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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Sonar Fleet<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I have a bunch of ideas but need to give them focus and organization. Perhaps the best thing would be to have a meeting (with viands and libations) when I return in the middle of February. Please reply if you are interested in participating. In the meantime I’ll start thinking about an agenda.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ernest<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> sonar-bounces@lists.wyc.org [mailto:sonar-bounces@lists.wyc.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Bert Foster<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 26, 2012 3:45 PM<br><b>To:</b> Sonar List Server<br><b>Subject:</b> [Sonar] WCSC Sonars<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cappy's response below is in response to my email in a effort to work with the WCSC Sonars for charter for fleet, team, or match racing. We need to fix up the boats for racing. We have people that can do that. We have money in the Fleet 5 account. Ernie wants to use them for Access sailing. We should be able to work out a program. Lets brain storm how to do this.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Bert<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> HCCapper@aol.com [mailto:HCCapper@aol.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 26, 2012 1:51 PM<br><b>To:</b> bert@apexq.com<br><b>Cc:</b> jonathan@mcdonagh.com; wbren@comcast.net; pquast@bernicklifson.com; steve_bren@yahoo.com; Thomasb783@msn.com; rfsiemers@comcast.net; dsauter@bgs.com; bethafoster@hotmail.com; dallas@dallasjohnson.net; maloney8pm@aol.com; epbrody@earthlink.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: WCSC Bucket of Debt</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Bert,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Welcome Home!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Last year we kicked off our Keelboat rental program by sending out a 1500 piece mailer, all WYC members where included in that mailing. No one took us up on the program. In early September, I received a call from Ben Burgum, one of the WYC Sonar owners. He told me that some of the other Sonar members where upset that I would not allow anyone to charter one or both of the Sonar's for the North Americans. I told him that was not true, however, if someone wanted to charter either boat that a considerable amount of work needed to be done on the boats in order to make them race ready (that is to make them safe for racing). I offered to wave the rental fee if someone was willing to put the effort and cash into the project, no one took me up on that. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Good news moving forward; the WSF board of directors has approved an adaptive program and designated the two Sonar's for that purpose. Ernest Brody is in charge, he is free to do what ever he deems fit with the boats, including chartering them to WYC members to race. I arranged for the two Sonar's to be stored free of charge at Shorewood so that they could be worked on over the winter. The only catch to this program is that there is currently no money to put into the boats, pay for coaching, etc. Ernest is going to have to use his awesome creativity and even more awesome energy to find ways to make this happen. The program has to break even at a bare minimum.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please work with Ernest to make this program work, I see nothing but a win win with it!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cappy<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>