COME JOIN US AT THE MIDWINTERS!!
Who says grown ups don't get a spring break? Come join the party at the Midwinters Regatta in Sarasota, FL!!
Registration forms are now available for the Flying Scot Midwinter Regatta, held March 11-15 in Sarasota, Florida. It's a nice chance to get away from the Midwest winter and to get a little sailing in before your season gears up. We just registered on line and it's very easy!
Here's the link
http://fssa.com/National-Event/9717
And if you want to work out some kinks before the regatta you can come to the Davis Island warm up regatta March 9 & 10.
Both facilities are top notch and the sailing is always good!
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Ring in the New Year with a Brand New Flying Scot at a Bargain Price!!
Well, this blog has been sadly quiet as Ben and I settle into our winter hibernation, dreaming of fair winds and new sails. But wait, what's this?! Ah, yes, the Chicago Boat Show, scheduled January 24-27 to help us through our winter doldrums.
An added attraction to this year's show is a brand new Flying Scot, #6030, being offered by Harry Carpenter at a deeply discounted price. You can save $4,000 if you decide this is the boat for you!!
Please let your sailing friends (or even those who don't sail ... yet!) about this great deal! I am going to try to post the flyer Harry sent me with all the details.
Hmmmm... nope, not working. Okay, here it is in cut-and-paste style!
Well, this blog has been sadly quiet as Ben and I settle into our winter hibernation, dreaming of fair winds and new sails. But wait, what's this?! Ah, yes, the Chicago Boat Show, scheduled January 24-27 to help us through our winter doldrums.
An added attraction to this year's show is a brand new Flying Scot, #6030, being offered by Harry Carpenter at a deeply discounted price. You can save $4,000 if you decide this is the boat for you!!
Please let your sailing friends (or even those who don't sail ... yet!) about this great deal! I am going to try to post the flyer Harry sent me with all the details.
Hmmmm... nope, not working. Okay, here it is in cut-and-paste style!
2013 CHICAGO SHOW BOAT - RADICAL RACE
PACKAGE
Flying Scot 6030 complete
–
White hull and white deck, dark blue stripes and gray gel coat centerboard cap
White hull and white deck, dark blue stripes and gray gel coat centerboard cap
Mad sails – main,
jib and spinnaker – choice of colors as sails are not ordered yet
Mast hinge
Aluminum trailer
and tie-down
Spinnaker
pole
360
swivel cleat for centerboard
Ronstan
X-10 hike out stick
Mast
head fly
2:1
purchase on main sheet – light Carbo blocks
Spinnaker
halyard led aft with reel
Spinnaker
guy hooks on deck with cleats at chainplates (flat adjusters)
Spinnaker
sheets – internal system with ratchets under seat
Outhaul
– 6:1 internal wire
Cunningham
– 6:1 led through deck and cleated to console
Vang
– 12:1 cascading led aft to console cleat
Pole
lift led through deck to console cleat – 2:1
Pole
downhaul – shock cord through deck
Spinnaker
turtles on forward seat corners
Jib
sheets – cleated on seat with auto ratchet
Hike-out
line on centerboard cap
Nosewheel/Jack
for trailer tongue
Radical Race Package Price $20,708.00
Radical Race Package Price $20,708.00
Freight
to Chicago 700.00
$21,408.00
Discounted Show
Boat Price including delivery to Navy Pier $17,600.00
Top
and bottom covers available at additional cost.
For
more information contact harry@flyingscot.com
or visit our web site at www.flyingscot.com
Monday, November 5, 2012
Much Better Wind on Sunday
Ben and I woke to a nice brisk breeze Sunday morning. We took ourselves out to breakfast at our favorite Lake Norman breakfast spot, The Daily Grind, which is less than 10 minutes from the club. By the time we got back the wind had really picked up and we layered on lots of clothes. Luckily, just before we left the dock, we noticed the wind had laid back down, so we peeled off a layer or two, and headed to the race course.
The race committee ran two very long windward-leeward-once-around-courses and each race lasted at least an hour. We were in the hunt and hoped to do well. You can tell its a tough fleet when every race is won by a different team.
Sunday's first race was won by Bob Fields and Shawn, whose last name I don't know, but is the new executive director of the Carolina Community Sailing program on Lake Norman (someone should get them to write a Scots N Water story about that program, by the way). Ben and I finished close enough to them to see them give each other a big bear hug and have a nice chat with them on the way back to the starting line. Shawn (who also oversaw the horse shoe toss Saturday night) was telling us all about the community sailing and rowing center that Larry Vitez worked to establish. It sounds like there is some cross pollination going on between the junior sailors at Lake Norman Yacht Club and the community sailing members, so that's all good.
The second race we were duking it out with them again until Eric Aschaffenburg came out of the right side on the downwind leg, passed the leaders and marched away. Still, Ben and I got second place both races and were pleased with our consistency.
It's a long drive for us, so, as much fun as the weekend is (and always is at Lake Norman), we were happy to be packed and on the road by 2 pm. What a fun way to wrap up our sailing season!
Top Eight Finishes:
Ben Williams
Larry Vitez
Eric Aschaffenburg
Don Smith
Robert Fields
Charles Buckner
Peter Beam
Bill Ross
The race committee ran two very long windward-leeward-once-around-courses and each race lasted at least an hour. We were in the hunt and hoped to do well. You can tell its a tough fleet when every race is won by a different team.
Sunday's first race was won by Bob Fields and Shawn, whose last name I don't know, but is the new executive director of the Carolina Community Sailing program on Lake Norman (someone should get them to write a Scots N Water story about that program, by the way). Ben and I finished close enough to them to see them give each other a big bear hug and have a nice chat with them on the way back to the starting line. Shawn (who also oversaw the horse shoe toss Saturday night) was telling us all about the community sailing and rowing center that Larry Vitez worked to establish. It sounds like there is some cross pollination going on between the junior sailors at Lake Norman Yacht Club and the community sailing members, so that's all good.
The second race we were duking it out with them again until Eric Aschaffenburg came out of the right side on the downwind leg, passed the leaders and marched away. Still, Ben and I got second place both races and were pleased with our consistency.
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| Boats finishing the last race on Sunday |
It's a long drive for us, so, as much fun as the weekend is (and always is at Lake Norman), we were happy to be packed and on the road by 2 pm. What a fun way to wrap up our sailing season!
Top Eight Finishes:
Ben Williams
Larry Vitez
Eric Aschaffenburg
Don Smith
Robert Fields
Charles Buckner
Peter Beam
Bill Ross
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Enough Wind for One Good Race....
I'll say this for the Lake Norman race committee. If there is wind, they will find it! During the skippers' meeting there was moderate wind but as soon as it was over, the wind dwindled. The race committee postponed for about 20 minutes and then the wind did come in, though not with as much conviction as we all would have liked. We managed one race, with moments of pretty good pressure and no drifting, so that was great! The poor race committee tried for more than an hour to start another race, as the wind trickled in from first one angle and then another. Finally they decided to pack it in for another day.
On shore the social committee had planned entertainment with a cowboy/western theme. Sailors tossed horse shoes and also tossed hats on a bedpost — winners got to eat first, so that was a popular prize and the lines wound all the way to the beer taps. Turns out tossing a floppy hat onto a bedpost is way harder than tossing horseshoes. These activities were interrupted by a hilarious skit MC'd by Larry Vitez in which Carol Claypool was accused of stealing the class flag and a western sheriff (Mike Noone) came in to dispense frontier justice, complete with a shoot out and a casket!!
After we cooked our own melt-in-the-mouth steaks there were prizes for best costume and then a western trivia contest. The ruckus could be heard for miles around as people shouted out their answers.
When we woke this morning and looked out of our tent to see the sunrise there was a beautiful northerly, fie mph breeze. We have our fingers crossed that it will last for today's races!
The top five after yesterday's race were:
Peter Beam
Bill Ross
Ben Williams
Don Smith
Eric Aschaffenburg
On shore the social committee had planned entertainment with a cowboy/western theme. Sailors tossed horse shoes and also tossed hats on a bedpost — winners got to eat first, so that was a popular prize and the lines wound all the way to the beer taps. Turns out tossing a floppy hat onto a bedpost is way harder than tossing horseshoes. These activities were interrupted by a hilarious skit MC'd by Larry Vitez in which Carol Claypool was accused of stealing the class flag and a western sheriff (Mike Noone) came in to dispense frontier justice, complete with a shoot out and a casket!!
After we cooked our own melt-in-the-mouth steaks there were prizes for best costume and then a western trivia contest. The ruckus could be heard for miles around as people shouted out their answers.
When we woke this morning and looked out of our tent to see the sunrise there was a beautiful northerly, fie mph breeze. We have our fingers crossed that it will last for today's races!
The top five after yesterday's race were:
Peter Beam
Bill Ross
Ben Williams
Don Smith
Eric Aschaffenburg
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Fall 48 a Fun Way to Wrap Up Our Sailing Season
Here we are, back in Charlotte, NC, for the Fall 48. Our car almost knows its own way here, we come so often! But this time we came by way of Deep Creek, Maryland, and the Flying Scot factory. We had sent Sophie home with Harry at the Wife-Husband Regatta to get a big hole, an enormous hole!! in her port side near the stern repaired. We try not to talk about how the hole got there... too much. Suffice it to say, someone else is paying the (very reasonable) bill! And Harry does great work!
When we drove up to the factory there were two feet of snow on the ground and they hadn't had power for a week, thanks to Super Storm Sandy. Despite all that, Harry was his usual friendly, relaxed, helpful self. He had already dug Sophie out of the snow, got all the snow off her and repaired a cover strap we had broken earlier. We didn't hang around too long, because it was FREEZING! Plus we still had a long way to drive and Harry had a furnace pipe to fix.
So we hit the road and bid the snow good-bye. We arrived at Lake Norman Yacht Club at about 8 p.m, set up our tent, brushed our teeth, pretended to read for a while and then...lights out!
Bill Ross says about 30 boats have registered. A few (Harry included) have had to cancel their plans thanks to Sandy, but the rest of us will enjoy light winds today with the possibility of slightly more wind tomorrow. No matter the racing conditions, the good folks at Fleet 48 have a cowboy theme planned for the evening entertainment and we brought our boots and hats, so we are ready!
When we drove up to the factory there were two feet of snow on the ground and they hadn't had power for a week, thanks to Super Storm Sandy. Despite all that, Harry was his usual friendly, relaxed, helpful self. He had already dug Sophie out of the snow, got all the snow off her and repaired a cover strap we had broken earlier. We didn't hang around too long, because it was FREEZING! Plus we still had a long way to drive and Harry had a furnace pipe to fix.
So we hit the road and bid the snow good-bye. We arrived at Lake Norman Yacht Club at about 8 p.m, set up our tent, brushed our teeth, pretended to read for a while and then...lights out!
Bill Ross says about 30 boats have registered. A few (Harry included) have had to cancel their plans thanks to Sandy, but the rest of us will enjoy light winds today with the possibility of slightly more wind tomorrow. No matter the racing conditions, the good folks at Fleet 48 have a cowboy theme planned for the evening entertainment and we brought our boots and hats, so we are ready!
Monday, October 1, 2012
Better Late Than Never
Well, it's been more than two weeks since our last regatta and I'm only now getting around to writing about it. Could that be because our performance was the weakest ever? Nah!! I'm sure it's just because I've been so busy! Anyway, we had eight boats at Eagle Creek Sailing Club (ECSC), including Ryan Malmgren, Harry and Karen Carpenter, and Frank and Marianne Gerry, as well as local sailors Cary Carpenter and Geoff Endris.
The lake, like most lakes in the Midwest, was low, but that did not pose a problem for the Flying Scots. The real problem was the very faint wind over both days. Still, most everyone (except us!) appeared to handle the wind fine. We managed to be at the back of the fleet no matter which side we picked! It happens like that sometimes, I guess!
The ECSC Governor's Cup is a multi-fleet regatta with a twist; in addition to scoring each fleet separately, all fleets compete for the Cup, which goes to the fleet with the most participants. The Flying Scots tied the Highlanders for the most participants, but the Highlanders won in the tiebreaker. Next year, though, next year we will have more Flying Scots at ECSC and one of us will take home the Governor's Cup!
The lake, like most lakes in the Midwest, was low, but that did not pose a problem for the Flying Scots. The real problem was the very faint wind over both days. Still, most everyone (except us!) appeared to handle the wind fine. We managed to be at the back of the fleet no matter which side we picked! It happens like that sometimes, I guess!
The ECSC Governor's Cup is a multi-fleet regatta with a twist; in addition to scoring each fleet separately, all fleets compete for the Cup, which goes to the fleet with the most participants. The Flying Scots tied the Highlanders for the most participants, but the Highlanders won in the tiebreaker. Next year, though, next year we will have more Flying Scots at ECSC and one of us will take home the Governor's Cup!
Monday, September 17, 2012
Whale of a Sail report
Our district had two, count 'em two, multi class regattas going on this past weekend. Here is Felicia Bamer's report on the Whale. Ben and I went to the Eagle Creek Sailing Club's Governor's Cup to support our newest fleet, #201. I'll post about that shortly, but here is Felicia's post:
Susie and Tim Stombaugh (2162) won first place in the Flying Scot division of the 2012 Whale. Fortunately, with the sixth race they were able to drop a 5th to defeat Bill and Jill Vogler (5392).
Susie and Tim had 4 firsts and Bill and Jill had 2 firsts. Emilio and Sue Tellini received the third place trophy with great racing!
Winds were fantastic for the weekend. Saturday winds before lunch were 12-15 for two races from the east. And, in the afternoon the winds dropped down to 10 from the east south east.
Sunday the winds were around 7-8 and then 8-10 from the southeast east for a great regatta.
Congrats to Thomas and Stephanie who raced in their first regatta and did not finish last.
10 Flying Scots raced for the largest fleet with the out of towner being Susie and Tim as well as Chuck and Denise Hollman from Delavan Yacht Club.
Susie and Tim Stombaugh (2162) won first place in the Flying Scot division of the 2012 Whale. Fortunately, with the sixth race they were able to drop a 5th to defeat Bill and Jill Vogler (5392).
Susie and Tim had 4 firsts and Bill and Jill had 2 firsts. Emilio and Sue Tellini received the third place trophy with great racing!
Winds were fantastic for the weekend. Saturday winds before lunch were 12-15 for two races from the east. And, in the afternoon the winds dropped down to 10 from the east south east.
Sunday the winds were around 7-8 and then 8-10 from the southeast east for a great regatta.
Congrats to Thomas and Stephanie who raced in their first regatta and did not finish last.
10 Flying Scots raced for the largest fleet with the out of towner being Susie and Tim as well as Chuck and Denise Hollman from Delavan Yacht Club.
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