2020 Racing is on! We need your help!

2020 Race Committee

Tuesdays, Thursdays, (and 3 Saturdays), June 2nd - September 29th

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Park City Sailing is looking for volunteers to join the Race Committee every Tuesday and Thursday night and select Saturdays to run the Laser and Eliiott 6M races. We'll have a training session for operating the power boats and how to do race committee and conduct races. We'll provide some take-home training materials along with ongoing support throughout the season and briefly at the beginning of each evening.

The Race Committee is an integral part of any sailing organization. There's opportunity to extend race committee activities & training beyond the Park City area. And ... it can be a great way to meet new people, spend some time on the lake and get involved in Park City Sailing!

The race committee typically consist of 4 people (+/-), and due to our new protocol around COVID-19 we will limit each boat to 1 or 2 people max:

  • Race Committee Lead - organizes and runs the races, team leader for the race committee. Requires power boat skills, ability to set & pull marks, race committee knowledge.

  • Timer & Scorer - assists PRO on RC Boat in running the races, leads timing & scoring efforts. Requires attention to detail, ability to help with power boat, setting & pulling of marks.

  • Mark Boat Driver- takes direction from PRO to set, move & pull marks as well as on-the-water safety patrol. Requires power boat skills, ability to set & pull marks.

  • Mark Boat Crew - assists Mark Boat Captain with managing marks & safety patrol. Requires ability to help with power boat, setting & pulling of marks and safety patrol.

A typical evening of racing consists of:

5-5:15 pm - prepare the race committee & boats for the evening,
(marks, radios, safety equipment, weather check, fuel, crew)

5:30 pm - depart the docks and get set-up for the races
(set race area, start line, & turning marks)

6-8:00 pm- Start the races, adjust race course as needed, take photos, safety patrol

~8-8:30 pm Wrap up race committee duties, clean up race committee equipment & boats, return power boats to moorings, hand-off scores.

8:30 onwards - join the crew for socially distanced post race social activities, receive thank you's and adoration for your race committee efforts.

Thank you for making Park City Sailing awesome!

Annaliese VerMerris