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2013 SCORES

2013 YRALIS Perpetual Day Racing Trophy Scoring 06/14/13

2013 Distance Racing Scoring 06-02-13

YRALIS is on FACEBOOK!

YRALIS has launched its own FACEBOOK page. For those with a

FACEBOOK account, type

The Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound

in the Search bar and LIKE US!

For those of you without a FACEBOOK account, either talk to

those younger crew who seem to know how to do everything and

have them help you. Alternatively, Google FACEBOOK and click on Help.

For more information on the YRALIS FACEBOOK page, click here.

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Want to sell a boat or a set of sails? Maybe some nautical items that you don't need any longer?

POST A CLASSIFIED AD

on the YRA website.

IT'S FREE TO YRA MEMBERS!

Just click on the link at the top of this page for more information!

2013 YRALIS Handicap Racing Schedule

KATTACK TRACKING SYSTEM

The YRA-LIS purchased the Kattack Sail Tracking Program (click here to go to the website) for 2013 and is making it available to all YRA members and Member Clubs for free! Kattack is an easy-to-use, affordable application that provides entertaining and enlightening sailboat race playback for yacht clubs, fleets, sailing schools, college programs and regattas. Kattack has the ability to keep record of all boats participating in a race in a standard GPS data format and report it in both a review and real time aspect. Kattack’s low cost smart phone app (both iPhone and Android compatible) now allows skippers to use their mobile phone in place of a Kattack GPS tracking device.

The YRA successfully tested the Kattack Sail Tracking Program at the 2013 American Yacht Club Spring Series. In the past few weeks, the YRA held two workshops for those clubs interested in using the Kattack Tracking System. Many thanks to Sea Cliff YC and Larchmont YC for hosting these workshops. Now that the workshops are completed, the YRA expects that Member Clubs and One Design fleets will begin to incorporate the use of Kattack into their regattas.

There is no cost to member clubs to utilize Kattack. We believe that skippers will find Kattack to be an invaluable tool to help improve starting, boat handling, tactics and strategy.

For more information about the Kattack System, please click on the link at the top right hand side of this page.

GUEST PHRF Certificates

Block Island Race Week XXV and Around Long Island Race (ALIR)

NOTE: Guest certificates are only available to boats from outside the Western Long Island Sound area and a copy of the

out-of-area PHRF Certificate should be submitted when requesting a guest rating.

The process for obtaining a YRA Guest Certificate:

1. Join the YRA as a Guest ($50). Remember your User ID and password.

2. Once paid, wait a day and log onto phrf.yralis.org. Enter the same User ID you used to pay for your membership but create a new password. Redeem your coupon.

3. Follow instructions for renewing a boat or for obtaining a certificate for a new boat. If you have never had a YRA PHRF certificate, then ask for a PHRF for a new boat.

4. If changes to your boat or new boat, you will be given name and email of handicapper. Email your handicapper

the out-of-area PHRF certificate.

5. If a renewal with no changes, email your out-of-area PHRF certificate to office@yralis.org.

5. Once your boat is rated, you will be able to view, download, print and save your PHRF by going to

www.yralis.org. On top of homepage, go to Racing, PHRF Certificate List.

6. Questions? Call the YRA office (516-767-9240) or email: office@yralis.org

Upcoming Events

6/15 Sat City Island YC - 77th Annual Distance Race

6/15 Sat Setauket YC - Port Jefferson Harbor Cup

6/15 Sat Sagamore YC/Oakcliff Sailing Center - First Annual Alzheimer's Regatta

6/15 Sat Norwalk YC - Chanteyman Cup Race

6/15 Sat Old Greenwich YC - Payea

6/21 Fri Setauket YC - Faulkner's Island Overnight Race

6/22 Sat Old Greenwich YC - Payea Round the Island Chase Race

6/23-6/25 Sun-Fri Block Island Race Week XXV

6/29 Sat Riverside YC - 82nd Annual Stratford Shoal Distance Race

7/6 Sat Fayerweather YC - Sunset Sprint Race

7/6-7/7 Sat-Sun Huguenot YC - Expressly for Fun

7/13-14 Sat-Sun 115th Annual Larchmont Race Week

7/13 Sat Lloyd Harbor YC - 41st Annual Stratford Shoal Distance Race

7/13 Sat Noroton YC - 45th Friends & Neighbors Race

7/20-21 Sat-Sun 115th Annual Larchmont Race Week

7/20 Sat Setauket YC - Distance Sprint

7/25 Thurs Sea Cliff YC 37th Annual Around Long Island Race

8/2-8/4 Sat-Sun YRA Championship Regatta - Riverside YC, Indian Harbor YC, American YC

8/10 Sat City Island YC - Women's Skippers' Race

8/10 Sat Sprite Island YC - 22nd Annual Greenwich Propane Women's Cup

8/10 Sat Fayerweather/Black Rock YCs - Park City Regatta

8/11 Sat City Island YC - 60th Annual Day Race

8/11 Sat Fayerweather/Black Rock YCs - Invitational Regatta

8/16 Fri Stamford YC - Overnight Race

8/16-8/24 Fri-Sat New York YC 157th Annual Cruise in Maine

UPCOMING News......

Block Island Race Week XXV

Sunday, June 23 - Friday, June 28, 2013

SAVE THE DATE!

?The Storm Trysail Club Block Island Race Week will bring back fond memories of its makings when its 25th Anniversary edition gets underway in late June. The biennial event, scheduled from June 23-June 28, already has 178 entered as of Friday, April 5. That is not a typo, folks. This event is shaping up to be THE event of the season. Event Chair, Lee Reichart, commented that,"This year, we are hoping to exceed the 174 participants that we had in the 1965 Race Week." Well, not only has that number been exceeded, there are still racers out there who have not realized that they will be very sorry indeed if they miss this event. Think great Race Committee, great winds, daily awards, Mudslides with your name on them.....there is no reason in the world not to get to BIRW this year.

There will be extra exciting competition for yachts sailing for regional championships: North Americans in US-IRC, HPR and J80; East Coasts in PHRF, J44, J109 and J105; Swan 42 New England and Beneteau 36.7 Northeast Championships. Navigator-style courses planned for Double Handed, Cruising, Classic and multihull. All yachts will compete for the Rolex in the Around the Island Race. All PHRF yachts, racing or navigator, will race for PHRF East Coast Championship on a relative best-in-class basis.

Click on the links below for additional information:

Celebrating the Past in the Present: BIRW XXV

2013 East Coast PHRF Championship

Rocking the Boat

Rocking the Boat empowers young people challenged by severe economic, educational, and social conditions to develop the self-confidence to set ambitious goals and gain the skills necessary to achieve them. Students work together to build wooden boats, learn to row and sail, and restore local urban waterways, revitalizing their community while creating better lives for themselves. Students enter our program as high school students and after several semesters in our student program they may apply for our apprentice program, which becomes an after school job for them restoring boats and working on environmental projects. Once they graduate high school and enter college, some alumnae are hired as program assistants to help lead the student program. Through every stage of participation at Rocking the Boat, students are supported by staff social workers, who provide all students, apprentices, and alumni with the tools, resources, and guidance they need to reach their goals. At Rocking the Boat kids don’t just build boats, boats build kids. Click here for more information.

YRA PHRF INFORMATION

The YRA PHRF system is up and running. Please click here to obtain your 2013 PHRF certificate.

To the YRALIS PHRF members:

The YRALIS PHRF committee made many new improvements over the year of 2012. The process in applying for a PHRF certificate was completely automated.

One of the most noticeable improvements was creating a table allowing competitors to forecast how their ratings would be affected if they modified their yachts with asymmetrical chutes and/or bow sprits.

Please be aware, if a competitor intends to follow this table but also carry a symmetrical chute on a pole, they must declare this and will most likely receive a 9 second penalty. You will notice when you apply for a certificate or renew for one, the revalidation form will now ask if you plan to carry both.

See you out there.

George Samalot

PHRF Chair

Please direct all membership and PHRF questions to Andrea Watson at the YRA office: office@yralis.org or 516-767-9240. She will redirect them to the appropriate person.