Registration for the 67th Race to Oxford on September 10, 2022 is open. It includes a CHESSS division. I have registered REVOLUTION for the event.

Registration web site is at - https://yachtscoring.com/emenu.cfm?eID=15446

The next day, Tred Avon Yacht Club is holding their Hammond Regatta. There is not a CHESSS division, put we registered PHRF N for non-spinnaker.

Registration web site is at - https://www.regattanetwork.com/event/24302

Cheers,

Doug Ellmore

Vice Commodore

s/v REVOLUTION

Bennu is in, but unfortunately running with crew. Looking forward to DH , but yet to get a good 2nd to run with. Plus my autopilot is missing a weird part, ugh.

Hi Doug, I’ve been out of it for awhile. But I’m hoping to get my Mirage 236 back in the water next week but cannot tell if CHESSS division is ORC now or still PHRF? I don’t have a ORC certificate yet. Thanks, John Oliver

Hi folks, I just joined CHESS and am also registered for the Oxford race. Will be racing my Ranger with 13 year old son and two dogs. They don’t have any hands so I think that’s ok! I booked a spot at Dimillos marina in Oxford to avoid needing to anchor out. Hoping for an easy trip as this is the first double-handed distance sail my boy has done thus far.

That's fabulous Brian! Bennu will be at DiMillo's as well, with only one dog aboard. Have a great race!!

Hi Julienne I see you are registered as phrf B but not chesss? Are you not short handed?

I'd eventually like to DH Bennu, but I have no solid/consistent crew that knows the boat well enough, so for now all single or dh is still on Wiggy Wiggy, and I race Bennu fully crewed, but do fly the CHESSS burgee. Just to confuse everyone :-)

Any word on the Spin/non-spin thing? The CHESSS class is still all lumped together. Thx!

Brian, @Brian Barone

Welcome Aboard....I saw that you have registered for the NAS Race to Oxford. The Race committee will be awarding trophies in both the CHESSS Spinnaker Class and the CHESSS Non-spinnaker Class. They are asking us competitors to edit our registrations to show either Spinnaker or Non-spinnaker. This can be done on the "Owner's Corner' Section of the site.

Per CHESSS Racing, Non-spinnaker boats are also asked to fly a white flag below their 3rd repeater class flag.

I look forward to seeing you out there.

Have a great race,

Jeff

That’s great news. I was hoping to not run the spin unless it was really light air since my son Quinn hasn’t done much with it so far. Is anyone else running non spin? I don’t want to be the only one in the category, but if others are non spin then it would definitely be my preference.

edit - I added a note for non spinnaker but there was no way to change the class and we are all showing as shorthanded spinnaker. I will see if I can modify on my desktop then email organizers if that does not work.

Congratulations to Jeff, only finisher in CHESSS.

It got a bit ugly at the end with wind fizzling out, but the first hour or two was great fun!