J/30 Class Association Forums J/30 Districts Pacific Northwest District Northwest one-design

Congrats to Vampire who is now the official Pacific Northwest IT guru! Spreadsheet Link on Google Docs

Seriously - thanks for pulling this info together for your district to help get folks together.

Easy now. lets not get too excited. I am after all the guy who went around for half the year with a watch that was an hour out because I did not know how to set the daylight savings time.

Although I do have some cool sailing software on the boat that tells me when I should be sailing the boat faster.
A big gauge on the screen says "hey dummy your only sailing at 85% of potential boat speed for the current wind and course" OK it doesn't say that it just says "85% PS" But I know what that infernal machine is thinking.

Then there is the on line racing we do.
virtual skipper 5 is an awesome game and its free.
we race on line with clubs all over the world. When our club shuts down for the holidays those of us hard core cant get enough people go online and have regattas. You can host east or west. you can have a login so its just invited people.

we could have one design racing on line and have all of us west coast boats play there. then we challenge the guys every where else.

check out the teaser video

Virtual Skipper video

It is harder then you think. I use it to teach the rules to my new racers.
And it is very good for teaching the basics. and if your have them down you can realy capatalize on the good stuff.

best Part is its free!

I can both 'open' and 'download' the sheet but cannot figure out how to save the changes. I click on save and it does something, (probably just saving to temp internet folder), then when I open it again, the changes are not there. Nice sheet though, hope we can get it to work.

Any one know what I have to do to save?
I have now exausted my two cents on knowledge!

Tony you wanted to know where the free Virtual skipper 5 site was.
Here it is. Just watch as you go through there site. They try to get you to buy the full version.
The only difrence is you cant make races. Your stuck with there standard races. And you have to wait when you login and watch there Add. And it gets slightly longer each time you login to a max of just under 5 min. After I confirmed that I liked it I bought the game.

VS5 Free

What do you race as on VSK? I'm always up to school fellow J/30 sailors.

I race under the name of "Vampire J30(Can)"

Says it all.
I used to be ok but I am very rusty now.
where do you play?
Send me an email when your on.
I should be racing tonight.

My handle is "wbemus" and hopefully I'll be able to get on tonight. I'll play all servers in almost every boat though I prefer big ACC ones. Drop me a line when you're on, wbemus@gmail.com .

Edit: And to keep this relevant to the thread topic I will say that, as a detached right coast observer, it speaks volumes about the boats, the class and the people who sail them when a 30 year old One Design is able to still organize their own starts. There aren't many boats which can claim that.

Ok every one thank you for being patient with me.
I think I have finally cracked the problem with the event spread sheet. You will all be able to save your changes as per the button on the top right. the problem was that Internet Explorer was not playing nice. Google Chrome showed me the issue right away and converted the doc to a Google Doc???? what ever that is.
now it shows as a web page that you can save changes on no mater what browser you open it in.
when we get the regulars going on here lets get some of the boats that never come out to put down a race or two.

those of you in Seattle get ready to come north because some of us are coming south.

here is the link again.
J30 NW events

Awsome you dont even have to hit save it saves when you hit enter

lets have a beer at the boat show in Jan and figure out what we want to do.

Grady chime in any time.