tommy Bahama logos over a scene of racing boats under full sail. On the pocket, Transpac 2011 and race details are printed in a classic maritime-style stencil. This is a limited edition item, each shirt numbered and accompanied by a Tommy Bahama Collector's Certificate.

Transpacific Yacht Club Commodore Bill Lee says of the collaboration with Tommy Bahama: "It's a perfect fit, no pun intended. Transpac is all about yachting, but it's not blue-blazer yachting. This is the race that takes you roaring down the trade winds to Hawaii and a big Aloha! When the welcoming party-and I do mean party-slips one flowered lei over your head, and then another, you want to be, shall we say, casually correct. Did I mention that Tommy Bahama is a perfect fit?"

Terry Pillow, CEO of Tommy Bahama, declared, "The company's "life is one long weekend" philosophy dovetails perfectly with the spirit of camaraderie and adventure inherent in the Transpac."

Tommy Bahama's Transpac collection will be available in June (www.tommybahama.com ) as the fleet begins to gather at Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach, California, for the start of the race.

ABOUT TRANSPAC

Transpac, the Transpacific Yacht Race, pioneered the sport of ocean racing in 1906 and remains a leader more than a hundred years on, building for the 21st century. Transpac has lived and driven the evolution from heavy wooden schooners to high-tech hotrods that cross oceans at speeds fast enough to pull a water skier - if you could find a skier who could take the ocean. Once, gentlemen lowered their sails at night and waited for dawn. Today the only question is whether or not to take down "the big one" when a black squall rises. Transpac also embraces family crews who fall between the extremes and are looking for not-so-simply the experience of a lifetime.

The 2,225-mile course from California to Hawaii, San Pedro to Honolulu, is home to the legends. The greatest international raceboat of her generation, Dorade, in 1939 was also the first to sweep Transpac as first-to-finish, first in class, and first overall. Late in the 20th century, California designers developed lightweight boats that reveled in the downwind, down-wave route to Hawaii and introduced "big-boat surfing" to ocean racing. Cal 40's,Windward Passage, and Merlin come to mind. The monohull course record now belongs to an all-carbon fiber 98-footer from New Zealand, Neville Crichton's Alfa Romeo, which made the Diamond Head finish in 5 days, 14 hours in 2009, navigated by world-record holding navigator, Rolex Yachtsman of the Year, and Transpacific Yacht Club Board of Directors member Stan Honey.

Transpac is run by the Transpacific Yacht Club, which also conducts races to Papeete, Tahiti and is open to all sailors who have successfully completed a TPYC race to Hawaii or Tahiti.

www.transpacrace.com
For more information contact:
Kimball Livingston, Transpac 2011 Communications Officer
Kimball.Livingston@yahoo.com
+1 415 831.1001

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Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

www.hyra.us

April 6, 2011

Supplemental Files
2011_WYC_ES_Parker_Beach_Results.pdf Entry_2011_Lipton_One.pdf NOR_2011_Lipton_One.pdf WYC_Spring_Beer_Can_Bash_SI.pdf WYC_Standing_Sailing_Instructions.pdf	RacingRulesForCruisers.pdf 2011_Auth_to_Award_14_20100111_Lipton_1.pdf 2011_Notice_of_Challenge_Lipton_1.pdf USSinglehandedChampionship2011.pdf

Spring Beer Can Bash

Waikiki Yacht Club
Attached please find the Sailing Instructions for this weekends Beer Can Bash.

Road to Rolex Women's Clinic

Kaneohe Yacht Club

Register for the Road to Rolex Clinic by Friday, April 8 and you will be entered twice in our drawing for early registrants. Prizes include: Sunday Brunch tickets for KYC, North Sails Logo bag, sailing fleece & jacket, Leighton Lam Designs ornament & "Hawaiian Nature" earrings, & …..?

Road to Rolex Clinic: May 20-22 @ KYC
Find information and link to registration & funding assistance application at: hyra.us/wahine/wahine.html

Rules Seminar

Hawaii Yacht Club
Cruising and Voyaging Society

Please join us for the seminar "Racing Rules for Cruisers" (see attached) on Wednesday, April 13 at 6:30 PM at the Hawaii Yacht Club Lower Deck. This seminar is geared towards sailors that are new to racing, and other sailors who would like an overview of the basic rules of the race course, especially Friday Night sailors. Topics to be covered include the starting sequence, mark roundings, right of way with respect to other racers, and right of way with respect to non-racing vessels (such as commercial shipping traffic).

This event is sponsored by the Cruising & Voyaging Society. Guest speakers will be Phillip Katzman and Joseph Shacat. All are welcome.

US Sailing Single Handed Nationals

Attached is a flyer from US Sailing about the US Sailing Single Handed Nationals for the ODay Trophy. We will have our qualifyer for this event on Saturday May 14th at Hawaii YC. There is one spot for a male entrant and a female entrant.

Scott Melander

ES Parker Beach Fleet

Waikiki Yacht Club
Results are attached.

Here is the link to the photos of last weekends ES Parker Beach Fleet Race provided by Phil Sammers.
<http://gallery.me.com/philsammer#100095&bgcolor=black&view=grid>.

Sir Thomas Lipton Cup One

Waikiki Yacht Club

Attached please find the Entry Form, NOR, WYC Standing Sailing Instructions, Notice of Challenge, and Authorization to Award.

Welcome a Transpac Yacht!

Please see attached poster and join us for one of our promotional events at WYC, HYC, or KYC to find more about being a welcoming host for one of the yachts competing in this years Transpacific Race:

WYC: Fridays at 4pm on April 8 and 29 and May 6 and 20, 2011
HYC: Fridays after the Beer Can races are finished on April 8 and 29 and May 6 and 20, 2011
KYC: Thursday 5pm on April 21, 2011

We currently have 25 of the 60 entrants covered and are looking to find 35 more welcoming hosts for the remaining boats. It could be you!

If you are interested to find out more, don't hesitate to contact Barbara Silvey at 926-0250 or hawaiipianolady@aol.com or just respond to this email.

Hawaii Yacht Club Crew List

Check out the recent additions to the crew list: http://hawaiiyachtclub.org/boating/crewlist.html!

Update from Transpacific Yacht Club

Los Angeles, California
April 3, 2011

Transpac 2011 is only three months away, with starts July 4 and July 8. Already it's been a challenging, fast-paced year for the Pacific Basin.

Honolulu will be Ready

The earthquake and tsunami tragedies in Japan visited lesser calamities upon other locations, including harbors in Hawaii, where a number of boats and piers were destroyed by the force of the tsunami. While extending deepest sympathy to victims at all levels, at Transpacific Yacht Club we want to assure our sailing friends that just beyond the finish line and the Lighthouse at Diamond Head, Honolulu's Ala Wai Yacht Harbor, end point of Transpac 2011, will be ready to host the fleet.

There are harbors on Maui that suffered extreme damage, as did Keehi Lagoon on Oahu. Farther east on Oahu, the combination of the bottom configuration outside Ala Wai and an entrance angled away from the oncoming force protected the harbor from catastrophe.

There was no damage to Ala Wai Harbor piers or to those at Waikiki Yacht Club, though the more-exposed Hawaii Yacht Club suffered damage to four piers, including the popular Aloha Dock directly in front of the clubhouse. (Thumbs-up to the many skippers who evacuated the harbor ahead of the tsunami surges.) HYC's Aloha Dock is often used for race arrivals and is popular for post-race berthing. Hawaii YC and its insurance agents are currently assessing a timetable for repair (updates to come, as they come).

With 60 refugee boats from Keehi Lagoon presently berthed at Ala Wai, we foresee some artful juggling along about race time. We have met more difficult challenges in the past, however, and we fully expect that a proper Transpac experience will be waiting for all.

Transpac meanwhile is pleased to receive word from two Japanese competitors that they still intend to race. Akio Matsumoto of the X-41, Petite, writes, "We sail for California at the end of April." Bengal 7 team captain Yoshihiko Murase writes, "We look forward to seeing you."

And we look forward to seeing them. Transpac YC Commodore Bill Lee says, "Many Japanese crews have raced Transpac over the years, and they've brought something special to the experience for all of us. We wish them the best in 2011." Other Japanese hopefuls say they cannot commit at this point, and we understand. Our hearts go out along with the hope that, yes, we will see them on the starting line in July.

HONOLULU

Bo Wheeler, Honolulu Committee Chairman, reports from the islands, "It's exciting to see 62 boats already entered in the 46th Transpac, with an international contingent. The Honolulu committee is actively and energetically planning for the arrival of the fleet and an unrivaled 'Aloha' at latitude 21N/longitude 157W." Wheeler notes that Transpac has arranged for competitors and their families to receive discounts of 12 percent off the best-available rates at facilities on Waikiki operated by Aqua Hotels: the Aqua Palms and the Ilikai. Best-available rates fluctuate with availability and type. See details at the race website, http://www.transpacrace.com , to learn how to reserve your rooms. And please act soon.

MAINLAND

In the tradition of these matters, Transpac Village in Long Beach promises to be bigger, better - and better yet, even more useful - reports Mainland Committee Chairman Warren Wolfe, who also is a staff commodore of the organization providing boat hosts, the Shoreline Yacht Club. Need help with directions, referrals, a search for parts? Turn to your boat host. Have family to entertain? There will be tickets to the Aquarium of the Pacific just steps away. Making the first start on July 4 and looking for your share of the glory? In addition to the Sendoff Gala, plan to attend the first-starters-only mixer on Friday night. And if your crew hasn't met the SAS requirement - at least 30 percent of crewmembers must have attended a US Sailing Sanctioned Safety at Sea Seminar within the last five years - you're still in luck. Sign them up HERE for the last-chance (no foolin') session on July 3.

First start: July 4. Second start: July 8.

Visit our web site at TranspacRace.com

For more information contact:
Kimball Livingston, Transpac 2011 Communications Officer
Kimball.Livingston@yahoo.com
+1 415 831.1001

Bill Lee, Commodore, Transpacific Yacht Club
Dave Cort, Chairman, Transpac 2011

ABOUT TRANSPAC

"Transpac, the Transpacific Yacht Race, pioneered the sport of ocean racing in 1906 and remains a leader more than a hundred years on, building for the 21st century. Transpac has lived and driven the evolution from heavy wooden schooners to high-tech hotrods that cross oceans at speeds fast enough to pull a water skier - if you could find a skier who could take the ocean. Once, gentlemen lowered their sails at night and waited for dawn. Today the only question is whether or not to take down "the big one" when a black squall rises. Transpac also embraces family crews who fall between the extremes and are looking for not-so-simply the experience of a lifetime.

The 2,225-mile course from California to Hawaii, San Pedro to Honolulu, is home to the legends. The greatest international raceboat of her generation, Dorade, in 1939 was also the first to sweep Transpac as first-to-finish, first in class, and first overall. Late in the 20th century, California designers developed lightweight boats that reveled in the downwind, down-wave route to Hawaii and introduced "big-boat surfing" to ocean racing. Cal 40's,Windward Passage, and Merlin come to mind. The monohull course record now belongs to an all-carbon fiber 98-footer from New Zealand, Neville Crichton's Alfa Romeo, which made the Diamond Head finish in 5 days, 14 hours in 2009, navigated by world-record holding navigator, Rolex Yachtsman of the Year, and Transpacific Yacht Club Board of Directors member Stan Honey.

Transpac is run by the Transpacific Yacht Club, which also conducts races to Papeete, Tahiti and is open to all sailors who have successfully completed a TPYC race to Hawaii or Tahiti.

March 30, 2011

Supplemental Files
Entry Spring Beer Can Bash 2011.pdf 2011_Classboat_Series_E_Results.pdf NOR_Ko_Olina_Spring_2011_ADD1.pdf Rabbit_Island_Poster.pdf HYC_Regatta_Entry_Form_2011_fillable.pdf	NOR Spring Beer Can Bash 2011.pdf 2011_IRF_B1_Results.pdf NOR_Rabbit Island_2011.pdf NOR_Ko_Olina_Spring_2011.pdf NOR_and_SI_Wahine_PHYC_Catalina18.pdf

Kaneohe Yacht Club

IRF B-1 Results
See Supplemental Files.

Wahine Racing Series - Season Opener

KYC Cal-20 Wahine Regatta
Please see Supplemental Files for results of the KYC Classboat Series E.

PHYC Capri/Catalina-18 Wahine Regatta
The next Wahine Racing Series event will be hosted by Pearl Harbor Yacht Club (PHYC) on 18-foot Capri/Catalinas. Please note the location change! PHYC has swapped dates with Pacific Yacht Club (PYC) due to the ongoing construction at Hickam Harbor. See Supplemental Files for Notice of Race. Entry Forms will be available at the skipper's meeting.

Waikiki Yacht Club

Spring Beer Can Bash and Notice of Challenge

Aloha Racers,

Please find the Notice of Race (NOR) and Entry Form for the Spring Beer Can Bash on the HYRA website to be held by Waikiki Yacht Club on 9 April, 2011. Please note (and read) the third page of the NOR containing the Authorization to Award and Notice of Challenge for the perpetual Beer Can Bash Club Challenge Chalice.

Scott Bradley
RC Sail WYC

Hawaii Yacht Club

Rabbit Island Regatta and KoOlina Regatta - Rescheduled to 14/15 May 2011

Aloha racers,

A couple of quick announcements. First, please see the Supplemental Files, Notice of Race and Entry Form for the Rabbit Island Race, to be held on Wednesday, May 7. This is an epic race - conditions can range from a mild, fun sail to rough and challenging, but sailors are rewarded with some of the most dramatic scenery in the island while sailing around Rabbit Island. We hope to see you out there!

Also, the Ko Olina Regatta has been re-scheduled for May 14 & 15 (original NOR and Addendum Supplemental Files). This was a difficult date to pick, since it has known conflicts with Kaneohe's IRF (Saturday) and Classboat (Sunday) events. So let me explain the rationale for why this weekend was chosen over other possible weekends.

April 16/17 might have been a good choice, but it conflicts with a wahine regatta (Saturday) and IRF (Sunday). Since a couple of key race committee members are actively participating in the wahine series, this would not be feasible. The weekend of April 23/24 is out, since the 23rd is a Classboat and the 24th is Easter Sunday and this weekend might also be used to practice for Lipton I. The weekend of April 30/May 1 is out, since this is Lipton I. The weekend of May 7/8 is out because of Rabbit Island and Mother's Day. We considered May 21/22 to be too close to the 3-Day Around Oahu race (a 2-day distance race, followed the next week by a 3-day distance race, might be a bit much to ask). There is also the Road to Rolex Clinic May 20-22, which is a very special event, and I did not want to schedule a major regatta on that weekend. Once you get into June, you have Summer Circuit, and there are a lot of "town" sailors that compete in Summer Circuit. The only weekend available in June also has Father's Day, and past experience has shown that races on Father's Day have low participation. Once you get into July and August, the schedule is rather full with Kalakaua Cup, Transpac volunteers, Waikiki Offshores, Kauai Channel Race, etc. Needless to say, some sort of conflict was inevitable, so we appreciate your understanding regarding the final decision.

aloha,
Joseph Shacat
Rear Commodore Sail, HYC

US SAILING Road to Rolex Women's Clinic

Kaneohe Yacht Club, Oahu, Hawaii
May 21 - 22, 2011

We've got a phenomenal tool to assist interested women sailors in their bids to participate in the upcoming Road to Rolex Clinic. Registration for the clinic may be found at: https://www.regattanetwork.com/clubmgmt/applet_registration_form.php?regatta_id=3690

Information regarding requests for funding assistance from Hawaii Sailing Foundation is as follows:

HSF is proud to offer scholarships of $75.00 per participant for the first 20 local Hawaii female sailors who apply to us for assistance. Application may be made by completing the attached fillable pdf form and emailing it to Dee Darby at dee_darby@yahoo.com.

In order to qualify for financial assistance applicant MUST be a current Hawaii resident or UH student registered to attend the 2011 Hawaii Road to Rolex clinic. The application for assistance must be properly completed and signed. If applicants are under 18 the application must also be signed by a parent or guardian.

Successful applicants will be notified via email and checks will be distributed to the applicant at the beginning of the clinic unless special request is made otherwise.

Mahalo HSF! And watch for the poster coming soon to an O'ahu YC near you!

Details

The Kane'ohe Yacht Club invites you to sail in paradise at our first Road to Rolex Womens' Clinic May 20-22, 2011. This clinic will be held on Kane'ohe Bay, on the windward side of O'ahu, Hawai'i, just 20 minutes from Honolulu, HI. Check in will start in the evening on May 20 and will be followed by boat rigging with volunteers on hand to assist. The winners of the short race series in the afternoon of May 22 will determine the clinic winner who receives a $200 credit toward her entry fee in the Rolex International Women’s Keelboat Championship (IWKC). A debrief, reception, and aloha awards will close out the clinic.

Organized in preparation for US SAILING’s 2011 Rolex International Women’s Keelboat Championship, the Road to Rolex clinics facilitate the participation of women in sailboat racing; however, participants do not have to be attending the Rolex IWKC to join in the clinic.

Goals:

The Road to Rolex Clinic is an all-women coaching and racing event that prepares women sailors to participate in Keel Boat Racing in general and to compete in the Rolex International Women's Championship which will be hosted by Rochester Yacht Club (NY) from August 27th through September 1st, 2011.

Boats:

The club will provide the boats, so don't worry about bringing your boat from the mainland! We will have an A fleet with teams of 5 people per J/24, with a possible option for a B fleet on Cal 20.

Head Coach:

2010 Collegiate Sailor of the Year Allie Blecher will lead the clinic on O'ahu.

Participant Experience:

Participants should have knowledge of tacking, gybing, mark roundings, spinnaker handling and sail trim. However if you are unsure about flying a spinnaker - don't worry - there will be plenty of helping hands on the boat.

Participants who are under 18 at the time of the event will be required to have a signed parental/guardian waiver agreement.

All participants will be required to sign an event waiver.

Proposed Schedule:

- Friday early evening (20th): Registration at KYC, boat rigging, on shore coaching.

- Saturday (21th): Continental breakfast at KYC, coach briefing, on-the-water drills and coaching, lunch on-the-water, more drills and coaching, coach debriefing followed by dinner and entertainment at KYC (cash bar).

- Sunday (22th): Continental breakfast at KYC, coach briefing, on-the water drills and coaching, lunch on-the-water, three (3) race series, coach debriefing followed by aloha awards to close what is planned to be a fun event.

Fees:

Fees include world class coaching, boats, boat insurance, course materials, t-shirt, awards, Friday pupus, Saturday continental breakfast, lunch, dinner with entertainment, Sunday continental breakfast and lunch.

For individuals or those without an existing team, we will match you up with other sailors at the clinic.

There will be a $250 damage deposit per boat (or about $50 per person).

Per person: $150

US Sailing member discount: $10

For more information, contact Jamie Thompson: rearcommodore@kaneoheyachtclub.com (808) 247-4121.

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HYRA Publicity

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March 23, 2011

Spring Beer Can Bash and Notice of Challenge

Please find the Notice of Race (NOR) and Entry Form for the Spring Beer Can Bash to be held by Waikiki Yacht Club on 9 April, 2011.

Please note (and read) the third page of the NOR containing the Authorization to Award and Notice of Challenge for the perpetual Beer Can Bash Club Challenge Chalice. Enjoy! And try to be at the Hawaii Yacht Club tonight around 1900!

Scott Bradley
RC Sail WYC

Sunday, 27 March 2011
Wahine Racing Series - Season Opener
Cal-20 Regatta at Kaneohe Yacht Club

Aloha Sailors & Boat Owners,

The Wahine Racing Series is a unique opportunity for women from around the island to get together and compete. The best end to a full day of racing is to gather for a cold drink, munchies and fellowship!

Being a borrowed boat regatta, this gathering will give us an opportunity to thank the boat owners for their support.

Would each crew please bring 2 pupus (veggies/dip, chips/salsa, pan of brownies…) We will have a large cooler of ice to keep your pupus cold during the race. We will also supply paper products and cups.

Please find Amendment 1 to the Notice of Series clarifying the fees. $5 entry fee per boat/skipper (not per person) will be added to each yacht club’s regatta fees to cover trophy expenses, recognition gifts, year-end celebration, etc.

Please remember that registration starts at 9am followed by the skippers meeting at 9.30am. We currently are expecting 14 (!) Cal-20's to line up for the start!

Important note: Anyone wishing to take a crew of 4, may do so. This will still limit all boats to no more than one male, unless you are in the Adam's qualifiers, in which case all crew will be female.

Don't forget to bring your $250 damage deposit check. No check- no insurance and any damages are your responsibility!

Mahalo!

Kaneohe Yacht Club
Class Boat D 20 May 2011
2011_Classboat_Series_D_Results.pdf

Waikiki Yacht Club
Vasconcellos Regatta 19 May 2011
2011_Vasconcellos_Results.pdf
Photos by Phil Sammer can be viewed here: <http://gallery.me.com/philsammer#100079>

Hawaii Women's Road to Rolex - Sign up NOW!

Road to Rolex Clinics Make Positive
Impact on Women's Sailing
When US SAILING’s Rolex International Women’s Keelboat Championship (IWKC) returns to Rochester Yacht Club for its 14th edition, August 29-September 1, 2011, it will be the sixth time in the event’s history that racing has been conducted in J/22s. Easing the way for women sailors new to the J/22, the Road to Rolex clinics help develop teams and encourage their participation in this elite, historic championship. While the Road to Rolex clinics are designed to prepare competitors for the Rolex IWKC, participants do not have to be attending the Rolex IWKC to join in the clinic. Chalk-talks, on-the-water sessions and video debriefs will culminate with a short race series which determines the clinic winner who becomes the recipient of a $200 credit toward her entry fee to the Rolex IWKC.

The 2011 Road to Rolex Clinics reach a wide geographic audience from Houston Yacht Club (La Porte, Texas), to Kanehoe Yacht Club (Hawaii) to Beverly Yacht Club (Marion, Mass.). Clinics are led by top women sailors including the likes of Two-time Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year Sally Barkow (Nashotah, Wisc.), Elizabeth Kratzig-Burnham (Miami, Fla.) and Amanda Callahan (Canton, Mass.).

2011 Road to Rolex Schedule

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HYRA Publicity

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16 March, 2011

WYC Mount Gay E S Parker Beach Fleet

MAUI SAILING NEWS

Lahaina Harbor at 6:00 am this morning

Ma'alaea Harbor 3:00pm this afternoon

TSUNAMI STRIKES -- March 11, 2011 -- Report from Ma'alaea and Lahaina Harbors

As you are no doubt aware, the Hawaiian Islands were struck by a Tsunami around 3:00am this morning. Maui's two small boat harbors emptied out during the night, as boat owners headed for deep water in anticipation of the approaching tidal surge. But not everyone was able to evacutate from their slip. Some had to ride it out in the harbor(s).

Maui Boat & Yacht Club member boats which rode out the event in their slips included Boondoggle, Front Street, Snickers, Jennie Mae, and Coquette. It is with great fortune that these member vessels managed to make it through without major damage. Other less fortunate vessels suffered everything from cosmetic damage, to major structural damage, to outright sinking in the case of at least two boats. The rest of our member boats were able to make it out to deep water.

Docks and dock boxes were severely damaged and some disappeared. A trimaran in Maalaea Harbor capsized. I can not imagine how that happened, but it did Large electrical closets were swept off the parking lot and into the harbor. Fresh water was off. Debris and diesel are spread throughout both harbors. A 27 foot catamaran by the Lahaina Harbor dinghy dock was swept onto the parking lot. A powerboat in Ma'alaea Harbor sank when her mooring lines ripped that boats transom off. Another powerboat in Lahaina Harbor flipped and sank.

The 3am tsunami was only the beginning of a long ordeal for boaters. Severe tidal surges and currents ripped into and out of both Maalaea and Lahaina Harbors all day. Both harbors were officially closed and the boats that were out all night and all day to escape the tsunami effects were not allowed to re-enter the harbors. Maalaea Harbor re-opened around 6:00pm and all the boats made a mad dash to tie up in their slips before dark, but some of them were left with nothing to tie to. Lahaina Harbor is officially closed for the night, so everyone is shut out for another night. They should be able to re-enter Lahaina soon after daybreak.

Much work will need to be done on vessels, moorings, docks, and equipment. But to this writer's knowledge, no loss of life or serious personal injuries were sustained. We can all be grateful for that.

Aftermath Photos of Lahaina Harbor
https://picasaweb.google.com/mbyccal/TsunamiLahainaHarbor3112011#

Aftermath Photos of Ma'alaea Harbor
https://picasaweb.google.com/mbyccal/TsunamiMaAlaeaHarbor3112011#

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Bruce
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March 11th

Aloha racers,

Due to recent geological events and the continued unsafe conditions in the Ala Wai Harbor, the Friday Night Race for tonight (March 11) has been abandoned. Race committee will also be using this time to get some much deserved sleep...

Also, the HYC Spring Ko Olina Regatta has been postponed. It will be rescheduled for a later date to be determined. Entry Fees to HYC will be credited to a future regatta. Checks for Ko Olina moorage will not be cashed.

If you're looking for something to do this weekend that is boating related, there are over 100 boats in Keehi Lagoon (essentially all of Keehi Marine Center and La Mariana) that are looking for new slips, and I'm sure they could use any help that can be offered.

aloha,
Joseph Shacat
Rear Commodore Sail, HYC

Mar 3, 2011

Supplemental Files

Hawaii Yacht Club

Kokohead Results / NOR KoOlina / HYC Standing Sailing Instructions

Attached are the Opening Day Kokohead Regatta Results (See Supplental Files), the Notice of Race for the HYC Ko Olina Regatta and the HYC Standing Sailing Instructions for Offshore Races.

The Ko Olina Regatta will be Saturday and Sunday, March 12-13. Skipper's Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, March 9, 6:00 PM at HYC. Kaneohe racers are welcome to join the HYC race back to Waikiki on Sunday at a reduced rate of $20 for US Sailing members.

aloha,
Joseph Shacat

Kaneohe Yacht Club

The following Results are included in the Supplemental filles:

IRF Series A-2 revised Results February 26, 2011
Classboat C Results from February 27, 2011

Wahine Racing Series

Please find an amendment to the Notice of Race for the upcoming Cal-20 Wahine Regatta, located in the Supplemental Files.

Sir Thomas Lipton Cup One

Please be reminded that March 16th is the deadline to challenge for the 2011 Lipton Challenge Cup One.

Pearl Harbor Yacht Club

Located in the Supplemental Files are the results for PHYC's HLA #3, held Sun, 20 Feb, 2011 and the NOR & SI for the HYSA #1 regatta on Saturday, March 5th at Rainbow Bay Marina. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Note: As previously discussed, this is a change in venue from Hickam & PYC, as the docks there are still under repair. For future reference, PYC will host "our" HYSA #4 at Hickam on Sat, June 18th.

Also, it's possible we may have a pontoon boat available for spectators, though it, too, is currently still in for repairs. If not, we'll still be able to take parents or other interested observers out to view the race aboard Rhodes 19s or Capri 18s.

Thanks, Dean

W. Dean Smith
Staff Commodore, PHYC
(808) 343-1704

Transpac early entry ends soon

http://www.transpacrace.com/

Los Angeles, California, February 24, 2011

TRANSPAC WEBSITE
ENTRY INFORMATION
SPONSOR INFORMATION
MEDIA CONTACT
MERCHANDISE

EARLY ENTRY DISCOUNT ENDS SOON

Early-bird signups for Transpac 2011 enjoy a discounted entry fee, and 54 skippers have taken advantage so far. On Sunday, February 27, however, that turns into the one that got away.

Signups as late as February 27 qualify for the discount, and then you're set to be on the line next July for one of the great sailing experiences, anywhere. The 2011 Transpacific Yacht Race, Los Angeles to Honolulu, is a classic dating to 1906.

And yes, you can use your credit card to join the fun.

The discounts range from $250 for boats under 41 feet to $2500 for boats over 85 feet. Full details in 2011 Race

Documents/Notice of Race at www.transpacrace.com

ON PACE FOR A RECORD FLEET

A SECOND CENTURY ACROSS THE PACIFIC

The Transpacific Yacht Race, 2,225 nautical miles from Los Angeles to Hawaii, is sailed in odd-numbered years as the oldest and longest enduring ocean race in the world. Originally, it was the vision of Hawaii's King Kalakaua as a way to build the islands' ties with the mainland U.S., although he didn't live to see his dream come true in 1906, when Clarence MacFarlane organized the first race. The many celebrities who have sailed and won the 44 Transpacs include Roy E. Disney, actor Frank Morgan and such business tycoons as Hasso Plattner, Larry Ellison, Richard Rheem, Doug DeVos, Jim Kilroy and Philippe Kahn. In the past 100 years, Transpac has become synonymous with challenge, adventure, teamwork and excellence ... inspiring a sense of achievement and camaraderie in participants, that lasts a lifetime.

www.transpacrace.com
Media Contact: info@transpacrace.com

Special Invitation to the YC Summit - April 2-3 in Chicago

Good afternoon all,

Please distribute this to the clubs in your RSA that are not attending. If you would like to see who is registered, check here http://media.ussailing.org/Special_Events/YC_Summit/Registered_Clubs.htm. If you have a website, please have the webmaster post the site link.

Also there will not be a CSA meeting in Chicago during the Summit.

I am still looking for a description of your Area/RSA so all of CSA can get to "know" other areas.

Your Area Directors should have forwarded you a list of clubs in your area. If not please contact them directly and request a copy of the list. The purpose of the list is to enable you to see which clubs are current members of US Sailing as well as members of your RSA. If there are defunct clubs on the list, please contact Kelly Jordan kellyjordan @ ussailing . org. Contact those that are not members, they may not realize that their membership has lapsed.

If you have any issues that you would like addressed, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Thanks and Sail Fast,
Sarah

Sarah Ashton
Chairman
Council of Sailing Associations
of the US Sailing Association

Begin forwarded message:

From: Lee Parks <LeeParks@USSAILING.ORG>
Date: February 17, 2011 1:29:37 PM EST
To: ashtonsh1@me.com
Subject: Special Invitation to the YC Summit

I want to reach out to you about the upcoming Yacht Club Summit on April 2-3 in Chicago. You’ve seen all the hype (attached) – Gary Jobson, Stan Honey, Ted Turner are some of the keynote speakers you will meet. This conference is Gary’s legacy to sailing. It is a one-time event that no yacht club will want to miss. Your club is not on the list of attending yacht clubs: http://media.ussailing.org/Special_Events/YC_Summit/Registered_Clubs.htm.

The biggest reason for not attending is the cost ($185 registration fee plus travel & accommodations). Smart clubs will amortize the cost over several years. The things that you will take away from the Summit will benefit your club for many, many years, and the contacts you make will last a life time. For more information, visit the Yacht Club Summit website at http://media.ussailing.org/Special_Events/YC_Summit.htm.

As CSA chair, could you make a plea to all the RSAs to reach out to their clubs?

Thanks for your help!

Regards,
Lee

Lee Parks
Inshore Director
US SAILING
LeeParks @ USSAILING . ORG
Phone: 401-683-0800 x650
Fax: 401-683-0840
15 Maritime Drive
Post Office Box 1260
Portsmouth, RI 02871
www.ussailing.org

US SAILING's Yacht Club Summit...
Are You Coming To Chicago?

US SAILING's inaugural Yacht Club Summit is approaching. Flag officers, general managers, and committee chairpersons of yacht clubs and community sailing organizations of all sizes from around the country are invited to attend US SAILING's 2011 Yacht Club Summit at the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago on April 2-3, 2011.

Register Today!

The US SAILING Yacht Club Summit event website contains everything you need to know about this first-time event.

The Summit will have something for everyone. Check the schedule for a rundown of topics being discussed, including our stand-out panelist and speaker roster.

Are clubs in your area represented at the Summit? Check to see who is coming on our list of registered clubs.

A number of attendees were excited to tell US SAILING why they are looking forward to participating in the Summit and what they hope to learn. Read their testimonials.

Here are the top 10 reasons why YOU should attend US SAILING's Yacht Club Summit.

Keynote Speaker Ted Turner will speak on Saturday, April 2 to attendees over dinner at the Fairmont Hotel. Tickets can be purchased when you register for the summit. Tickets are also sold separately if you already registered. Tickets must be purchased before March 14.

The room reservation cut-off date for the $140 group rate at the Fairmont Hotel is also March 14. Visit our travel and planning site for reservation details.

We look forward to seeing you in Chicago!

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HYRA News Update, February 16, 2011

Reminder: Tonight at Waikiki Yacht Club

Starting at 1730 hrs with the Hawaii Yacht Club skippers meeting and registration for this Sunday's Kokohead Regatta, the HYRA Season's Points Opener
1800 hrs HYRA Fall General Membership Meeting
1920 hrs Racing Rules of Sailing Seminar

Help Wanted
HYC is looking for a few volunteers to help out with the food/party set-up for the Kokohead Post Regatta Party on Sunday. Please respond to this email if you are not racing and available to support us! Thx!!

First Wahine Racing Series Event of the Year
Attached please find the Notice of Race and form-fillable entry form for the Cal-20 Wahine regatta to be held on 27 March 2011 at KYC. For more info check the Wahine section on the HYRA website and the Facebook group "2011 Wahine Racing Series".

2011 Wahine Racing Series is back, bigger and badder than last year. Wether you and your team are biting at the bit to show your talent, or if you are interested in getting into sailing and want a place to start, or anywhere in between, the 2011 Hawaii Women’s Sailing Survey is the place to go, get in the loop/ give us the scoop. Go to the HYRA website for all the details and contact info: http://www.hyra.us/wahine/wahine.html. Don’t delay, we start off our season with the Cal 20 Regatta on March 27, registration deadline: March 14!

US SAILING has tapped KYC to host a "Road to Rolex" clinic on May 21-22, 2011. This clinic is designed to serve as an opportunity for women to improve their sailing skills, to get more comfortable in the boat, to create a team, and to develop a sense of teamwork…all with the goal of potentially competing in the Rolex International Women's Keelboat Championship. US SAILING will send instructor Allie Blecher, 2010 Quantum College Sailor of the year to lead this weekend clinic. This event is open to all wahine: local, mainland and international, who are interested in improving their sailing & racing skills. If you're interested in racing, you don't want to miss this clinic! Details available http://www.hyra.us/wahine/wahine.html!

Let us know if you are interested in the US SAILING Adam’s Cup Women's Championship. We are considering utilizing the Cal 20 regatta as the qualifier for Area H (Hawaii) this year. Interested? Take the survey! http://bit.ly/Wahine2011.

Jamie Thompson and the rest of the Wahine Racing Series Team: Leslie Foster, Dee Darby, Ann Ford, Kate Schalk, Tracy Woodrow, Linda Ladeira, Katie Greenlee, and Christin Shacat

New boat inter-island service
PASHA HAWAII BOATS

Inter-Island Service – Pasha Hawaii is now offering our Hawaii customers inter-island shipping services for their boats. Our one way service is offered between the ports of Honolulu, Kahului and Hilo. Our new service provides a quick and easy shipping alternative on-board our fully enclosed roll-on/roll-off vessel specifically built for vehicle and rolling cargo transportation.

Call our Toll-Free Customer Service number at (866) 393-9831 for more information on how to arrange drop-off at one of our conveniently located terminals. Boats must be transported on a trailer to facilitate the loading, stowage and unloading process.

Pasha Hawaii offers bi-weekly service between the US West Coast (San Diego) and Honolulu, Kahului, and Hilo. The Jean Anne has three adjustable decks and is capable of handling cargo with a maximum height of 16.5'. The vessel's 100 metric ton stern ramp allows us to handle rolling stock weighing up to 220,000 lbs.

Harbor Cup 2011 - Sailing News from California
USC defends title in Port of L.A. Harbor Cup

Port of Los Angeles Harbor Cup 2011

Cal Maritime Invitational Intercollegiate Regatta

Organized by Los Angeles Yacht Club
San Pedro, Calif. March 11-13, 2011

The West Coast's only intercollegiate big boat regatta

Feb. 9, 2011

USC defends title in Port of L.A. Harbor Cup

SAN PEDRO, Calif.

The Port of Los Angeles is busier than ever, but even the nation's most dynamic shipping operation has time to play as the continuing sponsor of the fourth annual Harbor Cup / Cal Maritime Invitational Intercollegiate Regatta March 11-13.

USC will defend the championship it won last year after placing second to Maine Maritime Academy the previous two years. Los Angeles Yacht Club is the organizing authority and California Maritime Academy of Vallejo is host of the West Coast's only intercollegiate big boat regatta.

Nine teams will compete in up to 10 ocean fleet races over three days, as conditions permit. The coed crews will sail Catalina 37s chartered from the Long Beach Sailing Foundation---the same boats to be match-raced by 10 professional world-class teams in the Congressional Cup March 21-26.

Cal Maritime, second last year, returns with Maine, the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, the University of Hawaii, Cal State U. Channel Islands of Camarillo and two new participants: UC Santa Cruz and the State University of New York (SUNY) Maritime Academy.

USC trains out of the U.S. Sailing Center in nearby Long Beach under Mike Segerblom, a Trojan alum and the center's executive director. The team will have most of its 2010 crew. Skipper/helmsman Chris Vetter and headsail trimmer Andrew Nunn have graduated, but bowman Alex Brock Kraebel, pitman Erik Samuels, main trimmer Kelsey Rupp and trimmer Danny Kivlovitz are back. Segerblom has not yet picked Vetter's successor.

Most college sailors race dinghies, so a limited number of them, one might say, know the ropes on keelboats. No problem.

"Not everybody is keen on it," Segerblom said, "but our team likes it. We're a little lucky that we sail them every summer, but they're pretty simple and straightforward boats."

On the other hand, training people to sail big boats---really big boats---is the business for Cal Maritime and several other competitors, making the event a perfect fit for the Port of Los Angeles sponsor.

But the Keelhaulers from Vallejo may be on more of a mission than anyone. Last year they shared the lead with USC going into the next-to-last race only to get caught on the wrong side of a major wind shift that left them in ninth place for the race and seven points off USC's pace. They made a gritty comeback to win the last race but couldn't prevent USC from placing second for a five-point win overall.

But it wasn't a bad year. Earlier they had won the U.S. Collegiate Kennedy Cup to earn the right to represent the U.S. in last October's World Student Yachting Championships at La Rochelle, France, where they placed fifth among 14 teams from 12 countries, behind England, Switzerland, Portugal and Italy.

Charlie Arms, the school's director of sailing, said, "This year it will be a mix of veterans and freshman. We have several good freshmen on our Offshore Team. They were on the boat for the Shields Trophy win and second at [the 2010] Kennedy Cup."

The Port of Los Angeles is America’s premier port and has solidified its esteemed reputation by moving more containers than any other port in the nation, more than doubling its volumes over a 10-year period. It has a strong commitment to developing innovative strategic and sustainable operations that benefit the economy as well as the quality of life for the region and the nation it serves. The Port handled a total of 7,831,902 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (20-foot containers or TEUs, including empties) in 2010 and remains the nation’s busiest trade gateway in terms of container volume.

Notice of race and more

2010 race-by-race results, photos and video

2010 high-resolution photos

Event contacts

PORT OF LOS ANGELES
Phillip Sanfield
Director of Media Relations
310.732.3568
PSanfield@portla.org

LOS ANGELES YC
Jim Morgan
Race chairman
310.489.7222
Jmorgan@portla.org

CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY
Charlie Arms
cell 707.246.0434
carms@csum.edu

EVENT MEDIA CONTACT
Rich Roberts
310.835.2526
cell 310.766.6547
richsail@earthlink.net

Christin Shacat
HYRA Publicity

Hawaii Yacht Club HYRA News Update, March 7th, 2012

Upcoming Events

Recent Results

February 21st, 2012

Upcoming Events

Recent Results

Nawiliwili Yacht Club Racing Calendar

January 26th, 2012

OPENING DAY REGATTA UPDATES

Upcoming Events

Recent Results

Opening Day

This Week’s Online Sailing Newsletters

Up-Coming Laser Regatta at KYC

Marine-Based Charities Sought By West Marine:

January 12th, 2012

January 4th, 2012

2012 Mid-Winter Regattas

Happy New Year!!

RC Workshop at KYC

Pacific Cup Seminar - 29 Jan 2011 at Berkeley Yacht Club and available as Webcast

HYRA 2012 Calendar

Friday Nights

This Week’s Online Sailing Newsletters

December 28th, 2011

RC Workshop at KYC

HYRA 2012 Calendar

Friday Night Races

This Week’s Online Sailing Newsletters

December 1st

Upcoming Events

Recent Results

Hawaii Yacht Club - Awards Banquet and Trophy Nominations

New Friday Night Start Times

Hawaii Recreational Boating

November 17th, 2011

HYRA Sailing Awards Banquet

WYC Phil Drips Regatta

November 15th, 2011

Upcoming Events

Recent Results

HYRA Sailing Awards Banquet - Hawaii Yacht Club - 19 Nov 2011

November 9th, 2011

Attached Files

Upcoming Events

Recent Results

Friday Night Race

HYRA Sailing Awards Banquet - Hawai‘i Yacht Club - 19 Nov 2011

KYC Myhre Miniature Race - 19 Nov 2011

HYRA Fall General Membership Meeting

This Week’s Online Sailing Newsletters

Hawaii Yacht Club - Trophy Nominations

November 2nd, 2011

Attached Files

Upcoming Events

Recent Results

Wahine Racing Series Email List

This Week’s Online Sailing Newsletters

HYSA News

October 27th, 2011

Attached Files

Upcoming Events

J-24, Melges 24, Soling Championships

Yachtswoman of the Year Nominations

Masaji Beach Fleet and WYC Sailing Awards Banquet

HYRA Fall General Membership Meeting

Hawaii Boating

Hawaii Yacht Club - Trophy Nominations

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APEC Information

October 19th, 2011

Upcoming Events

Sir Thomas Lipton One Design Challenge Cup

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This Week’s Online Sailing Newsletters

October 10th, 2011

Upcoming Events

HYSA - Save the Date - Advanced Racing Clinic Series

Study Questions for Hawaii Judges Training Workshop and Test Participants (and Racers)

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Hawaii Yacht Club
HYRA News Update, March 7th, 2012

Pacific Cup Seminar - 29 Jan 2011 at Berkeley Yacht Club
and available as Webcast

HYC Wahine Pau - Notice of Race
Saturday, September 10, 2011

KYC Bullship - Notice of Race
Sunday, September 18, 2011

State Keelboat Championship - Notice of Race
September 24-25, 2011

KYC IRF Results
Results for the IRF D-2 and D-3 Series.