[Sonar] Peter Galloway in town Wednesday

[Bert Foster]

Hi All,
What a great week we all will have.
My Paralympic team is coming to town Tues afternoon, in time for 
Terry Foster and Gordy Bowers talk at the WYC on "Sail Shape and 
Trim".  Hope you all can make it.

Wednesday morning we are training at WYC with Gordy and the 
team.  Can any of you make it?  Ernie and Carmella can crew for you 
and Gordy can be on your boat to coach you as well as us.  This might 
be just good enough to bug off work.

Wednesday afternoon about 4 or 5 we have planned to train for maybe 2 
hours.  It would be even better to have a bunch of Sonars out, run 
2-4 short races in the bay (like we did before for the J-22 NAs with 
Gregg Fisher from North sails.  This was one of the greatest events I 
have been to) and have Peter with help on a chase boat (we can use my 
Century or Bailiff One) to follow the boats around the course and 
have someone taking Video  (Does anybody have a Video Camera we could 
use?), and then show the Video on the new Plasma TV and have Peter 
comment about your sail trim, while we bring in pizza or 
something.  I will also ask Gordy Bowers to come for that if he can 
make it.  While Captain Hook will run in Paralympic trim, the rest of 
you should fly spinnakers so you can get Peter's comments.

I know Peter is out here to doe business.  So, even if he can't get 
to the club early, we could do the race thing, take the video and get 
him on the water when he gets here.

We need;
    * to meet at the WYC at 4, if that works out for a number of you.
    * organize the drill
    * A race committee to set marks and time the starts.  Maybe 2 
people.   Ernie, could you lead that.  If that doesn't work, we could 
use the rabbit start system where one boat goes out on port tack and 
all others go out on starboard tack by just ducking him.  Nobody can 
tack until the last boat duck the rabbit.  The start line would be better.
    * We need 1 or 2 people to drive the photo boat and set and 
change the marks.
    * someone to make the video work at the club
    * someone to take charge of the dinner.
Can we make this happen?  Can the FLEET CAPTAIN be in charge?

Regards,

Bert Foster, Skipper
Paralympic Team Captain Hook
19150 Park Ave
Wayzata, MN 55391
h 952-473-2240
w 952-544-1100
c 612-281-9999

At 07:50 AM 5/12/2007, Martin Fossen wrote:
>Hello Fleet 5,
>
>I believe most of you know who Peter Galloway is, but for those of 
>you who don't, he's an expert Sonar sailor.  He's the '06 North 
>American Sonar champ, long time officer of the national Sonar 
>association, and contributor of many articles, videos, and other 
>information on Sonar.org.  I believe he is also the administrator of Sonar.org.
>
>I'd asked him how to get my boat measured to prepare for going to 
>Boston in September.  It happens that he has business in Eden Praire 
>next week and offered to make time to measure our boat himself on 
>Wednesday evening.  He's agreeable to visiting with the fleet as 
>well.  So, I'll put something together for Wednesday evening and 
>tell you details once they're worked out.
>
>Also, Peter has agreed to come out for Thursday's race.  I'm taking 
>him on our boat, along with Tom and Shaina Brown.  Sorry, I'm being 
>selfish here and not sharing the chance to sail with him.  I hope 
>you'll understand since Tom, Shaina, and I are going to the Sonar 
>Worlds in Boston and hope a lesson from Peter will help us a bit.
>
>Talk to you soon,
>MF
>
>
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