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Trapeze 151 is in the mail this week. If you have not recieved your copy by the end of the week contact the editor to find out why. This issue includes reprts from the recent Worlds regatta in hungary from Tim Sayles and Lin Robson. They have much of interest to report about new developments in spars and sails. |
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It is also time to begin thinking about 2006 Worlds
to be held in St. Peterburg, Florida in April of next year. The
club has posted a new web site with an NOR and information about St. Petersburg. http://www.fd-worlds-2006.org/ |
NOTICE: Due to the very high probability of Hurricane
WILMA impacting
the Gulf coast of Florida this weekend, US FD Nationals has been
postponed.
The Saint Petersburg Yacht Club and IFDCAUS have reached an agreement
today that the 2005 FD Nationals will be sailing in January of 2006.
The 2005 Nationals will replace the already scheduled "Midwinters" during
the SPYC "Multi-Class invitational", January 27-29th, 2006. The format
will be expanded back out to three days of racing for the FD class, with
measurement and registration taking place on Thursday Jan 26th.
A new NOR will be released by SPYC shortly.
FD sailors around St. Pete are planning some training dates probably
in December. There is also considerable interest in participating in the
St.Petersburg NOOD regatta which is usually held in late February or early
March. contact the editor
for more information on these sailing opportunities.
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| The Saratoga Lake, NY FD fleet
departing for Nationals. It will be slow going on that lawn tractor. |
Observe that it is to be a two day event this year, at the request
of the the other classes. We expect a larger than usual turn out for Midwinters
this year because a fair number of FD sailors fron the north are planning
to overwinter their boats in St Pete and fly down for midwinters.| There has been alot of FD racing around the US this
summer. The usual run of region I regattas, several new venues in California,
MAryland, Kingston, Ontario and elsewhere. there are reported in the latest
issue of Trapeze. This is issue # 150 of Trapeze. Issue number one, a single, type written, two sided legal sheet appeared in 1955, some 50 years ago now. IFDCAUS is proud of its long sustained tradition of collecting and publishing its history and as always invites the public to subscribe and is always glad to see contributions from anyone with current or historical information about FD sailing. |
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2005 US FD Nationals is being held at Saint
Petersburg, Florida in October 20-24. This will be the first warm up for the FD Worlds coming to St. Pete next spring and should be well attended. The SPYC has prepaired a Notice of Race 
and an Entry Form
for the Nationals regatta. Assistance with hauling boats to and from region I, and keeping boats in Florida over winter is availible for anyone who would like to attend the Midwinters in February and the Worlds in April. Contact the editor for refferences if this is of interest to you. |
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It is also time to begin thinking about 2006 Worlds
to be held in St. Peterburg, Florida in April of next year. The club
has posted a new web site with an NOR and information about St. Petersburg. http://www.fd-worlds-2006.org/ |
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Dutch Treat regatta, Concord YC, Knoxville TN May
20-21 |
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On the same weekend six FD teams joined the I-14 class
at the Bay View Boat Club in San Francisco for the BVBC Spring
Regatta. This was a heavy air event typical of this time of year on the
Bay and not many of the boats completed all the races. The I-14's show were
an amazing sight also, at one leward mark every single one of them capsized,
one after the other. |
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The Region I series is starting up soon with
the 45th running of the Cannonball Regatta on Lake Canandaigua NY,
June 25-26th. Ther NOR is availible
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, and see the Canandiagua YC web
site
for deatils. |
http://www.americanyc.com/sailing/onedesign/HPDO-05Contact Tim Sayles if you are thinking of going to this event.
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It is also time to begin thinking about 2006 Worlds
to be held in St. Peterburg, Florida in April of next year. The club
has posted a new web site with an NOR and information about St. Petersburg. http://www.fd-worlds-2006.org/ |
| FDs have been seen sailing on Webster Lake
in Webster, Massachusetts this summer, for the first time in many years.
At least two FD are know to be sailing there, one of which is owned by
IFDCAUS member Frank Sampson who has installed this nice dry sailing system
at his water front home. The lake has an active racing association and there
is talk of holding an FD meeting there in the future. |
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Trapeze 149 has hit the street. If you have
not recieved your copy by the end of June contact the Secretary to find
out why. Trapeze 150 is now in preparation. Submissions by July 15th please. |
| Other FD web news The Spanish FD class association is one of the busiest in the World these days. They are expecting at least 20 boats at their Nationals later this month. They are actively recruiting and supporting new sailors and organizing events. Their web site http://www.fdesp.org/ has some excellent new historical and technical material. Well worth a look for anyone with some facility in Spannish, and plenty of good pictures. |
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Directions to the facility are as follows f rom highway 101 :
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Go to Redwood City
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Take the
Woodside Road exit EAST (towards the bay)
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Stay on that road
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It will become
Seaport
Drive
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At the traffic light take Chesapeake Drive left
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Continue on
Chesapeake
until it dead ends.
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On the
Right
will be a
launch
ramp.
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On the left will be a large parking lot.
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We will assemble in the parking lot at 10:00.
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After several years of talking about it, the FD fleet
finally entered a NOOD regatta in San Diego. Eight FD teams appeared
for two days of racing over the weekend of March 19-20. Despite
forcast of rain storms the weather was just perfect, with winds 10-15
knots and partly cloudy skies. Fifteen other classes were entered, sailing on four circles. The FDs sailed out of Coronado YC, with the Holder 20s and Ultimate 20s. There were also fleets of 505s and I-14s, one of which is owned by Don Meirzeski, who finished 2nd in his class. |
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the editor crewing, sailing Zhenya's second best boat Russhin'
. Zhenya with Chris Wrenn crewing challenged closely in Blue
Max . |
The FD Fleet was able to share the Coronado YC facilities
with the Holder-20 and Ultimate-20 fleets, thanks to past commodore
and FD sailor Jim Algert. |
| Pl. Sail Boat name Helmsman
Crew
R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 Pts 1 USA-40 Russhin’ Paul Hemker Jonathan Clapp 2 2 1 2 2 9 2 USA-777 Blue Max Zhenya Kirueshkin-S. Chris Wrenn 3 1 2 4 1 11 3 USA-87 Diva Jim Algert Michael Schuppenhauer 4 3 3 3 3 16 4 USA-1406 Frontrunner Charley Rogers Duane Ehleringer 5 5 5 5 4 24 5 USA-1451 Defiant Jean Jimenez Norbert Lippert 7 4 4 6 5 26 6 USA-153 Ariadne Doug Dommermuth Andy Sibley 1 nc nc 1 nc 29 7 USA-698 Liberty Vladimir Rivkin Mark Glines nf 6 6 7 6 34 8 USA-195 Aubergine Greg Whiffen Doug McWilliams 6 nc nc nc nc 42 wind 4 3 3 3 2 |
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2005 US FD Nationals is being held at Saint
Petersburg, Florida in October. This will be the first warm up for the FD Worlds coming to St. Pete next spring and should be well attended. The SPYC has prepaired a Notice of Race
and an Entry Form
for the Nationals regatta. Assistance with hauling boats to and from region I, and keeping boats in Florida over winter is availible for anyone who would like to attend the Midwinters in February and the Worlds in April. Contact the editor for refferences if this is of interest to you. |
January seems like ancient history now, but there were notable FD
sailing events in Florida and California over the weekend of Jan 29-30
| In St.Petersburg the FD midwinter regatta was held together with the Moth, Windmill and Snipe classes. Seven FDs participated. It was a fine weekend weatherwise. On Friday winds reached 24 knots and not many boats finished all three races. Saturday was lighter with winds in the 14-18 knot range, and sunday was lighter still, 7-10 knots. Several crews went home after friday, and the Hyatt's boat, being raced by two Australian visitors lost both crew and skipper to the Gasparilla festival over in Tampa. That is a sort of Mardi Gras that goes on this weekend each year. On sunday Stan Hyatt himself appeared to take the helm of 219, but by then Paul Hemker had gone home due to damage to his boat, so seven FDs only raced in one of the eight races. Complete results can be found at Saint Petersburg Yacht Club's web site . Half of the sailors came from the North and were more than happy to see Florida sunshine after a particlurly nasty January. |
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| At San Francisco's
Bay View Boat Club
on the same weekend thirteen sailors gathered around four boats
to take part in a clinic called FD sailing 101. On Friday the 28th everyone
gathered to set up the boats. There was a 25 knot breeze blowing from
a passing storm and the Coast Guard was warning of squalls, so no one
went out. Saturday the 29th the day began at 9AM with a discussion of tacking and a Q&A session. Then the boats were put in and everyone had a chance to practice tacking in nice 4-12 knot breeze. Afterwards Victor's birthday party was celebrated in the club with dinner and champagne. Sunday's discussion and drills were about setting, gybing and dousing the spinnaker. Fortunately the wind never rose about 7 knots. The Richmond Yacht
club
is having two dinghy regattas this year that the FD fleet might
like to attend: |
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Vlad Rivkin, birthday boy |
The next west coast racing opportunity is coming up in San Diego:
the South Western NOOD regatta. The FD class has been invited to race
and at this time at least seven teams are planning to attend.
The host of the event is the
San Diego Yacht Club
. The NOR is posted at the
Sailing World site
. Late fee applies to entries after March 3rd, sign up today
if you are planning on attending.
Trapeze 148 was posted in January. Trapeze 149 is currently in preparation
submissions to the editor by Feb 20th please.
