Paul Martson has lurked over to the Moore 24 fleet, having recently
purchased hull #150 with a few members of his previous crew who simply
refused to quit lurking.
But the new owner will be an active member of the SoCal fleet, and I will continue to act as SF Bay fleet webmaster until someone steps up.
Toward that end, if the web makes sense as a delivery mechanism for the proposed newsletter, I would volunteer the necessary production time... taking your finished/edited content (hopefully including photos) and make it happen at http://www.winterlan.net/vmi/o30/
regards,
Paul Martson
Recovering Olson 30 Sailor
At 07:55 PM 9/29/99 -0700, surfari wrote:
>Fellow sailors
>
>Roger Anderson tonite raised a timely issue regarding a 'regular' Olson 30
>Class newsletter. So...here we go...
>
>First of all,
>1) We want to put out a fall 99 nationwide fleet report that we all are
>interested in.
>
>2)a request: those of you with idea or writing, or reporting talent, please
>jot down
>what your fleet has done this year (the year in review). This can be season
>standings, placing in important regatttas, black mail reports on wild
>parties (no, that was not me who was thrown in the pool at Long Beach Race
>week, but I think I know who pushed me!), changes in ownership, new member
>intros. We need info from all fleets!
>
>The fleets that we are aware of are (in no order!), Seattle, San Francisco
>Bay, Santa Cruz, SoCal, Atlanta-Lake Lanier, Lake Erie(?), um, Texas,
>Chesapeake(?), some boats in New Jersey, (who was left out--FL?). We want
>to know what you did this year. It would appear to me that the most
>organized groups are Seattle and SF, but there are stories of wild rides,
>rivalries, and ..... all across the nation.
>
>3) Please offer ideas/themes for at least three newsletters for next year.
>The first one could be the schedule for all the fleets for 2000, coming out
>in say, Feb, or March. Maybe another with nationals preview information,
>etc. Please share your ideas. We are seeing enough interest in boats
>traveling, that an early calendar would be helpful outside of your own
>fleet.
>
>We know that San Francisco has had a great newsletter, Seattle has an
>on-going one, complete with shared national rosters. And in SoCal we have an
>intermittent one, and the Great Lakes fleet has posted theirs occasionally.
>It will be fun to share the best of each of these for a national issue. I
>think a lot of us know enough folks in other fleets now, that we are
>interested in the shared experiences and reporting on friends.
>
>Fleet members who live outside fleet areas have the newsletter as their only
>pay back for their um, $35(?) annual fee. They like to see these. Reading
>Jack Easterday's early newsletters is what I blame for having spent
>thousands of dollars!
>
>4) And anyone who has editorial/layout talent, or printing resources
>(location does not matter) please offer to help out. I'm a scissors and tape
>type of editor, myself. Also, we will need mailing labels, Paul can you
>supply those?
>
>5) if you have any suggestions of any type, please post them on email, or
>send them along....I'm pretty good at disguising and presenting potentially
>'hairbrain' ideas and requests for information as my own ideas (never know
>do you!), so feel free to email!
>
>BTW, I've set up a 2000 Nationals/Olson 30 answering maching/ line at my
>home.......805-489-4410. Feel free to leave requests etc there. There is no
>caller ID, so please leave your name!
>
>And thanks, Roger, for raising the question!
>
>Dave Lampert
>
Received on Wed Sep 29 20:47:54 1999