Fleet Officers

Fleet Governor
Dave Nelson

Treasurer
Jay Ostema

Secretary
Brian Perreault

Fleet Handicapper
Darthea Collins

Protest Committee
Bill Collins

Race Committee
Jeff Kent

Scorer
Paul Blum

Member-at-large
Melissa Verochi

A Fleet Captain
Joe Vita

B Fleet Captain
(vacant)

C Fleet Captain
Bob Foley

D Fleet Captain
Bob Nelson

NEWS
Wednesday, May 14

2008-04-16

New Season:

The 2008 Sailing Season will kick-off this year on May 14th with our spring sign-up meeting.  The meeting is at the Hingham Yacht Club at 7pm on May 14.  All boats that sailed last year should have received a renewal application in the mail.  You can either mail the application to us or deliver it in person at the meeting.  We will also be conducting a race committee training seminar to go over what is required when performing race committee duty.  Sailing Instructions will be handed out and we will review the changes to this years instructions. 

The tune-up race is on 5/21 with a 6:40 warning gun for Class A.  The first race of the Spring series is on 5/28 also with a 6:40 warning gun for Class A. 

The following changes will be implemented this year:

• Spinnakers will be allowed in the Spring Series.  In past years, no spinnakers were allowed in the Spring Series.  We had received many requests to allow spinnakers and decided to allow them.  It is completely optional to fly a spinnaker and the choice is made each race. 
• To make things easier on the scorer this year, the default racing/cruising score will be racing.  Boats wishing to cruise (not fly a spinnaker) must fly a yellow ribbon (supplied by HBPHRF), otherwise they will be scored using their racing rating.  As in the past, when cruising, a boat is scored using the cruising rating plus 10%, so a boat with a cruising rating of 100 would be scored using a rating of 110. 

The full schedule will be posted shortly, we will be racing every Wednesday night from 5/21 through 9/3.  The starting area is East of Sheep Island the same as prior years.

Please contact me at the email address below if you have any questions or feedback. 

Dave Nelson, Fleet Governor

 

Email Contact: dmch.nelson@verizon.net

2007-11-27

Crew Bank:

The crew bank information has been emptied for the 2008 season.  If you are a skipper that needs crew of crew that needs a boat, feel free to sign up again for next year.

2007-09-23

Chase Race Apparel:

There is still a variety of 2007 Chase Race shirts & sweatshirts available. If you still wish to purchase one, please use the following form to inquire about what's available.

Web Link: www.hullyc.org/chase_apparel_form.php

2007-09-16

2007 Chase Race:

Thanks to all the HBPHRF members that came out to for the Chase Race. A brisk fall day made for a fast day on the water.

Congrats to Hingham Bay sailors: Ken Wilson, Steve Johnson, Bob Cunningham for winning their respective fleets.

The club trophy was won by Hull YC, followed by Cottage Park and Hingham.

Results can be viewed on the Hull YC website.

Web Link: www.hullyc.org/chase.shtml

2007-09-01

Practical Sailor Articles:

If you are a subscriber to Practical Sailor and you don't want to dig through all your old issues to find an article, here is a tool that may help narrow down the search for whatever subject you are looking for. The index currently covers April 2002 to the present (with some but not many gaps).

Web Link: www.hbphrf.org/PHRF/search_ps_articles.php

2007-08-16

Photos from 8/15:

There was a photographer out taking pictures of the racing on 8/15. He got some nice shots, check them out at the link below. If you see something you like you can purchase the photo from their website. The prices are more reasonable than most other photographers.

Web Link: www.photoreflect.com/pr3/thumbpage.aspx?e=3075010

2007-07-19

Tied in knots:

This is a great resource for those folks interested in learning (or remembering) how to tie boating knots. Each knot is presented in a series of photos to make it easy to follow.

Web Link: www.animatedknots.com/indexboating.php?LogoImage=LogoGrog.jpg&Website=www.animatedknots.com

2007-01-22

Mailing List:

If you had previously submitted your contact information to the HB PHRF Mailing list, we ask that you please take the time to enter it again since we are revamping our contact data.

Web Link: www.hbphrf.org/PHRF/add_mailings.php

2005-06-28

Link to Mass Bay Offshore Racing Book :

Mass Bay Offshore has posted their book of racing instructions on their website. The book contains the rules for qualifying for Mass Bay and also contains individual sailing instructions for each weekend PHRF race.

The sailing instructions for this weekends Constitution Cup are on page 39 of the book.

Web Link: www.massbaysailing.org/MBSA2005.pdf

2005-01-10

Rules Quiz:

Test your knowledge of the rules. Take the UK Sails "Rules Quiz".

Web Link: www.uksailmakers.com/RulesQuiz/

If you are interested in becoming a sponsor of PHRF racing by placing an ad in next season's book, please go to the Sponsor's link.

Not that any of you would think of filing a protest, but if you need the forms perhaps for some other race other than a Hingham Bay event, you can download a set of ISAF Protest forms in .PDF format by clicking here.

Need Crew? Do you want to Crew? Use the Crew Bank feature of this website to list yourself or your boat.

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