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

[sean delaney]

On behalf of the J/24's I'd like to thank Mike and J-22 Fleet #1 for inviting us to join in on this auspicious event, I suspect it will be a natural fit. Personally I have spent many years racing and socializing in each fleet, both of which I have thoroughly enjoyed.  If the rest of the fleet feels as I do then we are psyched to start off the season with a joint regatta, particularly one in honor of a good friends dad I met, non sailing related, after moving here in the mid 80's.
Some teams didn't get the invite in time to be available, but I suspect we can field about 10 teams or so.  The 24's are gung-ho at racing, playing and volunteering so be sure and let me know how we can help.
Cheers,
Sean



 


     On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 9:52 AM, Uta Moncur <utamoncur at gmail.com> wrote:
   

 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 AndersonSocial:  Craig Smith2015 Distric Regatta:  John DyerRumble 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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