Designed by acclaimed naval architects Sparkman and Stephens, the yacht will astound you with her performance and craftsmanship. The Chicago T-10 fleet is the largest one-design fleet in Chicago. There is always a need for crew and most boats are willing to teach you how. There are courses... but the best way to get started sailing is to START SAILING!
Member: The American Sailboat Hall of Fame (inducted 1998)
The 2024 Chicago T-10 Boat of the Year standings have been updated to reflect a change in the scoring. The Spring Opener regatta had previously included 5 races. The 5th race had been protested due to starting after the allowable start time stated in the NOR. CCYC recently updated the regatta results to reflect the 5th race being disregarded and we have updated our results to reflect that change. The buoy BOTY standings changed for 2nd and 3rd place and 8th and 9th place. The overall BOTY standings did not change. The updated data can be viewed HERE.
2024 Chicago T-10 Boat of the Year results are finalized and Blane and Cindy Boynton and their team on Minister had a clean sweep of the awards - Distance, Buoy and Overall! Congrats to everyone who raced with the T-10 fleet and thank you for another wonderful season!
Full results can be found HERE.
Reminder to all Chicago Taran 10 owners:
All competitors must present a valid and accurate measurement certificate in their own name to race in the 2024 T-10 North American Championship.
Fleet Measurer Mike Better is planning on making himself available at the Belmont Harbor crane to weigh and measure boats on Sunday June 16th and Sunday July 28th. He will also require the assistance of two or three people to accomplish the weighing in an efficient manner. Please sign up HERE if you would like to get your boat measured on one of these days or are available to assist. If you require measurement and/or weighing and cannot make one of the two dates above, please reach out to Mike directly (mbetter@gmail.com) to make alternate arrangements.
Another note: while sail measurement will be offered at the NAC, please try to have all sails that have already been delivered measured and tagged in advance of the regatta. Mike is planning on measuring sails again at the various sail lofts directly before NAC.
Thanks,
Mike Better
Chicago T-10 Fleet 2 Measurer
Chicago T-10 Fleet #2 has released it’s 2024 Boat of the Year Series schedule. This year’s schedule includes 21 days of buoy racing, 7 port-to-port/distance races and 9 parties before you add in the T-10 NAC parties! Oh, did we mention that Chicago T-10 Fleet #2 is hosting the T-10 North American Championships at CYC Belmont? It’s sure to be an epic summer, don’t miss out!
Check out the 2024 Chicago T-10 Boat of the Year Series schedule HERE.
Here is the slide pack from the Chicago T-10 Winter Talk #3 - Rigging It! by Kristian Martincic of Chicago Yacht Rigging. Many thanks to Kristian!
SLIDE PACK
Chicago T-10 Fleet 2 has opened our 2024 fleet membership sign-up and renewal. Regular membership dues remain at $100 and Associate membership dues remain at $10. Regular members renewing after May 1 will incur a $50 late fee in addition to the $100 membership cost.
Chicago local fleet rule 3.3.2 requires that any Chicago area T-10 participating in Fleet-approved races must be skippered by a Regular member or an Associate member of the Fleet who normally crews on that particular boat.
Your dues cover the parties that the fleet sponsors, boat of the year series awards, fleet insurance, the website, GLIOR and North American Championships when held in Chicago.
You can sign-up or renew your fleet membership by selecting Pay Dues in the menu, or by clicking HERE.
The Chicago T10 Fleet in coordination with the Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club held our first winter seminar yesterday. We presented on a cold day to about 25 in person attendees and another 25-30 on Zoom.
Fleet Captain Blane Boynton presented AIS for Racing Sailors, which is an overview of AIS, advice for how to equip your vessel and some thoughts on its strategic value while distance racing. You can find that presentation HERE.
We were then joined by a weather forecaster from NWS in Romeoville for talk about the weather. Zachary did a nice job overviewing the typical weather that we encounter during summer and fall racing.
Thank you to all those that attended whether in person or remotely. Also thanks to Steven Fink and Aimee Smith for their long term organization and conduct of these winter seminars.
Please join us for the next session on Feb 17th which will be about the Racing Rules of Sailing. Its an Olympic (Rule Change) year and Chief Judge Ted Jones from the 36.7 PainKiller V will join us!
Erica swept the season championship for the 5th consecutive season (2020 only had a buoy series).
Minister swept second place.
Meat took third place for the buoy and overall series, Amateur II took third place for the port to port series.
Congratulations on another great summer of T-10 racing!
The Chicago T-10 Fleet has released it 2023 schedule. This season includes 21 days of buoy racing, 7 distance events, 2 charity regattas and 6 parties! Click HERE to go to the 2023 schedule.
The Chicago T-10 Fleet invites everyone to come to Winter Talk #3 at Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club on Saturday, March 12 from 9 am to Noon. The meeting will also be broadcast on Zoom. Details can be found HERE.
HERE are the slides from the 2022 Winter Seminar #2 - The Crew Speaks! covering the foredeck role. Thanks to Scott Melanson.
Join the Chicago T-10 Fleet and CCYC Offshore Fleet on Saturday, February 26th at 9 am for the second in the 2022 Winter Seminar series. The flyer is available HERE. To RSVP, email sfink26340@aol.com.
Hello T-10 Members,
I would like to pass along this email and request from Gail Turluck and the Intercollegiate Regatta organizers, anyone interest in supporting these events please reach out to the group below. Thanks you.
Nick Ward (Class President)
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The Midwest Collegiate Sailing Association scheduled two offshore regattas for 2022. They heard the comments from owners in 2021 and are communicating clearly to incoming contestant teams that it is necessary that they come prepared with adequate personal gear and some experience (see attached slide show).
Lake Erie Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta
Hosted by University of Toledo at North Cape Yacht Club
11850 Toledo Beach Rd, La Salle, MI
May 20-22, 2022
Coordinator is Craig Mueller (craigmueller6712@gmail.com)
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta
Hosted at Columbia Yacht Club, Chicago, IL
September 23-25, 2022
Coordinators are Nick Zomer (nzomer@iu.edu) with Steve Karstrand (stevekarstrand@gmail.com)
The Tartan 10 Class has supported these regattas well traditionally and it is hoped this will continue. The Lake Erie event was scheduled as late as it could be yet still have collegians available to participate. Both regattas seek more boats; Lake Erie more so than Lake Michigan.
I'm excited to see how these go this year.
Sincerely,
Gail M. Turluck
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.
