[J22-Fleet 1] J22 NAs update/Rant

[Lars Hansen]

Well its time to finish the J 22 Wealth Enhancement Group NA's.

Right now everyone thinks that Dave Van Cleef got second place at the 
Wealth Enhancement Group J22 North Americans. He did not. He was 
disqualified  from all the races. Most of our guests at the regatta left 
thinking the club, the protest committee and the awards committee made a 
huge mistake by letting Dave Van Cleef go home with the trophies. Unless 
we explain the rules, the procedure and the final outcome, that is what 
people will remember "Washergate" and how we let the guy who was 
disqualified from racing walk away with all the second place trophies.
Let's show the world we did the right thing.
Time to finish this and put it to bed.
The measurement protest was upheld and the appeal denied.

I need your help.

I need to mail a copy of the updated results to all the competitors of 
the Wealth Enhancement Group J22 NA championship. To do this I will need 
a list of all the names and addresses of the competitors at the 2006 
Wealth Enhancement Group J22 NA championship.

I will write a short update about the protest and appeal to be included 
with the results and the request to have all the trophies shipped back 
or forwarded to the rightful owners

I need someone to supply the stamps and envelopes.

I need help to address, package. stamp and mail  the results.

I need to collect all the trophies awarded at the event and send them to 
their rightful owners or send each skipper a box and address so they can 
forward the trophies.. This will take some time so lets jump on this to 
get it sorted out. We are not done yet

If  I can have all the parts by Friday then with the help of 3-4 people 
and an hour of time we will be done. I'll buy the Beer and Mount Gay

The on line links to the results should also be current. The J22 web 
site, North, Quantum, Scuttlebutt, SA and many more web sites all point 
to a page that is dead. I know we saved some money by doing this lets 
spend some of the profits and make it right.

Other things we need to accomplish

1) I'm still waiting for the "Tape"

2) J22 winter party

3) Fleet officers election

4) Fleet by laws

Feel free to add to the agenda, do you want to have any training 
sessions this summer? do you want to sponsor a dock party this summer? 
shall we start up the mentor program? Other Ideas?

Lets keep the momentum going but first lets finish what was started 2 
years ago when the club bid on the NA's