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Lake Champlain Yacht Club proudly invites you to our second annual Viper 640 Regatta and the 2015 Viper 640 Great Lakes Championship!
We are a friendly and informal club with excellent racing and terrific race management. Late September on Lake Champlain offers some of the best wind and most beautiful scenery. We are hoping to have guest teams from Canada, Marblehead, Newport, Lake George, Long Island Sound, the Great Lakes and elsewhere.
http://lcyc.info/racing/viper_640
Invitation accepted!! 211 will be there.
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Hey guys,
I run our website, and I've seen a few Viper sailors create an account, but not yet register. If you can please login and register, we can keep building the attendance!
This event is Vipers only! There are no other fleets, and the race committee has the singular duty of serving great races to our fleet. They know the conditions we like, the course lengths we prefer, and will communicate with the fleet.
Trailer and car parking is near the clubhouse and 100 feet from the water.
We've scheduled this event in late September for several reasons. The cruising season has wound down, so the docks, moorings, and parking lots are thinned out. The wind is often stronger than the middle of the summer. The colors are changing on the Adirondack and Green Mountains that frame our beautiful lake.
Please let me know if you have any questions or comments!
Cheers,
Jason
39 is signed up! You guys put on an awesome regatta last year; can't wait to do it again!
I'm pretty sure that 222 will be there but since I apparently have to pay in order for the registration to show up on the website, I need to nail down a couple of things before confirming we'll be there. If you want to create a running scratch sheet on this thread of people who are either registered and/or people who have said they will be there, that would be helpful. Also helpful would be if someone could get the perpetual trophy from Steve Conger to ensure that the trophy makes it to VT and avoid expensive last minute shipping costs. Hopefully Steve & Crew have gotten it engraved and will be able to defend their title.
I see your registration on that page.
To the attendees of our 2014 Viper 640 Regatta:
Greetings from the Lake Champlain Yacht Club
It is only eight weeks until our 2nd annual Viper 640 Regatta, Saturday & Sunday, Sept 25 & 26. In addition, the Great Lakes Fleet has designated this as their 2015 Championship - all racers will be eligible for recognition.
The 2015 race documents are at http://lcyc.info/racing/viper_640
We received many favorable comments after the Regatta last fall about the racing we provided and the waters and settings you sailed in.
We are pleased to tell you that we have the same race management team, and we are eager to give you more of the same. We are hoping that this year our winds will be in the more typically September range of 8 to 15.
We went a little lean on our regatta fee last year, but believe that this year's fee of $100 per boat is competitive. We also believe that you will agree that racers will get their money's worth both on and off the course, in and around the Lake Champlain basin and Shelburne/ Burlington. We will again do our best to provide housing with club members on a first-come first-served basis.
We hope to see your registration soon, and please pass this on to your Viper friends who did not come last year but should have.
As before, you can register and pay online at our website.
In our website's V-640 section, note Jason's clever graphical enhancement of the classic Viper 640 logo with our LCYC burgee.
Dale Hyerstay
V-640 Regatta Organizer
[email protected]
Wow Buttons, you are on the ball! You posted that almost as soon as my dad sent it!
We would love to see more LIS sailors, especially our hospitable friends from Larchmont, come up to this event! Enjoy the leaves changing colors on the Green Mountains to East and the Adirondacks to the West while our top-notch RC team keeps the races moving and the lines square.
This is a Viper-only event. There are no other classes to wait for at the launch, the docks, or the start line.
Saltwater sailors can take a break from tides and currents, and you won't even have to rinse your boat after racing! :) We've updated our PDF about local conditions, so that guest racers can enjoy more guidance about what to expect from the winds and waves on Lake Champlain.
Please let me know if you have any questions!
Cheers,
Jason
PS, if you have already registered, please check the list of registrants and make sure we have your hull color listed correctly. I manually entered it for the boats that registered before last week. We need this so that we get contrasting-color hull numbers for each boat.
http://lcyc.info/racing/viper_640
Signed up and looking forward to it.
Oshunmare (211) will be there! Just trying to get the registration sorted....
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wondering about accommodations for the weekend for this regatta. Is there someplace close to stay or other options? Thank you
Hi Steve,
We have some members offering housing. All the info about housing and other local details are in the General Info PDF we have posted on the event page, including contact info for member housing.
http://lcyc.info/racing/viper_640
Cheers!
The New York Times just put up a great video about 36 Hours in Burlington:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/travel/what-to-do-in-36-hours-in-burlington-vermont.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2F36-hours&action=click&contentCollection=travel®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection&_r=0
Thank you Jason, this was very helpful.
With any luck, we will get excellent fall winds, and flat water so we can sail fast. I'll be there!
Mojito #42
Agreed, logistics are complete for Black Sheep to be there also. Looking forward to a great weekend. Lets get some more boats.
Hey guys, this event is just over a month away! The Great Lakes guys asked us to make our even the Great Lakes Championships, so we would love to see more GL boats register for racing!
I'm also hoping to see more of the LIS and Marblehead boats come up. We have an amazing venue, a cheap event, and it is Viper-only!
http://lcyc.info/racing/viper_640
Please create an account on the website (to keep out spam bots), which I will approve super fast, and then register for racing.
The event is only $100 and you get to race between two mountain ranges on a freshwater lake while the leaves are changing color. Our club is easy and relaxed, but all about racing! There are no tennis courts, no restaurant, no bar, just a big lawn, a an open clubhouse, and easy water access.
This was a different part of Lake Champlain, but check out how beautiful it is to sail on Lake Champlain (today):
https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B035qXGF1PTVl8
Cheers,
Jason
We are now up to eleven registrants with one month to go!
Now up to thirteen!
Jason,
I am trying to enter. Can't find the link. Do you have info on where to stay locally ?
http://lcyc.info/racing/viper_640
General info has details about housing and member housing
Create an account on the website (please use Full Name), I will approve quickly (keeps out spam bots) and then you can use the register link. Let me know if you have any trouble!
Thanks for registering! Joe makes fourteen.
I submitted for sign up last week, I have not heard back.
Nick
#165
Nick, I don't see an account for you on the site. Please create a new account and I will verify it very quickly and then you can register.
Let me know if you have any problems or questions!
Cheers,
jason
You can also email me: my first name at my last name dot com.
Now at 15 entries thanks to Paul Z!
Nice! Getting excited for this one!
Up to sixteen thanks to Nick!
http://lcyc.info/racing/viper_640
Looking forward to a great weekend!
Day one complete! Five races sailed in decent wind in Shelburne bay. Dave Nickerson leads the score sheet, followed by Peter Beardsley and Joe Healy.
Results here: http://lcyc.info/racing/viper_640
After racing, we had a nice meal at the club, an educational chalk talk from the top boats, and then a bunch of us went to the local townie bar, the Old Shed, for drinks, stories, and a few exciting games of horseshoes!
Tomorrow we will probably be racing on the broad lake in more wind and 70-degree weather.
Cheers,
Jason
Day one was light wind in Shelburne Bay, with five races.
Day two was big wind in the broad lake with three foot waves and planing conditions all day long!
We got off another five races with the beautiful backdrop of the Adirondacks to the west and the Green Mountains to the east. We hit 14.3 knots on my boat, but I bet that wasn't the fastest speed for the day!
Dave Nickerson and crew won the event, and the Great Lakes Championship with eleven points after one throw-out, and repeated their 2014 victory at our regatta, with former UVM sailor OJ O'Connell and his father Steve as crew.
Peter Beardsley and crew were second, with Joe Healy in third. Steve Gilbert and crew on Black Sheep showed their big-wind chops and climbed to fourth place, within striking distance of the podium.
The top three boats got cooler bags full of Heady Topper (100 rating on Beer Advocate), and Dave Nickerson took home a beautiful Great Lakes Trophy.
The local Vipers had a blast going against some amazing sailors, and we passed out a huge number of cold Vermont brews to all the visiting teams. We really enjoyed hosting such a great group of racers, and our club is ready to host another great event next year. We got eleven our first year, sixteen our second, and we hope for twenty next year!
Cheers to everyone who attended, volunteered, hosted guest teams, and helped show the local sailors why the Viper 640 is such as great boat to sail and why the class is such an amazing group of dedicated sailors.
Cheers,
Jason Hyerstay
Huge thanks to the Hyerstay family and the whole LCYC team. This is one of those places where you immediately feel at home and would definitely want to be a part of if local. Even better conditions than last time. See you next year!
Absolutely AWESOME time this past weekend, highly recommend attending next year if possible.
LCYC gave us 10 well run races and the level of competition was just right. The membership was so accommodating and nice, the club and grounds are spectacular. Just a great place to visit
Thank you for the mention Jason, we do try to avoid the term 'Chops' around us Sheep sailors as we get a little nervous, if you know what I mean.. :-)
Can't wait to see some of the pictures from Sunday, it was a fantastic day of sailing.
Sadly no video from our boat this year but here are a couple of the pictures I took during the regatta including the chalk talk Saturday.
Here are a few more shots from Gerry Davis on Sunday... I think they are planning on sharing the entire batch soon but don't know for sure. Thank goodness he was out there to capture these images for all of us.
As Peter Beardsley observed on Facebook, yes we over stood the finish line to increase the drama in the picture.. didn't everyone?
We did not, but I wish we had -- didn't know where the photo boat was. Not sure there will be any of us looking as good as The Sheep, but we'll see when Gerry has the final batch. Still thinking that after crushing it on Sunday that The Sheep are in prime form for what could be a breezy Viper NAs...
Photo boat was white C&C 99. Dale took some awesome finish line pics. I'll get them all Sunday.
Peter - we would absolutely love to sail the heavy air NA's or even HPDO but alas not this year.. With luck we will have The Sheep out here next summer for some regional events, you never know.
Good luck to everyone at NA's I hope it is an absolutely awesome regatta!
Here are the photos from Gerry Davis on the white C&C 99 Altair:
http://lcyc.info/files/viper_640/2015%20LCYC%20Viper%20640%20Regatta%20-%20Gerry%20Davis.zip
I will also be posting photos that Dale Hyerstay took from the RC boat on day two.
Cheers!
Jason
BTW, thanks to everyone who attended. We really enjoyed hosting this event, and our RC and race management group really enjoyed running it. John Harris, our Regatta Tactician, who ran the races, spoke at the chalk talk, and wrote the local conditions document, won the summer Laser series at MBBC up here, and with co-owner Dave Powlison (Sailing World writer), won our summer Etchells series. We had some major talent running these races!
For the locals, it was amazing that we never had to reset the course on Sunday in full planing conditions, except to shorten the fifth and final race. That was my favorite day of Viper racing ever. I don't think I've ever had five races in a row where every downwind run was planing and surfing on waves.
Cheers and see you next year!
Jason
If you want prints from Gerry Davis, just email him:
[email protected]Here's a bunch of photos Dale Hyerstay took, including some awesome finish line pictures from the RC boat. I sent this link out in email to the participants already.
http://lcyc.info/files/viper_640/2015%20LCYC%20Viper%20640%20Regatta%20-%20Dale%20Hyerstay.zip
Cheers