25 boats registered with 7 days to go to the Downeast / J24 District 1 Championships!

 Don’t forget weigh-in on Friday afternoon. Come down and mingle with the competition “from away”.  Skippers’ meeting on Saturday at 0845.

 It will take all of our efforts to make sure things run smoothly, that the away boats enjoy themselves, that we leave the Club in good shape and that we build on the past success of this regatta.  So, as a reminder, the assignments for each skipper and crew are below. Even if it is not your responsibility, if you see something that needs to get done please pitch in.   

Regatta Mgmt:        Howard /  Carter
Race Mgmt:             Belafonte / Nick Dambrie
Breakfast:                Pit Party / Steve Fernald
Boat Launch / Haul:  Second Chance / Rich DeGranpre
Friday Set up:       Flying Circus / Howard
Friday Clean-up:  Bad Apple / Bruce Morse
Saturday Night Set-up:   AL / Mark Klein,  Barking Spidah / Scott Smithwick
Saturday Clean up:   Flying Chicken / Rich Carlson, Ed Rowe & Mr Hankey / Andrew Carey
Sunday Post-race fare:   Denali / Tony Jessen
Sunday Clean up: Jazzazi / Jim Dodd
Food shopping:    Meg Fenderson / Shelly Paules
Measurement / Keg/Lobstah:    Steph Helms
Registration:        Dan Marston
T-shirts:    Emily Kalkstein / Jess Harris

Transportation:  All (please be wiling to drive away boats to the designated remote parking sites)

The annual Handy Boat Regatta is this Saturday (the 28th).  Registration is at Handy’s.  Skipper’s meeting at 1115 and first gun at 1300.  We’ll have our own start. We’ll run “round the buoys”, rather than drop-mark, courses. As per our scoring rules, a minimum of five Fleet 43 participants are required to score the race in the Tonini and Weekend Series.

 As of Wednesday at 1450, Second Chance, Kinda Blue and Mr Hanky were registered.

 –Howard

Today I recieved an e-mail from Sean McDermott in New Brunswick Canada: “Hi Howard, I was on Scuttlebutt this morning and saw the piece about your new website then remembered that it had been many years since we sent anyone to the Downeast Regatta and thought some of your fleet may be interested in coming to the Canadian Nats as they are in New Brunswick this year, a first. The races are run from Shediac which is a seaside community about 1/2 hour drive past Moncton, basically straight up the I95, hang a right on the Trans Canada highway, an easy day trip. Accommodations are inexpensive and the water is the warmest north of the Carolinas and also the largest exporter of lobster in the world which appears to be a draw for your fleet I have copied Dale Robertson, our fleet captain on this.

More info can be found at: http://www.j24class.org/Events/tabid/60/Default.aspx The dates are August 2nd to 5th but that includes measurement days that you may not need. Anyhow, an idea. I would like to see us send a couple of boats to the Downeast Regatta this September. Cheers for now, Sean”

I’ve put a link to their event site on our Events bar. I think it would be great if we could get a boat or two from Fleet 43 to go. It’s also an opportunity to build support for the Downeast with our neighbors up North.

–Howard