2015 Lake Champlain Viper 640 Regatta & Great Lakes Championship

[Jason Hyerstay]

Lake Champlain Yacht Club proudly invites you to our second annual Viper 640 Regatta and the 2015 Viper 640 Great Lakes Championship!

We are a friendly and informal club with excellent racing and terrific race management. Late September on Lake Champlain offers some of the best wind and most beautiful scenery. We are hoping to have guest teams from Canada, Marblehead, Newport, Lake George, Long Island Sound, the Great Lakes and elsewhere.

http://lcyc.info/racing/viper_640

[Steve Chapman]

Invitation accepted!! 211 will be there.


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[Jason Hyerstay]

Hey guys,

I run our website, and I've seen a few Viper sailors create an account, but not yet register. If you can please login and register, we can keep building the attendance!

This event is Vipers only! There are no other fleets, and the race committee has the singular duty of serving great races to our fleet. They know the conditions we like, the course lengths we prefer, and will communicate with the fleet.

Trailer and car parking is near the clubhouse and 100 feet from the water.

We've scheduled this event in late September for several reasons. The cruising season has wound down, so the docks, moorings, and parking lots are thinned out. The wind is often stronger than the middle of the summer. The colors are changing on the Adirondack and Green Mountains that frame our beautiful lake.

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments!

Cheers,

Jason

[Cole Constantineau]

39 is signed up!  You guys put on an awesome regatta last year; can't wait to do it again!

[Peter Beardsley]

I'm pretty sure that 222 will be there but since I apparently have to pay in order for the registration to show up on the website, I need to nail down a couple of things before confirming we'll be there.  If you want to create a running scratch sheet on this thread of people who are either registered and/or people who have said they will be there, that would be helpful.  Also helpful would be if someone could get the perpetual trophy from Steve Conger to ensure that the trophy makes it to VT and avoid expensive last minute shipping costs.  Hopefully Steve & Crew have gotten it engraved and will be able to defend their title.

[Jason Hyerstay]

I see your registration on that page.

[Ed "Buttons" Padin, Class Administrator]

To the attendees of our 2014 Viper 640 Regatta:
    Greetings from the Lake Champlain Yacht Club

It is only eight weeks until our 2nd annual Viper 640 Regatta, Saturday & Sunday, Sept 25 & 26. In addition, the Great Lakes Fleet has designated this as their 2015 Championship - all racers will be eligible for recognition.

The 2015 race documents are at http://lcyc.info/racing/viper_640

We received many favorable comments after the Regatta last fall about the racing we provided and the waters and settings you sailed in.

We are pleased to tell you that we have the same race management team, and we are eager to give you more of the same. We are hoping that this year our winds will be in the more typically September range of 8 to 15.

We went a little lean on our regatta fee last year, but believe that this year's fee of $100 per boat is competitive. We also believe that you will agree that racers will get their money's worth both on and off the course, in and around the Lake Champlain basin and Shelburne/ Burlington. We will again do our best to provide housing with club members on a first-come first-served basis.

We hope to see your registration soon, and please pass this on to your Viper friends who did not come last year but should have.

As before, you can register and pay online at our website.

In our website's V-640 section, note Jason's clever graphical enhancement of the classic Viper 640 logo with our LCYC burgee.

Dale Hyerstay
V-640 Regatta Organizer
[email protected]

[Jason Hyerstay]

Wow Buttons, you are on the ball! You posted that almost as soon as my dad sent it!

We would love to see more LIS sailors, especially our hospitable friends from Larchmont, come up to this event! Enjoy the leaves changing colors on the Green Mountains to East and the Adirondacks to the West while our top-notch RC team keeps the races moving and the lines square.

This is a Viper-only event. There are no other classes to wait for at the launch, the docks, or the start line.

Saltwater sailors can take a break from tides and currents, and you won't even have to rinse your boat after racing! :) We've updated our PDF about local conditions, so that guest racers can enjoy more guidance about what to expect from the winds and waves on Lake Champlain.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Cheers,

Jason

[Jason Hyerstay]

PS, if you have already registered, please check the list of registrants and make sure we have your hull color listed correctly. I manually entered it for the boats that registered before last week. We need this so that we get contrasting-color hull numbers for each boat.

http://lcyc.info/racing/viper_640

[Dave Nickerson]

Signed up and looking forward to it.

[Steve Chapman]

Oshunmare (211) will be there! Just trying to get the registration sorted....


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[Steve Gilbert]

wondering about accommodations for the weekend for this regatta. Is there someplace close to stay or other options? Thank you

[Jason Hyerstay]

Hi Steve,

We have some members offering housing. All the info about housing and other local details are in the General Info PDF we have posted on the event page, including contact info for member housing.

http://lcyc.info/racing/viper_640

Cheers!

[Jason Hyerstay]

The New York Times just put up a great video about 36 Hours in Burlington:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/travel/what-to-do-in-36-hours-in-burlington-vermont.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2F36-hours&action=click&contentCollection=travel&region=stream&module=stream_unit&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection&_r=0

[Steve Gilbert]

Thank you Jason, this was very helpful.