The FD sailors assembled at SLSC, oct 15th, 2006

Next year's calendar is starting to shape up, with a firm date for an east coast North American Championship: May 26-28, Memorial day weekend, at Canandaigua Yacht Club. A three day championship will be followed by a container loading for for 2007 Worlds in Spain. At least five boats will be going over, there may be room for another boat.

A decision has been reached also about 2007 US Nationals. That event will be held at Coronado YC on South San Diego Bay, most probobly the last weekend in September.

The class association owned trailer is lodged in the north east currently. If anyone north of thr Mason-dixen line wants to go to midwinters and wants to send their boat on the trailer so they can fly down, let me know. I will likely drive. If you want to drive even better. I will give you a pile-o-dollars if you do. (negotiable)

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Web site:
Since no one has felt like creating a new Bulletin board for us, I have changed the links to point at Sailing Anarchy forums and classifieds. This is a remarkable sailing free-speech zone, very rich in content, though salty as well.

Trapeze:
Our associate Kevin McCabe has taken it on himself to render the trapeze back catalogue into PDF format. Here is his work so far. File sizes range from 2.4 to 8MB so be aware.

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Trapeze 154 has recently been shipped to the membership. Trapeze 155 is on the board now. If you would like to subscribe to Trapeze join IFDCAUS, the US FD class association. See the membership page at left.

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Sorry about the forums. you will find lots of good sailor talk at Sailing Anarchy .

Trapeze 154 has recently been shipped to the membership. Trapeze 155 is on the board now. submissions by end of september please. If you would like to subscribe to Trapeze join IFDCAUS, the US FD class association. See the membership page at left.

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Gremlin july 29-30
The 30-somethingth and final Gremlin regatta was held recently in perfect conditions. Peter announced that there will be no more Gremlin regatta offered, they are retiring from this field. There is always racing on the lake, every saturday and sunday all summer, and anyone with an FD is always invited to Peter's to race, give a call and one or two locals can be scared up. Nice westerlies both days brought lovely cool dry air, beginning around 5kt in the morning and building thoughout the day to 12kt by evening. 10 races of around 40 minutes each were held, some going clockwise some anticlockwise depending on the wind, as usual this varied around 180 degrees as different parts of the lake heat and cool. Saturday night, a better feed couldnt be had anywhere, Barbara roasted a turkey and fresh picked new england corn, and many other niceties were to be had. Jon and Ann-Marie Evans ran the races from their recently restored 4Winns I/O. Jon put a chevy 350 in it and it is a nice RC boat. The only spoiler was that there were on ly three (3) FDs in the regatta! The Hamiltons came down from Saratoga, and USA-7 was there, but no one else made the trip from anywhere.

Trapeze 154 has recently been shipped to the membership. Trapeze 155 is on the board now. submissions by end of september please. If you would like to subscribe to Trapeze join IFDCAUS, the US FD class association. See the membership page at left.

2006 US Nationals The 2006 Nationals was quite a good time, the Noroton YC is an excellent place to sail. Nine boats appeared with sailors from both US coasts and across Europe.Winds ranged from barely moving to 30 knot gusts. Event organizer Job Sandberg has provided results and statistics and our friend Kevin McCabe took hundreds of pictures as well as assisting on crash boat dury.

2006 US Nationals IFDCAUS has arranged to have this years National regatta at Noroton Yacht Club in southwestern Connecticut,  June 9-11. Notice: Here are the Notice of Race and Entry form in MS Word format. If you need another file format contact the editor .

Trapeze 153 is complete. It includes a feature on the 2005 Nationals in St.Petersburg, with fabulous pictures by Gary Hufford ,  and the 2006 NOOD with pictures by Duane Ehleringer. 153 will go in the mail shortly. Work has begun on Trapeze 154 which will include a feature on the 2006 Worlds in St.Pete and will be published around the end of June.

2006 Worlds is history. It was a perfect event. The Saint Pete club managed the event flawlessly, the sailing center was never crowded, the weather was outstanding, and the racing was thrilling. It is interesting to note that the top seven poitions went to seven different countries. This is of course can be followed by many "if-only" scenarios, as there were quite a few did-not-finishes, even among the gold fleet sailors. There are some photos by Shar Doyle posted at St Pete YC web site http://www.fd-worlds-2006.org/

Pl,Bow#,Sail #,Crew,                                     Tot,   1 ,  2 ,  3  ,  4  ,  5  ,  6  ,  7  ,   8   ,  9  1,41,HUN70   Szabolcs Majthenyi & Andras Domokos           7  (2), (1),  1  ,  1  ,  1  ,  1  ,  1  ,   1   ,  1  2,31,GER87   Hans-Peter Schwarz & Roland Kirst            18  (6),  2 ,  4  ,  3  ,  2  ,  2  ,  3  ,   2 ,(35\NC)  3,52,ITA10   Roberto Cipriani & Stefano Morelli           28 (20),  3 ,  8  ,  4  ,  3  ,  4  ,(35\OCS),3   ,  3  4,62,NED32   Bas van der Pol & Marc van der Pol           29   3 , (9), (6) ,  6  ,  4  ,  5  ,  2  ,   4   ,  5  5,11,AUS33   Ian McCrossin & Adrian Schmal                37  (7),  7 ,  5  ,  5  , (13),  6  ,  4  ,   6   ,  4  6,71,NZL145  Paul Scoffin & Simon Garland                 46   5 ,  5 , (9) ,  9  ,  5  ,  7  ,  7  ,   8 ,(35\NC)  7,93,USA36   Lin Robson & Eric Boothe                     48   1 ,  8 ,  3  ,  8  , (14), 12  ,(35\NF), 9   ,  7  8,61,NED6    Frank Havik & Pieter Zandstra                48 (14),  6 ,  7  ,(10) ,  6  , 10  ,  8  ,   5   ,  6  9,12,AUS37   Norman Rydge & Richard Scarr                 52   4 ,  4 ,  2  ,  2  ,(35\NF),3  ,(35\NF),35\NS,  2 10,60,NED5    Fred Schaaf & Paul van der Pol               63   8 , 11 , 16  ,  7  , (19),  8  ,  6  ,   7 ,(35\OCS) 11,30,GER13   Hans-Albert Koenig & Tom Greten              65 (19), 14 ,(18) , 11  ,  7  ,  9  ,  5  ,  11   ,  8 12,50,ITA7    Alberto Barenghi & Dave Ellis                84   9 ,(21), 11  ,(16) ,  11 , 14  , 15  ,  12   , 12 13,91,USA3    Paul Hemker & Jason Breeden                  85  10 , 13 ,(19) , 14  ,  10 , 15  ,  9  ,  14 ,(35\NF) 14,97,USA251  Tim Sayles & Pavel Ruzicka                   86  15 , 12 , 10  , 13  ,  8  , 13  ,(35\NF),(16) , 15 15,66,NED348  Thijs Rutten & Theo Rutten                   89  12 ,(19), 14  , 12  ,  9  ,(35\NF),14 ,  15   , 13 16,51,ITA8    Leopoldo Biasi & Francesco Biasi             93 (26), 18 , 12  , 19  ,  12 ,(35\NF),11 ,  10   , 11 17,98,USA301  Jeff Wrenn & Chris Wrenn                    108  11 , 17 , 21  ,(23) ,  17 , 20  ,  13 ,(35\NS),  9 18,10,AUS001  Alister McCowan & Andrew McCowan            110  25 , 16 , 17  , 15  ,  16 , 11 ,(35\NF),(35\NS),10 19,64,NED327  Frank Nooijen & Ronald Huijsmans            121 (33), 24 ,(28) , 22  ,  20 , 18 ,   10 ,  13  ,  14 20,94,USA87   Jim Algert & Wally Eaton                    123  24 , 10 , 13  , 21  ,  18 , 21 ,(35\NF),(35\NS),16 21,53,ITA91   Fulvio Colletti & Corrado Cattabriga        129  16 , 20 , 23  , 18  ,  15 , 19 ,(35\NS),(35\NS),18 22,95,USA109  Greg Cole & Duane Ehleringer                141  27 , 15 , 25  , 20  ,  25 ,(35\NF),12 ,  17 ,(35\NC) 23,20,GBR382  Peter Doran & Alex Rogers                   141  23 , 22 , 22  ,(27) , (24), 16  ,  20 ,  18   , 20 24,63,NED33   Tanja Heijink & Nettie van der Valk         147 (29), 23 ,(26) , 26  ,  21 , 22  ,  18 ,  20   , 17 25,03,USA1474 William Hamilton & Douglas Hamilton         159 (30), 28 , 20  , 28  , (29), 23  ,  17 ,  22   , 21 26,65,NED341  Durk Zandstra & Hugo Maarleveld             162  17 , 30 , 27  , 24  ,  28 , 17 ,(35\NF),(35\NS),19 27,70,NZL110  Hideo Tayama & David Stage                  173  22 , 27 , 15  , 17  ,  22 ,(35\NF),(35\NF),35\NS,35\NF 28,77,USA777  Zhenya Kirueshkin-Stepanoff & Ronald Stalman173  18 , 25 , 31  , 29,(35\NF),(35\NC),16 ,  19   ,  35\NF 29,96,USA219  Stan Hyatt & William S. Hyatt               180  13 , 31 , 32  , 31  ,  26 , 25  ,(35\NS),(35\NS),22 30,92,USA7    Jonathan Clapp & Bruce Barret               185  28 , 26 , 24  , 25  ,  23 , 24  ,(35\NS),(35\NS),35\NF 31,80,POL66   Mariusz Moraniec & Lukasz Kalamarz          186  31 ,(32), 29  , 30  ,  30 , 26  ,  19 ,  21,   (35\NF) 32,01,USA1435 Peter Wells & Barbara Wells                 212  21 , 33 , 30 ,(35\NF), 31,  27,  (35\NF),35\NS, 35\NF 33,02,USA1451 Jean J. Jimenez & Matthias Kennerknecht     228  32 , 29 ,(35\NF),(35\NS),27,35\NC,35\NF, 35\NS, 35\NF 34,90,USA2    Adam Levithan & Bill Bernard                241  34 , 34 , 33 ,(35\NF),(35\NS),35\NC,35\NS,35\NS,35\NC

2006 US Nationals IFDCAUS has arranged to have this years National regatta at Noroton Yacht Club in southwestern Connecticut,  June 9-11.

The West coast FD fleet had a nice NOOD regatta in San Diego, CA, March 18th and 19th. The FDs sailed only saturdy and Sunday. the results are posted thus:

2005 Nationals was held in St.Pete FL over the last weekend of January. It was an excellent event with 15 teams from all over the country. The first place team were perenial champion Lin Robson with local hot shot Eric Boothe crewing. Second place went to Australians Ben Moon and Pete Dowdney in a borrowed boat. They have sailed in FDs only a few times before and never together.  The New Zealand ex-pats and 2003 US FD champions Paul Scoffin and Simon Garland took third.

Friday was a  nice windy southerly bft 4 declining to 3 during the day. Saturday was lighter bft 2, which required shorter race courses, but never died out completely. Sunday was grey and windy, bft 3 building back to 4, and really building and clocking around to the SW at the end of the day. The final reach back to the sailing center was a fabulous screaming plane. We passed a fleet of snipes with their jibs winged out, but they looked like a flock of gulls bobbing together on the waves hardly moving.

Here are the results, courtesy http://WWW.SPYC.org :

Flying Dutchman US Championship 2005 SPYC & IFDCAUS 2005 Flying Dutchman US Championship Jan. 26-29, 2006 Final Results Series Summary Pl Sail Crew From Tot 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 36 Lin Robson & Erik Boothe St. Petersburg, FL. 8 1 (2) 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 25 Ben Moon & Peter Dowdney Madeira Beach, FL. 20 2 4 2 4 3 (7) 3 2 3 145 Paul Scoffin & Simon Garland Orange Park, FL. 23 (16\RAF) 3 3 2 2 1 7 5 4 3 Paul Hemker & Jason Breeden New Paris, OH. 26 (16\DNS) 1 4 6 6 3 2 4 5 251 Tim Sayles & Pavel Ruzicka Warrington, PA. 29 3 (7) 6 3 5 4 5 3 6 301 Jeff Wrenn & Chris Wrenn Downington, PA. 40 4 6 7 (8) 8 5 4 6 7 87 Jim Algert & Wally Eaton Coronado, CA. 41 (16\DNF) 5 5 5 4 6 9 7 8 1474 William Hamilton & DougHamilton Clifton Park, NY. 51 5 8 8 7 (10) 8 6 9 9 3011 Caryl Barrett & Bruce Barrett Duluth, GA. 66 7 10 9 9 11 (12) 10 10 10 7 Jonathan Clapp & Dan Vito Pelham, MA. 71 6 9 10 (16\DNF) 9 9 16\OCS 12 11 219 Stan Hyatt & Bill Hyatt St. Petersburg, FL 75 (16\RAF) 16\DNC 16\DNS 10 7 10 8 8 12 1435 Peter Wells & Barbara Wells Rindge, NH 77 9 12 (16\DNS) 11 12 11 11 11 13 1406 David Stage & Rob Martin Tallahassee, FL 87 8 11 (16\DNS) 12 13 14 16\OCS 13 14 1181 Gary Marshall & Graham Marshall Temple Terrace, FL. 100 (16\DNF) 16\DNC 16\DNS 13 14 13 12 16\DNS 15 2 Adam Levithan & Bill Bernard Arlington, VA. 111 (16\DNF) 16\DNC 16\DNS 16\DNF 16\DNF 15 16\DNF 16\DNS R.C.Chair: Pat Seidenspinner Jury Chair: Ann Newton Scorekeeper: Maridell Weaver 29 Jan, '06, 18:23 St. Pete Scorer

Several astute readers wrote to point out the discussion and classified forum outage on Jan 4. This was of short duration and the system is functional now. See all the Sailingsource Discus forums at our host, http://sailingsource.com

2005 Belated Nationals is coming right up in St. Pete, Jan 26-29, together with the St.Pete One Design Invitational. Thursday is registration and measurement day. Come prepaired to present measurement certificates.

See the SPYC web site for the NOR and other dertails

Trapeze 152 was released the first week of January. This completes another volume of Trapeze, now in its 53rd year of publication. If you would like to subscribe to Trapeze join IFDCAUS, the US FD class association. See the membership page at left.