12 May 07 - Updated this Home page.

16 April 07 - Removed the sails wanted ad.

4 April 07 - Put the Jan 07 Rabble on the Newsletters page. We will put more Rabbles on the web site if there is interest. Let me know. Removed Sailors World ad and added sails wanted - see Items wanted & for sale.

25 March 07 - Put spring meeting on the home page. Corrected Karel Vorel email on the "Contacts" and "Events" pages. Added the nice buttons to the "Where to Sail" page.

5 March 07 - Updated the home page (see photo below) and deleted the Hodgson ad. Added detail about the Spring Meeting.

1 Mar 07 - Added link to NavQuest, a new marine navigation map source.

19 Feb 07 - Added the nice buttons to the Boats & Parts for Sale page and added the ad for a free Rebel from Hugh Gillespie.

24 Jan 07 - Added the note about the Nationals and the Spring Meeting.

6 Jan 07 - Added the picture below & reversed the order of What's New. Eliminated the opening graphic. Added archive for older What's New items on Contacts page.

5 Jan 07 - Corrected Rebel Nationals dates in Events  (thanks Al). Added Hodgson ad in Boats & Parts for Sale.

20 Oct 06 - Added link to 2003 Nationals.

19 Oct 06 - Corrected 2006 senior results and added junior results. (Thanks Bruce).

16 Oct 06 - Update Site Map with new events.

15 Oct 06 - Complete redo of Events page with added content on past Nationals.

1 Oct 06 - Added Des Plaines Invitational Results under Events 

28 Sept 06 - Corrected title and link in Where to Sail under Chicago area - Des Plaines Yacht Club - Lake Opeka

27 Sept 06 - Added this "What's New" area.

25 Sept - Posted results of CLYC Invitational under Events
14 Sept 06 - Web site completely reorganized. New pages added to make it easier to find things.

1 Feb 07 -  Updated the Events page to use the nice buttons shown above and added the Des Plaines & Grand Rapids invitationals.

25 Jan 07 - The invitation for the 2007 CLYC Invitational is now posted. Thanks Patti. Ya all come.

Announcements

Rebel E-Rabble Breaking News 17 Jan 08

1)      Racing Rules Discussion Board.  Thanks to our ever brilliant WebSkipper, Neil Robb, a fortuitous book purchase at the ODSS Symposium by me and the permission of US SAILING and David Perry we are able to bring you Dave Perry’s 100 Best Racing Rules Quizzes one or two questions at a time on our website.  What we plan to do is provide you the facts as Dave wrote them and let everyone take a shot a being a member of the protest committee.  After 3 weeks or so we will then post the answer given in Dave’s book for everyone to compare.  Neil believes we should be ready to give it a go on February 1^st. 2008 and we hope you are as excited as Neil and I are.  We are also inviting everyone to submit their own situation as a quiz so that we may then discuss it as a group on line.  There should (will) be a discussion forum button on our website specifically for these submissions. Finally, we are planning to update the discussion board the 1^st of each month excepting our busy sailing season. 

2)      www.rebelsailor.com  Our WebSkipper also has been very busy updating the schedule on our website.  So far we have two June regattas one in Grand Rapids on the 14^th and 15^th followed by Rock Hall on the 21^st and 22^nd.  Of course the Rebel Nationals are in Lake Fenton with the Junior Nationals beginning on July 13^th.   If tradition holds in Des Plaines then expect their regatta to occur on August 9^th and 10^th.  Clark Lake will hold their invitational on the weekend of September 20^th and 21^st.  The best part of using our website is that each of these locations has a hot link to it, so you can just grab the registration info and go.  Most excellent!

3)      July 2007 Meeting Minutes The gremlins have finally given the meeting minutes back to Karol and we have posted them on the website under ‘Newsletters’ in lieu of waiting till April to publish them in the Rabble.

4)      2008 Spring Meeting The NRCA Spring Meeting will start at 10:30 on February 23, 2008 at the Grand Rapids Yacht Club. A lunch will be available and the Commodore thinks we should be done by early afternoon.

5)      Junior Photographer Sharon, Lee, Irene and I will not be at the Nationals on Sunday as Irene’s brother Al and his wife Agnes are celebrating 50 years of marriage on July 13^th.  The Rabble needs a volunteer to take pictures of the day’s events, especially the junior races.  As we are planning to drop our boat on Saturday the 12^th, we can leave our Kodak with its docking port for a prearranged pick-up.  Yea, I know it’s January and July is a long ways away but it never hurts to ask early and often.

6)      New Member Our newest Rebel owner Walter Foster is a long time sailor but had never heard of the Rebel. We told him that he gets a free one year membership in the NRCA. He said he is very impressed with the boat and wondered why it wasn’t a better known class?  Gosh Walter, we are celebrating the 60^th year of the first fiberglass one-design ever built and we will just have to do a better job of getting the word out.  Welcome aboard.

7)      Getting the word out. We would appreciate it if all of our fleet captains as well as anyone else with an e-mail list would forward our “Sailing News” e-mail to members of your fleets, perspective members, crews, family and friends.

8)      Strictly Sail in Chicago What more can I say – it begins January 31^st.

Bruce LJJ Nowak, Rebel Rabble Editor, NRCA, POB 4114, Jackson, MI 49203