Bull Session News and comment for the El Toro Class December #399 www.eltoroyra.org This Saturday, Lake Merritt Midwinter's Race Series #1, Oakland. This is the series that Vickie Gilmore is PRO for. Lake Merritt is a friendly lake for Junior and Senior El Toro sailors. Be ready for a 10 am skippers meeting. December 10th. The weather gods are not planning any potential rain until late Sunday evening or Monday morning,,,so sail Saturday!!! ******************************************************** One more date needs to be remembered for 2011,,,For ALL the El Toro Sailors who are members of Richmond Yacht Club, who can vote,,,,need to be an attendance for the RYC Board of Directors Voting on December 14th, Wednesday evening!!! Vickie Gilmore is running for the Board of Directors!!! She is more than Qualified. You must be present to vote! We need to turn-out the El Toro vote for Vickie the same way we did for Chris Straub when he ran for the board and was voted in!!!. We need to support Vickie!!! We could have TWO El Toro Sailors on the RYC Board of Directors!!! ************************************************************ RYC Report Richmond Yacht Club ran an excellent regatta yesterday, Sunday. The race committee was the RYC Club Commodore, his wife, his 30 powerboat and Jocelyn Nash. The winds helped the committee with steady light south-easterly's in the morning and southwesterly afternoon winds in the 3 to 9 range . Look at the numbers!!! 19 Seniors and 29 Juniors!!! Vaughn Seifers and Chris Nash have been teaching the juniors of RYC to sail and preparing them for real-time racing in an El Toro. Also, the Santa Cruz Junior Program is showing how well their Juniors have learned their racing skills. Santa Cruz has 5 of the top 9 sailors in the overall standings with a 2-4-5-6 and 9th. Both Richmond and the Santa Cruz Yacht Clubs deserve praise for their efforts. In the Seniors, John Pacholski almost took all the days first place finishes. The top 6 boats kept changing positions. In most of the races the lead was shared, at some time, with any of the 6 boats. But Art, Chris, Michael and Buzz where always keeping John covered at just the right moment when he was about to make his big break for the first place position to the finish line. He did, however, win two of the races. The Seniors where to busy to watch the Juniors, except for Chris Nash. Chris helped any an all Juniors get around the course. There are three more days of racing. It was great to see so many Senior sailors and Juniors mixing-it-up on the race course! Almost 50 El Toro's!!! El Toro Sr. (19 boats) Sail 11500 11815 11783 11760 11857 11914 11649 11767 11511 11510 11746 11714 11816 11855 11650 11918 11785 11599 11768 Make/Model Skipper my little yellow Gordie Nash boat Mr. Moore John Pacholski Moore Moore El Toro Arthur Lange Moore's Sailboat Chris Straub Shop El Toro Moore El Toro Michael Quinn Moore Boat Works Hill Blackett III El Toro Moore El Toro Fred Paxton Moore El Toro Skip Shapiro gordy nash Vaughn Seifers moore el toro David Albright Moore Redhead Bruce Bradfute Moore El Toro Vickie Gilmour John Liebenberg Moore El Toro Steve Lake Moore john dukat jas el toro james savattone caballero el toro kurt lahr Moore El Toro Kate Funk Moore El Toro Dave Vickland El Toro Jr. (29 boats) Sail Make/Model 11914 Moore El toro 11711 Moore 11767 Sailnetics El Toro Skipper Neil Marcellini Luke McCartney Francis Zheng [126.6] Yacht Club RYC/CYC 1 2 2 2 3 1 4 1 TotalPos 6 1 SCYC 1 1 4 4 10 2 HPSC, FSC Richmond YC 5 4 3 4 5 8 5 3 18 19 3 4 RYC Richmond Yacht Club Fred Paxton Richmond Richmond Richmond RYC RYC, LMSC RYC Richmond YC RYC scyc ryc RYC none 12 3 5 11 2 3 2 9 21 26 5 6 7 13 8 9 10 11 6 19/DNS 14 15 17 16 20/DNC 7 10 9 14 6 8 13 12 15 16 17 18 20/DNC 6 7 16 10 13 19/DNS 17 9 11 12 14 15 20/DNC 11 6 7 8 13 10 16 12 14 15 17 18 20/DNC 31 36 40 41 42 48 52T 52T 54 58 65 67 80 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 3 1 5 2 4 1 6 7 TotalPos 4 1 17 2 18 3 Yacht Club Ryc SCYC RYC 1 1 2 7 2 1 4 2 11793 Moore El Toro Charlotte Lenz 11765 11854 Nash El Toro Moore El Toro Michael Marlett Josselyn Verutti 10654 11659 11821 11402 4178 caballero el toro El Toro 11857 El Toro El Toro 10864 10123 Cabalero El Toro Mary Marlett Sailnetics El Toro Bronson Babasa 11453 11237 11427 71511 11512 1176 10443 11857 Cab El Toro Sailnetics El Toro El Toro caballero el toro moore el toro Custom El Toro caballero el toro El Toro Cullen Eckert Peter Marlett Timmy Englehart owen lahr Michaela Seifers Carlyn Wisherop hayden lahr Colm Hayden TBD El Toro William Sutton IV 101 10291 11450 11515 11416 11155 Caballero El Toro Sailnetics El Toro El Toro moore El Toro Moore El Toro Cab Connell Phillipps Rafaela Altman-Allen Johannes Aplyn Nicholas Nash Devon Stapleton Aaron Fowler Kelsy Tostenson Jane McKee Thomas Samuels Moore El Toro Mitchell McTigue Sailnetics El Toro Broderic Babasa Jack Landon Santa Cruz Yacht Club RYC/LMSC/SCYC Santa Cruz Yacht Club RYC RYC SCYC RYC Richmond Yacht Club Richmond Yacht Club RYC/LMSC/SCYC Richmond Yacht Club SCYC RYC/LMSC/SCYC RYC ryc Richmond RYC ryc Richmond Yacht Club Richmond Yacht Club RYC Richmond YC RYC RYC RYC RYC 4 6 7 2 19T 4 9 5 3 5 3 6 4 5 19T 5 21 6 3 10 6 12 14 8 10 30/OCS 11 12 9 8 4 15 11 10 8 3 11 14 30 36 43 49 51 7 8 9 10 11 15 18 13 13 59 12 16 19 21 17 12 14 12 16 61 66 13 14 30/DNS 18 21 22 17 13 28 23 20 9 13 23 22 7 15 16 10 22 17 16 19 30/DNS 20 21 9 22 20 15 18 30/DNS 17 21 69 71T 71T 76T 76T 80T 80T 81 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 24 26 18 19 87 23 8 20 26 11 27 25 25 19 14 30/RAF 24 30/DNS 30/DNF 30/DNF 30/DNF 30/DNF 30/DNF 30/DNF 30/DNS 30/DNS 30/DNS 30/DNS 30/DNS 30/DNS 93 99 100 101 111 115 24 25 26 27 28 29 2012 Richmond Midwinter's, January 8th, February 5th, March 4, all Sundays Lake Merritt Midwinter's, Sunday, January 15, Saturday, February 11, Sunday, March 11,,, BullShip April 14 SF Bay Flight of the Bulls May 12 Foster City Lagoon Fremont Relay May 20 Lake Elizabeth Clear Lake June 16-17 Clear Lake Cottages and Marina, head quarters, 707-995-5253 Nationals, Pinecrest Lake,,,first week of August, 3-4-5 Lake camping reservations need to be made in February Richmond Stampede, October 7th RYC Cork Screw October 20 Redwood City ************************************************************