Attention Sun Cat Nationals participants and hangers-on! We have decided to hold our welcoming party/skipper’s meeting on Friday AND the Sun Cat Nationals Awards Dinner on Saturday night at Ryan’s Subs & Sports Grill on US 17 in Cleveland.
Our large, main dog, Libby, is recovering from knee surgery and we are concerned that having a party in the yard will be too much excitement for her. If we lock her inside, she’ll go nuts. If we bring her out, even on a leash, she’s going to want to jump around. The doctor says NO JUMPING AROUND!
The schedule:
Friday night skipper’s meeting and cocktails starting around 4:30 pm. Tom Scott will inform us of racing plans, starting times, location, rules about impact between vessels, etc.
Saturday night we will reconvene at Ryan’s at 6 pm for dinner and the awards ceremony. We hope that previous National Champion Scott will be able to bring the coveted trophy, but if he can’t make it, I will scrawl something on a disposable plastic cup and that will be the coveted trophy.
Tom Reed says
Tom-
Will there be a skippers’ meeting Saturday morning for late arrivals? If so, when and where will it be held? Or should I just show up at the Laishley Park Marina sometime Saturday morning and follow the crowd?
Cattail
Jib Trimmer says
We don’t plan to have a Saturday morning meeting. Some of the owners prefer to launch at the Beach Complex, but I plan to launch at Laishley.
I’ll post the planned course area and the radio channel we will be using once I learn them tonight!
Tom Reed says
Aha! You too are in the dark. I have adjusted my expectations accordingly.
Tom Reed says
I just checked the weather forecast and the NWS has issued a Small Craft Advisory from 3pm this afternoon until 1pm tomorrow for your area. Winds of 20-33 kts and seas to 7′ or higher. Sounds like it will be sloppy out there. Cattail is in the driveway but we can’t leave until 6:30 or 7 this evening. If the consensus at the skippers’ meeting is to reschedule the race, please call me on my cell phone ((352)459-3860) as soon as possible.
Thanks,
Tom Reed