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 OK, it's less then a month, so where is the NOR's and registration?

 Leopard, was in Rockport Sunday on the hard. The keel and rudder were beat up but repairable. Bob, is talking about bringing her back to Clearlake area on a trailer to make repairs.

  The web page is not letting me in.  I have tried several times to add my crew members names BUT every time I try to enter Owners Corner, the web site replies that it can't match my e-mail address. Plus when I try to find my own info, it can't find it ether. yet I am on the page of enters and I have a receipt from pay pal.  Regatta network is SO MUCH simpler.     

  While it was an excellent experiment in different courses for the Rum Races, maybe it's time to stop exposing our Keels to old Red Fish Gas field. The structures  are no longer there, but the pipes that connected them together are still there, AND the shrimpers drag them up with a certain amount of regularity. Basically if you are south of the South Trinity Cut or east of marker M52 you are in the old Red Fish Gas Production field. The old well heads were west of Red Fish.
  I know it will shorten the Rum Races course by about a mile, but it will cut exposure to keel damage if we start using Trinity Cut mark 8. It is easily seen from a distance and we don't have to maintain it or request a permit for it's placement. Plus go back to using the Low Range marker(E) for the north mark.
  I did enjoy the challenge of the different courses in the Rum Races and other races, but I am thinking of safety. If we continue with the TGIF series that finish after dark, we shouldn't expose ourselves to this submerged hazard.           

  OK, I'm signed up but Regatta Network is so much simpler, and less hoops to jump through to register.

OK Bee it's you and I match racing so far.

  The updated NOR's say August 17th for the Reggae Regatta.

 Thanks for fixing the NOR's and getting the registration corrected. 

  Thank you for fixing the NOR's.
  The registration still ether has a problem or is very unclear.  You are still directed to the Single Handed registration. when you click on Select your registration,  you have two options. 1.Registration fee-Singlehand Regatta only-$40.00 and 2.Registration fee-Singlehand Regatta (also registered for Mixed Doubles)-$35.00.
I find this misleading, IF, option 2 is for Mixed Doubles registration only it needs to be stated a little more clearly, and drop the word Singlehand from that option.     

  There is a problem with the NOR's and registration for the Mixed Doubles. The NOR's say October 6&7, 2018. While some of the information is accurate, the dates are all wrong and need to be corrected.
  While trying several time to register for the Mixed Doubles, that web site would not come up and I would be directed to the Single Handed registration. Plus it would not allow me to correct this error.
               PLEASE, Fix this lack of accuracy and registration mix up.

 OK, you have put up the notice on the web page for the Single Handed / Mixed Doubles Races, BUT there is no NOR's or web site to register. These events are in three (3) weeks. PLEASE, get these pages up. 

  Sorry about the last post, it turns out that VII class definitions is too large a file to attach to the forum post.     I was trying to point out what the SI's from two weeks ago said vs the more resent SI's and the identical definitions, of the two classes. 

See attached for reference

  Let me start with, I enjoy doing the Rum Races, they are fun and no pressure. NOW, the complaints. When they started 28 yrs. ago it was simple Spin or non-spin, on Friday evening. Then moved some races to Saturday, and participation jump up a lot. Then fully to Saturdays. A few years back we added Shorthanded class, then Club Handicap. Last year we divided the Spinnaker class into two parts Symmetric and Asymmetric, which was needed (plus more prize rum).
  Now more to the point, I printed out the SI's two weeks ago and they stated Racing Spin Class said LESS then 19.0 SA/D, and Racer/Cruiser Spin Class said GREATER then 19.0 SA/D. Plus both classes stated (Tacked on the bow or any length sprit) which leaves out Spin pole flown spinnakers. I don't know when the wording was changed in the two classes and reversed the less and greater declaration of sail area displacement. Because it was all printed in red, and I had already closely read the SI's I, did not notice the second change that had been made.
  Now we come to inputting your times on line, and we have the classes we had last year, which was a simple definition.
  We need to return to the simple class definitions in the SI's that would match the scoring definitions.