OK, I hope this will be my last email before Nationals. We are now at 21 registrations, and there are still a couple more boats that could make it.
If anyone still needs last-minute crew, I have a few folks who are available (mostly skippers with non-race-ready boats), let me know and I'll try to hook you up.
If you can't work the on-line registration (see link below) let me and the club know and we'll get you registered Friday somehow. But please try to do this BEFORE Friday, as there is a late fee after Thursday midnight. BTW Sutter Schumacher will be crewing on one of our newer fleet member's boats, I talked to her and she is psyched about the regatta, hopefully Latitude's readers will be too.
Sailing Instructions are finalized, they should be on the web site later today. One thing you will notice in the SIs is the Skippers' Meeting Saturday morning - after much discussion among the various fleet officers (and Tom Schock) I decided that the famous EYC youth squad would be allowed to race, but we would decide whether their results would "count" at a meeting before the races. (Basically, if we can get consensus among the skippers at that meeting then the EYC team will race like everyone else; if any skipper objects then they will race but their results will not count.) Unfortunately, after all this sturm and drang I learned last night that the EYC skipper has just been diagnosed with mononucleosis (they are students, remember) and their participation is now up in the air.
Whether on not the EYC team makes it (which I sincerely hope they do), we will have a discussion about possible modifications to the "owner-driver" rule at the AGM to be held Saturday night after the dinner. I think the other fleet captains have been polling their fleets to see what people think (should yacht-club-sponsored teams be allowed to compete if they are also sponsored by a fleet owner/member and the organizing committee agrees, or other similar wrinkles). Our Bay Area fleet will be so well represented at the dinner that we have not been polling the members, but if you are a Fleet 1 member and cannot make the AGM you are welcome to let Pete Trachy know your feelings and he will take them to the meeting. I think that is the only substantive piece of business to discuss at the AGM (apart from determining the place and maybe date of next year's event), if anyone has other issues to bring up please do so now!
I will be at RYC all day Friday fixing all my Lipton/Admirals Cup breakages on Carlos and helping other folks with the cranes, registration, sail measuring etc., so I'll see many of you soon. This is gonna be great!
Jan Grygier, Carlos
2007 Santana 22 Nationals Regatta Chair
510 323 3866 (cell)
----- Original Message -----
From: Jan Grygier and Patti Boucher
To: S22 Santana22 List
Cc: gail.yando at sbcglobal.net; RYC Douglas McVae; RYC Antonia Vanoni; RYC Christina Nagatani
Sent: 7/26/2007 8:15:39 AM
Subject: Two+ weeks to Nationals - do you know where your crew are?
Entries are coming in thick and fast now, we are up to 15 registered and 5-9 more promised or "I'm working on the boat, hope to have her ready". Still shooting for more than 20 on the line, we may even get to 25 if Tom Schock (who is coming up to sail 801 again with Richard Hormel, this time with a jib of the correct length) can twist some arms he knows of in Fresno or Lake Tahoe.
There has been some consternation about getting extra dinners on the web site, early registrants (like me) couldn't sign up for them, and there is currently no way to add a dinner after you are registered. But the web site has been fixed, at least you can get extra dinners when you register now. We will have an old-fashioned cash box and tickets on Friday and Sat am when you check in ($15/extra dinner), and another in the dining room Saturday night ($20). The fleet is subsidizing the dinners, so we will get a very nice spread. And as usual, Pineapple Sails is donating a keg of good beer for Saturday, and we are also providing appetizers and champagne (OK, bubbly wine) Sunday after the racing. So we will all be well fed and "watered".
As for crew - a few of you expressed a need to get crew, and a few others said they probably could crew on other boats as theirs wouldn't be ready. I figure it's about time to start hooking people up, so if you still need crew please email or call me and I'll help find you one (or two).
If you haven't registered yet but are coming, please do so soon, I'm going to call Sutter Shumacher at Latitude 38 soon to get us some good press, and the more we have officially registered the better. The link to do so is http://www.richmondyc.org/boatinfo/racing/SantanaOlson/default.asp
Speaking of good press, part of the unique nature of this event (besides the comeback story of having 20 boats for the first time in a decade) is having a senior citizen Champion (Ernie Rideout) from SCYC competing in one of the oldest Tunas in existance (#19, Maybe) against young people's teams from Encinal YC and Richmond YC, and two of the newest Tunas in existence (Michael Andrews, three-time champion in 811, and Tom Shock and Richard Hormel, another former champion in 801).
We have some details to work out about the young people's squads, about which more later (fleet officers are trying to sort them out now), but I assure you we are in for some great racing the second weekend in August!
Jan Grygier, Carlos
(510) 323-3866 (cell)
hydrophilos at earthlink.net
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