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

[J.R.]

Agree Aug 27-29 is after Inland and a seems to fit better into possible
conflicts.

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:17 PM, becca lundberg
<beccalundberg at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Bert,
>
> I prefer Aug 27-29 and will have to put in my vacation request for it by
> Jan 4th.
>
>
> *Becca Lundberg*
> *knottysailor at gmail.com*
> *612-961-0861*
>
>
>
>
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> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:19:09 -0600
> To: sonar at lists.wyc.org; blairmagnus at magnus-buffie.mb.ca; fcfin at shaw.ca;
> jfogg at cte.ca; rfogg at winnipeg.ca; Rob.Eby at investorsgroup.com;
> bruce_martinson at yahoo.com; scottseager at gmail.com
> From: Bert at apexq.com
> CC: bcstat at goldengate.net
>
> 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:
>
>    - 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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