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Posted by Red Pepper --Previous Message--
on 10/8/2007, 9:01 pm, in reply to "2008 schedule"
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Hi Dave:
I hope to make the trip 15 hours south from Alberta to North Americans in Colorado. The timing may discourage some, however, due to it being held before the end of our school year, and also in the middle of the Alberta Fireball June series. Also several sailors will have just gotten their boats back from the Thai Worlds and may be a little travel weary. However, I will try to encourage some of the other Alberta sailors to make the trip south with us. We hope to meet some of the Eastern US sailors there as well.
Richard Quinlan
CAN 7944 Red Pepper
: In an effort to coordinate the US
: schedule with the Canadian schedule
: I am submitting the US side of the
: schedule based on the major events
: only. The Mid-winters will be
: hosted at Davis Island during the
: weekend of March 14-16. The
: Nationals and North Americans will
: be hostyed by the Dillon Yacht Club
: near Denver, Colorado during the
: week of June 16-20. Alan and Peter
: has the two events scheduled during
: the week to allow the weekends on
: either end of the week for
: traveling. That way there will be
: only a week of work you have to
: negotiate for to attend these two
: events. The Eastern Regionals will
: be hosted by Sayville yacht Club and
: the exact dates have yet to be
: determined but we have it narrowed
: down to somewhere around the third
: week in July. What we hope is the
: western Candian fleets will support
: the Nationals and North Americans
: and the Eastern Canadians will
: support the Eastern Regionals. What
: I need from our Canadian fleets is
: their regattas that they want us to
: support and I will send that
: schedule out to our membership as
: soon as I get them. I am not asking
: for any support for our local
: regattas this summer as I want to
: concentrate on trying to schedule
: regattas that will allow for the US
: and Candian fleets to travel across
: the border and support each other
: this summer. I've already talked to
: Joe Jospe about this and he agrees
: that this type of schedule will only
: benefit both associations in the
: long run due to the locations of our
: largest fleets. It might help the
: Candians to know that there is small
: group of US Fireballers located near
: Portland, Oregon looking for more
: Fireballs to race against. Also the
: largest US fleet is located near
: Pymatuning but is made up of mostly
: high school and college age students
: and can be somewhat unreliable when
: expecting them to travel but there
: is also four older fireballers that
: do travel on a regular basis for
: major US events. It these four that
: I hope will do the bulk of the
: traveling across the border. You
: have to go to either Dever of Tampa
: to get to the rest of our
: association. Anyway as soon as I
: can get your schedules I will begin
: to advertise them to our
: association. As soon as I have an
: exact date for the Eastern regionals
: I will notify the Canadians as well
: as the US fleets.
:
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