[Santana 22] Found a Santana 22 Keel on the beach

Kevin McElroy maplebar at gmail.com
Mon Feb 26 18:45:43 EST 2007

We could have used this 2 weeks ago when we hauled our boat out and found
our keel rusted away in some spots..we have done a lot of fairing and
epoxying and soon fiberglassing, so thanks for the offer.  It might still be
a good thing for somebody in the fleet to pick up, just in case.

Kevin


On 2/26/07, VAURY Jean <jean.vaury at missioneco.org> wrote:
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> Yesterday, walking down the beach where I live (The Cove Apartments at the
> end of Richardson 'S bay), I made the sad discovery of a Tuna keel
> still  attach to a small part of the hull !!!!  (:((
>
> It is not uncommon to have boats washed down on the beach during winter
> storm. I have already seen 4 or 5 in 18 months.
>
> Just in case somebody needs a keel, that would also be good for the beach,
> not a nice sight ...
> Regards
> jean
>
>
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : tuna-bounces at myfleet.org [mailto:tuna-bounces at myfleet.org] De la part
> de Pete Trachy
> Envoyé : dimanche 25 février 2007 08:05
> À : Santana 22 fleet mailing list.
> Objet : [Santana 22] YRA/One Design Season
>
> For anybody new to the fleet, this refers to our white sails races which
> are main and class jib only, no spinnaker.  The season has two halves this
> year which can be entered separately and will have separate winners.  The
> first half begins on May 19th with a race in the South Bay and ends on June
> 23rd.  The second half begins in late July and and ends in early
> September.  Finally on October 13th there is the Champion of Champions race
> where the winners of the 1st and 2nd half seasons from all the different
> classes duke it out.
>
> The YRA site is: http://www.yra.org/
>
> There is some info on filling out the form here:
> http://tuna.tolachi.com/articles/YRAGuide
>
> If you have any questions, please ask them.  It is very possible that
> someone else is wondering the same thing.
>
>
>
> 1st half:
>
> May 19: South Bay - 3 races
> June 9: Knox - 2 races
> June 19: Summer Sailstice (Olympic Circle) - 3 races
>
> 2nd half:
>
> ?
> Aug 25: City Front - 2 races
> Sep 9: Season Closer - 3 races
>
> The traditional South Bay event by the Bay View Boat Club is on August
> 18th, the week after nationals.  I was a bit worried that nobody will show
> up because they will be burnt out from Nationals, which is the weekend
> before.  However, it may be that a couple of boats from down south would
> stick around to do that race with us.  I had hoped that there might be
> another multi race day in the 2nd half that we could use, but I´m not sure
> that is the case.  Does anybody have opinions one way or the other here?
>
> Do we want one or two throwouts per half?  I am not sure what is
> traditional, but it seems it could go either way.  How does 2 if all 8 races
> are sailed and 1 if 7 or fewer races are sailed sound?
>
> Finally, you may have noticed that all of the HDA races that have
> constituted our spinnaker series in the past are gone from the
> calendar.  These races had abysmal turnout last year, often only 2 or
> 3 boats.  I felt that the low turnout was demoralizing and contributed to
> the class losing a boat this season.  If there are enough people who want to
> do these races we can do them.  What I would really like to do is talk about
> what we can do for our spinnaker series at the next class meeting.  I feel
> that it needs a change in format in order to revive its popularity.
>
> If you have an opinion on any of the above, please speak up.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pete
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