Hey! Intermediate! You're Up!!

Just in case you didn't figure it out from the 23 posts and e-mails earlier this week, all Intermediate sailors (Silver!  Gold!  Bumbles Bounce!!)  should be at LYC tomorrow (this!) morning (Sunday!) for racing in the ocean.

Weekend Schedule

[This post was previously e-mailed directly on Friday afternoon, and added here for archive purposes.  The only difference is a clarification that Intermediate practices at its regular time of 12:30 on Saturday]

The forecast for tomorrow has led to some changes.

Joint Practice for Advanced & Intermediate:

We have scaled back Saturday's organized joint practice.  Volunteers who signed up to help Saturday morning are dismissed with their thanks but still needed Sunday.  Saturday night's organized cookout is also canceled.  Sunday's schedule is unchanged and we will be racing unless conditions require intermediate sailors to remain inshore. 

Here's the Revised Summary for each LYC Opti fleet:

Saturday

Advanced:  Practice is scheduled.  Interested sailors may request to sail in the ocean with Juan, to be decided Saturday morning by Juan.  All others will practice inside with Joakim.

Intermediate = Practice inside with Joakim, regular time.

Commodore's = Coconut Grove Joint Practice canceled, no practice planned

Prams = Pram practice will proceed, but will involve primarily off-the-water lessons.  No children will be sent sailing in heavy winds, but they can still learn useful things on shore.

Sunday

Advanced = Racing, whole fleet

Intermediate = Racing, whole fleet outside (probably)

Commodore's = Regularly-scheduled practice inside

Prams = Practice as usual, weather permitting.

Plans for the Weekend

All Advanced & Intermediate sailors, the plan for this weekend is here.  Be rigged and ready at 9:30.  Yes, Juan is watching the forecast since all Intermediate & Advanced sailors are planned for the ocean.  If plans change, we'll post it here.

Commodore's sailors, remember to sign up on the spreadsheet to let us know you're planning to go to Coconut Grove this weekend, and load your boats on the truck after practice tomorrow.

Advanced/Intermediate Fall Series

Advanced and Intermediate sailors, your Fall Series days will be:
1) This Sunday, scored as part of Sunday's joint practice races, and
2) Sunday, November 17.
Both these will be scored for the Fall Sailing Banquet on December 3.

This Weekend = Ocean, Miami, Pram or Couch

There have been a number of posts lately about this weekend, and to avoid confusion, the short list below summarizes what our Opti fleet is doing this weekend.  If you sail an Opti at LYC you'll be involved in one of three things:

1) Prams (beginners) will have normal practice times at LYC, 8:30 - 11:00 a.m.   Prams will need to be on time, get their boats straight to the floating dock, and rig very quickly to launch by 9:30, because of #3 below.

2) Commodore's Sailors will be joining Coconut Grove Sailing Club this weekend for a joint Green Fleet practice.  Load boats after practice Thursday, and see a previous post in the blog for more info, and sign-up instructions.

3) Intermediate and Advanced Sailors will be practicing in the ocean with other clubs joining us.  All sailors need to arrive by 9:00 and rig on dollies on the concrete, not the floating dock.  See previous posts on this blog for more info and sign-up instructions.

Good Commodore's link, Sailing Banquet, and Fall Series

Sorry, Commodore's Fleet -- the spreadsheet to sign up for this weekend was restricted as "view only" and didn't let you sign up. Rest assured, this was my screw-up and nothing you were doing wrong.  It is corrected and available here.  Please sign up when you get this to let us know you're coming.  If you have questions, contact Meghan Carroll here.

On December 3 we will have our Opti-Fleet-Wide Fall Sailing Banquet at LYC.  Along with our Spring Banquet, this celebrates the accomplishments of the kids each season and lets us all get together in a different setting and have a good time.  Many sailors will receive awards for the two Fall Series days we have planned (see below) and perpetual trophies for a variety of accomplishments.  It's also a great time for our youngest sailors to stand with our oldest and build the friendships we take so much pride in.  All participants are welcome for dinner which will be billed to LYC or YSG accounts.  Dress is dressy casual.

The two upcoming Fall Series days for the Commodore's Fleet are Sunday, November 17, and Sunday, November 24.  Starting at normal practice time, a short set of races will be held each day in front of LYC, with the scores combined to determine the winners, announced at the Banquet on December 3.  Commodore's parents, if you would like to enjoy a short and beautiful day on the water helping run these, please let Bob Meagher know.

The Intermediate and Advanced Fall Series will include this Sunday's Joint Practice Races with the other clubs.  In addition to being scored against the visitors by fleet and overall, LYC kids will be scored separately as well as Advanced and Intermediate sailors.  The second series day will be scheduled shortly any announced soon.

Commodore's Fleet, Next Weekend Plans (Nov 9-10)

Below I've copy-pasted the agenda for next weekend as distributed by the coach at Coral Reef Yacht Club.  We are planning to take the LYC truck down towing a coach boat.  This means we are limited in this configuration to seven sailors.  If we have more, we'll figure it out, but it will be tough at the last minute so please sign up here on the list to tell us you're coming.

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Coaches, Directors, This is a preliminary schedule of events for the Green Fleet joint practice scheduled for the 9^Th & 10^th of November.

We all must remember that this event is run strictly by the coaches with no race committee support. So far joining us will be KBYC, CRYC, CGSC, UKSC and the latest to join us is LYC which will be bringing 8 or 9 Green Fleeters. Since CGSC will be hosting LYC and UKSC plus our own huge Green Fleet we thought it would be best if we set the courses more toward our side of the Bay.

This is just a preliminary draft and any feedback you would like to provide will be welcomed and appreciated.

Schedule of events for Naplacement Green Fleet Joint Practice 11/9 – 11/10/2013

·   8:30 coaches meeting at CGSC

·   9AM Arrival for kids/parents

·   9:30AM arrival at respective clubs

·   Rig launch by 10:15

·   Tow boats out to course, arrival at course 10:30 – 10:45

·   Set course 10:45

·   11:00 First expected start sequence

·   1:00 lunch on the water (bring your own lunch, parents to provide drinks/snacks)

·   Racing/Coaching (Coaches are encouraged to coach ALL kids, not just the bottom half of the fleet)

·   4:00 Arrival of kids on shore at respective clubs

·   Sunday  - 9:00 arrival at respective clubs

·   10:30 – 10:45 expected first warning

·   Racing/Coaching

·   12:30 Lunch on the water

·   2:00 Arrival of kids on shore at respective clubs