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Ya, shook my ceiling fan too.   yay tree-huggers (uh, did i just say that?)

Quote from: Charles on July 06, 2012, 12:03:29 PM
It would appear that the environmentalists are against the project, so that is a powerful group to get around.  At Ft. Hood, a few years ago, the environmentalists made the Army stop shooting in certain parts of Ft. Hood because they were disturbing the nesting sites of some obscure bird that likes to nest in cedar trees!  You never know!

Nice idea Chris, might be a good way to get non-sailors into the sport.   

Should i put an ad up on craigslist (casual encounter section) - white soveral 27 looking for crew on Wed. night.   Free beer?   

But really, i remember my first real race - stepped off the wall onto a J27 in Corpus on a wednesday night.   I was hooked, and the sport will never be the same.

OK you viper bully, no picking on the new guy.   Otherwise i'm going to a) go buy hull number 104, name it "duck soup" and paint it lavender b) shave my head c) start talking with an accent   <-  just because three is NOT a crowd

if memory serves i did a rum race with you last year and a) you started crying about hiking 1/2 way through b) we ran out of beer   

if anything, go pick on spurlin.   he's done well to keep that new baby protected despite my attempts to get it on the start line with the viper and vx ;-)  (i get to take one shot at him for every customer i send his way)

Demo day is back on this saturday, yes ??

Ooh, you two are going to have fun!

Quote from: Sailchick on April 09, 2012, 11:01:07 AM
Bring out the Vipers to play!  Robby Brann and I are racing together on Sunday.  I'm ready to get on the water again.  Sign up!!!

Discount is gone, but i still think the entry fee is under a hundred bucks.  Not bad for a 3-day regatta where you're constantly over-served and fed upon hitting the dock.

17 vipers registered, three more on their way this week.   Should see the VX count jump up over 10 and a pack of J22's register very soon. 

Come on, the more the merrier.   

The HYC midwinters will be a nice warm-up.

Sounds like a great time!  And by then the refit should be complete - too bad she's probably stuck in central texas for several more years!   

Got her bottom and topsides did over the holiday. - two snaps -

Report?  Bee?  How did it go?

Sad to say, we were in bed by 10!   Saving our strength for the HYC midwinter regatta and MGRW. 

Last year there was a nice J22 fleet, and should be again this year. 

Fun event, great venue and not much else going on in Feb. sailing-wise.    Be fun to see this thing grow into Charleston Race Week on the gulf coast!    J24's?  J80's? other usual suspects?

Early discount expires today.  

This is going to be a fun one!  

http://www.mardigrasraceweek.org/

I think a lot of the big PHRF boat's are off-put by the way HYC splits sym and asym boat's.  At least thats my feeling.

Maybe we'll see big-boat programs come back when the economy get's sorted.

As far as attendance at this one - i think the J22's and 24's had a conflicting event.  Vipers hit wurstfest the prior weekend which took me out.    Still a decent show for the local Viper fleet and J105's. 

I'll be ready for the HYC midwinters and then a big Mardi Gras Race Week in Feb 2012, a little off-subject but i think it's going to be good one.

That's "VIPER BAR" shores!   Have to give credit to Mary M for the idea, i think she invented the car-bar.  Not sure if we adopted it because it made "socializing" more convienent or because most bars wont allow the guys from corpus in.

by the way, a viper with single trap and no lead is very fast in 25 knot's of breeze ;-)

Pretty hefty late fee.

R.N. always mucks up the HYC registration costs - should be fixed soon.   

Hope for the same weather we had last year.

Cool man, i'll track you down.  Also batch'in it.

Animal will be there both weekends!  This weekend we will be discuised as a centerboar skiff...  had a buddy send me a centerboard he had for the viper.  So - 200lbs, - a draggy bulb + a single trap = woo wee... keep the pointy thing up and go fast! 

See everyone there!   Chris, when are you and MM going down?  This Friday afternoon?

Sorry bee - one last post and then i'm dust-

Scott's right, i'm absolutly transparent but... 

Perhaps i didn't illustrate my point very well.   No intent to bash the regatta, anyone or any brand of boat.   As scott mentions, i've had and enjoyed a lot of em'.   In hindsite, putting this on the forum was a mistake.    Bee - i'd love the opportunity to swap some idea's in November assuming you and Charles will be at wurstfest again.

So fair weather, and good sailing this weekend.   And if, in the future it happens that you want to turn this into a larger event I would certainly be all over helping the effort.

Quote from: BoomerangJ on October 25, 2011, 10:36:41 AM
For those that may not be aware-J/Fests originated over 25 years ago.  They were held at Annapolis, Newport, San Diego, San Francisco, and New Orleans.  This is not new.  Previous dealer reps in this area had tried for years to host an event under the J/Fest banner-all to no avail.  A couple of years ago a few J/Boat owners got with me and asked about replicating this event in Houston and J/Boats agreed.  There is nothing more to it then that.  Why would I not support the owners efforts to put this together?  And as I said in an earlier post there are plenty of weekends for others to use for an event they want to architect, sponsor, and run. And if JBoat owners were not to be invited I'm pretty sure none of us would come over and defacate in somebody elses's sandbox.  So congratulations Jeff Jones for stirring it up-you can be proud!  You've done a great job.  For a guy that has had a Lindenbergh, 505, J/22, J/22, Viper 830, Viper 640, J/80, Wavelength 24, Laser, a couple of Vipers, all in the last ten years, and now has a VX on order I'm sure it would be hard for you to commit to hosting a multi-year regatta that supports any one design.  Just so you know it takes a lot of commitment and effort by a lot of folks that don't appreciate the bashing of their efforts for no real good reason.

J/Fest will live on and I'm sure we will make it bigger and better every year!  I'm looking forward to it.  And for the record, once again, J/Boats Southwest spent tens of thousands of dollars to support the following regatta's:  J/24 Austin Circuit stop, J/24 Nationals-DCYC, 'Ol Man of the Sea Regatta-FWBC, Dillon Open-Colorado, ISSA High School Nationals, and several others I can't recall at the moment. 

Do I think having a big regatta on the Bay would be fun?  Absolutely!  I've talked about that to people that will and can actually do something about it.  I've had several discussions with posters in this thread.  Everyone knows how I feel about the bay. It could be bigger then Charleston-but it would take a full on collaboration amongst all of the clubs, Seabrook shipyard, etc.  I don't think it makes any sense to try an morph J/Fest into that event.  I think it is a different event that could be held in the spring.  It certainly doesn't make sense for people to bash an event that with over 40 boats registered is a good fun event.  I remain open to ideas and will put my check book and my effort into making the sport better for all.  (As long as it's in a J/Boat!!  KIDDING!  KIDDING!-simmer down!)