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Attached please find the Fleet 5 January Newsletter. Enjoy! R19-Newsletter-Jan_190131.pdf

Fleet 5:   Please see the note below from Class President, Rick McGregor.  If you are interested, please connect with Jim Taylor (CC'ed) *********************************************************************************************************************************************************   Who would like some warm weather sailing and fun?  As you may know we have been looking into a R19 “Fun Regatta”  in Antigua.   Fuller Cowles, local R19 Fleet Captain, has…

Road To The Cup  – 2018 Holiday Edition Dear Santa, It’s me again, here to tell you that I’ve been good, though I’m curious.  How do you keep track of all the people making that claim? It’s got to be hard knowing whose being honest, right?  Stretching the truth seems to be all the rage…

Enjoy the attached from our own Fleet President Jim Taylor! Fall-Update_181101.pdf

Okay, Fleet 5, listen up!    I know the conventional wisdom is that no one reads beyond the first three sentences of an e-mail, but this one is important, so suck it up!   To lead off, Wendy and Peter Frisch have generously offered to host our fall Awards Party on November 10 at #20 Mostyn Street in Swampscott,…

Road To The Cup – Week 17 Top-10 for 2018 There were informal, unscored Twilight races scheduled for both Tuesday and Thursday, but to our knowledge, no Rhodes showed up.  We double checked with our man on the scene, John Casler, who sent in this.  “I got some progress made on cleaning the garage floor. …

Hi Fleet 5,   Even with only one race sailed in August, thanks to the MRA and the CYC Twilight team, we have once again enjoyed an embarrassment of riches in terms of opportunities to indulge our sailboat racing habit.  As of now there are just three more on the schedule:   Thurs, 9/13 Twilight…

Road To The Cup – Week 16 Top-10 as of 9/9/18 There were informal, unscored Twilight races scheduled for both Tuesday and Thursday.  To our knowledge, no R19s sailed on Tuesday and according to John Casler, Thursday was a washout.  In his usual concise way, he summarized the situation in with this.  “A few minutes…

Road To The Cup – Week 15 Top-10 as of 9/2/18 Before we get started, huge thanks to old friends Vonda & Jim Raisides for inviting us into their home and putting on such a spectacular party on Saturday night.  As we did last year, we mixed it up with our friends from the J70…

Road To The Cup – Week 14 Top-10 as of 8/26/18 We heard of no R19 action in last Sunday’s morning series. Eight boats showed up for Twilights on Thursday night, though one of them was a non-registered (and hence non-scored) interloper, who we need to invite to a party or something to get him…