Forwarded message from NAC regatta chairman, Andy Katz:
Dear Day Sailer Association Member,
The NACs are only eight weeks away and I wanted to make sure that we are communicating with everyone. We have a lot of exciting news, so I may send you a few emails over the next month. First and foremost, I want to make sure that everyone has the basic information about the NACs. The Winter quarterly contained a booklet with all the scoop, however, some people still have not received it. Or you may have received it and misplaced it. Not to worry, we have created a website with the same information. The site is a subpage of the Shreveport Yacht Club site. You can check it out via this link
http://www.shreve.net/~yacht/daysailernas.html or via the link we have on the DaySailer.org homepage. The main page of the NAC site has the welcome letter from the brochure, the Notice of Race and Detailed Information page has the remainder of the brochure info.
There are a few things you should note about the Web site as it has some corrected information
1. Sponsoring Hotel
- The phone number for our sponsoring hotel, the Holiday Inn Express, is 318-631-2000
- The rates for the Holiday Inn Express are lower. You can get a fully cancelable rate of $67 by calling the number listed above. Or you can get a rate of $58.80 from their website which is linked from our NAC page. However, this rate is non-refundable and requires a 21 day advance purchase.
2. If you want to arrange for a crew or for a boat to charter contact Kevin Williams, his email address is
sailin2day@gbronline.com his phone is 817-496-4564.
3. The registration process is now online!
- Via the SYC site you can register online and separately mail them a check.
- Via the Layline site, one of our regatta sponsors, you can register online and pay with a credit card. Layline will forward the money and information to the SYC.
- Of course if you still want fill out the paper form in the brochure and mail it in the old fashioned way we'll do that too.
- You can see who else has registered on the skipper's page.
4. We have links to the SYC home page from which you can see pictures of the club and get a feel for why we love it there. Most of the pictures were taken in the winter. It is much better in the summer. I will be there this coming weekend for our Regionals and I'll take some greener shots.
Coming up in the next email
- Sunsail's sponsorship of our regatta
- Pictures of the Trophies
- Info about T-shirts
- Registration update
- Day Sailer coozies
The people at Shreveport are so excited to be hosting us and they are doing a great job. They did the website for us, helped us source the trophies and shirts, and even created the logo. All we need to do is show up in record numbers, early indications from Oregon and Midwinters are that a lot of people are coming. If you have any questions at all please contact me at
aekatz1@ix.netocm.com or at 817-451-7830
Thanks, Andy