Lightning Fleet 266
and
Carlyle Sailing Association
present
The Mid - Continent Lightning Regatta
for the
Augie Paoli Memorial Trophy
NOTICE: Change of Venue to Lake Decatur
80 miles north of Lake Carlyle
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Six races
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Skipper's Meeting
10:30 AM Saturday
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April 26 and 27, 2008
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Contact Matt Burridge cmburridge@aol.com
phone: 314 616 3922
Flood Occurs – Earth Shifts, Mid-Continent Moved!
“When
you get this much water, you need to hold some back for later”, people,
crops and property downstream were spared from additional flooding in Carlyle. However,
as a result, our lake level is up 10+ feet from normal pool and the road to the
club is underwater. That is OK; we just refuse to quit sailing Lightnings!!!
Carlyle fleet #266 is taking
their show on the road for the 2008 Mid-Continent Regatta to
This is a great place to
sail, everything is close, convenient and everyone is “
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In a message
dated 4/11/2008 9:48:58 A.M. Central Daylight Time, CMBurridge writes:
Dear Lightning
Nomads,
Please see attached file with more particulars about the upcomong Mid-Continent
in Decatur April 26 & 27.
Decatur-ites Greg Florian and Bob Ohlsen have been working hard on the logistics
to get us a group discount at The Decatur Conference Center. At this time I do
not know what that rate is, I do know another cadre of folks will likely be
staying at the Hampton Inn, contact information for both is included.
We are looking forward to a great event, the Bill Buckles Power Blender, return
of LAL to the regatta scene (anchor hauling and beer drinking, I suspect),
Frozen tundra refugees from Chicago, Sheboygan, Milwaukee(?), Green Bay and
Indiana. The word is theat there may be a special "Doctors Gone
Wild" perfomance by Dr. Jim Sears direct to you from Orange County, CA.
(seriously, it's just all good, clean fun). This one promises to be one for
the ages, don't miss it.
This information should post on our fleet 266 web site and be linked to from the
ILCA web site soon but please help us pass the word.
Matt Burridge
2008 Mid-Continent Regatta
Tobi Moriarty
At our Fleet meeting held in February, Matt Burridge stepped up to organize our Mid-Continent regatta in
2008. Little did he know, it would entail more coordination than any other year. Carlyle Lake flooded in
April, and it became obvious that the water would not recede in time for the Mid-Continent regatta. The
people of Carlyle Fleet 266 had a hard time simply canceling the season kick-off event, so Matt contacted the
fleet at Lake Decatur to see if the regatta could be held at their venue in 2008. Bob Olsen and Greg Florian,
long time Lightning sailing friends and members of the Commodore Decatur Yacht Club, responded enthusiastically
to the idea. From that point on, everything fell into place beautifully.
Years ago, Commodore Decatur Yacht Club had very active Lightning Fleet, but over the recent decade it
had dwindled down to the point where they no longer host club races or regattas. With that, the facilities were
sufficient for hosting a regatta, but a few items, such as marks and signal flags, needed to be brought from
Carlyle. It was fun to see how all of the Fleet members from both CDYC and CSA were willing to step up to fill
in any voids in the regatta planning. There were more than enough volunteers to fill in for
Race Committee at the re-located regatta. The day of the event, however, the volunteers realized that they
all signed up to “help out,” but not one of the volunteers wanted to “be in charge.” Fortunately, Lal Burridge
stepped up and took the challenge of running the races. Lal thought he had volunteered to help out on a mark—
set boat pulling anchors and watch his son at markroundings, but lucky for us, he took the reins and ran
the crew on the RC boat.
Friday night the hospitality was wonderful. The out-oftown guests arrived to plenty of cold beer and smiling
faces of CDYC members. Several of the CDYC members made their way to the club over the course of the entire
weekend to see the regatta hustle-and-bustle that they either remembered being a part of years ago or heard
stories about when they joined the club.
CARLYLE SAILING ASSOCIATION
Lightning Fleet 266
2008
Mid Continent Regatta
6 Races in series. 0 Races needed to qualify. 5 Races scored.
13 Boats participated in series
Sail Skipper 4/ 4/ 4/ 4/ 4/ 4/ Place Score
# Crew, Crew /26 /26 /26 /26 /27 /27
15364 Dan Moriarty 1 1 1 1 4 DNS 1 8.00
Tobi Moriarty, Rick Bernstein ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
14834 Matt Burridge 3 8 2 3 1 1 2 10.00
Jim Sears, Jeff Coppens ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
15234 Todd Wake 2 2 4 5 2 5 3 15.00
Kristine Wake, Brian Hayes ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
15260 Bill Faude 4 3 3 DSQ 10 3 4 23.00
Jacsline Dieball, Ernie Dieball ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
14766 Terry Burke 13 4 6 2 6 7 5 25.00
Edd Burke, Bryan Burke ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
13726 Bill Buckles 5 6 5 6 12 6 6 28.00
Greg Florian, Nick Florian ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
14798 Denny Heisler 8 5 8 11 3 8 7 32.00
Kay Ward, Nick Beckmann ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
14012 Gerry Paoli 6 7 9 7 5 9 8 34.00
Bob Olsen, Doug walker ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
15332 Pat Considine 9 10 10 4 11 2 9 35.00
Ryan Considine, Kevin Considine ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
14260 John Folwell 10 9 12 8 9 4 10 40.00
Mark Paoli, Courtney Menges ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
15158 Peter Orlebeke 7 DNF 7 9 8 10 11 41.00
Kim Orlebeke, David Bronson ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
14636 Bart Snyder 11 11 11 10 DNS 11 12 54.00
Jessica Snyder, Carson Menges ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
13836 Michael Reed 12 12 13 12 7 12 13 55.00
Cris Reed, Amira ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Number of boats
in each race 13 13 13 13 12 12
Explaination: DNF - Did Not Finish DNC - Did Not Start DSQ - Disqualified
^ - Race counted