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Kick off party March 12 at HSH yachts in Watergate marina 2 pm. Notice of race is posted on the website www.racetotheborder.com
Free drinks and food, good time to meet other sailors and get on a boat for the race.

Kick off party March 12 at HSH yachts in Watergate marina 2 pm. Notice of race is posted on the website www.racetotheborder.com

Do we need two Women's regattas even if they are from 2 clubs? Eliminate the GBCA and let HYC run that regatta. May be is time to think about combining couple regattas into one. We have too many Spring Series, may be the Shoe and Bank regatta needs to be one.

The participation is small in every regatta, it's not the economy, J fest managed to get 40 boats out there, and that is only J boats. I'll be happy with one or two regattas a months if you can get 50 or 60 boats.

We can't keep trying to squeeze more regattas into a calendar already packed and suffering; and why do we schedule races in the summer at 11am? Everyone knows the sea breeze doesn?t come until 2pm but we think we can get quality racing in no breeze and 100 degree weather. Do you wonder how we get 60 boats on a rum race?


If you can't get 5 boats to make a class, that regatta is failing.

Fantastic Job. I still remember the 1st. time the J fest was runned in Houston, what a great regatta it was and I was disappointed that it didn't come back. Now that it's here, I'll put my grain in the pile to make it better next year. As a comment that I heard several times on Saturday afternoon was the price of drinks. At $8 a drink I believe many sailors stayed away from the bar. I believe we want to support the Yacht Club, you may want to look into that next year. I can't wait to go to Annapolis to use that certificate, I guess I'll have to wait until spring.

My foredeck bail out, can't sail without foredeck, interested call me/message me 713-459-3110. Beer will be provided, yelling will only come from other crew members. Xavier