GREAT WEATHER for October! Let's race tonight.

Winds are great. Temps are great. Let's do the Wednesday night course tonight!

Want to help with regattas?

Some new sailors this year have gotten some experience racing by first coming out and helping on the committee boat. You will learn what we have to do to start and score races. You will have the best seat in the house for watching sailboat racing. You will learn some skills that will allow you to give back after you've become a famous racer.

For the Fall Off, we want to start a program to start people learning how to use Sailwave for computer scoring at our races. Ideally, we would have 2 or 3 people with their laptops on the committee boat to score the Fall Off. Yes, we'll always have a paper backup to save us if we mess up the computer too badly.

Kyle Claybrook has made templates for us to use, so the heavy lifting has been done. One needs to learn how to enter the late registrations and actually start/score a race.

We will have some race committee seminars this winter. Then you can gain experience in our winter racing program before it gets serious with the Force Five next Spring.

Your participation would be great appreciated. I can assure you it is fun to work on the RC, get your lunch bought for you, and participate in the after race activities as our honored guests.

Equalizer is history!

Thanks Paul Latour for a great job as Regatta Chair and Robert Mattix as PRO. The S2's brought in a lot of boats from out of town because of Paul's efforts.

Thanks to everyone who responded on short notice to help out! Without a lot of support people regattas are impossible to run.

Help needed this weekend!

Saturday morning we need two people to help with registration. Contact Paul Latour, or the race director.

All day Saturday and Sunday we need somebody to drive a chase boat to handle the buoy on the starting line. The boat at the starting line will have one of the best views of racing you can imagine. Even if you can only help one day, contact Robert Mattix or the race director.

Thanks, the regatta is shaping up to be have a tremendous turnout by the S2's!

Music City Catalina Cup is history

I just want to thank everyone for making this such a great event. Without running the risk of forgetting people, let me just list the areas of help:

Roger had a committee boat full of people who had never seen a sailboat race before. He had a training session Friday evening for all involved. Bobby McCullough cooked some great burgers for everyone.

Saturday we had some fantastic food. A number of new members did jobs so far in excess of anything we'd ask, it was just really so wonderful.

Saturday evening, Jacob from Rotiers catered the food. No, he didn't make Rotiers classic food, he added his own twists to the items. There was not much left over! A number of people brought pastry to share. Wow!

Ken Gum brought some homemade beer. All I can say is: I never imagined Ken could make such great beer.

Sunday, Kevin and Vicki Baker came up from Lewisburg to make us some breakfast. Kevin's smoked sausage was fantastic. Thank you so much guys. They got a real bonus as there was a little puppy obviously looking for a home. Kevin and Vicki took him home and will be rewarded with a great dog, no doubt!

And then there were the chase boats. Thanks to everyone who did such a fantastic job helping keep the courses set in most difficult conditions.

I just can't express how wonderful it was to see such a wide group of people participate in this event. This is how friendships and clubs are built! Thank you all so very much!

And thanks to our sponsors! Joe Waters, of Waters sails made us sail bags for trophies. Bob, from the Franklin NAPA store embroidered the logos and stuff for the sail bags. Gregg Merriman and Tiger Marts kicked in some money. They were just all so generous. :)

Music City Catalina Cup update

Roger Arnold took on a boat full of enthusiastic new members for his race committee. A bunch of new members brought pastry and desserts tonight. Jacob, from Rotiers catered a fantastic dinner and grilled BBQ chicken on the grill.

Jim and Amy are sailing the Club C-22 and are solidly in 2nd place in the cruiser fleet! They've only been sailing since last Spring. I think they are hooked. LOL

The winds were light, but we are making up for it with some fantastic food!