Hi,

It was a FANTASTIC event .... everyone in the Multihull community came together for this one .... FOR THE KIDS!!!

The HCA-NA supported the event in many ways ... flying Matt Bounds in to be the Pro .... covering the insurance for any "borrowed" boats ... supporting on Friday a seminar for the multihull youths w/ quest experts Wally Myers, Jimmy Glanden, Sue and Tom K and Matt Bounds ... (question: how many National Championships does that group have combined?????) .... including lunchs

Jill Nickerson arranged for JC to come north ... stopping at WRSC for their Junior Sailing Regatta ... then the JO's at RHYC ... now onto SSA, visiting the Junior Sailing programs at all these clubs and show-casing "Club Viper" to the junior sailors. And I did hear from many Opti and Laser junior sailors .... I want a Hobie .... I want a Viper ... as long as they want a Multihull!!!!

I was on the windward mark boat on Saturday w/ Wally, and Sue K ... then again on Sunday w/ Sue and Tom K along w/ JC, who while we were passing out the lunches (on the water) during a short break they were further coaching the youths on boattrim and tactics. And I learned how a windward mark boat should really be operated w/ scoring sheets ... wind readings ... course/mark changes ....

Mark Schnieder was "key" in the clubhouse doing the scoring for the event w/ RHYC member Mrs Connie Ranney.

Now here was one of RHYC's missed detail .... no judge for a protest committee ... no protest committee even ... so who did they come and ask to man a protest committee ... the Multihullers!!!! Matt Bounds chaired both days w/ Bill Colgan as arbitrator ... and Tom K along w/ Wally filling out the committee. Thanks Guys ... big time

And the Multihull/Hobie youths were just, THE BEST!!!!! so we should say .... Fleet 204, 204, 204 .... fleet 250, 250, 250 ... Fleet 54,54 54 .... SandPoint, SandPoint, SandPoint .... as their conduct on and off the water was exemplitory !!!! in fact Trey James and Eric Raybon won the "Kindeness" Sportsmanship and Corinthian Sportsmanship Awards respectfully which are nomimated/voted/and awarded by the coaches and fellow competitors .....

A slightly well known sailor named Mr Gary Jobson came by and awarded the trophies to all the competitors .... so we have pic's of our Multihull/Hobie Youths recieving their awards from Gary Jobson !!!!!!! including Trey James and Erika Korzenieski recieving the impressive perpetual trophy for the EAST COAST YOUTH MULTIHULL CHAMPIONSHIP made by Mr Jimmy Glanden of locally harvested walnut and then handturned ...

So thanks to the members of Div11 ... the HCA-NA ... US Sailing ... Fun in the Sun ... Wally, Jimmy, Matt, the Korz's, the Raybons, the Flannigans, Caleb Tarlton, Mark Schnieder and many others ...

Now guys comes the tough part ... to repeat it next year ... so lets make sure we get our youths trained ... ask our local sailing organization if our youths can compete in the local junior sailing events .... and we adults ... volunteer, volunteer, volunteer


Harry
RHYC Member, HCA-NA member, CRAC member
TheMightyHobie18/P19