I’m about to deliver my boat to the fiasco. nothing like sailing to richmond alone in the dark.
against the tide too.
Fiasco!
January 28th, 2011Great Vallejo Race
May 4th, 2010The Great Vallejo Race has come and gone – I’m sorry that I didn’t get to meet everyone that I wanted to, but I had the kids with me and came and went in something of a hurry.
Pictures of Blue Chip are available at http://lyonsimaging.smugmug.com/keyword/blue%20chip#855779346_Kq9yB
Blue Chip and the Vallejo Race
April 23rd, 2010I’ll be coming to Richmond Yacht Club with Blue Chip on Friday before the race. We have reserved a spot between D and E docks, by the bathrooms and harbormaster’s office. If we are not at the boat we will be at the club, and you can connect by calling us at (the SF area code) 828-5350. See you there!!!
Opening Day on the Bay
April 23rd, 2010I won’t be there with Blue Chip because I signed on to Sorcery for that day. Emily loves driving the big boat too
Be sure and bring your boat out though – you can let your boat sit at the dock until it is ‘perfect’, or you can take it out when it is 85% done which is the best it is ever going to be! So stop clinging to your trailer and get out onto the water!
While you are here, join our forums! We need your help to make this site start to take off.
Beer Can Racing in Vallejo
April 5th, 2010I will be racing Blue Chip, and Cinnabar will also be on the water for the beer can series in Vallejo starting April 7th at 6pm. Entry fee for the year is $50 including the North Bay Series races, club classes and lectures on rules and trim, and trophies.
This is a great way to get to know the quirky run up the straight to the finish for the Vallejo race before you have to do the real thing, so give it a thought. It would be great to have a burger and a beer with other 1/4 ton owners after the races too. Over night stay at the guest dock is of course available to members of yacht clubs that offer the same…
Kurt
Not sooooo smart!
April 5th, 2010So, I have been doing a lot of sailing lately, and meeting with people who want to be involved with bringing back the fleet here on the west coast!
Good news and bad news!
First the good! The Vallejo Yacht Club would like to put on a Pacific Coast Championship for us over the three day weekend in September if we can field more than five boats! I’ve got two in Vallejo already, and know one I can depend on from the central bay, so we are more than half way to a real event, complete with shirts, trophies that say PCC champion and all of the required race committee people, gear and promotion needed. All for a really affordable (< $100 for three days of racing is my goal) entry fee.
Now the bad news: I neglected finishing up this site long enough to forget the admin password to the forum, and some spammer set up an account. So I am going to have to wipe that whole forum and start again before I can send out e-mail this week to magazines that we are alive and well and ready to start meeting and racing in the bay area. I will see how fast I can get that taken care of though, so we can start behaving like a real class again.
Kurt
Cup
February 15th, 2010Not a 1/4 ton thing, but I just want to say congratulations to the BMW Oracle team!!!
I prefer to watch the Volvo and other class zero or one races myself, but I was up all night every night, and it was worth the wait to watch this competition between two great yachts and two great teams of sailors.
I look forward to seeing the cup next time I stay at GGYC (I hope it is there).
K
Fiasco Update!
February 1st, 2010What a Fiasco!
We have TONS of pictures from the event, so check back when they get posted, later today.
Off to the Fiasco!
January 28th, 2010I will be sailing Blue Chip in the Fiasco this weekend! The boat is far from ready as I would like (like that J22 sail that is a few feet short I am stuck using for this race!) but time has run out and off I go!
As soon as I get back I will post pictures and get the Forum completed, marking the official launch of this site!
Till then, happy sailing everyone!
K
Welcome Sailors!
December 27th, 2009Blue Chip had been in the water for a few years and needed cleaning
Welcome to QuarterTonSF!
This is a new site dedicated to racing classic “Rule 18″ boats.
I’m Kurt, a member of Vallejo Yacht Club and owner of Blue Chip, a Ron Holand Kiwi 24. I want other boats to come out and race, and to get Quarter Tonner sailors together online with the BBS and by pulling together events at local clubs.
Keep watching here, as we will be having new features and new information almost daily for a while as I set this site up! Right now we have this WordPress site up, and have also installed but not entirely set up a Forum and a Gallery!