Racing and Rigging and Meetings

The Yacht Racing Association of San Francisco Bay will present a seminar this Wednesday, April 11, on Preparing Your Boat and Crew for Racing. Encinal Yacht Club in Alameda will host the event starting at 7 p.m.

Gilles Combrisson of GC Rigging, Kame Richards of Pineapple Sails, and Seadon Wijsen of North Sails will cover topics including:

• Finding, training and keeping crew
• Practice
• Rigging, mast rake, tuning, cordage and sail controls
• Tools and spares
• Food and water
• Sails for the Bay and ocean
• Getting old sails to work better
• Hull prep, bottom paint, rudder issues
• Ratings, PHRF committee
• Safety gear, MOB practice

Sign up online for $20.

At the same time a few blocks away at Island YC, the Singlehanded Sailing Society will run the skippers’ meeting for Saturday’s Round the Rocks Race. The meeting starts at 7:30, so unfortunately the events conflict.