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**Photoboy** · 03-04-2019, 10:35 AM

Letter To BAMA Members

Fellow BAMA members,

We just had our second board meeting of the year last night, and I wanted to provide an update for all club members. 2019 is shaping up to be a great year for the club, with lots of fun activities planned. In the interest of transparency, we will start posting the minutes from our board meetings on our website (www.sfbama.org), so you'll be able to see what's going on and what's being discussed, but here's an update on some of the great things coming up this year:

- We are well down the path in preparation for this year's 40th(!) running of the Doublehanded Farallones Race, which will take place on Saturday, March 30th. The DHF is a great challenge for a two-person crew, so if you haven't done the DHF before, you should consider doing it this year. Jibeset is how open for registration, the race docs have been posted, and the first boats have already registered for the race: https://www.jibeset.net/BAMA000.php?RG=T005274533 Also note that we have prizes for the best mixed-gender and best all-female crewed boats. If you're not planning on racing, we are looking for volunteers to help on the race deck at Golden Gate Yacht Club, so please join us if you're available.

- The competition for the 2019 BAMA Cup and Fast Cat Cup are underway, with the first race completed already (3BF). The race schedules for both are posted on our website. The next race for BAMA Cup, the SSS Corinthian, is coming up the weekend after next on Saturday, February 23rd (see https://www.jibeset.net/JACKY000.php?RG=T003758087).

- We are looking to repeat some of the fun and popular events from last year: We are having the family-friendly and just-for-fun Jack Reacher Race & Clipper Cove Raft-Up on Saturday, August 3rd. We hope to get as many multihulls out for that as possible. And we plan to repeat the Whales Chase Farallones Cruise on Saturday, September 21st (hopefully with just as many whale sightings as last year!). Both events are free for BAMA members.

- To honor the passing of Ian Farrier, the designer behind all the F-boats, we are looking to do a raft-up with as many F-boats as we can field in Clipper Cove. We haven't locked the date for this event yet, but stay tuned.

- For the racers, we're looking to repeat the BAMA multihull regatta, which was super-fun last year. We've had some challenges with scheduling of the regatta, but now it looks like we're going to run the regatta on the weekend of August 10th and 11th (the weekend after the Jack Reacher Race & Raft-Up).

- In addition, we're looking to do a series of cruising events this year. The last few seasons have been very light on cruising events, but we just went through the calendar and identified a set of dates that look good, and we will be putting together a set of destinations for those dates, and we will get those published soon. This will be a great opportunity to have fun with fellow BAMA members in a relaxed setting with our great boats!

- To sharpen our skills, we are looking to do more seminars and training-oriented events. Last year we held a dockside and on-the-water singlehanded sailing seminar, which was well attended. We have a set of topics that we're looking to do as seminars this year, and are hoping to get that schedule put together soon.

- Finally, we are looking at options for a live in-the-water MOB training event. We discussed that last year, but it got lost among all of our other activities. However, we're going to try to do it this year. Most of us have done MOB recovery training with a fender and a bucket, and while that exercises the basics of returning to the spot and recovering the bucket, it's not the same as actually having to recover a real person from the water. This will be an opportunity to put theory to practice, and actually use that Lifesling for real, with the safety of other supporting boats in the vicinity and additional eyes on the person in the water. We have a little bit more work to do to develop this concept, and we haven't scheduled the date for this yet, but stay tuned for updates on this event.

I'm looking forward to a great 2019 season, and to seeing you all out on the water! If you have any questions or additional suggestions for fun activities, please shoot me a note.

Thanks,

Truls Myklebust
Commodore
Bay Area Multihull Association (BAMA)
Email: commodore@sfbama.org
Mobile: +1 (408) 455-4445
Web: www.sfbama.org

**IOR Geezer** · 03-04-2019, 10:56 AM

Good to see the reboot, they had seemed to wander off course there for a while.

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