The Nass Race is a awesome race .... one of the first years that some "Beach Cats" raced in it there was approximently 250 monomarans under spinnacker racing down the Chesapeake Bay to TAYC/Oxford. By the time we started it looked like a forest in front of us ... and all the different colored spinnackes was a memory for a lifetime ...

And you may "bitch" at him ... but it was Mr Mark Schnieder who did all the work and arranged for a offical "Beach Cat Class" to be included in the event after Mark and I on his Tornado in Sept 2000 "un-offically" did the race on a "last minute lark" (we decided to do the race at approximently 3:00pm on Friday since we had no other racing that weekend !!! and we wanted to go to the PARTY !!!!)... after reaching TAYC we parked his Tornado on the beach by the "food" tent ... we discovered many sailors in the food line that had sailed beach cats and were happy to see us there ...

For the first three years it was Mark on his Tornado .... Roger (from Gailsville) on his Supercat 22 .... and me on my P19MX ...

Congrats on the cover !!!!! It's nice to see you guys keeping it going !!!!

Harry
H18Mag/P19MX