Three Bridge Fiasco Swag. Get your shirts and jackets here!
T-Shirts are now sold and distributed separately, making it simpler to get shirts.

2/28/24

Round The Rocks Race
Register HERE


Hello, SSS Racers!

A few things for this weekend’s upcoming Round the Rocks race.

1) As usual, we will have a competitor’s meeting Wednesday before the race (tomorrow!) at 7:30. Here are the details:

   Check your inbox for the zoom link. 
Topic: Round the Rocks Skippers Meeting

    Time: Mar 13, 2024 07:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)


2) Sailing Instructions are posted on Jibeset.

3) We’re “a bit short” on volunteers at the moment, and while we have some “maybes” it is not clear right now if we’ll have enough people to run concurrent checkins and starts. If we cannot get at least five volunteers for the starts, we’ll need everyone to check in five minutes before the first warning, which means you’ll need to get there a bit sooner, and checkins will have to go a bit faster. I know that is not anyone’s preference.

4) If you registered to race and are now planning not to, please consider volunteering, at least from 0840 through 1300 for the starts; you don’t have to stay until 1915+. Volunteering is the closest you can get to racing without having to spend all day looking for wind. Please send email to racechair@sfbaysss.org no later than Thursday night if you’d like to help.

Thank you for racing with SSS, and I look forward to seeing you Saturday.


Richard


Hello, SSS Racers!
A belated announcement: The Round the Rocks race on March 16 is open for registration! (Registration opened Tuesday of last week.) Please register now to a) save yourself a $10 late entry fee; b) make life easier on our volunteers so they don’t have a last minute rush.
We are still planning this year’s race, but expect it to very similar to last year’s. See last year’s documents, or last year’s competitors briefing slides, for an overview.
Thank you for racing with the SSS!
Richard

Please note the requirement to list your home port and slip number.



Corinthian Race 2/24/24

Hello, SSS Racers
I wanted to say thank you for a good day yesterday on the race committee. 
We had 49 boats leave the race yesterday, and 46 sent a text without prompting. One needed reminders, one told me he forgot when I had to call him post-race, and the last one I had to call told me he sent his retirement to the wrong number. We need to keep getting better, but this is WONDERFUL compared to the last race.
I’d like to highlight some sportsmanlike and courteous behavior some boats exhibited:
- Someone who inadvertently sailed the wrong way around the mark went back to correct. Then later that night they realized the “string rule” meant that they still had not met the definition of “sail the course,” and they did the very honorable thing of retiring.
- Someone told the person trying to retire via radio to send a text

And I’d like to thank San Francisco YC for letting us use their committee boat and giving us a fabulous driver. If you see anyone from SFYC, please let them know how much that meant.
But again, thank you. It was a good day on RC, and after last month we needed that.
Richard





12/14/23


Race Schedule for 2024

* January 27: Three Bridge Fiasco
* February 24: Corinthian
* March 16: Round the Rocks
* April 27: “No Trophy South Bay Regatta” (note there will be a trophy, but it won’t count for the season)
* May 11: SSS Singlehanded Farallones (coastal race)
* June 29: LongPac start
* August 10 & 11: YRA / SSS Drakes Bay Races (coastal race)
* September 7: Half Moon Bay (coastal race)
* October 5 & 6: SSS Vallejo 1-2

As announced at the meeting, the plan is for the coastal races to use the same SERs as YRA uses — which will include AIS in 2024.

Richard, SSS Race Co-Chair



The 23rd Singlehanded Transpacific Yacht Race – is DONE !!

Reports from racers are HERE
Reports From returning boats will be added to their thread.

Tracker Page HERE

The TransBack (boats returning) began 7/15/23
Track the returning boats HERE
https://www.jibeset.net/gaps watch.php?FA=JACKY_T004055182_2_4247817093_NORMAL


Latest news;

All the racers are in !
Results are HERE
Congratulations!


The amazing skippers of the 2023 Singlehanded Transpacific Yacht Race.

SHTP 2023 / Christine Weaver

SHTP 2023 / Christine Weaver

Back row; Christophe Desage/ Elmach, David Garman/ Such Fast, Todd Olson/ Gwendolyn,
Michael Polkabla/ Solstice, Mike Smith/ Eos, Alexander Benderskii/ Reverie,
Max Crittenden/ Iniscaw, John Wilkerson/ Perplexity, Randy Leasure/ Tortuga,
Piyush Arora/ Horizon, Bill Stange/ Hula.

Front row; James Quanci/ Green Buffalo, Chris Jordan/ The Pork Chop Express, 
Gary Burton/ Elizabeth Ann, Brendan Huffman/ Siren


Here’s the webcam in Hanalei where we can see you arrive!
https://hdontap.com/index.php/video/stream/hanalei-bay-resort

 

 


 



1/4/2023
Standing Sailing Instructions


Welcome! The San Francisco SSS offers events where singlehanded and short-handed sailors can share knowledge, gain experience, and find a structured environment to expand their horizons. The SSS encompasses everyone from a first-time, double-handed sailor to veterans of the Singlehanded TransPacific (SHTP) yacht race. We are always learning and always sharing knowledge.
Please join us for the full season. And if you have not already, please also check us out on: FacebookInstagram and Twitter

(Don’t forget to refresh this page often for new updates.)