Trans Superior

Today I received the following e-mail message that I forwarded to the entire crew. I'm including the text here so that it's available;
http://whimsea.net/Documents/Trans-Superior/07-25-07_Reg_proceedures.pdf

It included an attachment, for which I'm including a link, that is the crew waiver. Please review the waiver to make sure you are comfortable with the terms. I will make the insurance binder available for review as well, in case you're interested. This will probably be the document we use for customs as well, since I'll need a list to present to the customs officers.
http://whimsea.net/Documents/Trans-Superior/waiver_crew_list_07.pdf

Karen discovered last night a note that was made on the invoice detailing notes of the engine commissioning which mentioned the need to replace the engine's raw water intake hose and the squealling belt we heard on Sunday. Jeremy has replaced the hose and tightened the belt. He has even gone so far as to donate a sterio to replace the one in the nav station that's busted and he installed it over his lunch hour today - Thank you Jeremy!!!

Dave will be picking up the genoa on Friday night and depending on the weather and inclination may bend it on and take off the main.

Rock on!!

Troy

Obtaining an LMPHRF
http://lmphrf.org

Here are the procedures for getting the rating;
http://whimsea.net/Documents/Trans-Superior/LMPHRF_Prodedures.pdf

We obtained our sail number from US Sailing. These folks also provide the rules. Their site is;
http://ussailing.org
which has a link to the racing rules along with all the appendices. There are also some calculators and such that give theoretical max hull speed and some of the other ratios and such.

Here are the racing rules sans appendices;
http://whimsea.net/Documents/Trans-Superior/Sailing_Rules_Intro1-7.pdf

The nav rules are on board Whimsea, along with the light list as required by the race rules. At any rate, here's a link to where the USCG keeps the rules electronically;
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/mwv/navrules/download.htm

And here are the rules - once again, kind of keeping stuff in the same place
http://whimsea.net/Documents/Trans-Superior/navrules.pdf

A good thing to review for climate and approach information - we will have this on Whimsea - is the Coast Pilot for Lake Superior. We're only going to have the Lake Superior data on board. Here's the link;
http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/nsd/coastpilot.htm

And here's the electronic pdf for downloading of Coast Pilot 6 for Lake Superior and the St. Mary's River;
Lake Superior - http://whimsea.net/Documents/Trans-Superior/Coast_Pilot_6-Chap13-Lake_Superior.pdf

St. Mary's River - http://whimsea.net/Documents/Trans-Superior/Coast_Pilot_6-Chap12-StMarys.pdf

Troy