Mark
your calendars!
Plans are still firming up for the 2011 CDSOA
annual meeting in the City
of Fairhope and sail on Mobile Bay. We will begin the festivities
with the Commodore's reception and an old fashioned fish fry
on Friday evening.
Early November is a wonderful time to be sailing
on the upper Gulf Coast, and that is what we are planning to
do all day Saturday, but there are also a lot of interesting
things
to do and see in the Fairhope vicinity for those who wish
to stay ashore. Saturday night we will have dinner and our annual
business meeting in the beautiful new facilities of the Fairhope
Yacht Club.
There are many excellent lodging
facilities in the Fairhope area, but we recommend that attendees
take advantage of the special group rate that we have arranged
at the just completed Hampton Inn, Fairhope,
which is located less than a mile from our meeting site. You
may make reservations online at www.fairhope.hamptoninn.com
or by phone at (251) 928 0956. Use group booking
code CDY to obtain the special group rate.
The registration fee of $50.00 per attendee will
cover use of the Fairhope
Yacht Club facilities, the Friday night fish fry and the
Saturday night dinner. We will be providing you with more information,
including travel suggestions as plans develop, but for now we
want to encourage you to register and let us know your boat
preference for the Saturday sail. Most of the local members
of the Central Gulf Fleet have agreed to make their boats available,
and we are confident that we will have cockpit space for all
to enjoy, but in making boat preference selections we will consider
them in order of receipt. We look forward to sailing with all
of you this November.
-Troy Scott
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