Thinking of attending the “Boat Handling & Sail Trim” seminar on Sunday, March 15, at BCYC? Please be aware that the price increases after Wednesday. Registering before the price increase is very helpful as I need to guarantee a minimum head count for food and beverages on Wednesday, and I will go to print with the materials on Friday. While I always plan for some late registrations, and even some walk-ins, I only print a few extra copies. Registering before Thursday will guarantee that a book will be ready for you at the door.

This is the only scheduled presentation of this seminar in 2020 , so if you want to really up your game this year we hope to see you there!

Click here for the event page.

Having been replaced by the first H20 National Class Championship last year, the W.D. Schock Memorial Regatta is back this year. This two day regatta on February 29 and March 1 is in memory of William “Bill” D. Schock, father of Tom and Steve Schock, and founder the W.D. Schock Corporation in 1958. The first mass-produced design was the Lehman 10 dinghy. The Lehman 14 was updated to become the Lido 14 and proved a commercial success, propelling the company to become one of the biggest boat builders on the US Pacific Ocean coast. These were two of 58 designs to be produced, which would include, much to our delight, the Harbor 20!

This is a 2-day High Point event, so the winners in both C and B divisions will earn a promotion.

It would be nice to see a great turnout for this event!

Click here for the event page.

We hope to see you there!

Many of you had the opportunity to get to know P.J. Kohl, father of Mike Kohl, as they have been extremely active racing together on #396 “A-Tack Dragon”. We would like to dedicate the last Sunkist series #4  to P.J.  this coming Saturday, February 1. We will be thinking of him while sailing, and will remember him afterwards with Mike at BYC.

Posted on behalf of the Fleet 1 Board of Directors:

High Point races are used for both scoring the High Point Series for each division, and for effecting promotions and demotions between divisions. In an effort to even up the size of our racing divisions, provide more opportunity for promotion from one division to another, and to increase the number of skippers who qualify to be scored for the High Point Series, three changes have recently taken effect:

1) Any skipper who has ever been promoted to the A division will never be demoted into the C division.

2) All sanctioned daytime Fleet 1 races with the exception of the NHYC Opening Day Regatta, the Heritage (Summer Party) Regatta, the Flight of the Lasers and Harbor 20s (and  this years NHYC Winter Series #4) are now High Point events. Clich here to see the 2020 Fleet 1 Calendar.

3) To qualify to be scored for the High Point, a skipper must compete in more than 67% of the events. (This percentage has dropped from 75%).

Understanding the “Divisions” page:

Click here to see the Divisions page.

By default, when a skipper joins Fleet 1, he/she is assigned to the C division. Skippers may use the petition process to request assignment to another division (which is voted on by the board of directors). When a skipper is promoted to the next division, an expiration date is assigned one year past the promotion date. During this time, a skipper may either re-qualify to stay in the division (which sets a new expiration date one year out), or may be promoted to the next higher division, which sets an expiration date one year out for that division. There are no expiration dates associated with skippers in the C division. Skippers for which no expiration date is associated in the B division had at some point been demoted from A (and thus can never be demoted to C).

For details about how the promotion/demotion rules for divisions work see the Fleet 1 Bylaws on harbor20.org, or click here.

To register click here.