>>Anyone know why he chose that area?

The reason for this seems to be that the creation of Taipan fleets in the USA was discussed with Jim. This resulted in the first official Taipan 4.9 fleet in Annapolis MD. This fleet is now called "Taipan fleet 1". They also welcomed a new member and boat in the week of 8 april 2003. Chris put the number of Boats in this newly created fleet to 4 boats. I think Gulfport had some 4 boats now so your both of equal size.

Taipan fleet 1 has the intention of creating an evening series and they expressed their intention to request Jim Boyer to put up a Taipan 4,9 seminar at the Podickory Yacht Club. It also seems that a Fleet 1 webpage is in the make too.

I was waiting for the final dates to come in before announcing this news on this forum. I personally didn;t realize Jims trip to the USA would be so soon. But now that that is clear I feel that it would be unwise to without this info from you guys any longer.

Fleet 1 has 2 female skippers and two male ones if my info is correct. And this is a very good development I think. Considering how Jennifer is doing !

So that is the reason why Jim went over there, highest concentration of female skippers !

And to celebrate US Taipan fleet 1 of course.

Ohh, all have spis.

Just a yesterday it was confirmed that Jim would arrive shortly and that he will do a seminar in Annapolis MD. It was expressed that A-cat sailors are invited as well.

I was assured that I would recieve the final dates soon.

Wouter