2021 Series
Spring
Results
Fall Results
2021 FALL SERIES EVENTS PAGE (click here)
Lockwood Family Trophy Application
(dedicated to encouraging youth participation)
Safety Equipment Regulation
Booklet - 2021
Off Soundings
2021 Certs
Off Soundings Club Fall Series 2021
A note from Race Committee Chairman Greg Gilmartin
It’s time to freshen up your sea stories, Captain!
The 83th annual Off Soundings Club Fall Series is
scheduled for September 17-18, 2021 at Block Island. It’s been
over 30 years since the club raced there and around in the fall!
It’s time to Fall Back to Block!
This time will be special.
Champlin’s Marina and Resort will be our hosts as Race and
Party HQ. A special dockage rate is available at $5.25 per foot
for all entrants. Very competitive. Under new management, there
are some changes to make the facility better and what was good
before stays good.
ˇ There will be no rafting. Everyone’s got a space on
the dock.
ˇ Pier 76 is the remodeled, double tier bar at the end
of the dock. Mudslides on two floors! With dockside seating
outside as well.
ˇ The heads and showers have always been the best on
Block and remain so now.
ˇ A café and restaurant complement your stay.
ˇ The crocks will be under the tent next to the pool and
the remodeled plaza provides an open space to spread out and
enjoy reuniting with your favorite competitors.
ˇ We’ve also invited industry vendors to share their
wares and stories.
ˇ If you wish to crash in one of the remodeled hotel
rooms at the marina, the rates have been reduced if you dock at
the marina.
Get on it, Skippers! The time is now. Yacht Scoring is
up and running. Registration is open. The deadline is September
3rd.
Once you’ve registered for the event, go to dockwa.com to
register for dockage.
If you want a hotel room, reserves yours at champlinsresort.com.
What’s old is new again! Don’t let this Fall Back to
Block Event slip by you and your crew.
Fall Series - September
17 and 18, 2021
2020 Series
There was no racing in 2020 due to the
Covid-19 pandemic.
2021 Membership Renewal
You can still pay by check.
$10 late fee applies. $75 regular, $60 for members over 65 and have belonged to the club
for over 25 years.
Bob Bruno
339 East Shore Drive
East Haddam, CT. 06415-5236
Please contact the
treasurer if you have any questions.
Winter Luncheons 2021
There are no scheduled luncheons for 2021.
2019 Series Results
Results
Photographs from the Fall Series
Fall Series - September 13 and 14, 2019 - Shore Party and
Awards Presentation were held at Townsend
Manor Marina.
Day 1 - New London, CT to Greenport, LI
Day 2 - Gardners Bay, LI
Safety
at Sea Video Library - Prepared by Storm Trysail
Foundation - (contact
webmaster for login and password).
This is an excellent source of information, addressing
issues such as man overboard, signals, weather, etc.
Spring
Results
RESULTS FALL 2018
Fall Series - September 14 and 15
Day 1 - New London, CT to Greenport, LI
Day 2 - Gardiners Bay, LI
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RESULTS
Spring Sailing
Instructions
Safety Equipment Requirements
In 2014, the US Sailing’s Safety at Sea
Committee conducted an overhaul of ISAF’s Offshore Special
Regulations (OSR). The USSER is intended to be used by race
organizers, owners and boat inspectors. The USSER is being promoted
as easier for yacht owners to understand and is self-contained and
does not refer to numerous external documents. Race organizers can
then add or delete gear requirements based on the nature of their
individual races.
Off Soundings has created a committee to
review these regulations and determine how best to fit them into the
OSC racing model. Draft D below is now available for review
and comments. It is the intention that these regulations be
adopted starting this year, but only after the membership has had a
chance to have their comments satisfactorily addressed.
2018 Safety Equipment Requirements
SER Discussion Thread
The committee has provided some
answers to frequently asked questions.
Q. Are these requirements or recommendations?
A. Both. Basic items such as: having a
boat that is seaworthy and strongly built, an engine, a radio,
lifejackets, etc. are requirements. Several other items such as:
mainsail reefing, preventer for boom, jack lines, cellphone,
etc. are recommendations.
Q. Will these items be inspected?
A. The concept is for each yacht to have a hard copy of
the document (downloaded from the OSC website). The expectation
being that the OSC-SER would be used as a check list (i.e., a
self-inspection) by the owner/skipper prior to sailing in OSC
races, and that the document would be kept on the vessel.
Q. What about potential liability?
A. We have consulted with individuals in US Sailing and
it is an understanding that what generally protects Organizing
Authorities from liability is the "avoidance of negligence", and
that is usually achieved by a '"best practices" approach (e.g.,
having policies and procedures in place to manage potential
risk).
Q. Why don't we just rely on good seamanship?
A. Good seamanship is an acquired skill. We learn by our
own experience and by the experience of others, and there is
never an end to our learning. We would ask that the "old salts"
embrace the concept of this checklist, submit ideas to make it
better, and to assist in teaching the "up and coming" sailors
how to meet those "unanticipated" challenges.
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