Who is signed up or is planning to sign up to do the Tybee 500. I know of about 10 - 12 boats including those officially signed up.

I cannot skipper the boat this year, but Rod Waterhouse from Austrailia (The Man) is coming over to take the helm with Rob Remmers to lead our team.

I know some of you just heard that the OBX 500 portion of the Atlantic 1000 was cancelled due to not enough teams sailing the Northern half but Chuck is 100% behind the Tybee 500. Besides that the city of Hollywood, Tybee and a whole lot of other people have donated a lot of time and money to try to make this event a great event this year... so come on guys, we are becoming are own worst enemy. If you want to see events like the Tybee 500 go on then let's step up. I could not sail this year but I still put my boat in and am helping raise sponsorship and will ground crew also.

Let's keep these distance races going. I've heard some of the backgorund noise about the open boats being in the race, but if the I-20's show in number it will be the "featured" event. Maybe it needs to go to F-20 or back to one-design in years to come... that can all be argued later, but get over it for now and let's go sailing.

Anybody that has sailed the race, been ground crew, or sponsored a team knows how much fun and how special the Tybee 500 is...

Let's make this thing happen in a big way this year!

Jim Stone
Tybee Island
"Pirates of the Tybeean"