Yup, according to my rating certificate I am 6/6/5 and rate 142 with old sails credit. By the way, I leave the dock quite often. Ask Scott, he was out with me on Saturday.

Ah but do you sail at clubs other then Royal Van?
We will need to get some boats to all meet at a central spot if we want to get this class thing going.
I leave the dock every week at least once but no one is going to come down to PRYC.
Now just around the corner is Rips for all of us up here in Canada. we could potentially have 7 Canadian Boats at Rips next year. or even more if we got some US boats like Celebration and the Grasshopper and Stingo out.

Then we could have a Canadian Top Three
and with Whitby a Top Three US and Jfest a top three
then out of that a sail off. and the top boat gets the pat to go east. But that would be up to the regional gov.

then there is my coveted distance races.

I will try and put a race list together tonight. Then Get Grady to email it around and see who is intending to do what,

Is there such a thing as an old sail credit--I do not think so any more than there is a new sail penalty
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Legend has it that PHRF B.C.which is a mainland sub-species of PHRF NW does give a rating break for old sails. What a kettle of fish that could be.

PNW sailors - would someone who is updating their PHRF-NW rating please get the data we can post in the table on the J/30 PHRF page with info for ODR Spinnaker, ODR non-spinnaker, PHRF base rating with 155% Genoa, adjustments to PHRF base for 163% Genoa and addition of roller furling? It would also be good to know if ratings are adjusted for sails that are OD size, but not class legal (e.g. spinnaker lighter than 0.75oz, string sail main).

Yup, 3 seconds. Red Five and I both rock it, although I think I should get a 10 second credit because my newest sail is 1981.

Yes, you read that right, 1981.

That "old sail" rating break is great until you wander out into the rest of the world where PHRF NW presides, then it's back to reality. i.e. any invitational regatta, VanIsle, Swiftsure, Patos etc.

Don't forget the Anacortes 100 followed the next weekend by PITCH in Bellingham. BoB did those back-to-back last year and we had 4 double handed J30s in the 100 mile race, but only 2 in the PITCH regatta. Kinda scratches both itches for those long distance gut-it-out types and the less ruddy type that like the land under their feet at night. Toss those in for Grady to consider. Drag a couple of those Seattle boats North and out of the orange bouy racing. Maybe the Swiftsure race too? The Neah Bay one can be a bit of a challenge but doable if you get good a short tacking the shore line.

I am with you on that. I thought the race we had in the N100 was far better then swiftsure as we had some amazing racing. And the raft up at the start was fun.

Yes, Pitch and the N100 would be my call for races north. Then all of us up here already should do Saltspring and Swiftsure.

I gave Grady a spreadsheet of all the races north and south on it and who attended last year. Funny there were only ten J30s that did the majority of the away races last year.

If Grady does not get it up here soon I will try and put it up on Google docs and see if every one can let every one else know what they want to do for 2011.

In addition, as a side note I have changed the calendar to show the 10 boats that did those races.

Red Five watch out. I seen your competator the Olsen 30 out on Sunday playing with his new A sail. He is doing the same as me in checking out the A sail option. But I still passed him in a Catalina 22! haha. I was doing my instructor on the water test.