Slip To Ship Regatta, Memorial Weekend, Ocean Springs Yacht Club
Ocean Springs Yacht Club, Ocean Springs, Mississippi Discuss Slip to ShipIt's getting close to the Slip to Ship Regatta (May 23-24, 2009). This is a fun two day distance regatta in its 24th year. It is a blast and we are ready to put S2S "Back on the Map." I have listed the top three reasons not to miss it this year. 1. New club: Katrina be damned. We now have a beautiful facility, full kitchen, fuller bar expansive balcony. 2. New management/New Value: With the openning of the new building, we have sailors at the helm. We have heard your complaints and are responding. Entry Fee: $50.00 (single handed), $60.00 (double handed). Late registration (after May 15, 2009) will be an additional $10.00. Entry fee will include the following: a. a custom S2S regatta t-shirt for you and your crew (if applicable) b. contintental breakfast Saturday morning c. Beer and chicken out on the Island d. A Saturday Cajun dinner extrodinaire created by Robbie Halstad; e, An automatic entry in the sailor's door prize; f. Two Raffle tickets for the raffle; 3. Old school: We remember what makes a regatta fun: good wind, good food, good drink and friends. This year, we are striving to bring back the fun from the days of old. Call it our Reggatta stimulus package. Remember, camping is permitted on our grounds. Please fax or email your completed registration to fleetcaptain@osyc.com or (228) 865-7885. Also, while our physical address is 100 Front Beach, Ocean Springs. Please send all mail to P.O. Box 821, Ocean Springs, MS 39564 Please get your registration form in early to avoid the $10.00 late fee. I would also appreciate an email just to help us gauge the number os sailors to plan for. More information can be found at www.osyc.com




may be an aft sleeping cabin as well, reached from the pilothouse. The smallest pilothouse sailboat is probably the Fisher 25, but there is also a larger model. Fishers are aptly named, as they resemble fishing boats with a tall pilothouse , and a very shallow keel – they do not sail well to windward, but can be motored or motor sailed in bad weathers.

Moody produced a pilothouse version of its 32 and 38 footers called Eclipses, and these are more like ordinary yachts than many pilothouse sailboats. They have either fin or twin bilge keels.

Another interesting range of pilothouse are the Southerlys – 110, 115 and 135 -these are 35 feet, 37 feet and 45 feet LOA with a shallow pilothouse. They are remarkable for their swing keels which provide shoal draft for exploring rivers, yet have a deep keel when sailing. The 115 has a draft of 2 feet 4 in (0.71 m) with the keel up, and 8 feet 2 in (2.48 m) with it down; the figures for the 135 are 2 feet 9 in (0.84 m)and 9 ft 9 in (2.56 m). These pilothouse are beautifully equipped but have a fairly low ballast ratio.

Pilothouse – they are sometimes called motor sailers – include:

Designs by Ted Brewer and Bruce Roberts Colvic 33 and 35 Cooper pilothouse 41 Corbin 39 Cromarty 36 Fisher Gulf 32 Moody Eclipse 32 and 38 Nauticat 515, etc Pacific Seacraft 32 Pilothouse Roamer Motorsailer 38 Southerly Vancouver 36 pilothouse Voyager 35 Westerly Konsort Duo (29)