Snipe Fleet 444 Newsletter  

January/February 2008

 

2008 Sailing Schedule

 

 Please put these dates in your 2008 calendar and plan your participation.

 

            Important Events

           

             April 5             Fleet weigh-in and Open house

            October 25                  Snipe Annual Awards Dinner

 

            Tuesday Evening Season Series:     

 

            April 9 – May 7                        Spring Series

            May 14 – June 11                    Interim Series

            June 18 – July 30                      Summer Series

            August 6 – September 10         Fall Series       

 

Other Snipe Sailing

 

            April 26                        CYC Lake Washington Spring Regatta

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

            August 4 – 8                 Snipe Nationals, San Francisco, CA

            September (TBD)         Snipe North American’s, Boston, MA

            September 13               Lake Washington Fall Regatta

            September 27-28         Oktoberschniep, Lake Washington

 

 

Kicking Off the Season

 

All Snipers are invited to join the fleet on Saturday April 5th to kick the season off.  We will be weighing boats, holding tuning and sailing clinics and doing a bit of informal sailing (conditions permitting).  With the Spring Series beginning the following week this is a great time to get your boat on the dock as there will be “extra hands” available to help.

 

Boat weighing takes volunteers, and the more fleet members who show up, the easier it goes!  Please plan on joining us on the dock on April 5th. 

 

This invitation includes all Snipe crews as well. 

 

 

Tuesday Evening Series

 

As you can see from the dates on the schedule the Tuesday Series begins in a few short months.  You can take advantage of a discount by going online and purchasing the entire series from CYC.  The entire season cost $250.  Each series individually cost $65.  

 

By signing up for the entire year now you will increase your motivation and commitment to Snipe sailing, and help CYC at the same time.

 

 

Snipe Woman’s Nationals

 

Plans are well under way for the Woman’s Snipe Nationals schedule for May 9-11.  Please contact Kirk Smith if you would like to help in any way.  If you are a woman (or know other women) who are interested in participating please let either myself or Kirk know.

Kirk’s contact information is:                 Kirk Smith    

kirksmith01@msn.com,

425-652-9245

Fleet Sail Purchase

 

It’s time to buy sails for the season.  I am putting together a fleet purchase which gets us a discount.  For 3-5 suits of sails we save 10%.  For more than 5 suits we can get 15% off.  The cost of a new suit from Quantum is $1280, mains are $815 and jibs are $465.

 

To date 3 individuals have committed to buying new sails (Colligan, Smith, and Fry) which creates a 10% discount for others who may want to participate.  If 3 more fleet members join in we all save 15%.  Not an insignificant amount of money! 

The Quantum website is:           http://www.quantumsails.com/classes/class_detail.aspx?class=32

 

Please contact me to participate.

 

Questions, Comments, Issues, or Concerns can be directed to the Fleet Captain

 

John Fry

206-382-6248 (w)

206-275-1275 (h)

johnfry@comcast.net