NAMSA

Does it still exist?

Wow... I was completely wrong!

I used to say that NAMSA had absolutely no impact on the cat sailing world...

I never knew that you got a slick membership card!

Good Job NAMSA!

What can I say? I'm a joiner.

How many more cool cards do you have?

How many of you recall Dick and Betty Blanchard?

How about Herb Malm?

Still exists, armed and ready when ever, or if ever, needed.
Knew Dick well.
Rick

My thought was that USS can't very well represent cat sailors if they don't know who they are. Belonging or not belonging to one group shouldn't preclude belonging to the other. So, I was thinking of putting NAMSA forward as a registry of cat sailors who don't necessarily want to belong to USS (or any other group for that matter).

I have heard the name. Was he the NAMSA shotgun rider in the North during the late seventies and early eighties? Dick was running our posse down South along the Gulf Coast.

Herb had one of the first catamaran rating formulas that combined performance data and his proprietary VPP model. The country used NAMSA ratings for handicap. It was frustrating to use because he continually was improving the model and fit... so you could almost get a new rating monthly...
He fell into the trap of well... THIS version is more accurate so you should use the latest and greatest NAMSA table. Clubs got sucked into this briar patch and eventually decided to just use the spring NAMSA version.

US Sailing decided to really push the use of the USPN ratings and with this national recognition... the beach cat world switched over to USPN within a year or two. I think Darline had just taken over the PN job and she championed cats, cat sailing and the PN yardstick.

Mark never got all the way to the "H" I guess?

Too many or too few Coors Lights?

I was gonna say ran out of Coors light.

Mark drinks Miller Lite - Kirk is the Coors Light guy.

Mark drinks what ever flavor is in my cooler. . .

Miller Lite Coors light whats the difference, owned by the same people.

John, You've been away too long my friend. Mark converted to Coors light several years ago.

Guess that was just easier for everyone concerned...

How's this thread topic coming?

We still have MHRA races here in Nor-Cal

I thought Key Sailing equaled Coors lite.

It pretty much does as far as I can tell

The way I figure it, Kirk's habit has probably put a few of the Coors family kids through college, so the least that company can do is buy him a boat once in a while....

And while I'm at it, I think the Captain owes me a boat too!

It's cute how you think momma will give you permission to use it. You're like the little engine that could, so hopeful and determined.

Wait. You can change beers?

Yes, but you have to jog 1/4 mile backwards and have a virgin pee in it...the later of which might be difficult to pull off in that neck of the woods.

If it gets the grommets out of her face, she's all for it.

She's threatened to put them on E-bay once or twice ....

And for the record, she says she loves boating (her definition of "boat" is a cruise ship)

Which boat, the one that is still stuck on that rock or the one adrift in the Seychelles?

Or the ones being disinfected from the neuro-virus.?

the one I have to mortgage the house to buy a 3 day cruise. Or the one with "ears" which, admittedly, does an outstanding job of reducing potential disease outbreaks by accosting patrons with alcohol wipes at pretty much every bulkhead...

remember, rich people don't get sick, so find the really pricey boats?