1977 October
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THE BULLETIN BOARDI The next Board of Directors Meeting will be Thursday, October 27, 1977, 7s30 P.M., at the COOR'S HOSPITALITY ROOM, 10300 METROPOLITAN DRIVE (off Rutland Road). Refreshments will be served, compliments of "C.Oor's of Austin~. STARTING* * * * *ORDER * * *FOR * *~INTER * ·* * SERIES* * * *RACE: * * * * * * * * * * * / • Teri Nelmsi Race Committee Representative 1. Thistle 2. M~20/Fireball/Flying Scot 3. Ensign 4. K>RC s. South Coas t 21 6. Centerboard Handicap: 3 boats constitute a class * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The Nominating Committee request your recommendations for the 1978 Board of Directors, as directed in our By-Laws, Article VII, Section 2, Paragraph (B). After having considered each recommendation, a selection and presentation to the voting members will be made 30 days prior to our Annual Business Meeting, Thursday, December 1, 1977. Please call or contact a member of the Nominating Committee: Bud Boucher, Chairman Clift Price Larry Niemann * * * * * ~ * * * * * * * * * . * * * * * * * * * * * * Hopefully there will be one more Tell-Tale for 1977. I would very much like to publish a "final" report from each Fleet. This will take some thinking and writing, but a good¥&¥- to let us all· know what has happened. Also your Fleets future plans ••.••••. * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * DATES TO REMEMBER:. BOARD MEETING: •••.••••••••.•• i:. ,· \j° ....... :.,.;~~ -....... 27 Oct, 77 AYC SINGLEHANDED CHAMPIONSHIP RUN-OFF ..•.•......• 5 Nov. 77 ANNUAL BUS I NESS MEETING. , •• , .. , • , , , • , , •..•...• , • • l Dec. 7 7 ANNUAL BANQUET ••••••••••.•••••.•.••.••..••.•.•. , , 3 Dec. 7 7 AYC NEW YEARS EVE PARTY .•. , ••.....••.•..•. , , .•.. , 31 Dec. 77 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * LASER RACES TO START 22 OCTOBER., ••.•.• 2 p.m ••.• •••••• ·•• ••• • AYC CHAMPIONSHIP REGATTA The _1977 AYC Championship Regatta was organized by Teri Nelms and run by Deke De Keyser. Both deserve our appreciation for the event was a considerable success. You will note in the enclosed summary that in both classes the standard deviation or point scatter was higher for the skippers than for the boats. This is a good indication that the boats were better matched than the skippers, which of course is the goal of one design racing. This regatta · was noteworthy for the 1 evel of sportsmanship and cooperation as well as the intensity of competition. Both committee and crews were ready on time;boat switching was rapit and needed no supervision; damage was absolutely minimal (as of this writing we have lost only a batton). Out of many close crossings came only tow protests which were decided by 720's. Two finishes were closer than six inches. The event was fun for the committee as well as the contestants. Linda McDavitt and Jack Kern are to be congratulated on their success, but congratulations are also due to all hands involved~ B, AC E : 2 3 -4 s c.~~E- PLAC.E- 51<.1 f'P!: K Vv\c [)~ 2 4 %( .1. A11e c.f ~~ct"' Si-o D•..J Wo""";"t Ll. 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What ever you do, don•t let Cousin Jane get you out on that boat of theirs. And another thing, it might be smart not to sleep at her house either. I was tickled pink when Jane wrote and asked Horace and me to meet her and her husband at their Yacht Club to go sailing with them, while we were in Austin for Horace's convention. I always -~~1 if H0race would dress up nice he'd look just like Mr. Howell on -that I.V. show, Gilligan's Island. So we skipped some meetings and went and bought him one of those yachting caps, a~d a double breasted blazer. We had a heck- of a time finding the right ascot, though. Well, we found the Austin Yacht Club without any trouble. Ihe grounds and club house looked right nice. I wore my white polyesther, and Horace looked real distinguished. But Lordy, I wanted to crawl into a hole when I saw Jane and her hubby. Sad to say, they've fallen on hard times. Jane had on a pair of old shrunk up jeans, must of been one of her boys, and a shirt with some kind of advertising on it. Poor Bill, he had on .a pair of chopped off pants with strings hanging down, and Saints preserve us, a woman's beat up sun hat. Oh, he tried to say it was the latest thing imported from Austrelia, but it looked to me like what Cousin Bessie used to chop cotton in~ Well, we told them we were really anxious to get out on that boat of theirs, because we knew it would embarrass them if any club members saw them with us, and had a chance ·to compare the way we looked. I don't know where the members were, All we saw were some folks who lookea almost as bad as our kin. Bill tried to tell me that the fellow carrying the laundry bag up the hill, with no shirt on, and a big hole in his britches was a heart specialist. Shoot, I wasn't born yesterday~ And there was another fellow, wearing a shirt with something so bad on it I can't repeat it. Jane tried to pass him off as some kind of professor at the University. Well I guess they've got their pride. Anybody could see he was a hired hand, worked on the docks or something. Let me tell you, there's something wrong with that lake. I've never seen anything like it: It's a funny blue color, and thin looking, not like our lakes our here in west Texas. Why ours are a nice natural brown cplor, and they're good and thick, got body enough to hold a boat up. Their boat looked like it could use some help staying up, too. Do you remember when Grandma was cooking all that spaghetti for the church supper, and her stove blew up? Well, that's what that boat looked like, ropes strewed all over the place, Anyway, everything went along pretty good for a while. Cousin Bill was standing up holding the tiller, looking about as good as any man can with "I don't wan't to talk about it" written across his chest, when something made him madder than a hornet. Maybe it was some thi~ Jane said to him, heaven knows it might have been. We couldn't understand half the things they. said. We knew he was mad, because out ot the blue he turned one of those big ropes loose, so the sail started flapping. Then he looked right at his wife and called her a bad name: "Wench''. he hollered at her, not once, but several times. That got her dander up, and she picked up a big, heavy handle. I thought she was going to hit him in the head, but she got ahold .of herself, and stuck it in a hole and jerked on it a few times to work off steam. It's sad to see their marriage in such sorry shape. We'd been seeing all those big colored sails, spinnakers they call them, and I asked if they had one. They said they did, and after running around the boat, and fiddling with a bunch more ropes, they pulled one up out of a iaundry bag hung on the front. But eh Lucy, it was snow white? That poor woman must have sewed together every sheet in the house to make that thing. That's why I say, go to a motel, their beds must be mighty bare. With best regards, Your Cousin Pearl •' Deck Plan Dimensions: LO.A. 22'6" L.W.L. 17'6" Beam 7'10" Draft 413 11 Sail area . 209 sq. ft. Displacement . 2,182 lbs. Ballast . 900 lbs. Mast above water ... 331511 Sail Plan divided by the traveller-sail trimmers forward, helmsman aft for maximum efficiency. Even the lowly cleats have been redesigned.