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2007 Fireball & Friends Midwinters at DIYC

Posted by Paul Leonard on 1/11/2007, 9:06 pm
24.73.64.42

Hello Hello Hello
Well folks, it's "that time of year" again - Time to get signed up for the Davis Island Yacht Club "Fireballs & Friends Regatta"! This event started off over 40 years ago as the "Fireball Midwinters" and has grown into a Really Good Time one-design March Multi-Class Madness.
In addition to the ancient and venerable FIREBALL class, we are again inviting (in order of "event seniority") the FRONT RUNNER, INTERNATIONAL 110, FLYING SCOT, CLASSIC MOTH and INTERLAKE classes. And this year we are pleased to extend our hospitality to the WINDMILL class.
I'm looking forward to staging a Great Event for everybody, and all of us here at DIYC hope to see all of our "repeat offenders" back along with lots of new folks.
I have posted these items on our web site
- Notice of Race
- Entry and Release of Liability
- general "blurb" about the Davis Island Yacht Club
- a layout of the Club grounds
- a layout in Chart form of the planned racing area, and
- a "local knowledge guide" to expected weather conditions.
Please pay special attention to the supplemental information in the Notice - we have a couple of sailmaker-rep types doing seminars / demos, a special notice regarding this year's protest procedures and important items regarding camping and parking.
In addition to the resources attached, you can get some really outstanding low-level aerial imagery of the Club and grounds at http://marinas.com/view/marina/3998 or search for "davis island" on their site.
We have also added a real-time weather reporting faciltiy to our website, have a look at http://diyc.org/wx for more - we are station CW6730 on NOAA "Findu" site http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?CW6730 (which also provides access to tide stations), and, alothough it may not actually have a link, we have a page on Weather Underground as station KFLTAMPA47 http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KFLTAMPA47
so you can see what you're looking at as the date approaches.
DIYC also has free WiFi (b) access (gotta bring your own printer tho), the staff can show you how to set up a connection (it's not "open" and does not broadcast a SSID). The pipe is 512KB so try not to get too hard on it.
If anyone needs anything else, please do not hesitate to contact me for more. We look forward to seeing y'all and doing some high-quality racing and partying.
Regards,
Paul Leonard
727.742.4504
paul.leonard@yahoo.com