WONDERFUL THINGS MAY HAPPEN NEXT 4TH OF JULY!

I did not intend starting this blog "page" just this way, but this free Google Blogger software has a way of doing some funny things now and then. I had planned to start with a report on the race committee crews who performed beautifully June 19th and 26th. That is still here despite unexpected events for scheduling systems.

Wow! Look what IT just did centering these two lines!

However, here I am working around a picture from the 70s of IOD #16 TANGO with Thornton Clark at the helm of his yacht. That is Phil Somerby (now deceased), my ex-wife Deborah and me smiling for an unknown cameraman. Fortunately for me, he gave us a copy as shown here. We four people raced together for, I think, fourteen years before moving on to other things. In that brief time we

went all over to race inIOD events--Bermuda, Maine, San Franciso, Long Island Sound New york and Edinburgh Scotland without ever winning the IOD Worlds Championship. Not a bad life. Further down you will read my "excuse" for showing a picture of this beautiful racing yacht with reference to the 4th of July.

Here was our race committee crew for this recent June 19, 2010. We were on the TINKERS line with Vipers, Sonars and Rhodes 19 s. No J-24 s came out "to play", but we had fun with three races each for Vipers and Sonars. Two races were enough for the Rhodes.

06/19-Sat-MRA#1 Day 3of4 ```````````` C*/E/BYC 1000hrs
Race	Person	Position	Availability
	Byrne, Cheryl	MARK Boat	Available
	Cochrane, Jack	PRO	Available
	Duff, Bob	Signaler	Available
06/19-Sat-MRA#1 Day 3of4 ```````````` C*/E/BYC 1000hrs	Jeffries, Stephen		Not Available
	Marvin, Bradford	Timer	Available
	Schneider, Susie Oliver	Recorder	Available
	Shea, Kevin	MARK Boat	Available
	Smith, Liz Blodgett	PIN Boat	Available
	Smith, Tori	ETO Guest/Trainee	Available
	Soule, David	PIN Boat	Available
	Twombly, Chris	MARK Boat	Available

We then proceeded for a relatively quiet day on the BRIMBLES with only a few TOWN Class boats showing up to race--no Lasers. The wind dropped during the one long race giving PRO Jim McCully cause to worry about "time limit". They all made it okay. We towed everybody into the harbor mouth where the the typical "Harbor Hurricane" or "Mooring Breeze" was howling after the flat calm for towing.

Here was the RC crew for June 26th:

06/26-Sat-MRA#1 Day 4of4 ``````````````` B*/C/EYC-1000hrs
Race	Person	Position	Availability
	Boyle, Ashley	Any Job	Available
06/26-Sat-MRA#1 Day 4of4 ``````````````` B*/C/EYC-1000hrs	Duff, Bob	Signaler	Available
	Goedkoop, Kristen	Recorder	Available
	Ianchulev, Kaki	Any Job	Available
	Jeffries, Stephen		Not Available
	Marvin, Bradford	Timer	Available
	McCully, Jim	PRO	Available
	Schneider, Susie Oliver	PIN Boat	Available
	Wilkinson, Greg	PIN Boat	Available

You will note that Stephen Jeffries is listed as "Not Available" for both days. Steve suffered a rather serious leg break from spring skiing. He has registered this way for much of the season, but we hope to have Steve back with us soon on the race committee team.

Anticipating two race days this coming weekend, we were planning to report these needs when the GOOGLE DOCs system we used all year was deemed "TEMPORARY' and replaced by a clone to which I have no access. That is sad in one sense and delightful in another. I was growing tired of attempts to present data without support from committee management. Schedule assignments were not posted after verbal decisions. To date no files detailing people and assignments were published by the EYC Race Committee and the only directions I ever got repeatedly were to not publish from the address data in the system.

So, the abruptly announced "NEW" system is a clone of the original one. I have no involvement in its continuation and hope for the best.

I hope to see you out there with us soon.

Bob Duff

1.781.631.0033

rduff19@comcast.net

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