Author: Peter Loop

Dear Friend of WoodenBoat,

In response to the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic, and to help ease your time while practicing social distancing, we have decided to make the digital edition of WoodenBoat No. 274 (May/June 2020) free for all to read and enjoy. Please share this digital edition with all friends and family you think might enjoy, or need, a fun distraction.

🖥️ bit.ly/WBISSUE274-DIGITAL

With sincere best wishes from all of us,

Andrew Breece, Publisher
WoodenBoat Publications

The AMYA Board met in a Special Meeting Thursday April 3, about and solely about the Corona Virus COVID-19 pandemic. Participating in that meeting was a medical doctor with a background in epidemiology, and who has been advising the AMYA Officers for the last month or so regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. Radio sailing is a social event. AMYA Members and participants are generally 60 years of age or older. If infected, older people are more likely to become seriously ill or die. There is no specific treatment for COVID-19 infection once one gets the disease. So every effort must be made to prevent being infected, thus the USA and State, as well as local authorities’ rationale for Strict Social Separation.

Model sailing as a group is simply not worth the risk to our Members, in the mind of your Officers and Board of Directors.

The AMYA Board unanimously decided to take the following actions:

1) All AMYA-sanctioned events are to be cancelled or postponed until at least July 1, 2020. This includes all Regional and National Championship regattas.

2) All forms of “advertising” by the AMYA, for ALL sailing activity of every type have been removed, and will not appear for the months of April, May, and June 2020. The forms of advertising that the AMYA provides are the AMYA website’s Regatta Calendar, the AMYA Model Yachting magazine, and the e-mailed AMYA Bulletin.

3) The AMYA cannot ORDER local clubs to take any action. That is the role of local Club leaders. We recommend that all local Clubs consult with and follow the recommendations of their local Boards of Health, County, Municipal, and State recommendations concerning Club activities. Please do not try to find ways around social separation- consider the safety of your Members.

As we go forward, the above actions and recommendations will be reviewed by the Board, with the idea of providing any changes in time for regatta hosts, managers, and Classes to make changes and/or further postpone if that becomes necessary.

Mike Wyatt
AMYA President

Our officers have decided to cancel
remaining Frostbite events:
Mar 29 fun sail and Apr 5 fun sail
This is a good time to check your boat
for wear and tear to be ready for
the summer season. In the meantime,
STAY HEALTHY! – Stan McKay

Schedule can be found at here

Subject to change so check here for updates.

Greetings RCMSC members,

The Frostbite sailing schedule HAS CHANGED:
Frostbite Series #4 moved up to March 15 (this Sunday)!!
Frostbite fun sail added on March 29
Frostbite makeup or fun remains on April 5
All are sailed at Tualatin.
Series #4 skippers meet at 1:00, fun sails begin any time.
Perfect frostbite weather for Sunday: sunny, chilly, windy!
OFFICIAL NOTICE: Our annual meeting will be held on April 19,
the time and location will be announced later.

Let’s go sailing!

Greetings RCMSC members,

Here are results of a beautiful day on the water. The turnout was very good for frostbite sailing. The wind was light, stop and go at times. We tried starting the DF and T-37 fleets separately a few minutes apart with mixed results. Recording scores was still an issue at times. Gary managed to dodge the holes and keep his boat pointed the right way for consistent finishes at the top of the fleet.

Frostbite #4 is scheduled on March 22 with a final fun sail on April 5.

-Stan

We had 13 sailors show for the second frostbite today and we had good wind and very decent weather with no rain.So to start with I am apologizing in advance for the accuracy or inaccuracy of the results as some of the recording was subject to speculation. In the future anytime we exceed 3 boats in each class we will revert to the established practice of separate class heats. That said I believe that what I have figured is correct subject to Stans more experienced handling of the scores.T37’s Gary First  Peter 2nd  Curt 3rd and Allan 4th. Sadly Art is still struggling with his rig and ended with a broken mast and Mike didn’t get past the warm up as his transmitter is messing up. Hopefully the transmitter he bought from Rick will fix his issues.
In the Dragon’s with way more boats in the water, Rick bested Tom boyd with a tie breaking win in the last race. So Rick 1st, Tom 2ndDave 3rd,  Dick 4th, Brad Knight 5th, Rod Cooper finishing the field with sixth.  Curts friend Terry didn’t sail nor did Rodger. Hopefully Brad can figure out how his boat got so much water in it and get that under control.  Thanks all for coming.  Gary

Greetings RCMSC members,
The time has come to renew your membership.
Family $25.00
Adult $20.00
Junior $7.50

Mail your check to:
Stanley McKay
12307 NE 13^th Ave
Vancouver, WA 98685

Please let me know if you have changed your address, email, phone number, or boats and sail numbers.
Also, note your AMYA number, if you are a member.

Fair winds,
Stan McKay
RCMSC Secretary/Treasurer