As you’re planning your 2024 racing schedule, don’t forget about the T-10 Travelers Award. This award was created was to encourage and reward boats for travelling to regattas outside their home fleet. Eligible regattas include the Sailing World Regatta Series Detroit (May 31 - June 2), Sailing World Regatta Series Chicago (June 7 - 9), Cleveland Cleveland Race Week Week (June 14-16) and the T-10 North American Championship Regatta (Aug 22-25).
CMRC RESPONSE
The CMRC evaluated the followup to our response to the proposed rule change to allow adjustable jib cars to be added to the jib tracks for one-design racing. The proposal was evaluated on the following criteria: performance benefits, cost, safety implications, potential loopholes, and feasibility. The proposal failed to meet the final criteria with regard to the LS-10. If a LS-10 owner were to create a mockup of the adjustable jib leads using jib cars with ball bearings, including where to run the control lines, this proposal could be re-opened for consideration.
RESEARCH AND REASONING
The consensus of the professional riggers consulted during the original response was that to be able to move the lead under load, a jib car with ball bearings would be required. The Schaeffer lead car runs on polyethylene liners and does not have ball bearings.
The official response can be viewed HERE.
The CMRC has issued a ruling to define the minimum size of the openings on the vertical surfaces of the Galley and Chart tables and to emphasize that material used create this feature must be mechanically bonded. The ruling can be accessed HERE.
The T-10 Class Association has opened our 2024 class membership sign-up and renewal. As it has been for the past decade, regular membership cost remains at $50. Members renewing after May 1 will incur a $50 late fee in addition to the $50 membership cost. 2023 memberships end on March 31, 2024.
Associate membership remains FREE!
To sign up or renew, click on the join/renew button in the menu. Or click HERE.
T-10 Class Association Rule 2.5.7 states 'No yacht shall race unless the helmsman is a full member of the T-10 Class Association.'
T-10 Class Association Rule 2.5.8 states ‘No yacht shall race without a current T-10 Class Association Membership sticker placed near the aft end of the Starboard side of the boom.’
The agenda for the 2024 Class Winter Meeting on February 4 can be found HERE. Details to join the web conference can be found at the top of the agenda.
To increase support to class members in the area of measurement, the Tartan Ten board has approved a bylaw change restructuring the Class Measurement Rules Committee (CMRC) and the role of the Chief Measurer. The key focus of this change will be as follows:
Distributing workload over a larger team.
Assigning the previous Chief Measurer tasks and responsibilities to the new CRMC Committee Chair which is assigned to Immediate Past President.
Include Regional Measurers in the CRMC Committee as voting members toward CRMC topics.
Expand Measurement support in each region by finding and identifying 2 to 4 local measurers per region to support local measurement, boat review toward rule compliance and help close out on CRMC top level topics.
Please visit the links to review the new Class By-Laws and Board Org Chart. Details of the changes to the bylaws can be found in Appendix A.
The Chicago T10 Fleet in coordination with the Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club held our first winter seminar yesterday. We presented on a cold day to about 25 in person attendees and another 25-30 on Zoom.
Fleet Captain Blane Boynton presented AIS for Racing Sailors, which is an overview of AIS, advice for how to equip your vessel and some thoughts on its strategic value while distance racing. You can find that presentation HERE.
We were then joined by a weather forecaster from NWS in Romeoville for talk about the weather. Zachary did a nice job overviewing the typical weather that we encounter during summer and fall racing.
Thank you to all those that attended whether in person or remotely. Also thanks to Steven Fink and Aimee Smith for their long term organization and conduct of these winter seminars.
Please join us for the next session on Feb 17th which will be about the Racing Rules of Sailing. Its an Olympic (Rule Change) year and Chief Judge Ted Jones from the 36.7 PainKiller V will join us!
The T-10 Class Association Board of Directors has awarded the 2024 North American Championship regatta to Chicago Yacht Club. CYC will be hosting all NAC related events at their Belmont Harbor station from Thursday, August 22nd through Sunday, August 25th.
Amenities at CYC's Belmont Harbor station include:
- Bar, dining room, full service kitchen and covered patio
- Clubhouse barge and adjacent sailing school barge
- Men's and women's locker rooms and showers
- Club controlled docking at the clubhouse and directly across from the clubhouse
- 5 ton crane (single point lift) that is regularly used to load/unload and weigh T-10s
- Gin pole attached to the clubhouse for mast stepping
- Gate-accessed parking with trailer storage and a public paid parking lot
- Ample hotels and Air BnBs in the nearby Lincoln Park and Lakeview neighborhoods
CYC is excited to host the 46th T-10 North American Championship regatta and looks forward to working with the class association to put on an outstanding event. Keep an eye on email, social media and the class website over the coming months for additional information.
Congratulations to the 2023 T-10 North American Championship Regatta winners Trey Sheehan and his team onboard Hooligan! They scored bullets in 6 of the 7 races in the regatta.
The scores of the top teams were as follows:
Hooligan (Trey Sheehan) 1,1,1,1,1,7,1 - 13 pts
Team I-Ball (Scott Irwin) 2,2,2,2,2,3,4 - 17 pts
Private Airplan (Michael Sheehan/John Evans) 4,3,3,4,5,2,8 - 29 pts
TAZ (Hanson Bratton) 3,6,5,7,3,1,5 - 30 pts
NUTS (Heidi Backus Riddle) 5,7,8,6,6,10,2 - 44 pts
Complete regatta results are available HERE
The Class Measurement Rules Committee (CMRC) has issued a clarification on jib inhauling. The ruling can be found HERE.