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General Category => U20 General Discussion => Topic started by: Paul Barnett on May 09, 2013, 10:11:12 PM

Title: NEW U20 Owner!
Post by: Paul Barnett on May 09, 2013, 10:11:12 PM

I just purchased Hull # 54. She will stay here in Kansas at the Perry Yacht Club except when traveling for regattas. I have been a successful Buccaneer18 sailor and wanted to step up to a sport keel boat to get to the next level. I'm pretty jazzed to get started. I'm pretty sure we'll be commissioning a new name, but haven't decided yet. A boat called "on the rocks" is not a good omen.
Paul
sailorpb@everestkc.net

Title: Re: NEW U20 Owner!
Post by: Clifford Begnaud on May 09, 2013, 10:54:20 PM

Paul,
Congrats on your new boat. You are going to love the U20.
You may not be aware that there is also a U20 fleet in Colorado with a very active regatta series. Why don't you come on over for some high mountain sailing at the Aspen Open regatta on July 14-15, leave your boat here for a few weeks after the regatta and come back for the Dillon Open on Aug 4-5. There are plenty more but those are "must do" regattas.
We are having the Rocky Mountain Shootout regatta coming up on May 18-19 at Cherry Creek reservoir. We would love to have you attend that one too. We'll be happy to help you get up to speed racing the U20. If you need crew we can try to help with that also (no promises though).
Here's a few links:
http://www.aspenyachtclub.com/
http://www.dillonopen.com/
http://www.denversailing.org/
best regards,
Cliff
Underdog #126
Fleet 4

Title: Re: NEW U20 Owner!
Post by: Mark Allen on May 11, 2013, 12:58:50 AM

Paul,
  Congratulations on the purchase and welcome to the U20 family! Please reach out to myself or other owners if we can answer any questions. Have fun and fair winds.

Cheers!

Mark Allen
801-809-5044

Title: Re: NEW U20 Owner!
Post by: William Mendel on May 12, 2013, 06:51:56 PM

We are excited to have Paul. We are planning on making the Dillion open. There are now 3 U20s at lake Perry in Kansas.
Bill Mendel
FastLane 17

Title: Re: NEW U20 Owner!
Post by: Keith Ziegler on May 13, 2013, 01:32:00 PM

Congrats on the boat and as far as the name  On The Rocks we used it last year in the Red Fox Regatta and won our class and were fisrt overall for the fleet the last day!

Keith
#173

Title: Re: NEW U20 Owner!
Post by: Chuck Ballew on May 13, 2013, 02:22:46 PM

Congrats on the new boat Paul. Hope you have many years of fun with her.

Title: Re: NEW U20 Owner!
Post by: Paul Barnett on May 17, 2013, 07:06:35 PM

Today we made the call! I'm renaming her "Smoke On The Water".

Title: Re: NEW U20 Owner!
Post by: Brian Denney on May 20, 2013, 11:57:51 AM

Congrats Paul! Looking forward to racing against you and Bill.

Brian
Honey Badger #124

Title: Re: NEW U20 Owner!
Post by: Gregg Henning on May 25, 2013, 03:33:30 PM

Smoke on the Water!!!! Awesome and welcome!