The 2022 T-10 Class Winter Meeting will be held on Sunday, February 6th at Noon Eastern Time. It will be a virtual meeting using Internet-based conferencing technology. Conference details and an agenda will be distributed at a date closer to the meeting.

We will be discussing the Rise, Reason and Running of Marksetbot. We are also busy lining up a topic on boat maintenance to round out the morning. The seminar will be offered as a hybrid, in-person and on Zoom.

Additional details to follow soon.

Sponsored by Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club Offshore Fleet and the Chicago T-10 Fleet.

The Chicago T-10 Fleet has released the 2021 Boat of the Year Standings and (surprise, surprise!) Erica has once again swept the Port-to-Port, Buoy and Overall Series. Complete results can be found HERE. This continues an outstanding streak for Erica, which swept the series in 2018 and 2019 and took the 2020 PtP series in a year when there was no Buoy or Overall series. Congratulations to Brian Kaczor and crew for another spectacular year!

In the PtP series, Amateur II took 2nd and Retention took 3rd. In both the Buoy and Overall series, Retention was 2nd and Meat was 3rd.

Fleet flags and awards will be handed out this coming Friday, December 3rd at the Chicago T-10 Fleet awards party at Chicago Yacht Club Belmont Station.

2021 Chicago T-10 Fleet Awards and Year End Dinner
Friday, December 3rd, 2021
Chicago Yacht Club, Belmont Harbor Station
Make reservations HERE

It is that time of year again! Drinks and dinner followed by the fleet meeting and awards!

Please RSVP with boat name and number in party so we can have you all together.

Please pass this on to your crew and other fleet-members, we want a full house!

The dinner price is $40 per person. Money will be collected at the door.

Cocktails from 6:30pm to 7:15pm
Buffet Dinner at 7:15pm
Meeting and awards to start at 8:15pm

If you cannot make the dinner you are invited to attend the meeting and awards at 8:00pm (entry without payment will not be permitted prior to meeting time).

Sailing season is coming!

As I look out the window today, I see sun, green and I hear the lake calling, it must be time to kick-off the 2021 season. Over the next few weeks, I’ll settle into a weekly cadence of fleet updates and I’ll do my best to pick-up where Mark left off as I always enjoyed his updates and take on the weekend’s races.

Good News! We are planning for a full 2021 season and the board has met to finalize the racing schedule, its attached to this note and available on the website HERE. All the usual races are planned, and we have a very busy month of August…So apologize to your spouse or significant other in advance, hoard your PTO and prepare for some great racing.

As far as open items on the schedule we are looking for another race or two to fill in some of the lighter / longer gaps in the schedule. I have an action to reach out and see if we can’t program in something for those weekends, which are marked on the schedule.

I saw our Class Secretary Mike Platzke is hard at work and has annual dues payment updated for the 2021 season. Please take five minutes of your time to update your contact info and pay your dues through PayPal you can even follow this link if you like. Remember to pay both your National and Local Fleet Dues!

Lastly, as our winter comes to a close, I’d like to take a moment to thank Steve Fink and Aimee Smith for their efforts to facilitate our winter seminar programming, your efforts to keep us together and educated are appreciated.

Don’t Pinch,

Blane

The 2021 Chicago T-10 Fleet Racing Schedule has been released! 15 weekends of racing, 19 days of buoy racing, at least 8 days of port-to-port and five of the best parties on Lake Michigan. https://www.chicagot10.com/latest-racing-schedule.

The replay of the the Chicago T-10 Fleet January 2021 Winter Talk #1 is now available at https://vimeo.com/504139687. Andy Camarda (Evolution Sails), Amy Cermak (Diamond Girl), Chris Nielson (Nielson Sails/Evolution Sails) and Seth Morell (Erica) discuss sail care, rig tuning and going fast.

Saturday, January 23, 2021 9:00 a.m. to Noon (Central Time) on Zoom

Andy Camarda from Evolution Sails, along with coach extraordinaire, Seth Morrell and T-10 speedster, Amy Cermak as kibitzers, to review trim, set up, tuning, and using your software (sails) to get around the race course or get there and back, quickly. Bring your questions, suggestions and your notebooks. Speed school is in session.

RSVP TO: sfink26340@aol.com. Zoom instructions to follow.

North Sails invites all T-10 sailors for an informative webinar on Wednesday, January 13th, at 7:30 PM EST/6:30 PM CST. Class experts Nick Turney and Perry Lewis will discuss updates in the tuning guide as well as the difference between a one jib program and a two jib program. Sail designer Mike Marshall will present the difference between 3Di, 2D string sails and paneled sails. Bring your questions!

Registration: http://bit.ly/2X6EOwp

The schedule for the 2020 BOY for the remaining races has been posted to the Chicago T-10 Website. Based on feedback from the fleet survey, there will not be a Port-to-Port BOY series in 2020.

The Chicago T-10 Fleet 2 has updated the 2020 Fleet Dues information and opened up the website for payment. While there is uncertainty about when the 2020 sailing season will start and what exactly it is looking like, the Fleet does expect that there will be some T-10 racing and we hope that you will continue to support your fleet through these unchartered waters. Fleet dues payment information can be found HERE.

An updated version of the T-10 Class Association rules has been published to the class website. The update includes the updated boom rule (approved by class vote on 7/10/18), the updated jib rule (approved by class vote on 2/18/20) and incorporates hyperlinks for easier navigating. The updated class rules can be found HERE.

Register HERE

The minutes from the Winter 2020 Class Meeting are now available for review. For a PDF version of the full meeting minutes click HERE. A marked up version of the jib rule proposal can be found HERE.

Chicago T-10 Fleet 2 has released it’s 2020 Racing Schedule. The Boat of the Year series includes 21 days of racing in the buoy series and around 11 days in the Port-to-Port series. No other fleet gives you as much time on the water or as many one-design boats on the starting line! Start your 2020 planning!

The Chicago T-10 Fleet 2 and Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club will be hosting a Winter Rules Seminar on Saturday, February 8th starting at 9 am Central Time. Register HERE. The seminar will be livestreamed on the T-10 Class Facebook page.

Meeting begins at Noon Eastern Time (11 AM Chicago Time) on Saturday, February 1st. Conference bridge information is at the top of the agenda.

Agenda PDF Version

Join the Chicago T-10 Fleet and Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club for the first of the 2020 Winter Talks! Saturday, January 18th from 9 am to Noon at Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club. Wally Cross will talk about sail trim and SOG vs VMG and other exciting topics, including personal stories!

The T-10 Class Association will hold its 2020 Winter Meeting on Saturday, February 1st starting at 1 pm EST. The meeting will be hosted at Aktion Associates 1687 Woodlands Dr Maumee, Oh 43537. A dial-in phone number and an agenda will be distributed at a date closer to the meeting.

Between 170 and 180 people packed the Chicago Yacht Club Belmont Station on December 6th for the annual Chicago T10 Fleet 2 awards and year end party. This annual celebration of Chicago T10 sailing serves to close out and recap another year of fantastic racing on the water and great times on shore after racing. For the second year in a row, Erica swept the boat of the year series, winning the buoy, port-to-port and the overall. Retention took 2nd in the port-to-port and overall series and was prevented from a second year sweep of second place when Meat squeezed by them for 2nd place in the buoy series. The tightest competition was in the port-to-port series, where 3rd through 7th place was separated by 7 points. The party committee put on another fantastic event, highlighted by the T10 timeline, which showed how the fleet’s boats had changed names throughout the 40+ year history of the fleet.

Complete Boat of the Year Results