[Sonar] Sheboygan Team Racing, SOTN & WYC Team Race Regatta

[Bert Foster]

Hi All,
Last night I had a great conversation with Kathy Lindgren, the new 
executive director of the Sheboygan Sailing center.  Hans is still 
involved, but rolls have changed.

Sheboygan Team Racing Regatta
She is excited to do another Invitational Sheboygan Team Race 
Regatta.  She said our event last year is all the buzz at the 
Sheboygan YC and they all want to learn to team race.  They still 
have the 8 Sonars so we planned a 9 Sonar event with 3 teams like 
last year.  Marty has volunteered to tow his boat over as the 9th 
boat.  I haven't talked to Chris Fittipalti about maybe talking his 
new boat #820 over so they would all be the same new Ontario 
boats.  The dates that work best for them are the last weekend in Aug 
27-28-29, somewhat preferred or the 1st weekend in Aug 7-8-9.  I told 
her they work for Fleet #5 as I'm currently making up the WYC 
schedule can move things around to accommodate the event.  I told her 
I would to get back to  her in a day or two.

Please email ASAP your preferred date for going to Sheboygan :-)

SOTN Regatta and the WYC Sonar Team Race Regatta
Team Racing is such a buzz at S YC she could bring 3 or 6 Sonars over 
for our Team R Regatta, but the date can't conflict with what they 
have scheduled with US Sailing.  We settled on Oct 1-2-3.  As the 
Canadians will bring 3 boats to both the SOTN and stay for the Team 
Race Regatta, Carmella and I will schedule SOTN the weekend before, 
Sept, 24-25-26.  In this way it won't interfere with the WYC 
Championship, S2 7.9 Nationals or the Commodore Cup.  It looks like 
we will have Teams from:
    * Sheboygan
    * Winnipeg
    * WYC Team #1
    * WYC Team #2 (maybe)
If we have 4 teams, we will have two team pairs (12 boats) on the 
course at the same time.  If we had 3 umpires for each flight we 
would need 6 umpire boats and 6 umpires.  We may not be able to 
manage that for this first regatta, but maybe 2 umpires for each 
flight for a total of 4.  Don Becker, international umpire, who 
stayed at my house for the Richardson said he will come back to 
umpire our Team race regatta, if it fits his schedule.  He will be in 
Sheboygan the week before umpiring the US Sailing National Match Race 
Championship and hopefully will be able to drive over to WYC, stay 
with me, and umpire our event.  There is also the possibility Dave 
Pelling, the America's Cup Umpire who was the Chief Umpire at the 
last two Richardson cups the WYC (and who drove my red car for all 4 
days of the regatta-he love it-he was styling) will co to umpire our 
regatta.  I'm thinking we will have 3 days of racing with a debrief 
each day at end of racing  with these guys as they did for the 
Richardson.  I hope we can get Bruce Martinson to umpire.  The Seager 
bothers (Scott & Brent) are umpires in training and we might get them 
to Sheboygan for more training and also for our regatta.

Regards,
Bert
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