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Speaking of registration, a racer recently encouraged me to get race registrations opened a bit earlier. So I'm pleased to announce that registration is also open for SSS Singlehanded Farallones on...

We are a week away from the "Sort of Singlehanded South Bay" race on April 27, which is intended to welcome new people into singlehanding. If you have only raced doublehanded with us, please try this...

Hello, SSS Racers, and former racers!

In the aftermath of the SSS Round the Rocks race, I thougth hard about why I did not postpone sooner.

Some of it is personally addressable --- I've bought...

Sorry to have missed you, Solosailor.

I'd included a meeting notice at the bottom of the "Sort of Singlehanded South Bay" announcement, in an effort to cut down on spam.

Perhaps the best way...

Hello, all.

The April 27, 2024 "Sort of Singlehanded South Bay" race is intended to help doublehanders get started as singlehanders. It's a for-fun race, not a season counter, so we're doing some...

SSS Racers, especially people that have only raced doublehanded, please consider registering for our beginner-friendly singlehanded event on April 27: the "Sort of Singlehanded South Bay" race,...

Hello, SSS Racers!

I could use your help.

We have a race on April 27 that is aimed at helping beginners start singlehanding in the South Bay.

The last (and first) time we ran this in the...

Another question that came up was class breaks. (Just considering Round the Rocks here.)

Handicap racing is hard because the boats are dissimilar, and unless there's a very big turnout it is...

A SSS skipper asked a question about how we end up in tough tides, and how the schedule is made.

There's a variety of reasons for that, and it might be worth posting them.

Location is a lot of...

Hello!

After Round the Rocks, a racer prompted me to look at classes and how they were done in the past, specifically the class sizes and starting orders.

That was a good question.

I had...

I'm sending something similar to the following to all registered entries for Round the Rocks:

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1) As usual, we will have a...

Hello, SSS Racers!

Seventy-five of you have already registered for SSS Round the Rocks coming up on Saturday, March 16. If you have not registered but would like to do so, please do it now at...

Jan, thank you for coming out and racing.

There are many changes that could be made. How open is the membership to change?

Please reach out to the board. They need to decide on anything big.

I'd also like to thank SSS race volunteers:

All day:
* Carliane J
* Shawn W
* Chris C

Morning shift:
* Jan B
* Brian L

Emailed to racers:

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Hello, SSS Racers

I wanted to say thank you for a good day yesterday on the race committee.

We had 49 boats leave the...

Hello, all.

I asked the board for the late fee. Here's why.

I've been Race (co-)Chair for a year. I've seen YRA and the race information officer give, and give, and give of their time to people...

See you at Richmond YC at 5 PM tonight for the in person Three Bridge Fiasco awards.

Thank you for racing with the SSS.

Richard
2024 SSS Race Chair

We had 76 boats finish in a 20 minute period, many overlaped as per above, so it was very difficult to look up or down the course to see who we'd missed without risking missing the people finishing...

Etc.

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See the Wabbit?

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Look at the white sail number for #38135 Shake & Bake: good size and good contrast makes a sail number MUCH easier to identify. Thank you, Shake & Bake.

Here #9 Errant Belle has just finished and let out spinnaker enough to see their sail number. The boat behind them is finishing and the two boats from the right are about to.

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Dark red on...

A good technique when boats are approaching overlapped is to wait a few seconds and try to identify the boats a little later.

Here's what "later" looked like for the two boats approaching the...

Here's a boat finishing from the right that has dark sail numbers on a dark mainsail. Compare with #3113 Arcadia's numbers on the spinnaker.

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Race Committee request: Please do not put black...

Fiasco was very tough on the race committee, for reasons I'll talk about later, but I wanted to share some finish photos.

If you've never been on race committee, one of the most important jobs is...

Hello, SSS Racers!

I am very pleased to announce that we have a RC boat for the race next week, which means we will NOT be running the race from GGYC this year!

I'll preview the start line...