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Spring Fever Regatta!!! Lets have a fleet this year #228371
02/08/11 11:48 AM
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14th Annual Spring Fever Regatta

Our 14th annual Spring Fever Regatta will again be held at Lake Hartwell’s Milltown Campground over Easter Weekend, April 22-24, 2011. The Campground will be open starting on Tuesday for those of you that like to come early.

On Thursday afternoon this year, Robbie Daniel will be putting on an on-the-water starting-line seminar and practice session that should be all the incentive you need to arrive a day or two early.

Thanks to the way that you have conducted yourselves and the pristine condition that you've always left the site, we are again being welcomed with open arms at the Milltown Campground.

As you can see from the web site, we will again be hosting the Southern Area F-18 Championship and to make certain that all catamarans are welcome, five boats in any class will race as a class and we will still have the Open Classes utilizing Portsmouth handicapping scoring for all of the open events.

As in all previous Spring Fever Regattas, we will again be using our two-day scoring system for those sailors that can only sail two of the three days.

Our Web site again is: http://www.TwinHulls.com/springfever/ -- From there you have opportunity to link, not only this year's activities, but also to link back and see the results and photos from previous year's Regattas as well.

We need to have you preregister and that can also be done on line at the Spring Fever site. I’ll be updating the “Look who else is coming” list of those that have already preregistered every couple of days.

See you in the Spring.

…..Mr.Ernie



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Re: Spring Fever Regatta!!! Lets have a fleet this year [Re: Joanna] #228373
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Re: Spring Fever Regatta!!! Lets have a fleet this year [Re: pgp] #228377
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Re: Spring Fever Regatta!!! Lets have a fleet this year [Re: Karl_Brogger] #228397
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Already registered!! smile


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Re: Spring Fever Regatta!!! Lets have a fleet this year [Re: Joanna] #228398
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Should we designate SF as some sort of special class thingey? I might be willing to donate a case of(empty)Mason jars. I leave it to the imagination to decide what should go in them.


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Re: Spring Fever Regatta!!! Lets have a fleet this year [Re: Joanna] #228618
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We have ten boats registered. Anyone else?

I'll accept a crew if there are any skinny people interested.

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Re: Spring Fever Regatta!!! Lets have a fleet this year [Re: pgp] #230706
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Hey All,
I'm looking to crew at Spring Fever. Maybe all three days but at least sat. and sunday. Plenty of experience on cats but been out of them with family for about 10 years. Still race big boats and windsurf.
Thanks and email is Jay@transworldincelectric.com

Jay Adams

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Weight is an issue. The boat probably sails best with a combined crew weight of 310 lbs. Over 350 you can pretty much forget being competitve.

You're welcome to sail with me but I'm 235 so do the math.

PM me here if you'd like.


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Re: Spring Fever Regatta!!! Lets have a fleet this year [Re: pgp] #230748
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Originally Posted by pgp
Weight is an issue. The boat probably sails best with a combined crew weight of 310 lbs. Over 350 you can pretty much forget being competitve.

You're welcome to sail with me but I'm 235 so do the math.

PM me here if you'd like.


Jesus Pete – Don’t be another of the whinny butt people blaming their poor performance on their weight. smile

Yes weight matters, but it is not something that will make you non-competitive. Heavy teams have an advantage in a blow, light teams have an advantage in light stuff and in a drifter it is about luck and local knowledge. Either way it is measured in boat lengths and tends to average over time. Non-competitiveness comes from the driver.

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Matt, you never read anything I post. You skim a word or two and go off on the weight thing.

I weigh 235. Sailing uni I have as much chance as anyone else. My lack of performance, uni, refects my lack of skill. I get that.

But, if I throw another 150-185 pounds on board in the form of an inexperienced crew it makes a lot of difference. I don't want someone unfamiliar with the class to be unaware of the facts.

How would you know anyway? You've never sailed over 300 lbs in you life.

I've got a great idea! Lend me Riley for SF and you take Timbo's son, Tom, all 6' 2" 250 lbs. of him. Hardly a scientific test but it might be fun.

No disrespect to Tom, but one of the few times I've waxed Tback was when he had Tom as crew at KPRR.

You're bsing yourself about weight. It matters. Not as much as skill, but it matters.




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Re: Spring Fever Regatta!!! Lets have a fleet this year [Re: pgp] #230752
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Tom's been working out like a mad-man. He's down to 194 and still dropping. He's been running 5 miles every day and going to the gym 4 times a week, he's lost 65 lbs. Oh, and he cut his hair shorter than mine (at least 10 pounds right there!) You wouldn't recognise him today.

I'm trying to get him to come up to Spring Fever, but still, he and I at 190 each, is too heavy for the -always- light air in Georgia in April. I wish I still had my I20 for the two of us to play on.

It was friggn' windy in Atlanta last night though, we were number 3 for takeoff at about midnight when a squall line came across the field, shutting down all departures for a good 45 minutes, as the winds went to 37 gusting to 52. After it passed we finally departed for Orlando, at about 1:30am. I got to my driveway at 4am but had to get up at 0700 to get the kids off to school...I'm going back to bed now. Oh, and here's the same line of weather I had to fly through, twice, yesterday, coming to a town near you today!

http://www2.tbo.com/weather/local/interactive-radar/



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"he's lost 65 lbs." Wow, that's really impressive.


?...................What's her name?


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Originally Posted by pgp
Matt, you never read anything I post. You skim a word or two and go off on the weight thing.

I weigh 235. Sailing uni I have as much chance as anyone else. My lack of performance, uni, refects my lack of skill. I get that.

But, if I throw another 150-185 pounds on board in the form of an inexperienced crew it makes a lot of difference. I don't want someone unfamiliar with the class to be unaware of the facts.

How would you know anyway? You've never sailed over 300 lbs in you life.

I've got a great idea! Lend me Riley for SF and you take Timbo's son, Tom, all 6' 2" 250 lbs. of him. Hardly a scientific test but it might be fun.

No disrespect to Tom, but one of the few times I've waxed Tback was when he had Tom as crew at KPRR.

You're bsing yourself about weight. It matters. Not as much as skill, but it matters.




Maybe it’s time to lay off the keyboard for a while. You are supposed to be proponent of the class as the current king. Between this and SA some of the boards feel like they did a few years ago.

Jay has a lot more experience on cats than you so do whatever you feel is right.

I sail/race because I love to do it with my family. I apologize for not having a 6-2 250 lb kid. (Peyton is not real happy about it either) I have been on the boat though with weight and am fully aware of how they perform. I’m not going to drive 9 hrs to GA to not race with Riley, but would have no issue at all for swapping at a GYC or other fun weekend. When I sail with Riley and the wind starts up over 12 we start to struggle. If I was going to run an international level campaign I would want to be a bit heavier than I sail with Gina to feel competitive in all conditions. I’m fully about weight mattering, but it varies with the conditions– Give me Tom on a blow and we will rock and be a lot faster around the course than I could be with Riley. And that is a fact if you want to make people aware of things.

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I'm done. You take over.


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Originally Posted by pgp
"he's lost 65 lbs." Wow, that's really impressive.


?...................What's her name?



Haahaa! That's exactly what my wife and I keep asking him! But the truth is, it was peer pressure from his "Boys" on the swim team! Oh, and there are lots of girls on the swim team too. He only eats salad and fruit now, has not had a can of soda in about a year. I wish I could say it was me, but it was his peers.


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Originally Posted by Timbo
Haahaa! That's exactly what my wife and I keep asking him! But the truth is, it was peer pressure from his "Boys" on the swim team! Oh, and there are lots of girls on the swim team too. He only eats salad and fruit now, has not had a can of soda in about a year. I wish I could say it was me, but it was his peers.


Lose some weight fat boy! I'm just trying to help a brother out.


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Hey, I've lost 15 from what I was a year ago, and I'd like to drop another 15...but I'm not sure I can give up beer for a year to do it! And besides, when racing Uni in a good blow, I need all that Table Muscle to hold me down! (OK, that's my excuse, what's yours?) ;^)


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I've lost 10 since Mid-January, I quit drinking for 6 weeks (my plan was to be dry until May 1) which has been a bit of a bust. But... the guns are looking fabulous, at least that's what your wife tells me.


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