Hi All,

With just 5 days to the annual Rock Hall One-Design Regatta, our Rebel class has the most boats registered with 6. As registrations for weekend regattas generally happens the day of, should we be expecting a larger turn out as well? Mary Vorel advised that Brian Nickels, Dave's nephew, has purchased 4200 and we might expect to see it soon. Since Dave and Marianne run a charity event during this weekend or close to it, I expect not to see them. Jay and Pat are registered so the only question is will Kevin break away? Pat Vorel said the her and Mary were coming and Al and George were looking for crews or they may just bring one boat. That is exactly what John Washburn and Phil Faulkner are doing as the only expected entrant from Des Plaines. Jack Sanderson may come if his granddaughter is available to crew; Jack also said that no other boats planned on attending from Coldwater. Neil and I are also registered as the fleet 2 team as are Bill Selick and Dan Leon from AYS. Given that:

"The Zimmers and I are still looking for someone to share a house we rented right down the block from the Crab restaurant/bar that everyone likes down at Rock Hall. Your share for your own room and access to our shared living room/dining room/kitchen (as well as BBQ area outside) is $240 total for all three days.

Please let me know as soon as possible. We are driving down on Thursday.

Bill.Selick@Gmail.Com

646 715 6680"

it would seem that we may not get a very large day of registration bump.

Please go to http://www.rockhallyachtclub.org/regatta.htm and register today.... Find Neil at the Nationals to give him the National $25 entry fee usually paid by the host club. This is in addition to your dues. To skipper in a sanctioned event you must be a regular member (or the child of one). Both the Down River Race and the One-Design Regatta are sanctioned events. Have you paid your annual dues?

Given that the Spring Meeting scheduled for the BOD did not occur, the meeting schedule for this National Regatta will serve as the Spring Meeting.

As printed in the Rabble, elections will be held at the Clark Yacht Club Summer Invitational which is host to our Junior National Championship and our Collegiate Challenge. Classes invited to are the Rebel, Interlake, Wayfarer, Sunfish, and Laser. Rebels hope to have 5 junior teams and 5 collegiate teams in addition to the regular group of Rebel sailors which choose to come. The Interlake & Wayfarer response to CLYC's announcement of a second summer event was positive "see you then" so we hope for a half dozen each. But as I said in the Rabble we will see if last year's fortuitous happenstance repeats itself this year.