Re: gentle pitch>>> Intergallactic Flatlanders Laser Championships

[davidhazlehurst@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Fred, you've been so quiet for so long I thought you'd died on your Laser and gone to heaven. Glad to find I was wrong. Your posting prompts two comments;

- there was a tall building in Oklahoma City before some home bred terrorist tried to blend it in with the landsape. Maybe this was a sign of things to come before your ex-Governor stirred up a hornets nest in Iraq, and

- please don't knock sailors who race 4.7 and radial rigs, and I know you don't mean it. The USODA Spring '05 issue has a Vanguard advert with the words "what the future looks like to an Opti sailor" showing a bunch of young sailors on 4.7 rigs. And you will remember the last time we met at Wrightsville Beach in '89 or whenever after you helped put that great site on the map as an overlooked site for major Laser regattas. While I was stumbling around in my full rig a bunch of youngsters were racing in clunkers with radial rigs. I asked one of them who came in early how much he weighed as in "are you 100 lbs yet?". His answer "Sir, I just made 101". QED, not all Laser sailors in 4.7's and radials are wimps. And if you make 65 and sail in a Masters Worlds you'll have to sail a radial in deference to your advanced age.

Have a great day Fred and may you always get your readers attention.

Best wishes, David













 








 







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> Got your attention huh?? 
> 
> This event will be held at the site where Last year's O'days were raced and 
> the J-22 North Americans were just completed. These guys are great hosts. 
> During the J-22 event, they even had a huge impromptu bonfire 
> _http://www.okcboatclub.com/race/notices/labor.html_ 
> (http://www.okcboatclub.com/race/notices/labor.html) 
> 
> 
> Wind? Look at a map. Everybody in Oklahoma knows that Texas blows and 
> Kansas sucks. Oklahoma is a wasteland with nothing, not even a tall building, 
> in 
> the way so the wind just blasts across the state. 
> 
> The place has daily tests of the tornado sirens. The local Laser fleet uses 
> those horns as warning signals. They say the best way to find your boat after 
> a tornado is to ride it through the funnel. I know most of you live where 
> the wind never considers blowing hard and you are too chicken to even try 
> some real central states flatland sailing. You can probably fake it. Bring 
> your boat and rig up. Sometimes even Oklahoma has light wind. It is a 
> September event. If there is ever a time when the wind might moderate, it is 
> September. You can act like you had the nerve to sail in real sailor's wind and 
> even 
> sail if some of that light air happens. They also allow Radials and 4.7 rigs 
> for wimps who can't handle real sails. 
> 
> Or you could simply stay home and make up a story about having other 
> commitments or not enough time or money. Yeah right. Nobody will believe that 
> crap. Everybody knows sailors are all rich trust fund babies. 
> 
> So, are you a real Laser sailor or do you wear hiking pants to get better 
> tan lines? All the real sailors will be out on Lake Hefner in a few weeks. The 
> water will still be warm enough for t shirt sailing and after sailing all 
> day in Oklahoma winds Katie Towles throws a great party for anybody who is able 
> to stay awake. 
> 
> Fred 
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