Foghorn, March 2003 Rio Grande Sailing Club newsletter
The
Windependent and Warm N Fuzzy after a day at the races, January 25
2003-2004 Schedule and Updates
Marina Cup Race Results
The Quarterdeck
The King’s Coat
Sailor of the Month
Valentine’s Chute-Out
Membership Info
March 1 PHRF Championships
15-16 St. Patrick’s Regatta/Spring Series 1
Board and general membership meeting
20? N. Fleet (restaurant to be announced) (all welcome)
22 Raft-up* (everybody welcome) or Southern Fleet mtg.
29-30 Ides of March Regatta / Spring Series 2
April 12-13 April Showers Regatta / Spring Series 3
17 N. Fleet, Guenther’s, Albuquerque (all welcome)
19 Pickle Race (New Mexico Boys and Girls Ranches)
Raft-up (Everybody welcome
26-27 Springtime regatta / Spring Series 4
May 10 Joshua Slocum Singlehanded Race
Raft-up (Everybody welcome)
11 Jack and Jill Race
17 Anniversary Cup
Board and general membership meeting
22 N. Fleet, Strasia’s, Placitas (all welcome)
June t.b.d. Summer Wind Regatta
14 Raft-up (Everybody welcome) (to be confirmed)
July 12 Raft-up (Everybody welcome) (to be confirmed)
August 9 Raft-up (Everybody welcome) (to be confirmed)
September 6 Raft-up (Everybody welcome) (to be confirmed)
October 11-12
Raft-up (everybody welcome) (to be confirmed)
24-26 Desert Classic Regatta / Fall Series 1
Board and general membership meeting
November 8-9 Governor’s Cup / Fall Series 2
Raft-up (everybody welcome) (to be confirmed)
15 Commodore’s Cup / Fall Series 3
December 6 Kris Kringle Regatta / Fall Series #2
7 Fun Race
Got a fleet meeting or activity to post? Let the Foghorn know.
*We (Richard Dittmar or Jim Grainger) will contact everyone by email or phone of the raft-up location about a week before so we can check water levels. Skippers’ meetings this are at
Commodore’s Corner, March 2003
Johanna and I have been discussing our plans for “Second Wind” at the lake this year. There are maintenance issues, up grades and commitment to use our investment for entertaining and vacations. The discussion started in earnest on ground hogs day,
I know that Race Committee Chairman, Larry Jesse has a full plate of racing events scheduled for the winter and spring. Our racing participation is up, the spectators seem interested in “all those sailboats out there” and our after race socials are fun and well attended. The racing fleet seems well prepared to meet the challenge of club building. Please call or e-mail Larry or myself if you have any participation questions.
As for seminars, will we want “Sailing for Men” this year or are we interested in another “Sailing for Women” seminar? How about an on board cuisine extravaganza at a camp out raft up? I know that we have some talented Chefs in the club and those of us who have experienced “raft-up” cuisine would love the opportunity to try new food and drink.
I am proposing that our next Board Meeting be “open” to all members and their guests so that we can review our budget and set a few priorities for club activities this year. The meeting will be after the 1st series race on
Johanna and I look forward to another year with our friends, our club and hopefully you. See you at the lake.
Ken Tighe
Commodore
Around the Buoys
On Saturday, January 25th, 10 boats came out for the first race of the 2003 season, the Frostbite. What a great day to sail! Warm enough, and pretty nice breeze. Paul Mariette made it four in a row on Spooky! The Strasias were second; John Bristol third.
Frostbite Race Results
| Place | Captain | Boat | D-PN |
| 1 | Mariette | Merit 22 | 190.60 |
| 2 | Strasia | J 24 | 194.24 |
| 3 | | Catalina 25 | 195.53 |
| 4 | | J 24 | 195.99 |
| 5 | | US 25 | 206.12 |
| 6 | Stevenson | Hunter 34 | 217.53 |
| 7 | Welty | | 220.5 |
| 8 | Tighe | S 2-35 | 225.28 |
| 9 | Petracca | Catalina 22 | DNF |
| “Rabbit boat” | Jessee | Etchells 22 | 189.6 |
On February 1st, the RGSC hosted the First Annual Rio Grande Cup, a team competition between Damsite and
THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CAME OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!
| Boat | | Wins | Boat | | Wins |
| Victory 21 | Rock Cyn. | 3 | Catalina 22 | Damsite | 0 |
| | Rock Cyn. | 1 | Catalina 25 | Damsite | 2 |
| Etchells | Rock Cyn. | 3 | J 24 | Damsite | 0 |
| J80 | Rock Cyn. | 3 | J 80 | Damsite | 0 |
| Total | Rock Cyn. | 10 | | Damsite | 2 |
Overall Results
PHRF FLEET T.O.D./UNDER 200
| Boat | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 3 | Total | Place |
| Etchells | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1st |
| J 24 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 2nd |
| J 80 Miller | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 3rd |
| J 80 Jellison | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 4th |
PHRF FLEET/ T.O.D/OVER 200
| Boat | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 3 | Total | Place |
| Victory 21 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1st |
| | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 2nd |
| Catalina 25 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 3rd |
| Catalina 22 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 4th |
OVERALL D-PN
| Boat | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 3 | Total | Place |
| Victory 21 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1st |
| Etchells | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2nd |
| Catalina 25 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 3rd |
| J 24 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 4th |
| | 8 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 5th |
| J 80 Miller | 4 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 6th |
| J 80 Jellison | 6 | 8 | 7 | 21 | 7th |
| Catalina 22 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 21 | 8th |
It didn’t stay this calm for the February 15 Chute Out; winds picked up to give a variety of sailing conditions for the day. Constellation, shown on port tack crossing in front of The Hunter and Footloose, would be the weekend’s overall winner with four 1sts.)
More Race Results: Chute Out
The Chute-out/Mid Winter Sailing Champs were February 15 and 16. We had a great week-end, good turn-out, a variety of wind conditions, close racing, and a nice get-together at the Damsite to watch the Cup races.
The New Mexico PHRF Championships are next week (March 1st & 2nd); I hope everyone will try to come out. Trophies will be given for the top five boats in each fleet. Yours in sailing; Larry
| Overall | Captain | Boat | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Total |
| | | Etchells Constellation | | 1 | 1 | | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | Strasia | J24 Kachina | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | | 9 |
| 3 | | J24 Alter Ego | | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 |
| 4 | Dittmar | H26 The Hunter | | | | | | | 19 |
| 5 | Yarnell | Albin Expr. Footloose | | | | | | | 28 |
| | Tighe | S2-35 Second Wind | | | | | | | 28 |
| | | | | | | | | | 28 |
| 8 | | MacGregor26 Reward | | | | | | | 32 |
| 9 | Welty | SC27 Warm-n-Fuzzy | 8 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 33 |
Racing tip from Larry: Generally, you should tack when headed. Sail into the header for at least two boat lengths before you tack, so that you sail on the new lifted tack longer. In ghosting and drifting conditions, sometimes it is more difficult to detect a header; what may appear to be a header can sometimes be “an apparent wind header.” This can fool you into tacking when you should continue on your present course. In these conditions it’s better not to tack the boat a lot, as this slows you. In these light conditions, think of keeping the boat moving
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Membership and Address Updates
Jon Daffer, Santana 22
Jim Grainger: change address
Mix & Irene Harcourt, Hunter 23 “Antares”
Larry Jessee:
Mike LaViolette, ,
Kay (Katheryn) McCash:
Robin McGill (and Marsha), , MacGregor 26 “Spirit Song”
Jay & Ken Penn:
David Watkins,”
We saw you: Mango Moon (Pat & Kathy David) sailing back to
On the mend: Ted Lewis, after a blood clot sent him to the hospital. Ted is getting better and is able to walk now. He and Susie hope to be back on the lake soon, so be ready to welcome Big Talker back to the
Sailor of the month…
One of us. Only because he is my slip neighbor do I know anything about him. He loves to race. Afterwards we get to sit in the cockpit and unwind. That is when I find out what he is really doing.
He is helping people. He is teaching people. He is making sailors.
What he does, is to tell everyone he meets that he races sailboats. Then he asks if they want to be crew. He doesn’t have many takers, but those he gets are excited and energetic, like he is. He gets young crew and old crew. I used to think he just wanted someone to do the work, but not true. He wants to spread his love of sailing. He is doing it, and it is beautiful to watch.
He is a natural teacher. He knows the names for things. He knows the racing rules. He likes people. He treats them all equally. Having had surgery on his neck and jaw this last year, he has all-of-a-sudden become more soft-spoken. He is more gentle and humorous. He is more giving and kind, at least to his crew. And I get to watch all this, being just 6 feet away.
More recently, he has offered himself to the local school system as a teacher of a sailing class, for free. I don’t think they took him up on the offer. What that shows me is a man willing to give completely of himself to people who may be interested in a sport this man loves. A true giver, a serious, sailor, and a good man, my friend, John Bristol.
Web Site
Paul Mariette has managed to partially update the web site, www.rgsc.org. It’s a challenge because he’s missing a “user ID” and information about how the site is managed. If a little research doesn’t turn up this info, one possibility would be to change site hosts and get new a user ID/password; another might be to get new ID/passwords from the present host.
Treasurer’s Summary
Account:
Compass Bank, Checking 5,036.78 0.00 0.00
Compass Bank, C.D. 7,199.91 0.00 0.00
NMEFCU, Savings 0.00 11,156.51 10,670.72
NMEFCU, Checking 0.00 295.66 770.11
Bank SW, Ship’s Store 673.30 448.30 448.30
Net (excludes Race acct.) 12,909.99 11,900.47 11,889.13
2002 Income Type
1,635.00 Memberships
822.11 Other deposits
2,457.11 Total
2002 Expense Type Percent
-118.92 Bank fees 3.3
-285.26 Qwest telephone 8.0
-678.30 Insurance 19.1
-150.00 Association dues 4.2
-529.28 Admin/membership 14.8
-1,240.21 Foghorn 34.9
-181.93 Web/PR 5.1
-142.04 Racing 4.0
-226.00 Social (Dec. 7) 6.4
-3,551.94 Total
Ahoy! Unpaid memberships are delinquent March 1. Don’t live a life of nautical delinquency; send the club your check and renewal form today – and don’t forget to pass a form on to a prospective member or invite someone to a club activity.
Elephant Butte Lake
| Date | Acre-feet | Elevation | Level below spillway | Change up/down | Surface acres |
| | 915,400 | 4366 | -43 | +1.0 | 19,567 |
| . . . | . . . | . . . | . . . | . . . | . . . |
| | 385,000 | 4330 | -77 | +3.2 | 11,193 |
| | 396,370 | 4331.14 | -76 | +1 | |
| | 404,000 | 4332 | -75 | +.7 | 11,509 |
| | 341,800 | 4326 | -81 | -5.7 | 10,552 |
| | 327,400 | 4325 | -82 | -1.4 | 10,331 |
| | 377,600 | 4329 | -78 | +4.7 | 11,084 |
| | 346,800 | 4326 | -81 | -2.8 | 10,628 |
| | 276,100 | 4319 | -88 | -7.0 | 9,478 |
| | 283,300 | 4315 | -92 | -4.2 | 8,588 |
| | 246,400 | 4316 | -91 | -0.9 | 8,786 |
| | 273,600 | 4319 | -88 | +3.0 | 9,423 |
| | 329,000 | 4325 | -82 | +5.6 | 10,355 |
| | 385,600 | 4330 | -77 | +5.3 | 11,204 |
(Spillway level is 4407’ – Rio Grande Project Datum. Source: http://elpaso.uc.usbr.gov/info/wo)
Announces
2003
March 1ST. & 2ND
2 Fleets
UNDER 185 PHRF/ OVER 185 PHRF
Awards Top Five Yachts in Each Fleet
Tentative Schedule
Friday February 28th
at the Damsite Bar and
Saturday March 1st
Sunday March 2nd
11:00am 1st Gun/ Warning Signal
4:00pm Awards Ceremony at Damsite* if there are no out of state boats or non-member RGSC boats, awards will be at the March 15th after St. Patrick’s Day dinner
entry fee: $20
On January 21-22, several RGSC sailors were part of the RGSC contingent at
It was very similar to what happens at the
Leukemia Cup Partial Results by Class
| Class | | Skipper | Boat | | R2 | R3 | R4 | Pts. |
| J24 1-design | 3 | Susan Strasia | Kachina | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| J24 1-design | 4 | Susan Landon | Tremor | 5 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 19 |
| J24 1-design | 5 | Darold Rhodes | Alter Ego | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 19 |
| PHRF Spinn | 1 | Steve Quant | Chimps in Orbit | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| PHRF Spinn | 15 | Ray Boyce | Jennileigh, Too | 24 | 12 | 18 | 24 | 78 |
| Ultimate 20 | 7 | Russ Jellison | Cultural Infidel | 5 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 28 |
Ship’s Store Needs Your Input
Michelle and I were glad to be asked to take over the responsibility of running the RGSC Ship’s Store. We have a lot of ideas and look forward to seeing the reactions of the membership.
Some of the items being considered include: Jazzed-up shirts, travel & ceramic mugs, caps & other assorted items. It is also hoped that there will be enough interest to generate some special items that will include individual boat names along with the RGSC logos.
Currently we have few items left in the store and so they are being sold at incredibly low-low prices. There is a selection of tan polo shirts with the RGSC Burgee logo and also some Sunrise Regatta T-shirts left. Call for sizes and pricing. There are also a few tie tack/pins in stocik.
We are looking for your input. Havy any items you would like to see in the store? Have you seen something that you think would work well for the club’s store? We’d love to hear from you. Please feel free to call meanytime or use the ship’s store e-mail address: rgscstore@aol.com .
All ideas are welcome and appreciated! Patrick Petracca.
For sail/sale? Put your ad here:
Outboard motor, 5 hp Yamaha, 100:1, well maintained, $250; Bob Ellsworth,
Welcome Aboard!
Richard Dittmar is Southern Fleet Captain for 2003 and is planning a raft up or meeting, probably on March 22. He can be reached at 915-845-7540, rdittmar@att.net, or on his Hunter 26, “The Hunter”.
Jay Penn was elected as the new RGSC secretary. John T. Craddock and Carol Anne Byrnes are our newest board members.
Thirty years after a sail with Girl Scouts, Carol Anne, with sea-starved Pat, and Gerald, took sailing lessons in
Many thanks also to our departing board members, Mary Paul and Rich Strasia.
Above: Southern fleet members Jim Grainger, Suzy Gemoets, and JJ Crawford with Nelle Grainger and Arthur Echeagaray enjoy BBQ and conversation Jan. 26.
Above: Darold Rhodes, Paul Mariette, Rich Strasia, Kay McCash (Robin McGill?), and Johanna Tighe at N. fleet meeting, Bob and Patt Ellsworth’s, February 20.
Short Tacks
Re: RGSC odds and ends
Date:
From: J Nelson
Is Ernie Gunther the Kilo-Whiskey Mac? I saw him coming out of San Diego Bay as I was heading b ack into Harbor Island (musta been Super Bowl weekend). I frantically waved and hollered at him and he gave me a quizzical “what’s up?” look… I pointed to my stern hoping he would see the Algodones,
Sailing out here is FANTASTIC for a person like me… none of the flukeyu winds to content with, generally quite benign… I’m living on my
John Nelson, s/v Empyreal ’85 Newport 30 MkIII
Book Review
Patrick Petracca, Katie Mae
Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures – by Dewey Lambdin
Are you a lover of British naval fiction? Does the thought of covert operations, resounding broadsides and hand-to-hand combat get your adrenaline pumping? If so, the Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures may be for you.
In the genre of Forrester’s Horatio Hornblower and
A word of caution: the Alan Lewrie adventures are not for the faint of heart. Often graphic and seedy, Lambdin brings a truly American rake-hellishness to an otherwise honorable profession. Also at a benefit to the stories, Lambdin is writing in today’s style, crossing the gap between British honourability and modern
There are currently ten books in the series. The King’s Coat, the first, published in 1989 through
So, if you think you can weather the storms and what they bring, slip into The King’s Coat, stand your watch and see what unfolds with the wind. >
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RGSC Contacts
Commodore Ken Tighe
Vice Comm. Paul Mariette
Secretary Jay Penn
Treasurer Pat Byrnes
Board, S. John Bristol
Board, S. Carol Anne Byrnes
Board,
Board, N. John T. Craddock
Race Cmte. Larry Jessee
N. Fleet Bob Ellsworth
S. Fleet Richard Dittmar
Ship’s Store Patrick Petracca
Foghorn vacant (send info to Pat Byrnes, until editor is chosen)
Information Rich or Sue Strasia
Racing Programs
Raft-ups and cruises
Foghorn Newsletter
Free Classified Ads
End of season Awards Dinner
Lending Library
Social Events & Fleet Meetings
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2003 regatta and activity schedule enclosed
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