17 Perry Rd
Newport, RI 02841
USA
This event is canceled
~ Lack of wind! Pat – call when convenient and we'll coordinate cars for delivery to BLM today. ~
Bring your own lunch & beverages and please bring masks.
Wind Direction looks good! Wind Speed is low. I will decide at 0730 Friday and send an email update if this will be a circumnavigation or just a delivery to Borden Light Marina. If just a delivery, we'll coordinate prepositioning a car and pickup. For planning if the sustained winds are projected 6 kts or greater with good direction, we'll do circumnavigation.
Final sail of the 2020 season is the Around Aquidneck Island Challenge. Weather permitting, this is a spinnaker run around the island. Preliminary plan has the route starting at Newport Bridge heading South under Spinnaker, reach across Brenton Reef, reach up the Sakonnet and stop in the Tiverton basin for lunch, then reach over the top of the island and set the spinnaker for the trip down the bay.
The Twenty Hundred Club Around Aquidneck Island Challenge is run annually whenever we want, as many times as we want. This is based on PHRF corrected time and allows a spinnaker and non-spinnaker run. We will start and finish at the Newport bridge and use one design sails with a PHRF rating of 75 Spinnaker, 94 Non-Spinnaker. We will select the class based on crew available.
Boats may start by any of the designated marks and need to finish there. The challenge excludes time through the Tiverton basin. A log is kept to record the time when certain marks of the course are passed.
We will start & stop at Newport Bridge.
Expected elapsed time is about 5 hours.
Be at Navy Marina Slip A49 - Fri October 23rd @ 9:00AM EDT
Club Website: Twenty Hundred ClubPost # 4158
Recent Comments
Lisa flying the spinnaker on delivery to Tiverton
Fantastic weather for a spin run up the bay, followed by dinner at the Boathouse with Lisa, Francis, Pat, Cindy & Bill. The boat is all set for the race Saturday.
A great time and memories on Block Island with everyone this weekend. Here is a link to my photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/mByUFS7qtx2Vdz2d8
The drone we saw tonight was Stephen Cloutier's (Block Island Steve). Here is a link to some great video under spinnaker.
Vento Solare Spinnaker Video
Thanks to Lisa, Kathy, Sue & Gerry Vento Solare was wet sanded in no time at all with perfect wet weather to help. Here are a few pictures from Sue's phone. Thanks for your help!
A fun evening sharing a table with Eric, Mary, Chris, Maggie, Francis, Lisa, Bill & Cindy. Mary was recognized with a US Sailing award as a JYC member for her communications role on J/122 Alliance in the Bermuda Race. Maggie accepted the J/122 Leading Edge third place fall series award for Tom and Diana. The picture below shows Bill & Cindy with the 1st place spring series award for J/109 Vento Solare.