Let's go folks. The regatta is only 2 weeks away and the dealine is even closer! You CheckIS you reservation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Your Red RD needs to make the chilie and needs to make enough. Did I say "with your confirmed reservatio, you can have some"?

I have not heard from anyone dreaming of Margaritville yet either.

Good Morning. Below is an alphabetical isting of registered sailors for the Valentine's Day Regatta. The Palm Beach Gardens Model Yacht Squadron is eager to to host this event and the team of volunteers is looking forward to seeing all of you. I will post the seedings once they are complete. Stay tuned and don't forget to pack a RED SHIRT for Sunday's sailing. Be sure to pack something that will be comfortable in any temperature. Could be you need to pack a warm shirt and a cool shirt.


1. Allen
2. Atkinson
3. Balashek
4. Bottensek
5. Branning
6. Elder
7. Germer
8. Greco
9. Greer
10. Hedderick
11. KAHLE HAS DROPPED OUT
12. Kaighin
13. Leo
14. McMullen
15. Mitton
16. Pardee, B.
17. Pardee, J
18. Perkins
19. Pfeil
20. Phillips
21. Reinke
22. Vella
23. Vernon
24. Walter
25. Scavela
26. Brewer

Possibles:


Dion

Jon I may have another entry for you. Fred Hall #73 Will confirm by Monday...

Vella

DANG BLAMMIT! Reichard, what happened? Gonna miss you buddy. See you in Charleston.

Fred Hall will not be entering. Has the fleets been decided yet?

The "other" black boat.......

We have Shrinkage- do we get to one fleet or are the rest of us all coming.

You can cash my check....Jersey Tomato is coming.

I too will miss you Big Bear,I can't really enjoy"special cokes" as much without you.
And I brought the handle.

Gold Fleet:

Balashack - Promoted
Bottensek
Dion
Greer
Kaighan
Leo
Perkins
Pfeil
Phillips
Reinke - Promoted
Vella
Walter

Silver Fleet:

Atkinson
Branning
Brewer
Elder
Germer
Greco
McMullen
Mitton
Pardee, B
Pardee, J
Scavela

OK. Forecast is for a building NW breeze tomorrow, a gale tomorrow night and a subsiding Northerly Sunday. Bring some warm clothes for Sunday. And don't forget to wear red!

It was a tough day today at the pond. Wind direction was terrible....90 degree shifts. sw to nw. Our pond is ok with either, but it was west most of the day the other worst direction! RD (Luscomb and Losell) struggled "chasing the wind", but they could not catch it! Wind was A rig in the morning, then around one, folks began to switch to B and there was talk of C!!!!!. Most were there by 1:30 or so.

We had 3 new sailors in the class andthis was their first regatta! Greco, Scavala and Brewer. We are very glad to have them! WELCOME!!!!

Last night, the boys and girl got together and told me I should sail. Well it did not take too long. Gibby offered to RD and I sailed! (should have stayed RD...it is too hard to do both!) Than you Gibby! THe team of volunteers that were here to help were really an Army! The food was excellent. Breakfeast was like a bake sale..with fruit and coffe. Lunch was Pizza, footlong hot daogs, and Luscombs homemade chilie,,,,Thanks to alll that helped!!!

Tommorrow is forcasted to be a growler out of the north. Good for our pond, but growler not so good. I am hoping that the blast from this front gets it over with and moves on. Tonights lows with wind chill...35. High tommorrow....55, sunny and 15 to 17!!!! cold for us thin blooded whimps..but at leasts the ponds are not frozen.

Results at half time after one throw out:

Gold Fleet:

Perkins 36
Dion 54
Luscomb 56 ( Chuck's Brother the lesser known "Darell")
Pfiel 60
Greer 60
Leo 63
Bottensek 69
Phillips 71
Walter 76
Ballashak 77
Kaighan 98
Reinke 109
Vella 117

Silver Fleet:

Germer 24
Elder 38
B. Pardee 39
Greco 44
Branning 46
J. Pardee 48
Atkinson 54
Brewer 58
Mitton 59
Scavala 66
McMullen 92

Jon and PBG team: Great time, wonderful hospitality and perfect venue with more buoys than I have ever seen in one place. Loved the chance to visit and race with the Florida gang. You made it special for all of us. Glad I bought long pants on Friday. I will never forget the 250 times you announced the course. Let me see if I remember: Start between the two Yellows and go White White, Yellow, Yellow, Yellow, White, White, Yellow, Yellow, Yellow, White, White, Yellow, Yellow and finish between the white (with black stripe) and the bright orange. Reminded me of the instructions that the men memorized for the attack in the Dirty Dozen movie. "Franko goes in where the others have been. We all come out like it's Halloween." Love to see you guys and gals come north this Spring and Fall. Liberty Bell, Mystic, Stowe and Tilghman await.

What a BLAST, great regatta Jon. Gibby u also did one heck of of job with all the changes in wind direction etc. Keep us busy and waiting for the next blast going downwind. Thanks to all the PBGMYS voluntees as well. Kelli those trophies were fantastic !! Karen, can't wait to see all the photos u took, death rolls, etc.

Dick Reinke
EC12-1936

Final Standing for the 2013 Palm Beach Gardens Valentine's Regatta:


GOLD:

1. Alan Perkins
2. Fred Pfeil
3. Jon Luscomb
4. Jake Leo
5. Doc Greer
6. Al Dion
7. Joe Walter
8. George Balashak
9. Tom Phillips
10. John Bottensek
11. Jim Kaighan
12. Dick Reinke
13. Frank Vella

Silver:

1. Brenda Pardee
2. Bud Elder
3. Fred Greco
4. Jim Pardee
5. Dave Branning
6. Ed Atkinson
7. Chester Brewer
8. Herb Mitton
9. Earnan Scavela
10 Terry McMullen

Tom Germer - WD


CONGRATS TO BRENDA PARDEE ON HER FIRST WIN! She was spared the traditional "dip" due to the ponds icing over!

Full report to follow.

Fantastic run regatta. Great company and wonderful evening venues both nights. Good winds and temps on Saturday, but a stretch to the far side of the lake made it challenging. High winds and a Canadian Blast of cold air cut racing short on Sunday. The two with C-rigs were willing and able, but it was just a matter of time before someone was going to get holed. It was great to meet some new faces, Fred Greco, Chester Brewer and Earnan Scavela. It is nice to see some growth in the class and especially Earnan who is probably the youngest EC12 skipper in the country now. Welcome aboard.

Good job all around from the PBGMYS and special thanks to Doc and Kelli on the frontal lobotomy. The stitches don't itch at all.

Thanks a bunch everyone.

Are there pictures out there of the regatta?

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