2024 Spring Updates!

April 6, 2024 – NCASA Spring Updates:

After a long, strange / nasty winter, we have this year’s National Class A Scow Association Championship at Lake Geneva Yacht Club set and ready for you all to register. Please read the entire message below as we have some new information we’d like to share with you. This will be an epic event as we help LGYC celebrate 150 years of incredible racing. Early reports are that we will have great turnout. Our new NCASA Commodore, T. Freytag, looks forward to welcoming all of you at this event.

NCASA Mailing List:
Please make sure all your current crew are on our NCASA mailing list. This will ensure that they get Class mailings regarding the event. They can easily add themselves or you can do it for them at this link. The Subscribe button on the right side of our website will also work if you lose this link.

UPDATED Regatta Details:
We are planning similar logistics as our ILYA Championship at LGYC last August. We will dry sail and launch by crane at the LGYC Facility. The event will take place starting Thursday evening June 20^th with a Special Race around 5 pm.  The Thursday race will compete for the Wacker Trophy (see below). A six-race series is scheduled with first warning at 11 am on Friday morning with 2 more races scheduled for both Saturday and Sunday at PRO Mark DeGuire’s discretion. 

Social:
The Lake Geneva Yacht Club has a couple of parties planned for us on Friday and Saturday both of which include live music.  Please be sure to come and help our friends at LGYC celebrate their 150 year anniversary as a club and enjoy old friends and new!

After haul-out on Sunday, we will have lunch available and present our awards.

NEW for 2024 – some event specific information:

1. On Thursday we will race for the Wacker Trophy – Frederick Glade Wacker and his wife, Grace Jennings Wacker, presented the Charles H. Wacker Trophy to the Lake Geneva Yacht Club in 1931 for Class A competition. They named the trophy in memory of Mr. Wacker’s father, a brewer, philanthropist, and prominent Chicagoan. Charles H. Wacker served as director of the Ways and Means Committee at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago and was chairman of the Chicago Plan Commission (the Burnham Plan). His Lake Geneva home was called Fair Lawn . At Lake Geneva Yacht Club, Fred Wacker raced a number of Class A scows–Privateer, Happy Warrior, Blue Heron, and Sweepstakes among them. The Wacker Trophy is an elegant and detailed sterling silver model of his A-boat Rumpus, one-half inch to the foot in scale, and it rests on two rectangular bases that are inscribed with the winners’ names. The race for the Charles H. Wacker Trophy was traditionally held on Labor Day, and the course, if weather conditions permit, is from the Yacht Club to a mark at Buttons Bay, near the Wacker home, and return. The owner and crew of the winning boat receive commemorative pins.……………………………………………….The Wacker Trophy
2. We will once again be using the Vakaros RaceSense starting system which we used last year at the ILYA Championship with great success!  Per the NOR all boats are required to use the Atlas 2 device. If you own one you will need to take it to the Vakaros tent at LGYC and have the event’s application uploaded to your device prior to racing. If you do not own one, you may rent one from the class for $120 for the event which you will need to do when you register before June 1^st or you can contact Andy Burdick or Eddie Cox at Melges Boat Works to purchase one BEFORE APRIL 21, 2024. See the sale flyer below with the purchase discount they have kindly offered to our fleet.
3. Following our fleet meeting last year and the recent boat owner polling, our NCASA Board recently voted to allow one throw-out race in a series where six races have been completed. This will be reflected in the regatta documents.

Contact Andy Burdick or Eddie Cox at Melges Boat Works to purchase the amazing Atlas 2. See the sale flyer above with the generous purchase discount they have offered in support of our fleet.

Regatta Gear:
You may order your team event long-sleeved performance fabric hoodie t-shirts when you register.  If you order upon registration before June 1^st they will be delivered at the event. If they are ordered after that date they will be delivered post event.

Rated UPF50 to help combat harmful UV rays, this Tee also performs with Dry Zone® moisture-wicking technology to keep you cool, dry and comfortable.

• 3.8-ounce, 100% polyester
• Removable tag for comfort and relabeling
• UPF rating of 50
• Raglan sleeves
• Sizes S-XXXL
• $30 ea.

Regatta Schedule:

Registration, Vakaros Programming, Check-in, Practice Race (6pm): Thursday, June 20, 2024
Race 1 and 2: Friday, June 21, 2024
Race 3 and 4: Saturday, June 22, 2024
Race 5 and 6: Sunday, June 23, 2024
Awards: Following the last race on Sunday

Registration is open. Please help us out by registering early – Thanks!

NCASA Executive Director:
Todd Haines
414-881-4119
V115@mailbag.com