***2016 ORC DRAFT RULES ***

Good work on the rules, thank you for the transparency. The rules seem sufficient to cover the issues that members have had concerns about in the past.

On the sample check-out sheet you have a checkbox for VHF, but in the rules it doesn't explicitly say you must have a VHF. That might be a good point of clarification.

There seems to always be a fairly good number of people wanting/trying to launch at first light. Given that, I hope the morning checkout doesn't cause too much delay, but I understand why you're doing it.

Since we're not looking at a $10,000 prize, a new $5,000 boat with all the bells and whistles, a state/USA/world title ,I would hope if someone was willing to attempt to cheat that the ridicule, trash talking,and ignoring of said cheater , wouldn't require us to have to worry about cheating. Unfortunately it's a real pathetic world if people try to cheat an event that is meant as a fun compatition that's whole existence is to promote our sport, our passion and raise some money for charity.
I'm not ranting, maybe preaching a little and if anyone is found to be cheating at my event they will be banished from it permanently. It doesn't have to be difficult I'm doing mine with a little help from my family a little more help from a few members on here and that's about it. It's spoda be fun times and sunshine people.

I hear you Mojo. But (some) people will even cheat in situations where there are no prizes, unfortunately.  I like your life-long banishment for punishment. 

Good work on the rules, thank you for the transparency. The rules seem sufficient to cover the issues that members have had concerns about in the past.

On the sample check-out sheet you have a checkbox for VHF, but in the rules it doesn't explicitly say you must have a VHF. That might be a good point of clarification.

There seems to always be a fairly good number of people wanting/trying to launch at first light. Given that, I hope the morning checkout doesn't cause too much delay, but I understand why you're doing it.

Hopefully we have a few people doing parallel check out stations to speed things up a bit.   In the end, you can't launch if we aren't sure you're safe.

We talked about assigning launch windows with corresponding delayed return windows.  (i.e.  If you are assigned the 5:00 launch, you can launch as early as 5 am but you have to return at 1 pm.  If you are assigned the 5:30 launch, you can't launch until 5:30, but you have until 1:30 pm to return).  In the end, that seemed like a lot for people to remember and a lot of people might miss their return cutoff time.

The VHF check box... I'm not sure whether or not we need a VHF as a required piece of equipment.   Even if it's not required, the check box could still be useful to let us (and potentially the Coast Guard) know what equipment you have.   

You might have noticed the Kayak make and color field as well.  That is also a bit of information to help in the search.

I'm pretty sure Mojo was actually ranting, there. I could even hear him banging his shoe on the table.

I agree with everything he said.

Who guts bottom fish?

Right?? I just fillet mine, if we're worried about someone gut stuffing there fish lead weight, then weigh the damn thing and have an "official" escort them to the cleaning station and observe fthe filleting and they can inspect the end trails. Just my $0.02

Feel free to have just your fillets weighed.

Too funny! Almost spit out my coffee.

Who guts bottom fish?

Right?? I just fillet mine, if we're worried about someone gut stuffing there fish lead weight, then weigh the damn thing and have an "official" escort them to the cleaning station and observe fthe filleting and they can inspect the end trails. Just my $0.02

Feel free to have just your fillets weighed.

Too funny! Almost spit out my coffee.

That would actually make a good tournament not only does your luck getting the hook set and fish landed matter but your skill at the table with the knive will also play into It. 

A fileting skill competition... now that is a tournament all on its own! Fun for the whole family! Immersion gear not required.

From my past observation that should eliminate many of the so-called "pro-staffers". 

While the basic list of what is considered immersion gear includes the outer shell, there should also be some chatter about what should be worn as a minimum under said outer shell. 

The dry top/wader combo and drysuits are only going to keep you dry, and not necessarily warm enough to safely diddle around in the water for for very long.

again how is the gut removal thing going to work? where is that going to be done? could make for a mess with lines to do so or guts in the harbor. lets see now....line at fish cleaning room to gut fish then line to weigh fish then back to cleaning room line to fillet fish. dang...hopefully no ones going to be in a hurry to get back to camp.

again how is the gut removal thing going to work? where is that going to be done? could make for a mess with lines to do so or guts in the harbor. lets see now....line at fish cleaning room to gut fish then line to weigh fish then back to cleaning room line to fillet fish. dang...hopefully no ones going to be in a hurry to get back to camp.

Feel free to gut your fish on the water, in the harbor, or at the cleaning station.

As long as you check in at the weigh station by 2 pm, you can have a bit of extra time to gut your fish if needed.   Waiting in line to gut your fish isn't going to DQ you.       

Generally, people start coming back in a couple hours before the 2 pm cut off so the weigh-in will be a bit spread out.  I'd say that in the past only a third of the entrants wait until the last half hour or so to weigh in.   

You don't have to gut all of your fish, just the ones you want considered for weigh in.

again how is the gut removal thing going to work? where is that going to be done? could make for a mess with lines to do so or guts in the harbor. lets see now....line at fish cleaning room to gut fish then line to weigh fish then back to cleaning room line to fillet fish. dang...hopefully no ones going to be in a hurry to get back to camp.

This shouldn't be an issue, the fish cleaning station there is pretty big and if needed I'm sure we could have one person just gutting fish.

Did Noah just volunteer to gut all the fish? Cool! Thanks bro.

again how is the gut removal thing going to work? where is that going to be done? could make for a mess with lines to do so or guts in the harbor. lets see now....line at fish cleaning room to gut fish then line to weigh fish then back to cleaning room line to fillet fish. dang...hopefully no ones going to be in a hurry to get back to camp.

Also, we usually fillet the fish at the campground so we can drink beer while doing it. So,that eliminates that line.

Did Noah just volunteer to gut all the fish? Cool! Thanks bro.

Damn....