Racing Information
Race Fleet Captain- Pat Stewart
Assistant Race Fleet Captain- Tom Davis
Race Fleet Scorer- Tom Davis
Fleet Handicapper- Pat WatersRacing -TTPYC conducts an active sailboat race program and members participate in all major areas races. The Club is a member of the United States Sailing Association, the U.S. National Sailing Authority and PHRF-NW, the local performance handicapping association. There is plenty of racing opportunity at all levels of experience, for both skipper and crew, on local races and in larger area racing on the Puget Sound and British Columbia. The major local race is the Duwamish Head Race, part of a four race series conducted by Southern Sound Yacht Clubs. There is also a three-race Windjammer Series. Single-handed and couples races, five "around the can" series from early Spring to late Fall are available to participate in. The Spring Regatta, is an April event. The Mid-Sound Summer Social is sponsored by Three Tree Point Yacht Club and the Des Moines Marina. S
Entry at any level of experience is invited, and friendly competition is fostered to encourage all to participate, from novice to "Old Salt"!Race Registration Forms
Race Registrations should be mailed to:
ATTEN: REGISTRAR
Three Tree Point Yacht Club
P.O. Box 98700
Des Moines, WA 98198Race Protests should be mailed, ATTN: PROTEST CHAIR, or placed in the box under the bulletin board, as noted in the race handbook.PDF
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Racing Schedule for 2008
Be sure to view our bulletin board and trophy case while at Anthony's Home Port in
Des Moines, WARace Handbook PDF
USSA Race Rules Book: A limited number of 2005-2008 race books are available at reduced cost. Contact toms@blarg.net if you want one.
May, 2008
Race Corner -
Pat Stewart
Race Fleet CaptainIt is finally done! J mark is in place at Robinson Point. Bob Post, Tom Davis and Tim Burns found a weather window on Wednesday, the 23rd of April. Again, a big thank you to the marina for letting us use their work barge and harbor boat.
Spring Regatta is done. We had a great time being the Race Committee with help from Rosemary, John Curry, Rick Redfield and Donna Beaux. Saturday we had a very good day. We had three races for class A (PHRF), Class B (Cruising Class) and 4 races for the San Juan 21's, NINE of them! (They will do the NOOD in Elliott Bay this month). Saturday afternoon Bob Post put on a great barbeque on the guest dock. Good time! Great stories! Sunday, very little wind, too much current but we did get in 1 race. In the afternoon, Anthony’s put out food and $1 beer, followed by our awards for the past year and awards for the Regatta. Dave and Deborah borrowed a San Juan 21 and won that class. We need to see more TTPYC boats come out and sail, especially the cruisers. We only had five boats represent TTPYC.
Summer Series starts May 8th!
Spring Series 2008 Reports by Tom Davis
For goodness sakes! I hate it when you look back at the competition and see them going around the mark the "wrong" way and then the boat after them goes around the mark the "wrong" way and you sail back through the start/finish line to see the course still posted and to see "OH MY GOD" we went around the mark the wrong way. "BOOM" and we got the gun.
On some boats that may be an ah s--t and that's it but on our boat there is more to it than that. We have a very generous owner who always buys the first round of drinks whenever we get the gun. This time there was quite a discussion on where to assess blame. Since the rest of the crew is blind (I guess) and this one person saw the course and wrote it down, the burden of the first round was placed on them. Justice!
Well, it all worked out. By the time we got to the bar and we all got a ribbing and received a set of RED and GREEN pencils from the Race Committee, the skipper relented and bought a round. I think he was still pissed.
The racing was good last night. The wind was in the upper teens and it was a little bumpy but it was fun to sail back over to "J" Mark again. Bob Post found a small weather window last Wednesday, put a crew together and got it done.
Thanks to Dean and Shelly Conti and their crew for another fun race.
May 2, 2008
If you weren't there you are square unless you were at a birthday party for an eighteen year old nephew which I was. What a pleasure to be with such a great group of a dozen fifteen to eighteen year olds. The future looks good.
Heard that the Race Committee got a pretty decent race off with very little wind.
Congratulations to Bob Post and his crew on Fast Feather II for the win last night and the win for the series.
Thanks to the Race Committee: Dean, Shelly , Phil, Jay and BJ (hope I didn't miss anybody) for a fun series.
Look forward to seeing everyone out for the Summer Series starting next Thursday, May 8th thru June 19th.
It's summer!? Well at least it's the start of the Summer Series.
Nice to see John Hoag and his GANG out on the family cruiser and Rick Redfield out with Last Tuesday, In fact it was nice seeing all of you out for the first race of the Summer Series.
Paul Jones with Phil Chin and crew are doing their annual gig as Summer Series Race Committee. And with that, don't be surprised if you see some interesting courses posted. The Race Committee has posted a Race Instruction Supplement at the bulletin board. Here is a copy of the results. Be sure to look it over. Also, there are additional instructions for this series.
Pat and Sue Waters' Liberte' was noticeably absent for the first race, in fact they will not be doing the series because of a commitment to participate in the NOOD Regatta on May 16, 17 and 18 and then two months of cruising.
It's nice to see that we have a boat racing in the NOOD!
Please note that our series races will be PIYA Catagory III. You can obtain a copy of this by going to their web site www.ussailing.net/piya/ or linking through www.ttpyc.org. This is a check list of the minimum equipment a boat should have for safe racing on Puget Sound. Basically for Catagory III it is very close to what the Coast Guard requirements are.
We hope to see more newcomers come out and race in the Cruising Class. You don’t need new high tech sails, a perfect bottom or remove all that spare gear. Race NFS (No Spinnaker so crew size is small). Come out and meet your fellow sailors and have fun.
If you think you may enjoy becoming a crew member, we have boats looking for crew.
Call me. 206.824.4814
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Also you may go to Google Calendars to see the SARC 2008 Calendar (very nice format!)
2008 PDF Race Results for the following races
Duwamish Head Race
Windjammer Series
Winter Series
Spring Series
Summer Series
Jack & Jill Race
Fall Series
Commodore's Trophy Race
2007 PDF Race Results for the following races
Summer Series
Spring Regatta
Spring Series
Duwamish Head
Windjammer Series
Fall Series
Commodore's Trophy Race
Winter Series
