The Vanguard 15 national class is in the process of making some minor, sailor friendly changes. Apologies to everyone on the ICSA e-mail list who is receiving this e-mail -- since there are a lot of past and present college sailors who are active in the class, we have tended to use the college sailing list serve from time to time to advertise ICSA events, but we would like to stop doing that -- *there is a separate V15 e-mail list that we would like to start using more frequently* -- please go to http://www.v15.org/email/index.html to sign up to receive V15 class e-mails.
The 2010 national V15 schedule has been posted at http://www.v15.org/schedule10/index.html -- there are regular fleet race and team race regattas and weekly series in New York, Connecticut, Newport, Cape Cod, Annapolis, the Gulf Coast, Chicago, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. If you have a boat in a place not listed above but want to host a regatta or a regular series, just let us know and we'll be happy to help advertise. The highlight of the 2010 calendar is the V15 Nationals, to be hosted July 10-11 at SailNewport. An NOR will be available in the next 6 weeks. Charter boats will be available through RITRA (www.ritra.org), and we expect to have at least 65 boats on the starting line, hopefully more. We recognize that this will be the third year in a row that the Nationals have been in the northeast. That will also change going forward, and the class will announce hosts for future nationals well in advance to give venues and sailors more time to plan. So: 2011 nationals will be at Southern YC in New Orleans (early October, the weekend before or after the Hinman, stay tuned for dates) 2012 nationals - we are looking for a host. Please let me know if you're interested 2013 nationals will be in Chicago -- likely in late August or Labor Day weekend, likely the weekend before or after the Hinman if that event is held in Chicago. There will be many other changes to the V15 class website (www.v15.org) in the coming weeks, and the class newsletter will resume publication this summer thanks to Ben Spiller, so visit the site often for updates. Finally, I received a note from LaserPerformance to let everyone know that the builder is changing the production schedule for Vanguard 15s. Instead of building one-off boats, they plan to build boats in two annual batches through the foreseeable future -- they are taking orders for the first batch through March 31 for boats that will be delivered at the end of April. The second batch will be of the Hinman boats, which will not be available until October. If you plan to get a new V15, I strongly recommend that you contact your local dealer ASAP to make sure your name is on the list so that you can get a new boat when you want one. We are open to suggestions on how to improve the class. If you have any comments or questions about the Vanguard 15 class, please send 'em over. Sincerely, Peter Beardsley V15 Class President ________________________________________________ icsa mailing list [email protected] http://www.collegesailing.org/mailman/?listname=icsa Unsubscribe: Send a blank email to [email protected]
