Our Gosford Regatta is the ideal opportunity for your introduction to racing regatta’s and for those considering the Nationals in Melbourne. It’s the ideal regatta to fine tune those racing skills!
Talking of Nationals click here for a reminder of our 2020 Nationals hosted by MHYC to get you in the mood.
The New Prince has gone, 70’s somewhere, the Old King will be there – Long Live the King !
Who will be coming to try to knock him off ?
Everyone’s pretty keen to get the regatta in after the little Corona problem. It’s quite possible we may have a few boats available to charter, but they will go quickly so if you want one get in sooner rather than later.
RACE PROGRAM A crew briefing will be held at the Ken King Centreat 0830on Thursday 6January2022.No more than five races will may be sailed on one day. Racing … Day 1Thursday6JanuaryNo earlier than 1030 Day 2Friday7JanuaryNo earlier than 1030 Day 3Saturday 8JanuaryNo earlier than 1130 Day 4Sunday 9JanuaryNo earlier than 1030 The Annual General Meeting of the J24 Association of Australia will be held on Saturday 8 January 2022 at 0830 in the SYC Auditorium.
No warning signal will be made after 1530on Sunday 9January 2022. There will be no resails after Sunday 9January 2022.
Organized social events will include:
Date
Event
Location and time
5 January
Welcome BBQ
Ken King Centre at SYC, following registration
6 January
SYC Twilight Race
7 January
BBQ
To be confirmed
8 January
No scheduled event
9 January
Presentation dinner
Venue to be confirmed
TRAILER AND CAR PARKING
Road trailers used to transport interstate boats to and from the regatta may be stored at the Sandringham Yacht Club for the duration of the event.
Each interstate boat will be provided with parking for one vehicle in the SYC member’s car park during the event. An access “key” will be required, subject to the payment of a refundable bond.
Car parking for Victorian members (boat owners and crew) will be subject to the normal rule of access at SYC. Car parking is available in Council car parks in Jetty Road or in nearby streets for those without SYC car park access.
Further to my email below, following the easing of Covid restrictions announced today and the promise of further easing probably on 25 October it looks like the NSW State Championship is ON, for fully vaccinated competitors. Skippers will be required to confirm that all their crew are fully vaccinated as part of the compliance with their online entry.
A reminder that the 2021 J24 NSW STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS will be held on the weekend of 6 and 7 November 2021. The event will be run by RANSA on Sydney Harbour in the vicinity of Clark and Shark Islands, and will comprise 6 WW/LW races over two days, with the first warning signal at 1025.
If you are planning to enter please now do so as soon as possible to enable us to finalise arrangements: be assured that if circumstances change and the event does not go ahead any entry fees paid will be reimbursed in full.
We will be able to arrange cranage and limited overnight berthing or mooring for non Sydney Harbour based boats if required by appointment, in the meantime please let me know if you need further information or assistance with your entry– by email please as the RANSA office is not attended full time.
The 2021 J24 NSW STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS will be held on the weekend of 6 and 7 November 2021. The event will be run by RANSA on Sydney Harbour in the vicinity of Clark and Shark Islands, and will comprise 6 WW/LW races over two days, with the first warning signal at 1025.
The Notice of Race and entry details are attached.
At this stage we are unclear as to what will be permitted under COVID restrictions in November, but the outlook is hopeful and this serves as advance notice so that you can begin preparation.
We look forward to seeing you on the water again, and in the meantime please let me know if you need further information – by email please as the RANSA office is not attended full time.
Lock down is driving us all mad with non sailing depression, why just the other day I heard from a disgruntled J owner lamenting the lack of sailing. Sitting on a half drunk box of Coronas, complaining about the extra weight he is putting on with the ‘stay at home and consume’ lifestyle.
And that my friends, leads me to the things we shall have to remember if and when Chairman Dan ever lets us go sailing again. ‘What’s this rope for’, ‘ah that’s a very important rope and that’s another very important rope’ as one of my crew said to one of our new Thursday night crew. Yes we have a boat full of ropes, sheets, lines and all those other things that will have escaped our attention for so long and they are all very important.
Then there is the paperwork, the electronic sign in … remember to do that or suffer the embarrassment to your crew as you meekly admit all their hard effort has been in vain. To the bar skipper … and have that wallet ready !
Now are you ready for CCW, this is the new factor we have yet to come to grips with. It won’t be easy, it will be a messy calculation we’ll all have to make to get racing again, especially for the Nationals where we’ll have to factor in interstate politics and shenanigans.
CCW will be a calculation taking in state and city lock downs, days lost to the corona, movement interstate to escape the rot, a series of calculations to rival Bitcoin mining – and this just to allow you to go racing against your fellow sufferers.
Get out those scales skippers, it’s just the first step to understanding and complying with your new CCW, your Covid Corrected Weight.
The collective crew girth has expanded along with the weight and something has to be done about it. So your new CCW will be a calculation to bring your lockdown excesses back to the standard 400kg. Based on the lockdown CCF (Covid Correction Factor) established on the number of days you have been in lockdown, divided by the number of crew still able to fit on the rail and multiplied by the number of boats entered and divided by the average wind strength expected in the regatta, a CCF will enable your crew to weigh in at a higher weight as long as the corrected weight comes back under 400kg.
Melbourne boats will benefit most by this due to the larger number of locked down days and it is anticipated that the max actual weigh in weight will be in the region of 430kg. Sydney boats will probably only reach half that actual weight before going over the corrected 400kg. South Australian boats will barely register any change.
There are penalties to be factored in for skippers that have tried to escape the lockdown by moving to other states (Ron) and a negative CCF will be applied here so that they may only be able to weigh in up to around 370kg which will then be corrected up to the 400kg limit.
Naturally there will be different State Associations arguing their different CCFs and this is to be all settled by the National Association in time for the expected revival of um … J24 yacht racing.
G’day thrill seekers, Corona drinkers and J24 people.
For obvious reasons the Nationals aren’t locked in …. as we are still locked down
The semi-official word is that the Nationals are on ….. until they are off
We all want to go sailing, racing and knocking back a Corona or two with our mates. So Dan willing, we get to 80% on the needle and the creeks don’t rise …. we’ll be sailing
So pencil it in … Jan 6-9, J24 Australian Championships at SYC !
International Pulse, the international J24 mag has a new issue out, with details on the North Americans, World Champs at Corpus Christi next year, European Champs in Ireland next year, reports from Ireland, Canada, Hungary and Sweden – all good reading but a little depressing reading with the boat locked down around here. Anyway grab yourself a sherbet and get into reading about the other half – it’s all good stuff. Click here
Advance notice, although to be confirmed, the dates for the National Champs have been penciled in as 6-9 January next year. This will be confirmed within the next month.
J24 Victorian Championships quick wrap from Adam Keyes-Tilley our very active promotional guy. A bit of dressing from Simon.
We had two days of competitive and close racing where 8 bullets were shared amongst 4 boats (Checkmate and Jet had multiples). 15 pretty well behaved boats competed with some incredibly close finishes.
Wind ranged between 4 – 18 Knots, north westerlies shifting SW on both days. Choppy seas made power rigs important and there were some amazing breeze lanes that had boats climding out and falling in on the fleet, catch one and you had a conveyor to the top mark.
Lots of recalls, restarts, U flags and some U flag DSQs
Shifty wind and difficult sea states made for tricky conditions
Lots to talk about at the J24 sponsored food and drink celebrations afterwards, with free beers and magnificent food prepared by the SYC chefs the Ken King Centre afterparty certainly kept the Vic States party tradition alive.
Congratulations to those in the chocolates in particular Brendan Lee and crew in ‘Checkmate’, the One Design winner.
Well done to the PHS winner Darren Cutts in ‘Joyride’
A big thank you to SYC Race Management and Preso Warren Campbell and the Committee for putting on a fabulous event.
