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

[John Sligh]

Bert,

I vote for the last weekend of August 27-29 for Sheboygan Team Racing.

Thanks,
John Sligh
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bert Foster 
  To: sonar ; Blair Magnus ; Finlayson, Fred ; jim fogg ; Rob Fogg ; Rob.Eby at investorsgroup.com ; Bruce Martinson ; Scott Seager 
  Cc: Brent Seager 
  Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 4:19 AM
  Subject: [Sonar] Sheboygan Team Racing, SOTN & WYC Team Race Regatta


  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: 
    a.. Sheboygan 
    b.. Winnipeg 
    c.. WYC Team #1 
    d.. 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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