Stories from the Wet Letter Office
The NOR is available online for you to download now. There is some interesting stuff, but the main interesting thing is the registration sheet!
That's right - you register every year. $50 and a registration sheet and you can race all summer. That's a pretty good deal. You can try to race without paying, but I'll sic Mariana on you - a fate far worse than paying $50.
So where do you send the $50? That's easy:
St. Michaels Wednesday Night Racing
215 S Hanson St
Easton, MD 21601
You can also give it to me at the Skipper's Meeting on April 20th.
Last year, someone mailed their registration to the Museum. A little perplexed, the Museum thought it might be best to give it to the boat shop. The boat shop sent me a note and left the registration on Volunteer, but I never saw it.
Where did it go next? It seems that I couldn't find it because it fell into the bilge of the boat. Being a bit soggy, someone thought it would be best to dry it on a sail bag. Now nice and dry, it was stuck into the sail bag where it hung out for a week or so until we launched the staysail on Edmee. Back into the bilge of a boat - this one a log canoe.
Soggy letters floating in the bottom of a log canoe can get lost, so they stuck it in the stern of the boat for safe keeping (or safe losing it was called in my house growing up). A few weeks later, we capsized in the Tred Avon and, while cursing my misfortune, I noticed a $50 check for WNR float past me. I've seen a lot of strange things float out of the boat in a capsize, but this was new.
So, while you're sitting at your desk trying to come up with inventive places to send your registration check, try the Hanson Street address above. It really works and no log canoe crew will be harmed in the delivery.
