Snipe Fleet 444 News            November 2007

 

Annual Awards Dinner

 

About 25 Snipers and family members attended the Annual Awards Dinner.  Food, drink, celebration of fleet awards, and a bit of fleet business were the order of the day.  Many thanks to everyone who made this event possible.

 

            Fleet Awards:

                        SCIRA Highpoint                     John Fry and Naomi Wright

                        Fleet 444 Champion                 Cliff Wright and Hannah Wright

                        District 7 Champion                  Kirk and Katia Smith

                        Ironman                                    Cliff Wright

 

The following individuals have agreed to work on behalf of the fleet this next year.  As you know the fleet does not run itself and every volunteer effort large or small in important.  Thanks to everyone who volunteered.  We still need one or more to step up and volunteer to run fleet events, social and others.

 

            Fleet Captain                                        John Fry

            Assistant Fleet Captain             Tom Colligan

            Treasurer                                              Ted Garman

            Webmaster                                           Kirk Smith

            Crew Coordinators                               Sandy Liao and Hannah Wright

            Fleet Travel Coordinator                       Cliff Wright

            Social and Event Coordinator               TBD

 

            Woman’s Nationals Chairman   Kirk Smith

 

Sail Upgrading

 

            I will be organizing a fleet sail purchase over the next two months.  We need to put together art least 3 suits of sails to obtain a discount.  I am good for one full suit, Cliff has indicated he wants a new jib, Tom is interested as well.  We need someone who wants a new main.  Most everyone in the fleet can use some new sails.  Please call me if you are interested. 

 

If you have any used sails that still have some life in them and that you are willing to sell to other fleet members, please let me know.  Those who would be interested in buying some “gently used” sails and thereby upgrade their own inventory should contact me as well.

 

 

 

 

 

Woman’s Nationals

 

            The Snipe Woman’s Nationals is scheduled for May 9-11 at Shilshole.  Kirk Smith is heading up this effort.  He will need help with this project which will include work on:

            Sponsorships and marketing the event

            Arranging entertainment and food

            Housing

            Boat charters and boat transportation

            RC help – whaler drivers spectator boats

            Event day coordinators

 

Kirk will be coordinating a series of planning meetings to launch this project and will be in touch with fleet members to arrange dates and locations.

 

 

Leschi Float Rental

 

            Tom Colligan is working on organizing a fleet rental of the north float.  The idea is for the fleet to rent the float for the year and in turn rent out the slots to individual fleet members.  This effort should result in a potential savings, better control over the entire float and more sailing.  The plan is to rent the float for the calendar year 2008 (starting in January).  The floats are configured for 8 slots.  With a little ingenuity it could hold 9 boats, three of which would have “prized” end spots.  This could create a savings of up to 22% over current annual moorage fees.  In addition, we would be able to use any free space on the dock to keep other items such as storage boxes, kayaks, other boats, etc.  We need 7-9 individuals to step up and make a commitment to this plan.

 

Tom, Cliff, and I are definitely in.  At least 4 more are needed.  Tom will be in touch with fleet members to set this up.  

 

Tentative 2008 Schedule

 

            Here is a very tentative Sailing Schedule for 2008.  Some of the dates may be off           a bit and your feed back is encouraged.  Please put these dates in your 2008          calendar and plan your participation \:

 

            Important Events

           

            April 4                          Lake Tactics Discussion

             April 5             Fleet weigh in/ open house

            October 18                  Snipe Annual Awards Dinner

 

            Tuesday Evening Season Series:           

 

            April 10 – May 8                      Spring Series

            May 15 – June 12                    Interim Series

            June 19 – July 31                      Summer Series

            August 7 – September 11         Fall Series       

 

Other Snipe Sailing

 

            April 28                        CYC Lake Washington Spring Series

            May 9- 11                    Snipe Woman’s Nationals, Seattle, WA

            August 4 – 8                 Snipe Nationals, San Francisco, CA

            September (TBD)         Snipe NA’s, Boston, MA

            September 7                 Lake Washington Fleet Championship

            September 13 – 14       Oktoberschniep, Lake Washington

 

Possible additions to the schedule

 

            April                 Informal tuning day

            May                 Tuning Clinic

            June                 Saturday Regatta

            July                  Saturday Regatta

            August Saturday Regatta

           

 

Roster Cleanup

 

Lastly I will be working on cleaning up and revising the current fleet roster.  Please review the attached roster and get back to me with any changes.  These should include changes to your personal contact information as well as info on others in the fleet that should be added or deleted along with their contact information.

           

 

As always I welcome your suggestions and ideas for how to improve this newsletter as well as anything that will contribute to the success of Snipe Fleet 444.