[J22-Fleet 1] Fleet 1 update from Anual Meeting

[Uta Moncur]

Thanks for the write-up, Mike! Thanks also to Holly, Craig, John and Kevin
for helping ease your workload!

I'm very excited for the Cool Cup - see you all then if not sooner.

Uta

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Michael Bowers <msbowers55439 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> For those of you that missed it, Paul Cossette's new brewery, LynLake
> Brewery in Uptown is a wonderful spot.  The space is great and the brew is
> fantastic.  Many thanks to Paul for hosting the meeting/social.  I highly
> recommend stopping in some evening when they're open to enjoy a craft beer.
>
> Besides the socializing, we did discus a few logistical items.
>
> 1.)  There will be no Suday afternoon WYC fleet race start for the J22
> Fleet on May 17th.  We'll be busy eating lunch and handing out trophies.
>
> 2.)  We will run the first "Rumble in the Bay" as a training session.
> That will be May 31st.  Kevin has agreed to organize again this year.  Some
> brief discussion about fine tuning from last year focused on fewer
> boat/boat transfers and more time between races for pure tuning/training.
> We will not be flying in a pro, as we deemed that there was enough local
> resources to pull from.
>
> 3.)  We nominated a few chair people to help distribute the work load and
> to get better coordination of the events.  If you have ideas or would like
> to volunteer some time and/or resources, here are your contacts:
>
> Website:  Holly Anderson
> Social:  Craig Smith
> 2015 Distric Regatta:  John Dyer
> Rumble Training:  Kevin Kenny
>
> 4.) We do have money in the bank...by the grace of the WYC Race Chairman
> we were discounted and/or forgiven several of the Race Committee fees
> associated with running our regattas that had low turn out.  This
> generosity coupled with several anonymous and overt donations from fleet
> members have allowed us to break even on all of our events.
>
> 5.)  Lois Carlson presented a case for using Kattack.  It is free to
> download onto your smart phone.  Case closed.  Put it on your phone, turn
> it on during races to upload your data, turn it off after the race to save
> your battery.  Watch replays of the races at the club or at your work desk
> the next day.  I installed it right at the meeting.  Very easy, do it.
>
> One final note, if you are at all on the fence about the Dave Cool Cup
> here are a few enticements:  Excelsior Beer, Jill Fynboh is catering,
> Trophies will be distributed deeper in the fleet and they will contain
> coveted items like rigging tape and ring dings. Terry Flynn is flying into
> town to drive Kevin's new boat.  Lars, Thorn, Terry Foster are all coming
> out of retirement to drive J22s.  Let's not forget we have our current
> fleet champion proving he's already up to speed by scoring several bullets
> at the Mid-Winter regatta.  4 teams have already paid the entry fees and I
> haven't even requested them yet.  In addition, we invited the J24 fleet to
> come play with us and they have brought a ton of energy and enthusiasm to
> help orgainze and socialize.  Find a boat, grab a crew; this is shaping up
> to be one of the best Cool Cups in recent memory.
>
> The later date in May should give us some much warmer water and better
> weather for those of you (like my wife) that did not like getting sleeted
> on 10 years ago and have refused to ever do the event again.  No excuses,
> come play!  You deserve to have some fun.  NOR will be posted on the J22
> website soon (if it is not already there).
>
> Mike
>
>
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