Notice Of Race

5:01PM, 10/8/06 – CLEANING: The clubhouse has been cleaned, the grounds policed, and all equipment has been broken down and placed in storage or packed away for transport home.  The only thing remaining is the 40X30 tent.  At precisely 1 minute after 5pm, as the racers are walking to their cars, up drives the professional tent crew to start its disassembly.   I’m sure they will have it broken down and be on their way within the next half hour.

Carefully Folding Old Glory

4PM, 10/8/06 – THANKS: I’d like to give my personal thanks to everyone who participated in or volunteered to help with the Alamo Classic.   It takes a team effort to put on an event of this complexity and it simply couldn’t have be done without the cooperation of the 20 Woodlawn volunteers and 30 racers.  Everyone please drive home carefully, buckle up and we’ll see you next year when Woodlawn hosts the Region 5 Victoria Championship Regatta. 

3:30PM, 10/8/06 – TROPHY PRESENTATION: Bob Piper of LLYC has donated beautifully crafted miniature treasure chest so that the Pirates of Woodlawn can keep a better hold of their cursed gold coins.  As everyone remembers cursed gold coins were taken by each of the competitors of last years  Inaugural Alamo Classic Victoria Regatta.  The curse states that the Alamo Classic and its Pirate hordes must continue on forever unless every gold coin is returned.   We’ll typical Pirates that they are they lost, had stolen or more likely spent their Pirate gold on sprits and beautiful women.   With all of the new folks joining in on the curse its now starting to look like the Alamo Classic will be going on for years while we search the world over for our pirate gold.  Just in time for the trophy presentation Nelda Tallman brought out the final race results for the regatta.    Each of our competitors starting with 30^th place was issued a new treasure chest for their pirate gold.  The top five competitors were given trophies hand crafted from Brazilian Iron Wood by Woodlawn member Ray Mireles.  Our final ceremony was to invite JK to the podium where he declared this “The Best Regatta Ever”!!!!! 

Ray & Hew Hold Up The Alamo Classic Perpetual Plaque	1st Place - Hew Hamilton Sail # 565 Mandeville, L	2nd Place - John "JK" Kuc Sail # 38 Austin/SA, TX
3rd Place - Mark Cooper Sail # 50 Houston, TX	4th Place - Al Ross Sail # 46 Mandeville, LA	5th Place - Chris Macaluso Sail #65 Houston, TX

3:10PM, 10/8/06 – RAFFLE PART 2: the raffle was a big hit thanks’ to Mama’s home made dog bone and pirate pillows and her Super Hot Victoria haul covers and rudder socks.  Our final big prize for the day was an EC12 haul and mast donated by Larry Ludwig of Ludwig Model Yachts.  Wonderful donation Larry, we are extremely grateful to you.   Long before the raffle begun everyone was commenting on how difficult it would be for a non-local to take the EC12 home.  We’ll as fate would have it the competitor farthest from home, Tom Kern of Basking Ridge, NJ won!!!!   Not to worry though, we’ll make arrangement to ship the haul to New Jersey on Monday.

				The Pirate Raffle Banner & Slogan
Pirate Josh Helping With The Raffle	How Do You Plan To Get Your Raffle Prize Back On The Plane?

2:03PM CST, Sunday, October 8^th - Click Photos Below for Today's Audio Update.  -   (Remember to turn on your computer's speakers and there's no mouse over effect so just click the photos once and wait a few seconds...To stop the audio or prevent it from replaying simply press the [ESC] button on your computer.)

2:30PM, 10/8/06 – FINAL HEAT AND FUN RACE: After running our last heat for the day all boats headed down to the water for a fun race titled “THE INTERGALACTICA, ALAMO CLASSICA”.  The course ran once around all 6 buoys set-up on the race course.  While the Intergalactica, Alamo Classica was occurring we brought the scoring team back up to the club house to begin computing the race results.  During this time Raffle man extraordinaire, Tony Seta began selling as many raffle tickets as possible prior to the raffle of our “Primo” prizes. 

2PM, 10/8/06 – CHASE BOAT #2: After two days of service and a number of boat rescues and mark changes our good friend Randy Rimmer began to pack up his inflatable to head home for an appointment.  I can’t thank Randy enough for the help he provided over the weekend.  I especially appreciate the Chili and Cornbread he and his wife provided for the Saturday night Chili Cook-off.  Thanks Randy, see you soon for OD racing.

1:56PM CST, Sunday, October 8^th - Click Photos Below for Today's Audio Update.  -   (Remember to turn on your computer's speakers and there's no mouse over effect so just click the photos once and wait a few seconds...To stop the audio or prevent it from replaying simply press the [ESC] button on your computer.)

1:40PM CST, Sunday, October 8^th - Click Photos Below for Today's Audio Update.  -   (Remember to turn on your computer's speakers and there's no mouse over effect so just click the photos once and wait a few seconds...To stop the audio or prevent it from replaying simply press the [ESC] button on your computer.)

1:40PM, 10/8/06 – The AMYA Executive Council meeting was held in San Antonio this weekend and after the two day meeting was over several of the dignitaries came down and visited with us at Woodlawn Lake.  Those present were  President Dick Rutledge, President-Elect Pete Maxson, Vice-President Elect Chuck Busek, AMYA Webmaster Phil Sarelis and my personal favorite Membership Director Michelle Dannenhoffer.  Audio interviews will be posted later this evening and pictures on Monday.

This is why Ray will never get elected to the AMYA Executive Council!		AMYA President-Elect Pete Maxson

12:01PM CST, Sunday, October 8^th - Click Photos Below for Today's Audio Update.  -   (Remember to turn on your computer's speakers and there's no mouse over effect so just click the photos once and wait a few seconds...To stop the audio or prevent it from replaying simply press the [ESC] button on your computer.)

Honey, Was There Something In The Water?

12PM, 10/8/06 – LUNCH: BBQ King Tony Seta was once again busy at the grill cooking up sausage and fajita’s for everyone’s eating pleasure.  Mama, Charlotte and Sylvia provided the pasta salad, and beans and set-up a first rate dinner line to serve the troops. 

11:56AM CST, Sunday, October 8^th - Click Photos Below for Today's Audio Update.  -   (Remember to turn on your computer's speakers and there's no mouse over effect so just click the photos once and wait a few seconds...To stop the audio or prevent it from replaying simply press the [ESC] button on your computer.)

11:49AM CST, Sunday, October 8^th - Click Photos Below for Today's Audio Update.  -   (Remember to turn on your computer's speakers and there's no mouse over effect so just click the photos once and wait a few seconds...To stop the audio or prevent it from replaying simply press the [ESC] button on your computer.)

11:36AM CST, Sunday, October 8^th - Click Photos Below for Today's Audio Update.  -   (Remember to turn on your computer's speakers and there's no mouse over effect so just click the photos once and wait a few seconds...To stop the audio or prevent it from replaying simply press the [ESC] button on your computer.)

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11:32AM CST, Sunday, October 8^th - Click Photos Below for Today's Audio Update.  -   (Remember to turn on your computer's speakers and there's no mouse over effect so just click the photos once and wait a few seconds...To stop the audio or prevent it from replaying simply press the [ESC] button on your computer.)

Sunday Photo Montage