This blog and other events

Hi all,

Just when you thought it was safe to read your emails, I'm back with more.

First, I received a suggestion that I post these various musings on a blog so that people could refer back to them when they wanted to. Now, as to why anyone would want to refer back to this drivel, I don't have a clue. But anyway, I have created a blog to gather all this stuff together. You can find it at http://ncycsailing.blogspot.com/ If you find the need to re-read this stuff, I have a therapist I can recommend.

At this point the blog is still pretty basic. I have uploaded the various reports but I haven't done "pretty" and "engaging" yet. And "pretty" is what I'm all about. Pretty, I feel pretty. Oh so pretty and witty and bright! (that's another old guy showtune reference; see: West Side Story. For those of you who aren't old like me, just skip over this crap.) So at some point, assuming I figure out how, it will get some pictures and other stuff to make it look better. In the future I will still email out the weekly updates but will also post that info to the blog. We'll get a link to the blog up on the NCYC website so you don't have to remember it.

Now on to other things of import:

This weekend is the Race For Hope Saturday June 20th at NCYC. Details will be forthcoming, but this is a great cause: Cancer Research and it has hit home in a big way this year for all of us with Mary Lou Osborne's passing. If there is anyway that you can participate by entering, please do so. Even if you cannot, please consider a contribution to the Cancer Society through a race entry anyway. It's only $50 and we all know the money is needed and will be well spent. All proceeds from this event go directly to the charity. The costs have been underwritten. Talk to John or Judy Greiner or Bob Thompson for details.

Also this weekend, NCYC welcomes the Catamaran Racing Association of Michigan to the club for their regatta. There will be plenty of beach cats on the grounds and racing this weekend.

Next weekend, Saturday June 27th is the Monroe Boat Club to Ford Yacht Club Port-to-Port Race. The race is Saturday with dockage available at FYC on Saturday Night for participants. See the attachment for details.

I have also uploaded the series results for the Spring Midweek Series. We had six races scheduled, lost the first one to the weather but got five great races in. 35 boats qualified in the results by participating in at least three races and 49 different boats in total were a part of the series. That's huge! The results were close, including a three-way tie on points for first in PHRF B with tie-breakers coming into play for that one. In three classes we had boats with perfect scores for the series: Laszlo Goda's Splash Dance in PHRF B, Jim and Chris Davis's Orange Crate in JAM A, and Jim and Toni Jacobs' Super Zena in JAM B all came away with three bullets. I know their competition will be gunning for them in the next two series. Better sail with your fenders over the side, SD, OC and SZ! Thanks to all of you for helping to make Midweek Racing at North Cape one of the best series going in the Great Lakes! I'm looking forward to even more participation in the next two series. Remember, each series consists of six races: five Wednesday evenings and one Sunday afternoon. The Junior Sailors have food for us after the Wednesday events and we will again have a potluck after the Sunday races.

I got some good feedback on this past Sunday's race. Many seemed to enjoy the race and the potluck after. One of the suggestions for an alternate approach was to perhaps consider for next year establishing a separate Sunday afternoon series, one race a month, May through September and have that as its own independent series instead of counting the race toward the midweek series results. Certainly that's a thought worth considering. If you have any input on this or any other aspect of the Yachting Activities program, please let me or a member of the bridge or of the board know your thoughts. The Yachting Activities program is here to serve you and if asparagus isn't to your taste, perhaps you'd rather have the lima beans or the beets. Me, I'll settle for ice cream. Oh, and beer.

See ya Wednesday. I'm still looking for that first night when we have 50 boats on the water. Let's make it happen!

Kent