GBCA Discussion Forum

Thanks Scott!  Mario's Flying Pizza is going to be bringing over several trays of their lasagne, baked ziti, salad and some other tasty treats!  Everyone is welcome!  I'm going to clear out the prize closet and see what things I can find to give away!  maybe the oldest J/Fest t-shirt or some other silly reason to give away the booty!  We will be taking pics and interviewing folks about their J/Fest experience's and what they are looking forward to with the 2018 event!  See you Saturday!

Come out and drive the J/70, J/80, or J/88 this weekend!

Please do RSVP!  No one likes waiting on the dock for a boat to come back in! 

Details on the attached flyer!

For all you Conundrum racers-go have a great race on Saturday-come see us on Sunday!

Regards;

Scott

Great stuff!  Link is going into the newsletter that I am working on now!

Bee-

Your one up on me!  I haven't seen my sails yet!  but I've heard good things about them!  Attached is the business end of the deal.

"license to thrill"  Hull number 007 on the factory floor.  Gets loaded tomorrow and then heading to Texas! 

Then on to J/Fest!

Along with Al's gentle reminder here's a link to all of the information regarding this years event: 

http://www.jboatssouthwest.com/Jboat_newletter/jfest_2013/jfest_2013.html

We really hope to get all of the J/Boats, especially in the PHRF class to participate this year!  let us know how we can help you to participate in this years J/FEst!

Skippers-make your crew think you appreciate them!?  Sign up for J/Fest today.  This is early,early registration.  the price doesn't go up tomorrow-but today you get free t-shirts for all of your crew.  Tomorrow you don't. 

For the last several years we've been marketing to sailors north of the mason/dixon line to come sail all of our fall events:  the HOOD, GBCA-Performance Cup, Harvest Moon Regatta, and J/Fest Southwest.  If we get people to sign up for these events early and in numbers-it will serve to back up our marketing message.  Thus the early, early sign up with free stuff offered.

Poke your skipper, other J/Boat owners and get them to sign up today at:  https://www.regattanetwork.com/clubmgmt/applet_registration_form.php?regatta_id=6982

Thanks!  And lets go racing this fall!  Support your local club-make all of our fall events a raging success!

How 'bout we just pipe your water up here and raise Lake Travis about 50'!?!?. 

At this point I'd love to have the GB water!!!

Chris and Scott-I Agree!  I think easier courses that are fun to race will help.  Chris-I hear ya that there might be less and less participation.  We have to pitch in and work harder on that.  I have the e-mails and send a newsletter out to J owners-but want all boats to go race. I just don't have any marketing stuff going out to the others-however anyone is invited to subscribe to our newsletter and we do promote all regatta's around the SW in it. 

My goal is to get the owners out that aren't racing OD to build up the PHRF classes. Probably need PHRF committee members to weigh in and help out. 

Heard from Bryan Colby yesterday.  He owns the J/27 "Fast Chicken".  Plans on ramping up his race program and is going to up his skill set through race instruction.  Good Stuff!  Plans on participating in the local events.  We need more of this!!!  Way to go Bryan!  Looking forward to watching your progression. 

Over the last couple of years it seems like the J/Boat OD classes (J/22, J/24, J/70, J/80, J/105, and J/109) have been hanging in there and actually growing!  Where are the other J/boat owners?  There are a number of J/s such as J/27, J/29, J/30, J/92, J/40, J/44, J/120, and J/122's that all of us would like to see participate more in the Rum Races, Shoe, GBCA Performance Cup, Texas Week, J/Fest Southwest and others. 

I do not even have a complete list of folks to pester!  Can all of you help me flush out the various J/Boat owners and provide contact information? I'd like to get them on a mailing list and see what we can do to help get the participation up in our regatta's.

Love to also hear any ideas?  Thoughts on courses? etc.  Whatever we can do to make the fun quotient high enough to get them out!

Looking forward to this dialog!

Scott

Someone-Please contact Charlie Daniels from Belton, Tx.  He really wants to crew for someone and he can help.  Here's the e-mail he sent out this morning:

Hey everyone.  I'm stll available for crew if anyone needs help.  I live on Lake Belton, just north of Austin, so I'll need to know today if possible so I can drive to Clear Lake in time.

Fair Winds,

Charlie D
254-913-7334 cell

Sailors-Several boats at J/Fest Southwest are looking for crew.  Especially some of the bigger boats.  Please post your interest in crewing here.  Alternatively you can send me an e-mail with your info and boat you would like to crew on and I will try to match you up!

Everyone is welcome to attend.  There are spectator boats, and dinner tickets available.  We do ask that you reserve dinner tickets ahead of time.

Look forward to seeing everyone at J/Fest!

Scott

Rodney Johnstone just let me know that he is attending J/Fest Southwest!  This makes the 3rd year in a row!  We're glad he's coming!  He brings a lot of fun to the event-plus he's a great sailor!

Thanks Rod for coming on down again!

Regards;

Scott

Sail the Divorce Cup on Saturday and then come buy a J/70 for each one of you on Sunday!  That "divorce cup" slang kind of cracks me up! 

See y'all on Sunday-Scott

The VX One Design will still be at LYC on Saturday.  For those interested.

Thanks;

Scott