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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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".</DIV>
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<DIV>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).</DIV>
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<DIV>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 <A href="http://www.richmondyc.org/boatinfo/racing/SantanaOlson/default.asp">http://www.richmondyc.org/boatinfo/racing/SantanaOlson/default.asp</A></DIV>
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<DIV>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).</DIV>
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<DIV>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!</DIV>
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<DIV>Jan Grygier, Carlos</DIV>
<DIV>(510) 323-3866 (cell)</DIV>
<DIV><A href="mailto:hydrophilos@earthlink.net">hydrophilos@earthlink.net</A></DIV>
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