Apologies (somewhat) if I’m over-communicating, but hope to see people out this Friday for the Oregon Food Bank event. Some fun/cool changes this year that should make it great for your sponsors (and family/friends) to join you at the shore party, and up your tally… J Top donating J24 gets an autographed book about J-boats signed by Rod Johnston himself!
-Doug
Race Event: Friday July 10th, 2009. First (only) starting signal at 6:30pm. Look for the J24 “Free Bowl of Soup” flying a big red J-Flag as the committee boat near the tip of Tomahawk Island. See the OCSA race book for additional details, and course. Contact Doug at (503) 645-8398 or dougschenk3837@hotmail.com if questions.
Scoring: Each yacht’s finishing order will be determined by the amount of $ and/or food items donated (each $1 counts for 5 cans of food). $/food can be dropped off to the Soup on the water, or better yet at the Social Event. “Scoring” will continue until ~9:30-10pm at the social event. This is a low-key race, no protests or collisions allowed!
Trophies: The top 5 scoring yachts shall trophy (thanks to Chuck’s Trophies!), with the highest scoring yacht being declared the 6th annual Oregon Food Bank Free Bowl of Soup Night winner, with appropriate prize packages and accolades bestowed up on them.
Social Event: Should be more fun than ever thanks to Columbia Crossings, as a “pre-kickoff” to their summer concert series. Food from Norma’s Kitchen and refreshments from Bridgeport Brewing and Crater Lake Soda to be available for purchase with a portion of the proceeds going to Oregon Food Bank. Racers, family, friends, and kids will enjoy a fun mix of live music from Sounds Like Chicken. Open to anyone/everyone sailing or not, RSVPs appreciated for planning, but not required. Working out the math, but the more people and $ spent from your boat, the better chance of placing! May auction some donated items, but most likely they will go to the top donations. Gates open at 6:00pm, racers should show about 8:00pm (target for band to start), no outside food/beverages, overnight guest moorage can be arranged.
Note from Doug after the Event:
Wanted to thank all the J24 folks that made it out Friday night for the Oregon Food Bank Free Bowl of Soup Night! Putting the official count at 33 boats (a good percentage of the J24s), with a great collection of J24s. Formal race report forthcoming, but wanted to congratulate Ken Roush and Straight shot picking up 5th place (Ken – have a box of goods including the trophy for you, we’ll have to figure out a time for a handoff) and to the Home Skool’d White Trash gang for coming in 1st place for their 3rd time (I believe). Also thanks again to Columbia Crossings for support, and the amazing on-shore setup (leveraged from their summer concert series).
Sean Trew (PacificFog.net) managed to make it down, will forward on the link to his pics when they are available.
So, who’s in for Goldrush on the 25th, not to mention the Gorge/Districts the weekend after? Soup is planning to head up by river again this year, but the CGRA guys are curious when/how the hoist will be needed.
