Hey Folks,
I am writing to see if anyone can lend some assistance to a great laser fleet back east. There is
proposal in place in Westport, CT to place long line oyster nets in the sailing/racing area
directly outside Cedar Point Yacht Club. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Cedar Point, it
is the largest Laser fleet in the country and a great ambassador to our sport. The 2004 NAs are
schedule to be there. The Laser Frostbite fleet (always open to the public) often boasts 30 boats
and occasionally as many as fifty on any given weekend. The first day I showed up in January, it
was blowing storm force winds, the air temperature was in the 20s and the water temperature was
right around 40. Still under these conditions 27 boats showed up to race. Much like Corinthian
Yacht Club, Cedar Point is lone open window to sail boat racing, for the college grad on a shoe
string budget, the novice racer, and the long time pro alike.
The proposed Oyster nets represent a substantial threat to this access point. At a draft of ten
feet the nets will be well with in range of a 17 foot turtled Laser mast. Further more, it will
be near impossible to anchor racing marks and committee boats. There was a public hearing last
night, and a representative of the aquaculture group claimed that long lines had been implemented
in the Pacific Northwest, with no ill effects on sailing in the area. Is anyone familiar with
this claim? Any help would be appreciated.
More information can be found at the CPYC website:
http://www.cedarpointyc.org
Brian Gill
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- HGBullen@aol.com wrote:
> From: HGBullen@aol.com
> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:24:03 EDT
> Subject: Re: Oyster Proposal Public Hearing TONIGHT
> To: b@briangill.com, dakotamangus@yahoo.com
> CC: EricLaser@aol.com, mark.foster@dmjmharris.com
>
> In a message dated 7/23/2003 4:19:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> dakotamangus@yahoo.com writes:
>
>
> > Hi Halsey,
> >
> > I have been out of the area for about a year now (I live in Seattle) and it
> > has been fun to
> > occasionally get an update as to what is happening at CPYC. This last
> > update has been less
> > pleasant however. Though it would have no immediate direct impact to me, I
> > still feel grateful
> > and indebted for the short time I sailed with the club. Often Sailing is a
> > difficult sport to
> > gain access to. Not so with Laser sailing at Cedar Point. Having not been
> > long out of college
> > Cedar Point represented the only way I could race my own boat in the greater
> > trisate area with on
> > limited funds. In essence I consider Cedar Point to be representative of
> > the very essence of
> > laser sailing, and of the best of our sport in general. As such I would be
> > deeply upset if this
> > window of accessibility to water were closed. Unfortunately being more than
> > 3000 miles distant I
> > cannot be at the hearing. However I wanted you to know I will be there in
> > spirit, and I would be
> > happy to write letters to who ever, and would like to get the name of the
> > newspaper you mentioned.
> > What would you recommend?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Brian Gill
> >
>
> Brian,
> Thanks for your response, and for remembering us from so far away.
>
> If you'd like to write--something along the lines of your message would be
> great--the addresses of the public agencies are:
>
> Ms. Cori M. Rose
> US Army Corps of Engineers, N.E. District
> 696 Virginia Road
> Concord, MA 01742-2751
> Phone: 800-343-4789; Fax: 978-318-8303
> <A HREF="mailto:cori.m.rose@usace.army.mil">cori.m.rose@usace.army.mil</A>
>
> Mr. Peter Francis
> Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection
> Office of Long Island Sound Programs
> 79 Elm Street
> Hartford, CT 06106 5127
> Phone: 860-424-3034; Fax: 860-424-4054
> <A HREF="mailto:peter.francis@po.state.ct.us">peter.francis@po.state.ct.us</A>
>
> The public comment period closes August 2, 2003, so you'd have to write soon.
>
> By the way, one speaker at the hearing tonight claimed that suspended oyster
> structures like those proposed had been in use in the pacific northwest (he
> was vague about the location) for several years now and there had been no
> trouble with interference with boats. If you or others in the Seattle area have
> heard differently, that would be a great point to raise.
>
> Halsey
>
>
>
>
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Received on Thu Jul 24 10:33:15 2003
