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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Bert,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I vote for the last weekend of August 27-29 for Sheboygan
Team Racing.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>John Sligh</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=Bert@apexq.com href="mailto:Bert@apexq.com">Bert Foster</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=sonar@lists.wyc.org
href="mailto:sonar@lists.wyc.org">sonar</A> ; <A
title=blairmagnus@magnus-buffie.mb.ca
href="mailto:blairmagnus@magnus-buffie.mb.ca">Blair Magnus</A> ; <A
title=fcfin@shaw.ca href="mailto:fcfin@shaw.ca">Finlayson, Fred</A> ; <A
title=jfogg@cte.ca href="mailto:jfogg@cte.ca">jim fogg</A> ; <A
title=rfogg@winnipeg.ca href="mailto:rfogg@winnipeg.ca">Rob Fogg</A> ; <A
title=Rob.Eby@investorsgroup.com
href="mailto:Rob.Eby@investorsgroup.com">Rob.Eby@investorsgroup.com</A> ; <A
title=bruce_martinson@yahoo.com href="mailto:bruce_martinson@yahoo.com">Bruce
Martinson</A> ; <A title=scottseager@gmail.com
href="mailto:scottseager@gmail.com">Scott Seager</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=bcstat@goldengate.net
href="mailto:bcstat@goldengate.net">Brent Seager</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 14, 2009 4:19
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Sonar] Sheboygan Team Racing,
SOTN & WYC Team Race Regatta</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hi All,<BR>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. <BR><BR><B>Sheboygan
Team Racing Regatta<BR></B>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.<BR><BR>
<DIV align=center><FONT size=5><B>Please email ASAP your preferred date for
going to Sheboygan :-)</B></FONT><BR><BR></DIV><B>SOTN Regatta and the WYC
Sonar Team Race Regatta<BR></B>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:
<UL>
<LI>Sheboygan
<LI>Winnipeg
<LI>WYC Team #1
<LI>WYC Team #2 (maybe) </LI></UL>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.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR>Bert<BR>
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