Fall Champs Recap and Trick-or-Treat this Weekend!

Hi team,

Fall Champs

Thank you to all parents and sailors for your efforts this weekend! With cold conditions and high winds, this was a classic Fall Champs in Oak Harbor. 

Thank you to Lorena and Jayna for organizing food, tents, and propane fire pit, the Neuman's for towing the 3-boat trailer, and the Vondrells for bringing the second (much-appreciated) fire pit!! Thank you also to all of the families who volunteered to drive carpools: Neuman, Norwood, Meyers, Mora, Meyer, Vondrell, Wilcox, Baldwin, and Morse families! 

Finally, thank you of course to all of the sailors, who pushed through postponements and capsizes to achieve some great finishes this weekend! We have seen huge growth from the beginning of the season, and had some great competitive moments.

Congrats to the Bellingham varsity team, who qualified for NWISA fleet race districts (basically sailing version of "state"; it's the nationals qualifier) in May by getting 8th place in Gold fleet. There will be at least one more chance for Sehom and Squalicum to qualify before the end of the spring season.

Trick-or-Treat Team Race This Weekend, Nov. 1-2

As we mentioned at practice and the regatta, next weekend's "Trick-or-Treat" regatta will not be a district-wide event but instead will be a scrimmage held at home. 

Schedule is Saturday 12pm-5pm and Sunday 10am-3pm, and will have both time on shore and on the water. The exact schedule will be dependent on the weather day-of. 

Goals will be to talk through, learn, and practice team racing, a tactical style of racing that is new to a lot of our team. We understand this is a bit of late notice/ change from the original plan of an away event. If any sailors have changes to their availability for this weekend, please update the regatta signup spreadsheet before the start of practice on Thursday.

Photo Op: Bring your Pinnies this weekend!

We also want to take advantage of a home event and get team photos with everyone in their pinnies before the season ends!! Please make sure to bring any pinnies you may have to this upcoming weekend. Cooper and I have most of them and will be re-handing them out for photos.

Let us know if you have any questions. Thank you all again for a successful Fall Champs regatta!

Best,

Anna and Cooper