ORC questions

Big thanks to the organizers. All of them have a full time job and a family that needs their attention also. Please be patient while waiting for answers on your questions.  They are a great bunch of guys!

Had we known about your sabbatical, you may have been organizing it.

Wait, what? Sabbati what?

Is there going to be sweet pint glasses like last year?

The beakers from 2 years ago were awesome!  I still have mine.

Is there going to be sweet pint glasses like last year?

Next Adventure will be again sponsoring the pint glasses yes.

Is there going to be sweet pint glasses like last year?

Next Adventure will be again sponsoring the pint glasses yes.

Awesome!

What is the backup plan for bad weather? Thanks!

If you're superstitious and think i just jinxed it, i dont care. I'll also eat a banna out there.

Yaquina Bay. That has been the fall back for the event the last few years. However, we need to find out first if the insurance will cover it. You could always fish it for fun if the ocean blows out. The tides work out well because it is incoming at the end of the day so it will be easy getting back to the launch. Just remember if you are new to fishing bays, the current can be strong and we don't wan't to see anyone getting spit out over the bar.

I  just registered and can't find the attached waiver form on the e mail they sent me.   I looked through the posts and couldn't find anything.  Do I need to contact Next Adventure?

I  just registered and can't find the attached waiver form on the e mail they sent me.   I looked through the posts and couldn't find anything.  Do I need to contact Next Adventure?

Please don't contact Next Adventure yet. Give us a chance to figure this out. We will let you and everyone else know if there is a glitch ASAP.

I just wanted to make sure I didn't overlook something.  Thanks for working on this.

No, you didn't. The ACA (the insurer) requires all of the original waivers to be sent to them right after the event so scanned and emailed waivers won't cut it. We also don't want a bunch of things mailed to one of our houses where we may misplace it, or the dog eats it. They will be available at the Captain's meeting and at the launch. We will post a copy to read ahead of time when we get a chance. I don't have it sitting in front of me, otherwise I would.

Because I've never fished out of Depoe Bay before, I'm going to go there a couple of days early to get familiar with the area.  Will there be somebody at Chinook Bend from whom we can get a map (preferably a bathymetric map) showing the boundaries of the tournament area, and any other nearby areas where it might be fun to fish?  Could you make such a map available on the internet?

Because I've never fished out of Depoe Bay before, I'm going to go there a couple of days early to get familiar with the area.  Will there be somebody at Chinook Bend from whom we can get a map (preferably a bathymetric map) showing the boundaries of the tournament area, and any other nearby areas where it might be fun to fish?  Could you make such a map available on the internet?

Here are the tournament boundaries..


If you have a fish finder / chart plotter with an SD card, I can provide an appropriate file type so that you can load those boundaries.  I'm heading to Alaska for a week, but I should have time to get you a map file.  If you're impatient for me on that...

Attached is the KML file for the following Google Map.  Use that in conjunction with this site to make your own..
http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/gpsbabel/


As for bathymetry...

http://www.charts.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/18520.shtmlhttp://www.charts.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/18520.shtml

or the Navionics web app to preview what is on Navionics chips for the area.
https://webapp.navionics.com/?lang=en

Thank you, Brian! and have a safe trip.

Could we just have the northern and southern longitude boundary lines to put into the GPS? IF it was in your links I couldn't find it.  No rush.  Thanks.

BSteves, I'm still in the stone age, or more accurately the paper age, where mapping is concerned, but was able to take a screen shot of the Depoe Bay area of the Navionics map, and mark on it what appear to be the tournament fishing boundaries, based on your aerial photo map.  Did I get the boundaries right?  Someplace in the blizzard of ORC postings was a posting which stated that the southern fishing boundary is Whale Cove, the northern fishing boundary is Rabbit Rock, and the western fishing boundary is 20 fathoms (120 feet).



I'm going to print and laminate this map and your aerial photo boundary map for use on the water.  I have them in a Word document, and can e-mail them to anybody else who would like them.  Send me a message with your e-mail address if you want me to send you the maps.