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RORC 2003 - good information on the Man Overboard / Quick Stop drill ------->	*http://www.rorc.org/programme/mob.php*	note: this link moved and we're current now, please email if any problems
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Dave Brennan Principal Race Officer- Div 3 Reports from Auckland	Oct. 15 '02 Kendra and arrived a week ago and have been having a wonderful time. We are staying with Charley Cook (one of the umpires) and family in a little village called Takapuna about 20 minutes from the Viaduct Basin. On the day we arrived the race committee had..... *read more.....*	PHRF Entries You can send in your Handicap Application BEFORE YOUR ENTRY GET THAT BALL ROLLING and HELP THE ADMIN GAL!
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On the day we arrived the race committee had already left the dock so Kendra and I walked towards the beach to see if we could see any racing. The majority of the shops along the way were showing the Louis Vuitton races on live TV. As good fortune would have it we found a pub with a large screen TV and full of locals watching the races, all these people new the boats and all the players, they new who was quick and who wasn't and they all had their favorites and were rooting for them like it was a football game - what a great afternoon.

The next day we were out on the water with Peter Reggio on the Romeo circle. There are two circles Romeo and Juliet and the race committee of 250 people to run the races and manage the course. The race committee meets each morning for a meeting and go over the plans for the day it is quite and operation and Peter has done a great job with all the volunteers.

Once aboard the signal boat we discovered that Dottie Cheesborough is Peter Reggio's primary scribe, it was like old home week. I got to go now more later...

Oct 18 '02
sorry for the quick stop on the last E mail. Dot and Kendra are having a great time. Cheese is out on a mark boat and there are a number of other people from the states on the Romeo course I haven't met yet. The starts are great being on the signal boat you're in the middle of the action then after the boats are away we go down below to watch the action live on a big screen TV. It doesn't get any better than this.

The race boats are about 2 hours from the dock and the RC is about 3 hours from the dock, it's a good time for a nap. After the race committee is back at the dock it's a 1 hour car trip in rush hour traffic back to the via duct basin and the CORM (challenger of record management) office to check in with the jury.

Walking into the office was like a family reunion from all the regattas you have been to in the past, along with Charley cook as an umpire was Brad Dellenbaugh, Jim Capron US Sailing head of the judges committee, Pat Shehan from the NYYC regatta office, Dyer Jones from NYYC as the head of CORM and the list goes on. Kendra and I are in Queenstown for a week then back to Auckland for the second round robin.

It will be interesting to see what the boats look like after a week in the chop shop.