[Sonar] Couple of items: Fleet party/midwinter details

[Thomas_M_Brown at bluecrossmn.com]

Party:

There's been some requests to change the December Sonar fleet party from 
December 2 to December 16 however this created a problem for the 
Bangasser's as hosts.       Bert has opened his house for the December 
16th option and there are several people who could come at that date who 
could not on December 2.

If its ok then,  we'll switch the party from December 2 to December 16 
(saturday).   Any last objections? 

I'll put together a slide show if people will give me CD's with their 
favorite pictures of the year  (or past years) at the WYC banquet.   I'll 
be including some of the Shepstone pictures. 

If someone else wants to take the food and beverage organization part of 
the party,   they're welcome to it.  Otherwise the fairly simple potluck 
sampler for last names from A to M and beverages from N to Z seems to 
work.


Miami Midwinters:

The Sonar midwinters are in Miami/Key Biscayne in February.      Key 
Biscayne is a great sailing venue,  especially in February when you know 
what its like up here.    It doesn't conflict with the Birkie weekend.


Currently there are no Sonars for charter in the Miami area.  The few that 
were at KBYC I guess were wrecked by Hurricane Wilma last year.  The only 
charter boats available would have to come from Shumway Marine near 
Rochester NY.   They're trying to start a fleet of Sonars in Miami but as 
of yet,   there are no actual buyers.    That 'could' change in the next 
few weeks however as there are several people in the area promoting the 
class for KBYC.

This means that chartering a boat from Shumway would,  at least at this 
time,  involve paying for the frieght.    Skip Shumway is hoping to be 
able to balance that for the frieght back by having it dovetail with 
another Sonar regatta in St. Pete. about the same time  (Key Biscayne is a 
far better sailing venue in my opinion).   The second charterer would pay 
for the freight back.

Costs:  freight  $1700.   Charter for the regatta  $1200.     Total would 
be about 3K per boat then.

Split 4 ways,  that's about $750 for the 'hardware'  part of the regatta.  
 

Hauling an owned boat down there I figure would be about the same with 
frieght  both ways.   Hauling 950lbs of lead nearly 3k miles adds up.

Its possible that we could potentially negotiate a better charter deal 
(the variable cost aspect) with the fact that these boats might sell down 
there,   which I'd be happy to persue if there is enough interest from the 
group.

Bert and Ernie are already planning on having Captain Hook at the 
midwinters so any boat we have there would make 2+ boats from Wayzata 
there.


Thomas Brown
"Maximizing Business by Minimizing Surprises"
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