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| 1155.1 | | AKOV11::KALINOWSKI | | Wed Mar 22 1989 21:33 | 10 |
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Will Mr Moderator please hide this note before the Duke gets wind
of such a thing and trys to get the last of us pleasure boats who
use no engines, nor have to register our boats! 8>(
i.e. user charge for making locomotion from all that hot air on
Beacon Hill!
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| 1155.2 | A worthy cause! | AKOV12::DJOHNSTON | | Thu Mar 23 1989 12:31 | 12 |
| I for one do not object to a USYRU fee of some kind for those racing
in a USYRU sanctioned series or race. Without their rules, committee
training, and judging, there would be no organized racing. I believe
EVERYONE who races and benefits from their hard work should belong.
Short of that, a minor fee seems reasonable. But then I also believe
that those who watch public TV should also join or contribute.
Jeez, we're talking about funding an organization that does a hell
of a job for us, not the Duke or worse, the Feds!
Dave
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| 1155.3 | another racer's view ... | BOOKS::BAILEYB | too much of everything is just enuff | Mon Mar 27 1989 19:30 | 9 |
| I agree with Dave. How much money are we talking here anyway?
For most week-end racers, between $25 and $50. Hell, it costs more
than that to provision the crew for one week-end's worth of racing.
And without the USYRU we wouldn't be doing this every week-end.
So why not. It's for a good cause.
... Bob
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| 1155.4 | Almost non-racer's concern | STAR::KENNEY | | Mon Mar 27 1989 20:38 | 26 |
| A recent issue of the USYRU magazine had a in depth article on this
very topic. They still had not decided exactly how it was going to
work. A large number of options had been considered and rejected. I
have no problem with some kind of fee but making it work, be fair, and
enforcing it will be very hard. Consider the following case.
You do not own a boat but sail for a club and use their boats normally.
You decide to sail on the JFK and a couple of other races, and arrange
to borrow a boat each time. With my kind of luck the boat or sails do
not have the required sticker, sail patch, or what ever they decide to
use. The simple answer is you have to buy the sticker. Suppose You
enter several races a year and borrow a boat each time. You could end
up buying several of these little gems. OK maybe they are not all that
expensive but it still would be very annoying. Also suppose you can
only get it from the USYRU, and do not discover the boat is missing it
until the race.
I am a USYRU member, and supporter but not a racer. I hope that they
can come up with a workable scheme that the serious and casual racer
live with.
Forrest
Ps. Why is it most dinghies penalize you if you are not 6' and 175 pounds.
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