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| OK, now that we have all had fun either sailing or watching the Tybee 500, it is time to get ready for the Great Texas! The Great Texas starts on Wednesday, June 17th and runs through Saturday, June 20th. We currently expect to have at least 12 boats on the line - nine are registered with 3 more committed to send in their money soon (too busy sailing the Tybee). For any Tybee sailors from outside of Texas, we will pay your late fee but you must register by next Wednesday, May 27th. Contact me if you are interested ( [email protected]). Late registration is $425 but you can get in for $325. The winners of the last leg of the Tybee will be on the course. (McCulley was my crew for 6 years and I sure am proud of the boy and that win the last day.) We will have lots of coverage from CatSailor, our own web site, etc. Also looks like topofusion will be supply mapping for the race too. We can't promise another blasting year but we will put the quarter in the wind machine and hope for big air again. Last years winners average 17 mph for the race! Hope to see everyone in South Padre (in reality or virtually). Steve Piche | | | Re: Great Texas - Reduced Registration for Tybee Sailors
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Gulf Coast relocated from Cali... | Some of you teams I spoke with at the Tybee can contact me in regards to logistics. This race is MUCH less expensive to do than Tybee due to the fact of hotel room prices. Not to mention you can camp on alot of the legs stops as well to cut down costs. Another alternative could be to ship boats on a flatbed to Houston (major shipping hub of the US) and I'll help with transport from there like I said.
Lee
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| Lee, is there any chance of moving this race to the fall in future years? Several of us have been discussing: 1) How much we want to do the race, but it becomes an almost either/or with the Tybee due to time off, expenses, etc. 2) It would be great to have another major event to look forward to several months away, not a year away. 3) Its easier to ask you about moving it than Chuck. Your bigger, but he's scarier  | | | Re: Great Texas - Reduced Registration for Tybee Sailors
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Gulf Coast relocated from Cali... | The wind consistency and direction is the factor. Dude, you're all practiced up, c'mon and do it while you're still fresh. There will allways be a reason not to do something. You know this as well as I do. It's finding the reasoning to do it that makes us who we are. I know timing is an issue. I just gotta bust yer balls a little since you throttled me saturday heading into Tybee.
Lee
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Roanoke Island ,N.C. | I'd come out to do it in the fall, hurricanes or not.
Lee PM me Rob Remmers number if you have it. Thanks.
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05/19/09 09:20 AM 05/19/09 09:20 AM |
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| Sorry boys, the Great Texas is not going to move off the Father's Day weekend in June.
We have a very narrow window of great weather that only makes it practical to run the race in June.
Here is the deal: Winter time, too cold and not enough wind. Spring time: March to May - Too windy, we call it boat breakin' weather. June - Sea Breeze kicks in the morning and builds to 20 nearly everyday (perfect). July - September, Sea Breeze can be significantly delayed, ask anyone that has done Ruff Rider. October - Winds go easterly in northern part of the course, we would be sailing upwind - Harvest Moon, run in October is a downwind run from Galveston to Port Aransas. Winds can also be light. November, no sea breeze.
So like it or not, June is the ideal time frame for the Great Texas. I believe that the Tybee also has this same narrow good wind time frame so it really can't be moved either.
So, due to the way the earth spins around the sun, we are stuck with these races on the dates they are on. It should be noted that Round the Island has also moved to June. Again, better weather than the traditional September date.
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Roanoke Island ,N.C. | Sorry boys, the Great Texas is not going to move off the Father's Day weekend in June.
We have a very narrow window of great weather that only makes it practical to run the race in June.
Here is the deal: Winter time, too cold and not enough wind. Spring time: March to May - Too windy, we call it boat breakin' weather. June - Sea Breeze kicks in the morning and builds to 20 nearly everyday (perfect). July - September, Sea Breeze can be significantly delayed, ask anyone that has done Ruff Rider. October - Winds go easterly in northern part of the course, we would be sailing upwind - Harvest Moon, run in October is a downwind run from Galveston to Port Aransas. Winds can also be light. November, no sea breeze.
So like it or not, June is the ideal time frame for the Great Texas. I believe that the Tybee also has this same narrow good wind time frame so it really can't be moved either.
So, due to the way the earth spins around the sun, we are stuck with these races on the dates they are on. It should be noted that Round the Island has also moved to June. Again, better weather than the traditional September date.
Steve Steve, Can you change the way the earth spins then? maybe Al Gore can help.
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Roanoke Island ,N.C. | Al Gore's working on it right now. I'll bet he's using that Intarweb thing he invented.
"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea
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If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most.
E. B. White
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42.904444 N; 88.008586 W | Have you checked out the coastal weather in Georgia, and almost all of Florida the last few days? Would have been hell a week earlier.
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So like it or not, June is the ideal time frame for the Great Texas.
Maybe you should move the Great Texas race to kansas.., (kidding) | | | Re: Great Texas - Reduced Registration for Tybee Sailors
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| yeah - I noticed that....would have really been rough this week. They had 12 -15 foot surf and 50+mph wind in daytona yesterday... | | | Re: Great Texas - Reduced Registration for Tybee Sailors
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Roanoke Island ,N.C. | Well, it appears Steve can change the way the earth spins. It seems I'm teamed up with Lee Wicklund to do the GT300. All I can say is if your in the way you better move. We will be re-defining the term "sailing heavy" but odds are pretty good we'll have more fun per pound than anyone else.
I'm looking forward to it.
Todd
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