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Eight Bells: Ted Jones

Published on February 16th, 2021 by Editor -->

Ted Jones, sailor and sailing journalist, passed away on the evening of February 8, 2021. He was 90 years old, and after an amazing life, his body finally gave out after battling a lengthy illness. He and his longtime companion were living north of Seattle, WA.

Ted was born and raised in Manhasset NY. He attended the New Hampton School, St Lawrence University. After graduating, he spent several years in the Air Force flying. After the Air Force he joined Tripp & Campbell as a Yacht Broker. Soon thereafter he changed careers to sailing journalist when he joined the staff of “Popular Boating” as their sailing editor.

After a few years at Popular Boating, Ted became the associate editor of “One Design & Offshore Yachtsman” magazine, bringing Offshore to the name. For many years, his column – the Dog Watch – closed out each issue with musings about the state of racing.

After many years at OD&OY, he left to write books on Offshore Sailing and about the America’s Cup. The Offshore Racer was a how-to on racing sailboats well and safely away from land. In 1975, he wrote “Racing for the America’s Cup 1974: A View from the Candy Store”, a look at the 1974 America’s Cup races and the scene around it in Newport. In 1978, he wrote “Challenge ’77: Newport and the America’s Cup” about the 1977 America’s Cup won by Ted Turner in Courageous.

In the 90s, he first wrote for, and then bought Coastal Cruising magazine. Coastal Cruising magazine focused on cruising the bays, sounds, rivers, harbors, and lakes in the United States. The magazine featured stories on unique ports, useful products, maritime book reviews, and entertaining stories from sailors and cruisers along our coasts and waterways. In the 70s, Ted also participated on the administrative side of sailing when he was the Director of Offshore Activities at USYRU, now US Sailing, primarily administering the then prevalent IOR rule.

Ted was a well-rounded sailor enjoying both racing and cruising. He crewed on many of the top boats in the 50s, 60s, and 70s and campaigned his own modified Shark 24 in the late 60s in MORC events around Long Island Sound compiling an enviable record while sailing mostly with his family.

He even tried his hand at yacht design when he designed and built a 30-foot half tonner. He may have gone a bit too far on one extreme, concentrating on reducing wetted surface so much that it had almost semi-circular sections and was very wet and uncomfortable to sail in any breeze over 8 knots. But at least he tried.

In his later years, he cruised his Freedom 33 up and down the East Coast, from Maine to the Bahamas. After getting too old for the rigors of manning the boat, he settled in Mount Vernon, WA, spending the last of his life there.

Above photo : Ted is with Peter Isler who may not have gotten into sailing if it weren’t for Ted Jones.

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Bruce Kirby, sailboat designer whose Laser dinghy became a global phenomenon, dies at 92

Doodling on a yellow legal pad in 1969, Bruce Kirby designed one of the most beloved sailboats in history, a low-slung fiberglass dinghy that became known as the Laser.

Light enough to be fastened to the roof of a car, stable and speedy enough to be used by weekend hobbyists as well as Olympic racers, the boat became a fixture of international competitions and local yacht clubs.

Its popularity established Mr. Kirby as one of the world’s preeminent sailboat designers and enabled him to quit his day job as editor of a yachting magazine to practice design full-time. He had no formal training but went on to create such influential sailboats as the San Juan 24 and the Sonar, a 23-foot keelboat now used in Paralympic competitions.

Mr. Kirby, whose original Laser sketch entered sailing lore as the “million-dollar doodle,” was 92 when he died July 19 at his home in Norwalk, Conn. The cause was congestive heart failure, said his wife, Margo Kirby.

An accomplished sailor who competed in three Olympic Games for his native Canada, Mr. Kirby grew up in Ottawa, listening to radio broadcasts of the America’s Cup competition. He sailed his father’s 24-foot boats up and down the river and began experimenting with hull design as a teenager, while carving a model boat from a piece of pine taken from his aunt’s kitchen cupboard.

By age 15, he was sailing in major competitions, racing a class of 14-foot dinghy known as the International 14. After losing a 1958 regatta on the Isle of Wight, he began designing his own 14s, relying on intuition and a pilfered copy of Norman L. Skene’s “Elements of Yacht Design,” first published in 1904. “If you can understand 50 percent of what’s in that book, you can design a boat,” he later said.

Mr. Kirby was 40, living on the Connecticut shore and editing the magazine One-Design & Offshore Yachtsman, when he got a call from his friend Ian Bruce, an industrial designer who enlisted him to design what became the Laser. An offshoot of the Canadian retailer Hudson’s Bay wanted Bruce to develop a one-person sailboat light enough to mount on a car. As they talked about the project over the phone, Mr. Kirby started sketching.

As he told it , he soon mailed his design to Bruce, along with a note: “If your clients don’t want to build the boat be sure to hang onto the drawings because it might make us a buck some day.”

The retailer didn’t end up making the dinghy, and Mr. Kirby’s plans remained in a drawer until 1970, when he and Bruce built a prototype for a regatta in Lake Geneva, Wis. Aided by Hans Fogh, an Olympic sailor from Denmark who provided a sail and served as the skipper, they won a race and began fielding offers from spectators on the beach.

At the time, their boat was known as the Weekender, a name that was reinforced by the large block letters on its sail: TGIF. It acquired a new, modern name — Laser — before being unveiled at the 1971 New York Boat Show, where Mr. Kirby and Bruce sold 144 Lasers off the floor. Nearly 14 feet long, with a 130-pound fiberglass hull and aluminum mast, the boat sold for $695 each and soon became a global phenomenon.

“From a technology standpoint, it’s a very simple boat, and just a great, great boat to learn how to sail fast,” Scott MacLeod, who won North American collegiate championships in a Laser, told Popular Science in a 2019 interview .

More than 250,000 Lasers have been built, according to the National Sailing Hall of Fame, which inducted Mr. Kirby in 2012 . The 1980 Laser world championships in Kingston, Ontario, drew 350 entrants, and the boats have been used at the Olympics since 1996, when organizers reportedly added the Laser sailing class to make it easier for younger racers to compete without having to buy a more expensive boat.

“It’s very affordable. You don’t have to worry about crew, and the boats are simple,” Jim Brady, an American sailor who won a silver medal at the 1992 Games, told The Washington Post in 1993. “It’s going to make it easy for a lot of younger people to do much better with a lot less money than ever before.”

[ Laser beams in new age of sailing ]

Indeed, the Laser is now used in World Sailing’s Emerging Nations Program, which promotes sailing around the world. In a statement last week, the organization’s president, Quanhai Li, called Mr. Kirby “a tremendous ambassador for the sport,” adding that he “paved the way for generations of sailors who raced and enjoyed his creations.”

The second of three children, Bruce Robert William Kirby was born in Ottawa on Jan. 2, 1929. His mother was a homemaker. His father served in the Canadian army during World War I, ran a building supply company and encouraged his children to join him on the water.

Mr. Kirby, who never graduated from college, got his start in journalism, working as a reporter for the Ottawa Journal before becoming an editor at the Montreal Star. “When there were lulls,” he later told Sailing World magazine , “I would draw boats on these pads that you put headlines on.”

All the while, he continued to sail. Mr. Kirby made his Olympic debut at Melbourne in 1956 — he came in eighth sailing a single-handed Finn, his best finish at the Olympics — and later competed at the 1964 Games in Tokyo and the 1968 Games in Mexico City.

His more than 60 boat designs included Canada I, a 62-foot sailboat that reached the semifinals of the 1983 Louis Vuitton Cup, and Canada II, which competed for the cup four years later in an unsuccessful bid to challenge for the America’s Cup. He received the Order of Canada in 2018 for his contributions to sailing.

By his account, he made “quite a lot of money” from the Laser but stopped receiving royalty checks about a decade ago, leading to a prolonged trademark and royalties dispute with the boat’s European manufacturer. A jury awarded him nearly $7 million in damages last year. As a result of the trademark fight, the Laser is known in official competitions as the ILCA, or the International Laser Class Association.

In addition to his wife of 65 years, the former Margo Dancey, of Norwalk, survivors include two daughters, Janice Duffy of Bethel, Conn., and Kelly Kirby of Wallingford, Vt.; a sister; and two granddaughters.

Mr. Kirby’s wife said he continued to race until about two years ago, following a long battle with knee and back pain. He blamed the ailments on years of hiking, a technique in which a sailor leans far outside the boat, almost parallel to the water, to maintain speed. But he said he found it hard to quit, especially when it came to sailing his beloved Sonar keelboat, which he called his favorite design.

“Once I’m in my Sonar,” the National Sailing Hall quoted him as saying, “the aches and pains go away.”

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Sailing World Magazine’s annual Boat of the Year tests are conducted in Annapolis, Maryland, following the US Sailboat Show. With independent judges exhaustively inspecting the boats on land and putting them through their paces on the water, this year’s fleet of new performance-sailing boats spanned from small dinghies to high-tech bluewater catamarans. Here’s the best of the best from our 2022 Boat of the Year nominees »

As interest in doublehanded offshore racing piqued with the expectations it would be an Olympic sailing discipline in 2024, so too did the development and production of several purpose-built 30-footers. Dehler Yachts, Germany’s big production boatbuilder, jumped into the action with its own 30-footer, and as we’d expect of a Judel/Vrolijk and Co.-designed race boat, this one is an all-business shorthanded racing machine jam-packed with cool features found on grand‑prix boats twice its size.

“You can tell they started with a blank slate because the boat is so well-integrated with the design and construction—from bow to stern,” Greg Stewart says. “It hits its design purpose spot on. It’s a complete small offshore one-design, and it’s obvious there was a lot of development required to get things so right.”

Prototypes and mock-ups after mock-ups were required, Dehler says, to efficiently accommodate a lot of boat handling and living in such a compact craft. Virtually every rope on the boat spills into the cockpit, which is the way of life in shorthanded sailing, where everything happens at the back of the boat. Vigilance with line keeping, therefore, is paramount. That and carefully executed and planned maneuvers. In full-tilt conditions, there will be a lot going on in the cockpit, Stewart says, but everything’s easily at hand.

“All the control-line leads are well thought out,” he adds, pointing to the smooth-operating traveler controls and the individual gross and fine-tuned mainsheet flip cleats mounted on the cockpit floor.

Powlison’s first impression at the dock was that the boat would be challenging to manage, but “once we went sailing, it all was logical. Yes, there’s a lot of line management, but once you’re disciplined to do that, the boat is much easier to sail than it looks.”

With the trio of judges and the owner piled on board during the test sail, it was immediately obvious that two is company and three is definitely a crowd. “It’s also not the type of boat where you’ll want to spontaneously invite an inexperienced crew [to go race],” Powlison says. “You will really need to know what you’re doing, but once you do get comfortable with everything, it will be a really easy boat to sail well.”

Ben Corson, the Annapolis-based owner of our test boat, had spent the better part of a year racing with his female partner and tinkering with the boat, and consequently, the boat is meticulously prepared, race-ready and offshore-compliant. There’s no mistaking what’s what and where—labels pasted throughout the boat identify halyards, sail and ballast controls, safety gear and even the electronics manuals.

As a tightly controlled one-design class with ratified rules, owners like Corson can’t do much to the boat as it is, but there’s not much—if anything—an owner would need to change anyway. Everything on the boat, the judges agreed, works as it should. Adjustable backstays, for example, lead forward to clutches mounted on the cockpit wall, which allows the backstays to be kept taut or released without having to worry about loading to a winch during a maneuver. With the turn of a locking nut on the tiller arm, the steering system can be adjusted to change rudder toe-in on either side. The traveler track runs nearly the full width of the wide transom, opening up a wide range of adjustability for the 361-square-foot mainsail, and as a bonus, small removable reaching struts open up headsail sheeting angles. Stainless-steel foot braces are easy to deploy and stow, and allow the skipper to lock into a comfortable position over the angled coaming, with great visibility over the bow.

When the boat is powered up and leaning on the chine, Allen says, the sensation is exceptional: “This delivered the best sailing experience of all of the boats we tested. It was easy to tack and jibe, it tracked great, it’s easy to get to the sail controls, and we had no problems whatsoever with wiping out—and we tried hard a few times.”

With Allen on the tiller and Powlison managing the sheets as they started upwind into a 15-knot breeze, Stewart hit the chamfered rail. “My first impression from the rail was how high I was and how it was charging upwind—like a big boat. I couldn’t feel the chop, I didn’t get wet, it didn’t skid out at all. I was also amazed at how solid it felt; there wasn’t one bit of pounding, creaking or anything.”

Eventually, Stewart came off the rail and they filled the ballast tank instead—to the equivalent of 400-plus pounds of rail meat. Allen says the gravity-fed water-ballast system took about five minutes to top off, roughly 30 seconds to transfer during a tack, and less than a minute to drain.

“Once we added the water ballast, the boat just powered forward,” Powlison says. “You can really feel the difference when the boat sits on the chine and just tracks straight ahead.”

Impressed as they were with the Dehler 30’s upwind pace, when they set the big red A2 spinnaker (1,076 square feet) and took off down the bay, they had no doubts about the boat’s downwind potential. They only used three of the five class-sail inventory on board, which includes an A2, an A5, a spinnaker staysail and a Code Zero, and if they had more time and distance, they would have certainly piled on more sail area.

“I could see going with the A5, the J3 and the staysail, and maybe a reefed main in a big breeze,” Allen says. “That would be fun—and wicked fast.”

Lightweight and strong is, of course, the holy grail of every race boat, and here too Dehler delivers with what the judges say is an immaculate cored-hull laminate and good detail in the finish work throughout the boat. Dehler was also keen to leave out extraneous weight from the interior to get the boat to weigh in at just over 6,000 pounds. Without any floorboards (there’s thin foam padding glued to the inner hull skin instead), they’re able to get 6 feet of standing headroom at the companionway (which has a sliding hatch hood on rails) and plenty of sitting headroom forward of the mast and into the V-berth.

To achieve a higher level of the camper-sailor experience, comfortable V-berth cushions and removable mesh hull liners are standard, as is a folding centerline table, rounded wooden bench seats, and backrests that double as pipe berths. With storage cubbies scattered about the boat, a marine toilet with a graywater tank, a two-burner stove and two quarter berths, this little race rocket is definitely a legit weekender too. Lithium-ion batteries and a 9.9 diesel with a retractable Stealth Drive shaft that pulls up flush with the hull will get you where you need to go and keep the electronics suite powered up just fine.

The Dehler 30 was a strong contender for Boat of the Year, but the judges couldn’t dismiss the boat’s biggest limitation: It will get hammered by most rating systems, which makes it a one-trick one-design offshore-racing pony. It is, however, an outstanding design for keen shorthanded sailors looking for a race-ready platform for just over $240,000. If—or when—international class racing ever becomes a real thing, the offshore sailing world will be a better place.

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Ratings Racing/Portsmouth Yardstick

Ratings racing is a type of fleet racing and is typically done by a fleet comprised of a variety of one design boats.  This may be a great solution for an organization or location that doesn't have enough of any  single kind of one-design boat to create its own fleet but when grouped together can form a combined fleet.

Portsmouth Yardstick is  ​one of the most widely used handicapping system.  It is based on average historic performance data  ​of a class to assign a "rating" to each One Design boat in the fleet. The Portsmouth Yardstick is a handicapping system that allows multiple classes of one designs and other smaller boats to sail on the same starting line and race course with corrected time results. The winner is determined by the formula provided in the rating rule.

US Sailing has partnered with the RYA to create a more robust platform for Portsmouth Yardstick Racing using the PYOnline platform.

The new PYOnline platform is exclusively for US Sailing member organizations. PYOnline will produce updated ratings for each class after a day or event of sailing.

Key Advantages:

• PY Online streamlines submitting race results digitally, with the potential to update ratings on a daily basis.
• Each Club has their own portal in PY Online allowing local updates to specific classes for better racing based upon local conditions.
• The ratings will become more accurate over time, ensuring that competition stays fresh on the water. This means no one boat or class is guaranteed a win or loss based upon ratings alone.
• US Sailing will update the national ratings for a given class on an annual basis, based upon the ratings used by the individual clubs.

Portsmouth Yardstick racing becomes better, more robust and more fun with more clubs and sailors participating. Please consider adding a mixed fleet racing event or series to your calendar. Contact [email protected] with any questions or to discuss how PYOnline can help your organization.

SIGN UP FOR  PYONLINE

What you need to know aoout the New Portsmouth Yardstick Online. A Q/A with Nathan Titcomb.

CLASS SELECTOR:

A phase ii build out feature that is currently under construction., what class is right for me.

This section will provide sailors with an interactive tool to help sort through various one design classes by answering a few questions. It will enable sailors to find a boat that best meets their needs. Please be patient as we work on this feature.

As we build this out, the search will filter through information based on a series of questions on things like:

• Youth or Adult
• Total number of crew
• Physical stature
• Spinnaker/non
• and other search options

Wianno Senior

Weta Trimaran Class of North America

Sail and Kite Boards

Land and Ice Boat

Nite Iceboat

Radio Controlled

Need to edit your class page? Just send an email to: [email protected]

Don't see your class listed above? Ask your class administrator to fill out the form below:

SUBMIT CLASS PROFILE

FLEET FINDER

THIS FEATURE IS BEING UPDATED - Thank you for your patience as we work on this site.

Are you an experienced sailor looking for a place to get out on the water?

If you are an experienced sailor, you may find yourself traveling or looking locally for a place to race or just go sailing. Visit our FLEET FINDER SEARCH to see what class fleets are close to home or near to where you might be traveling.

Don't see a class fleet represented, reach out to your class administrator and have them contact: [email protected] to learn how they can add fleets to the Fleet Finder Search.

This page is continually being updated with new additions of fleets, so check back regularly.

FLEET FINDER SEARCH

WHERE TO SAIL ONE DESIGN

Class Governance Resources

• Certified Race Officer Insurance.  US Sailing extends its commercial insurance for the benefit of US Sailing’s certified race officers, certified judges, and certified umpires, and to non-certified officials acting as volunteers for US Sailing (collectively referred to as Certified Race Officials (CRO)). Each specific scenario determines if US Sailing’s insurance is primary, excess, or does not apply.  Learn More
• SafeSport -  SafeSport training is a free online course that provides education and certification on sexual misconduct, emotional and physical misconduct and understanding your responsibilities around mandatory reporting. Learn More
• Ten Commandments for Successful One-Design Management by Gay Lynn

Race/Regatta Management Resources

Whether you are running an event for the first time or an experienced event planner, US Sailing has the tools to help you succeed.

REGATTA MANAGEMENT

• Regatta Management Planning Manual
• World Sailing Racing Rules of Sailing 2021-2024
• US Sailing Prescriptions RRS 2021-2024
• US Sailing Regulations - amended February 22, 2021
• Individual U.S. Championship Conditions can be found on the specific championship webpages
• Code of Conduct  Last update- 2017
• Coaching and Support Boat Policy
• US Sailing 2021 - 2024 Hearing Decision Form - Formerly, Protest form used by Protest Committee
• Using Regatta Network part one (5 minute tutorial)
• Using Regatta Network part two (3 minute tutorial)
• Yacht Scoring
• Club Spot/Regatta Toolbox
• Organizing a Great Regatta
• Five Tips for Regatta PR Success by Doug Wake
• Race Management Tips for the Last Day by Jeff Johnson
• Conduct of Championships by Clark Chapin
• The Great Event - an Interview with Phil Richmond, Regatta Chair Extraordinaire
• Find a Race Official  (Race Officers, Judge, Umpires, Classifiers, Measurers at all levels- Club, Regional, National, International)
• Become a Race Official
• Race Committee 101  is a New US Sailing training program that provide an overview of race committee functions for those who are interested in learning more.
• Race Participation
• Participation

Fleet Support

• Start Small with Big Ideas-Starting a New Sailing Club
• How A Boat Grant Program Works - International Lightning Class Association
• Fun is the Key by Dave Irish
• Different Strokes – A Trophy for Fun by Ron Schauble
• Ten Commandments for Successful One-Design Management  by Gay Lynn
• Racing Rules Book Club Article by Clark Chapin

We are in the process of collecting articles and information that will help a broad spectrum of one design classes and fleets with the topics listed above. If you have an article or information that you can contribute to this section, please send it via email to:

[email protected]

Safety Concerns

US Sailing is committed to fostering a fun, healthy, and safe environment for all sailor athletes.

• Covid-19 Resources
• SafeSport -  SafeSport training is a free online course that provides education and certification on sexual misconduct, emotional and physical misconduct and understanding your responsibilities around mandatory reporting
• Life Jacket Association -COVID-19 Virus: Cleaning & Storing your Life Jackets
• MTI Lifejackets - COVID-19: Recommended Methods for PFD Sanitization
• Traveling with your Inflatable Lifejacket
• Cold Assessment Reference Card- Hypothermia
• US VHF CHannel Information

US Sailing Facebook One- Design Forum

• Are you a One Design Class Leader looking to share information or learn from other class leaders? Our US Sailing One Design Class Committee created a private group on Facebook to share best practices, learn from others and grow your class.
• This group is private and by invitation only. Invitations are being sent to the lead administrators for all US Sailing member classes. We have created a place where is it easy to ask questions and share ideas and/or challenges with others who have similar perspectives as you.
• Class leaders will have the opportunity to invite another class member to the group once the initial emails have been sent.
• Please note that you must have your own Facebook account to join a group.

Rules Related Topics

What you need to know about APPEALS

2021-2024 US Sailing Prescriptions

Dave Perry's Understanding the Racing Rules of Sailing Products

• Sampling of Dave Perry's Rules Quizzes

Rules Related Publications

• US Sailing 2021 - 2024 Hearing Request Form Formerly, Protest Form

Tools for Organizing Your Team:

Crew Manager Providing a boat website with features the skipper and crew will use throughout the sailing season. https://crew-mgr.com/

CrewSignUp Enabling crew members to indicate their availability and you to select who will race. http://drapers.us/crewsignup/

Phlotilla Providing an extensive set of crew / team management tools. https://phlotilla.com/

RailMeets Bringing crew and captains one click closer. https://railmeets.com/

RegattaBoard Crew Finder - Short Notice https://www.regattaboard.com/

SailConnect Helping everyone spend less time organizing and more time on the water. https://sailconnect.com/

TeamSnap Taking the work out of play. https://www.teamsnap.com/

Crew Medical & Health Insurance - Specialized health insurance with worldwide overage for professional sailors, coaches, instructors, Olympic team members, collegiate sailing athletes, paid crew/captains, and international cruisers who are members of US Sailing.  Learn More .

One Design Insurance Program.  Specialized insurance for one-design boats under 30-feet. Can be purchased online.  US Sailing members may be eligible for a10% discount.   Learn More .

Tuning Tips

Content to follow - under construction

Calibrating Your Rig On The Fly

• Tuning Your Boat for Performance by Chris Snow
• Finn Gybing with plenty of breeze on! 30 Knot Gusts!
• Steering in waves
• Finn Pumping explained by Ben Ainslie ,
• Steering in waver
• Finn tacking tips
• Light wind sail trim/speed training Fin Club Holland
• Dinghy Academy: Finn free pumping in 20 knots, a hard day at work...

Tactics & Strategy

Content under construction

• North U is offers live and on-demand webinars on tactics and sail trim. US Sailing members are being offering special pricing on these sessions. Visit the North U website and use promo code  USS20NU  to save 25% and gain access. The North U Trim Webinar is a series of 4 sessions. Purchase individual sessions at $30 each (regularly $40) or all 4 session for $108.75 (regularly $145).
• Youth Racing Central - US Sailing Members Only Feature- Login with your member ID and password- Youth and Adults Welcome

Youth/Adult - Learn to Sail- Getting Started

First Sail Opportunities/Locations

First Sail Locations

• Small Boat Instructor Programs
• Keelboat Instructor Programs
• Teach Sailing the Fun Way for Instructors
• Safety as Sea - Our Safety at Sea experts set high standards for the most authoritative and proven methods for keeping sailors safer while they enjoy the sport. Countless hours of research conducted by our dedicated volunteers have allowed US Sailing to provide instructional materials, publications, courses and seminars that are made available to all interested sailors. These educational opportunities include our widely popular Safety at Sea Courses.

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U.S. Championships, Olympics, World Events

• What Are My Options
• 5 US Sailing Youth Championship Events
• 10 US Sailing Adult Championships
• Hosting a US Sailing Championship
• Three Planning Calendar
• US Sailing Area Map and Representatives
• Olympic Development Program
• Filing World Events with US Sailing - https://form.jotform.com/73543790646162
• Check to see if your event has been add- CLICK HERE
• *National Class Championship Events do not need to be approved through this process.

ATTENTION - N.I. E. Applications no longer a required travel document for Entry to U.S.A.

On November 8, 2021, at 00:01, Presidential Proclamation Advancing the Safe Resumption of Global Travel During the COVID-⁠19 Pandemic goes into effect.   All previously issued NIEs are void as of this date regardless of stated validity.   

You can find out more about the new travel requirements  here.  Travelers can check what COVID documentation they will need  here.

This change eliminates the National Interest Exemption process for upcoming regattas/events in the US.

Stay Healthy - Fitness and Training

• The Starboard Portal Fitness Friday with Sailing Performance Training CLICK HERE scroll down to the Fitness Section on the page for a complete list of videos. Tune in for live classes each Friday.

Sailing Workout Plan: The 15 Best Home Exercises for Sailors - YouTube

Fitness Top Tips with Finn Sailor Andrew Mills - Pumping Iron with the British Sailing Team - YouTube

E-Newsletter

The one design line archived issues, archived editions of the one design line:, issue no. 01 - july, 2020, issue no. 02 - september, 2020, issue no. 03 - october, 2020, issue no. 04 - november, 2020, issue no. 05 - december, 2020, issue no. 06 - february, 2021, issue no. 07 - may, 2021, issue no. 08 - june 2021 - team racing, issue no. 09 - july 2021 - special olympic edition.

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One Design Experiences with  

My class, my story : the comet.

'One sailor’s Deep connection to his beloved one-design class serves as an example of why we sail the boats we do.'

By Dave Reed

We all have it: that human fascination with the new. Even the cereal I’ve been eating for years is now “new and improved” (which makes we wonder whether Quaker has been selling me an inferior breakfast all these years). I digress. Our curiosity is for new, new, new, all the time. New boats, new races, new classes, new experiences — you name it. We fill our social media feeds, our websites and even the pages of this magazine with new things. And while we’re all so focused on the new, it’s easy to ignore the older classes, boats and fleets that the majority of racers hold near and dear. Click here to continue reading.

If you are interested in submitting a My Class, My Story article, contact: [email protected]

My Class, My Story ARCHIVES

• My Class, My Story: Interlake by Erika Seaman
• My Class, My Story: The Day Sailer by Erika B Seamon
• My Class, My Story: E-Scow by Rachel Beers
• My Class, My Story: The Comet by Dave Reed
• My Class, My Story: DN Iceboat by Pete Pierce
• My Class, My Story: The Ensign by John Cutler

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Professional BoatBuilder Magazine

Survivor i: dennis choate.

By Dan Spurr , Nov 10, 2016

Editor’s Note: The following article first appeared in Professional BoatBuilder issue No. 126. It is one of a series we’ve published since the Great Recession of 2008, profiling boat builders who have managed to stay in business despite challenging economic circumstances. 

Transom extensions are a common upgrade on older yachts. Dencho Marine recently extended a Doug Petersen–designed and Southern Ocean Shipyard–built 62-footer (19m) by 3′ (0.9m). The complicated, flush, opening transom door was designed and built in Choate’s shop.

On a recent tour of marine businesses in the greater Los Angeles area, I stopped in to visit with Dennis Choate, a longtime boatbuilder in Long Beach. Operating under the name Dencho Marine, he’s located in an industrial zone a few miles from the water. In business since 1973, Choate has built an enviable list of boats large and small, sail and power, working mainly in glass, but adept as well at metalwork, wood, and, today, advanced composites like carbon fiber.

Dennis Choate

He’s also a longtime sailor, having skippered the 48 ‘ (14.6m) Arriba , which he built, to victory in the 1979 Transpac Race. When he was younger, Choate enjoyed great success in local and in what he calls “the Mexican races,” and once was named Yachtsman of the Year by One Design & Offshore Yachtsman magazine (which over time morphed into Sailing World) .

A list of his past projects is impressive: numerous well-known West Coast raceboats like Pelegroso , Cottontail , and Magnitude 80 ; five Robert Perry designs, including the 59 ‘ (18m) high-performance sailboat Starbuck and the 75 ‘ (23m) motor­yacht Victoria ; powercats from 22 ‘ to 75 ‘ (6.7m to 23m); a wet-preg carbon Andrews 70 (21m); plus transom extensions, hard dodgers, and cockpit expansions on all sizes of boats; numerous refits and repairs; and a variety of other work. Choate also showed me photos of large floating foam-and-wood docks he’d recently built for a Long Beach business.

In this difficult economy, you take what you can get and are happy for it.

The pert gaffer in build at Dencho was designed by Robert Perry as a day boat for a Louisiana physician. Choate built the carbon rig; it was easier and faster to make in-house than try to find one already manufactured by a sparmaker—if one even existed.

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At the time of my visit, Choate had a half-dozen projects under way—enough to keep about 12 employees busy. That number’s down from the 25–30 crew he had for 30-plus years. Some workers have been with him 20 years and more. Surprisingly, he said he has never had to lay anyone off, and only reduced his work force through attrition.

Dencho Marine’s property amounts to 20,000 sq ft (1,860m 2 ), about half inside and half outside. The pad is all concrete with removable sections over which Choate can position sailboats with their keels in the pit, thereby lowering the height of the hull and deck for easier and safer access.

Over one pit was a 20 ‘ (6.1m) gaff-rigged sloop—essentially a daysailer—that Robert Perry designed for a New Orleans physician. All the doctor wanted was a portable toilet in the small cabin, but Perry decided to add V-berths, “a rack for binoculars, ChapStick, flashlight, and a corncob pipe or two, and some lockers for the Dinty Moore.” Auxiliary power is a Torqeedo electric outboard motor.

The 77′ (23m) Alchemy, designed by Alan Andrews and built by Dencho Marine, finished first in the 2003 Chicago–Mackinac Race. Her retractable keel adjusts from 9.5′ to 14′ (2.9m to 4.3m).

The fiberglass hull was laminated over a male mold. To save money, Choate lofted the boat manually—“though,” he says, “most builds today are done from computer offsets. It’s been maybe eight years since we lofted a boat. We didn’t ask Bob [Perry] for offsets, because we were looking for a job and trying to save the customer some money. How many people are looking for a 20 ‘ custom boat?” Both Choate and Perry were happy to get the work.

“It’s always fun to work with Dennis,” says Perry. “He has a lot of experience and contributes ideas to the project.”

To save weight, the spars and bowsprit are carbon fiber, made by Dencho Marine in two halves. A master of improvisation and flexibility, Choate modestly explains: “We’ve made a couple of carbon spars. The quotes we were getting [from sparmakers] were for spinnaker poles; we could go only so far, so we said, ‘Hey, we’ll make it ourselves.’ Because if it gets to be a science project for somebody, it’s not cost effective. Our preference is always to buy from a specialist like Hall Spars. But this particular spar was only 27 ‘ [8.3m] long. You can get a really good spar for a Santa Cruz 70. But if you have a 56 ‘ [17m] cruising boat, they’re not out there: either too big, too small, too many spreaders.… In those cases, including this little gaffer, we’ll just make a mold and make our own.”

Magnitude 80 (24m) at left, and her 35′ (10.7m) powercat tender, below, were designed by Alan Andrews and built by Dencho Marine in 2004. Magnitude 80, created for flat-out speed, has a Baltek SuperLite core; all-carbon laminates (engineered by High Modulus) in a PRO-SET epoxy matrix; a canting keel with bulb (Dirk Kramers, structural consultant); a daggerboard; a retractable sprit; and a Cummins 1.7 MS diesel auxiliary with retractable outdrive. The tender was built with E-glass, SuperLite balsa core, and vinyl ester resin.

Carbon prices have been coming down a bit, Choate says, and he’s using carbon for applications other than spars. “We haven’t put a foot of metal chainplate in a boat in five years. Now it’s all composites.”

Dwarfing the little daysailer, a 62 ‘ (19m) Doug Peterson–designed cruising sailboat sat alongside it in the yard. Originally built by Southern Ocean Shipyard, in the United Kingdom, Dencho gutted her interior and extended the transom 3 ‘ (0.9m). To improve performance, a Dencho crew was fabricating a new keel with a steel fin, lead bulb, and fuel tanks inside. Keels, Choate says, are the biggest metal jobs he tackles. For such work, a trailer at the back of the property contains a small machine shop, equipped with a lathe, drill press, and other tools.

To reduce costs, Kevin McCarthy, the owner of the Peterson, was assisting Choate’s crew as he hustled in and out of the shop with drawings in hand. He and his wife hope to head for Mexico later this year. Not many yard owners agree to have customers working on their own boats, but if you want the work, why send them somewhere else?

On the opposite side of the building was an old Cal 36 (10.9m) that had undergone a total refit. The owner loves the boat and decided to invest in a new interior and paint job rather than buy a new yacht. The bulkhead and other tabbing were in poor shape, so Dencho had removed, remade, and reinstalled all the plywood parts.

Choate can set up a spray booth anywhere in the yard. He works with all the major brands of paint, noting that Awlgrip, Imron, Sterling, and others seem to age differently. One might have the highest gloss when new, but after five years might fade more than another brand. Choate takes special pride in paint jobs, and if the Cal 36’s deep-blue Imron coating was representative, then he has every reason to be proud.

In one corner of the yard was the tooling for a 22 ‘ (6.7m) power catamaran, and next to it the first hull taken from it—unfinished. The customer ran out of money.

Nearby was a Phoenix sportfisher man whose diesel fuel tank had rup tured and caused a mess inside. Choate was critical of some of its systems and construction: automotive hoses, undersized rudders, coarse chop in the laminate that wouldn’t wet out. In fact, Choate sees a lot of substandard work brought to his door, and while it provides him work and income, he’d prefer to see builders do better by their customers.

Another example lay on a table in the shop: a broken daggerboard from a catamaran. On inspection it was easy to understand why: no stiffening structure inside, just the thin fiberglass skins and high-density foam. Under load, the daggerboard sheared. Choate shakes his head. He’s critical of inexperienced customers who go to inexperienced builders to save money, and then have problems. “A new builder takes on a project he doesn’t know how to do,” he says, “and everything is an adventure.”

By “adventure” Choate doesn’t mean fun .

Suppliers, Then and Now

Choate talked at length about changes he’s witnessed in the way suppliers support customers like Dencho Marine. The rise of the Internet, and the determination to cut expenses, have led many companies to eliminate field reps and pull those duties in-house, often relying on their Web sites to approximate the same job. To listen to Choate, that isn’t working.

“We used to have the Barient rep in here all the time,” he begins, “and the Barlow rep. All our suppliers. They’d ask, How’re you doing? What do you need? What can we get you? Let me help you.

“We got help from our suppliers. I can’t tell you how many boats that Barient people like Don Vaughn laid out, or Dick Sea when he joined Lewmar. When Harken started making hardware, Don Whelan would come up. Those days are gone.”

The Peterson cruising boat also got a new steel keel, with a ballast bulb for improved performance and internal tanks to centralize weight.

Choate appreciated the reps because they’d show him the latest gear, recommend models based on calculated loads, order everything needed to rig the boat—including the right size fasteners—and then deliver the order themselves. They’d bring the box on deck, show Choate every part, and help him determine where every one should be mounted, taking into account critical factors such as proper line leads.

“Building a boat then was a collective effort,” Choate continues. “Even the engine people would come to the shop to help solve problems: ‘Let’s try this shaft, or modify the beds this way.’ The sailmaker would say, We gotta do this, we gotta do that.

“It’s all in-house now. If we have a technical question, no one can give us an answer. We order off a Web site and then wait to see what we get. We can’t get all the pieces of hardware together at once, even for a little 20-footer. It comes in dribs and drabs. We have to check to make sure each block is what we ordered. Each comes in a plastic bag with no instructions; they don’t even tell you whether the fasteners are metric or SAE. Before, we’d say to the rep, ‘When you get all the hardware organized, bring it up here.’ We’d have a day together when we put it on the boat and place everything and decide where to drill.

The Cal 36 (10.9m) was a popular model built by Jensen Marine in the late 1960s. Rather than buy a new boat, the owner of this Cal opted for a restoration that included rebuilding the interior, and a new polyurethane paint job.

“The fiberglass suppliers, the carbon suppliers, they used to be here all the time, too, explaining their products and how to use them. We don’t have that anymore. Just to get the materials to do a repair job, I could spend three days on the phone trying to locate what I need.

“We used to have electronics reps helping our customers. Now we’re sourcing out electronics, trying to get the best price. You order off the Internet, a box arrives, and you open it to see what you got. Is this five prong or three prong? You spend two days trying to find an adapter to make the five prong fit the three prong. Nothing is complete. Say you buy an engine. Where’s the harness? Didn’t it come with it? You call the company and they tell you, ‘Well, you didn’t read the paperwork.’

“It’s like a surprise. We got the resin, but where’s the catalyst?”

On the Economy

Choate, his customer Kevin McCarthy, and I are standing in the shop talking about the state of the economy and the marine industry in particular. The word is, I say, that boat owners may not be buying new, but are investing in upgrades to their existing boats. Choate acknowledges that this is the conventional wisdom, but with few exceptions he isn’t see ing it. “Here on the West Coast,” he says, “if you go to Ventura, you don’t see any refurbishing. Same in Marina del Rey. I was in Driscoll’s [a San Diego yard] the other day, and everyone is saying what you just said, but our answer is the same: ‘ Where is it? It’s not here .’ Owners are keeping their boats but not spending any money on them, not even on electronics.”

Tooling and a set of composite parts for a 22′ (6.7m) powercat were finished, and then the current recession forced the investor to pull the plug on the project.

It’s so bad, he says, that owners are abandoning their boats, often in the water, and walking away from them because repair costs are prohibitive. At one local marina, Choate says that leaky diesel fuel tanks have caused a toxic situation that the city wants cleaned up, but the owners have no money, so the boats sit there continuing to leak.

Choate had an old abandoned boat on the roof of his building and the city ordered it down. “We cut it up,” he said. “It would have cost more money to have it shipped away to a hazardous waste yard than for us to cut it up.”

“City personnel drive by every day,” McCarthy chimes in.

“I mean every day ,” Choate repeats. “Every time it rains, some guy in a white suit comes over to measure the runoff. It’s part of what we do.”

But I think he means: part of what we put up with .

Doing jobs you don’t like and putting up with regulators come with the territory—the territory of a builder still in business.

And yet, there’s a lot to admire and respect in that.

About the Author: Dan Spurr is Professional BoatBuilder ’s editor-at-large.

For Further Reading:

Survivor II: James Betts in Professional BoatBuilder issue No. 129

Survivor III: Mark Bruckmann in Professional BoatBuilder issue No. 139

Survivor IV: Precision Boat Works in Professional BoatBuilder issue No. 164

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New modular design for offshore floating photovoltaic platforms

A team of scientists from China and the United States studied ways to optimize floating photovoltaics for offshore use. It found that the robustness of the systems was influenced by the size and number of platforms, as well as the types of connections between platforms.

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Researchers from China and the United States have proposed a novel modular floating PV (FPV) solution to assess the behavior of offshore, multi-connected modules under combined wave-wind conditions. The team ─ which included scientists from  Dalian University of Technology  and the  University of Maine  ─ analyzed various types of fixed and hinged FPV systems to determine potential approaches to optimization.

“FPV is a complex multi-body system under the coupling action of wind, wave, current, and other multi-physical fields,” the study noted. “It is therefore of immense importance to develop robust engineering methodologies and models to design FPV systems applied to offshore environments.”

The analysis found that as the number of modules increases, motion responses become more pronounced, and the 2 x 2 platform experienced the most significant pitch response of the configurations studied. The team also observed that the additional movement generated by hinged connections resulted in “non-negligible” dynamic response for multi-body FPV systems, while systems using fixed connections showed no significant dynamic response. In addition, researchers observed that the mooring tension of systems with hinged connections was greater than that of systems with fixed connections.

For this study, the group introduced a novel modular design for FPV platforms that incorporated the concept of semi-submersible ocean engineering platforms. It used a catenary mooring system, which is based on a curve that has been commonly used in bridge, ship, and ocean platform moorings. An offshore site in China’s Shandong province was selected for the study, which used frequency-domain analysis and evaluated the overall hydrodynamic performance and behavioral characteristics of multiple types of FPV platforms.

The researchers created the FPV platforms using cylindrical pontoons and heave plates. They mounted solar panels with an inclination of 10 degrees onto steel trusses above the pontoons, with each steel truss providing at least 250 kW of power generation per platform. Motion responses under extreme conditions were examined for moored single, 2 x 2, and 3 x 3 FPV systems.

“The stability of FPV platforms is crucial in preventing the loss of power facilities caused by overturning and minimizes the damage to power transmission cables,” they said. “As a result, mooring design is critical to mitigate the dynamic response of FPV systems.”

The study emphasizes that heave response is influenced by the ratio of mass to stiffness. Researchers observed that the maximum pitch response for the 2 x 2 FPV systems is “obtained when the wave trough is just at the connection position of the two modules and the modules are V-shaped.” However, adding a third row of modules helped to reduce the relative movements, so that “the maximum pitch motion of the 3 x 3 platform” was less than the maximum of the 2 x 2 platform.

Based on their analysis, the team recommends an installation angle of at least 15 degrees for a multi-body FPV system, to reduce both motion and structural responses.

The group’s findings are available in the study “ Assessing the dynamic behavior of multiconnected offshore floating photovoltaic systems under combined wave-wind loads: A comprehensive numerical analysis ,” published in  Sustainable Horizons .

“Optimization of mooring systems could be conducted to further enhance the performance and reduce platform motion responses, such optimizations can lead to potential cost savings, making the overall system more economically viable,” they concluded.

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Serbian Leader Says Kushner Deal Is Not an Effort to Influence Trump

After news reports that Jared Kushner plans to redevelop a site in Belgrade bombed by NATO in 1999, Serbian politicians clashed over whether the deal was appropriate.

By Eric Lipton

Reporting from Washington

The president of Serbia on Monday batted away any suggestion that he might have intentionally tried to steer a valuable real estate project in Serbia’s capital to Jared Kushner, Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law, in an effort to influence Mr. Trump should he return to the White House.

“I died laughing,” the Serbian leader, Aleksandar Vucic, said at a rally, referring mockingly to news reports that Mr. Kushner was close to an agreement to invest $500 million in redeveloping a high-profile site in central Belgrade, the capital. “I read in some papers that I used this for a political influence on Trump, that corrupted America or someone in America. I am a miracle. It is incredible what all I can do.”

Mr. Kushner, who was a senior White House adviser under Mr. Trump, has teamed up with a second former Trump aide, Richard Grenell, on the plan.

The tentative agreement between the Kushner team and the Serbian government would grant Mr. Kushner’s investment firm a 99-year lease, at no charge, and the right to build a luxury hotel and apartment complex and a museum on the site of the former headquarters of the Yugoslav Ministry of Defense in Belgrade, which was bombed by NATO in 1999.

News of the proposal provoked strong objections on Monday from opposition party leaders in Serbia during a meeting of the parliament .

Opposition party leaders said they had not been properly informed of the plan and called it inappropriate that an American company owned by a Trump family member would be allowed to earn profits off a site that a United States-led coalition bombed 25 years ago.

“It shows so much absence of dignity, feeling for the country,” said Aleksandar Pavic, a member of parliament from an opposition party not aligned with Mr. Vucic. “It is a shame and a slap in the face.”

Mr. Pavic said he and his party colleagues might not support the nomination of a new leader aligned with Mr. Vucic to serve as the president of the Serbian parliament in part to protest the redevelopment proposal.

Mr. Vucic, at his separate event, said he was “partially familiar” with the proposal by Mr. Kushner. But he said the specifics of the deal were being handled by the finance minister, Sinisa Mali.

“I know when he does something he does the work safely, cleverly, seriously and responsibly,” Mr. Vucic said of Mr. Mali, whom Mr. Grenell has described as a personal friend.

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The photo was displayed on Monday by another member of parliament , Aleksandar Jovanovic, who made fun of the friendship between Mr. Grenell and Mr. Mali.

“I ask all M.P.s, who is in favor of the General Staff be donated to American offshore companies, please raise your hand,” Mr. Jovanovic said, referring to the members of parliament and the General Staff Building, which is the name used in Serbia for the former military headquarters. None of the members of parliament were seen raising their hands.

Dragan Djilas, the leading opposition party leader in Serbia and the former mayor of Belgrade, said in an interview on Monday that “we will try to stop this,” referring to the proposed project. “How can you give somebody land, totally free?” he said.

Mr. Kushner and Mr. Grenell, in interviews, said the project was a way for the United States to help address the scars left by the NATO bombing, adding that profits from the redevelopment of the government-owned site would be shared with Serbia.

“The opportunity to have American investors redevelop the former military headquarters of the government of Yugoslavia symbolizes the tremendous progress that has been made to heal the wounds from the past,” Mr. Grenell said. “This project will turn a symbol of previous conflict into a bridge of friendship and renewal.”

The project in Serbia is one of three that Mr. Kushner and Mr. Grenell are trying to develop in the region, with two others planned in Albania. Their total investment in the region for luxury hotels and related developments would be worth about $1 billion, company officials have said.

Eric Lipton is an investigative reporter, who digs into a broad range of topics from Pentagon spending to toxic chemicals. More about Eric Lipton

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