Northeast Viper Circuit 2013

[Peter Beardsley]

All of the other regions have posted their circuits for 2013, but since it's still intermittently snowing in South Canada...errr...New York City, there's been a delay.  Here is the circuit for 2013:

1. Wickford Regatta (May 18-19) [Wickford YC, RI]: http://www.wickfordregatta.com

2. New England Champs (June 1-2) [Cedar Point YC, Westport, CT]: http://www.yachtscoring.com/emenu.cfm?eID=768

3. Atlantic Coast Champs (July 12-14) [SailNewport, RI]: https://sailnewport.worldsecuresystems.com/regattas/newportRegatta/

4. Marblehead NOOD (July 26-28): registration TBA

5. Canadian Viper Nationals @ CORK (Aug. 23-25): http://www.cork.org (also a Great Lakes Circuit event)

Scoring will be best three out of 5 events, low point overall regatta finishing place. 

There are a number of other great events happening in the northeast this summer -- we can't pick them all.  Some are too close to other regatta dates (LYC Memorial Day sandwiched in between two big events, same with Larchmont Race Week and YRALIS Champs, lest anyone think I'm a homer -- zero events on the circuit in my "home waters"), conflict with other big regattas (HPDO and Viper NAs in Houston unfortunately conflict in 2013), or otherwise don't give the class the best chance for a large turnout. 

I'm expecting the largest turnouts at Cedar Point and Newport if anyone wants to circle those dates, and hopefully people can do at least one of the other 3 to round out the series.  We may ask the good people at Rondar to see if they can send hats to all series qualifiers and their crews, shirts to the top 5 teams in the final standings and something special to the overall winner of the circuit.