Penzance Sailing Club will hold a race to Penzance on Saturday 2 September 2023– the Falmouth to Penzance race, sponsored by A2 Rigging and part of the COGS 2023 coastal Series.
Diary
With a range of events taking place throughout the year why not take a look at the Sailing Programme and put some dates in your diary.
Frostbite 2021
Our Frostbite Series is an extension beyond the main dinghy sailing season with racing every Sunday from October to Christmas.
Portsmouth Yardstick (PY)
The Portsmouth Yardstick (PY) is applied to the time taken to sail any course, and the handicaps can be used with widely differing types sailboats. Portsmouth Numbers are updated with data from race results, normally annually.
Learn to sail
Don’t know how to sail?
If you like the idea of sailing, but don’t know where to start, don’t worry. Our Training Group teaches many new members to sail each year.
Cruiser Racing – are you ready?
The new season is finally under way with the first race (E1) starting at 7pm on Thursday, 20 April 2023.
Firstly have you completed an Entry Form for Club Cruiser Racing 2023? You need to do so.
Secondly, as you are all probably aware we have adopted the RYA YTC handicap system for this years racing.
Under the YTC system you are required to declare whether you will be racing using the YTC number (using all sails) or the YTC white sail number (basically declaring that you will not be using your spinnaker or asymmetric sails).
This declaration must be made for the full series and CAN NOT be done per race. So yes you can declare that you will be sailing under the YTC white sail number for the Pursuit and Evening races but race in the Mid-distance and Offshore Series with the full YTC number as you will have hopefully sufficient time to put the spinnaker up and to get it down.
The default position is that we will assume that everyone is going to race using their YTC number and Will be using their spinnaker / asymmetric sails when racing in any series unless we are told otherwise.
We are aware that some boats only have a white sail number so those boats can consider their declaration already made.
If you have both numbers you must tell us the series that you are going to race using your white sail handicap number and will not be using a spinnaker or asymmetric sail.
The above is particularly pertinent to the pursuit race series as the start times have to be calculated using the YTC numbers and it is important that we know which number to use before the series starts as the calculation for the whole series has to be done in advance
In summary please let us know by return email/message if you will be racing without your spinnaker/asymmetric sails and therefore using your white sail number asap.
Lift Out 2022
Sadly, it’s that time of year next weekend.
Pen cleaning happens on Monday 26th September at 16:30, then Colin & Sarah will work out the timetable and positions for the yachts.
Penzance Pirate Pursuit 2021
Our annual 150 min pusuit race open to all monohulls returns on November 14th.
All details here
