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NS Keelboat Championship Tour (Sailing):
Welcome to the first ever NS Keelboat Championship Tour (NSKCT).

We hope the Championship Tour will turn out to be a great success & lead into a series. We will however have limits to certain things including Keelboats. The NS International Sailing Federation had decided to use J/24: The Worlds most popular one-design keelboat. Pictures of the famous J/24 can be found here - http://www.j24class.org/J24History/tabid/56/Default.aspx?PageContentID=6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:J-24_yacht_racing%2C_Sydney_Harbour.jpg

J/24:
Description US Metric
LOA 24.0 ft 7.32 m
LWL 20.0 ft 6.10 m
Beam 8.9 ft 2.71 m
Draft 4.0 ft 1.22 m
Displacement 3,100 lb 1,406 kg
Ballast 950 lb 431 kg
100% SA 261 sqft 24.25 m^2
I 26.25 ft 8.00 m
J 9.5 ft 2.90 m
P 28.00 ft 8.53 m
E 9.75 ft 2.97 m
DSPL/L 173 173
SA/DSPL 20 20
Engine Outboard 4 hp Outboard 4 hp

The Championship Tour will be 10 Events consisting of 20 races in 10 countries, with San Monticaz hosting the final event – the NS Keelboat Cup.
The Two Types of Racing are as follows;

1.Harbour/Buoy Racing; All these races will last a few short hours & will be held in Protected waters
2.Offshore Racing; these will generally be the longer races ranging from 1-2 days &will be held in Open Waters.

Each Race will have Prize-Money to offer (with the help of International Sponsors), but each Harbour/Buoy race will have a total purse of between $100,000-$500,000 & Offshore races $500,000-$1,000,000. The NS Keelboat Cup will have a total purse of $6,500,000 & will be only open to the top 20 Teams which will be based on a points system to determine positions.

Each nation that wishes to participate must submit the following information;
Team Name:
Team Members (max.4)
Team History/Experience:
Name of Yacht:

Teams Participating:
Team Valencia (Ciego de Avila)
Team Cuban Sunrise (San Monticaz)
Team Ritican Wind (Ritico)
Team Bostopia (Bostopia)
Team The Corsairs (Ironwell)
Team S.O.A.Y. (Kanami)
Team: Chronus (Kurona)
Team: Team Name: Globo/CAC (Cafundéu)
Team Name: Derek Rowntree Memorial Team (Le Crap)

OCC: I sail sometimes, this will be cool! J/24! Good Choice of Keelboats.

Team Name:Team Valencia
Team Members: Fabio Green (age 24), Skipper Antonio delong (age 45), Carls Williams (age 19) and Michael Brown (age 31)
Team History/Experience: Valencia I was heavily damaged in 2003 following the Ciego de Avila annual Race after it hit a breakwall coming back into the harbour following a few simple "on-deck" mistakes. However Valencia II has had some great success including some 4 national titles in the 30 event National Challenge. New members include delong & brown, both from the famous Water Spirit II.
Name of Yacht: Valencia II

Cartile Wines would like to sponsor the Championship Tour by giving the Hosting Organisation the sum of $350,000 in return for us to do some minor advertising for Cartile Wines.

Can we host & be on of those 10 countries? We have excellent & Internationally reknown waters!

Cartile Wines had complied & will be allowed such privellages, thanks for such a good sum for the purses.

We will consider at this time, but most likly you will be granted access to host 2 events (harbour & offshore) in your waters. I will at a later time give more details on this situation.

Ciego de Avila thanks San Monticaz for its acceptane of our national team/yaucht & our wines as a sponsor.

Furthermore we will if we are accepted as a 1 event host, provide details of our water etc when needed.

Perhaps we can also accept one of your sponsor (s) not just for a hosted event but for everyday purposes, we are very huge on advertising, but junkfoods are very limited to help keep the obesity rate below 7.5% which is our Governments "keep below" rate for the population.

Ok! San Monticaz too, is very tight on its obesity rate keeping below the magic number of 6%, but allows a little more Junk Food advertising, but the population is very fit & healthy mostly.

San Monticaz is very much interested & hopes to send "Freedom" a Keelboat Company to produced & sell a few hundred keelboats annually.

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Team Name: Cuban Sunrise

Team Members: John Dawaz (age 17), Rodrigo Garcia (age 21), Pedro Fidel Martino (age 21) & Skipper Bartolomé Luis Domingo (age 25)
Team History/Experience: Cuban Spirit is Internationally reknown for its team of young talent & titles. Between all the members & Cuban Sunrise lies 13 titles, both National & State Titles including four San Montican National Cup Titles. The Team has been together for the past few years & they all have been members since atleast the age of 17.

Cuban Sunrise has seen thousands of hours mostly offshore in Offshore racing & is sure to be a challenge in that category in the NSKCT.

Name of Yacht: Cuban Sunrise

It was 6am on the shores of Ciego de Avila, the Cuban Sunrise crew was already working hard on-deck as they prepared to sail back to the cool South San Montican Shores. The Cuban Sunrise & its crew had spent the past 48 hours with Ciego de Avila Officials promoting the NSKCTS & looking for suitable waters to host 2 races in, they were to evaulate & confirm which waters by the end of next week when the proposed Tour was to start, but at this stage, however with little international interest, the Tour maynot go ahead... It was just a matter of time to see whether or not there are serious keelboat nations out there to challenge the two already in-nations.

Team Name: Ritican Wind
Team Members (max.4): Sloan Arrego (22, Former Military), Freska Tyl (28, Environmentalist), Marso Xavier (28, Former Ritico Senator)
Team History/Experience: Team Captain Sloan Arrego served in the Ritican Navy for four years, personally leading a naval squad in attack tactics. He's just learning the ropes of yachting however. Freska Tyl easily has the most experience in the water, spending her entire life living on Ritico's south coast and growing up on fishing schooners. Xavier is their yacht expert, spending extraordinary amounts of money on the team's yacht, Ritico Liberty. The Ritican Government has endorsed but hasn't paid for the team. Ritico's team is considered extraordinary underdogs in this entire event.
Name of Yacht: Ritico Liberty

Also, the following message came with the application:

"Ritico would like to extend an invitation for a major event to be held outside Ritico City, along the south shore of the nation. Known for great sailing waters and long days, we'd love to host your event, as it would be great for the Ritican economy."- Walker Jade, President of the Democratic Republic of Ritico.

Grettings Ritico

Ritican Wind has been officially accepted!

Also, the following message came with the application:

"Ritico would like to extend an invitation for a major event to be held outside Ritico City, along the south shore of the nation. Known for great sailing waters and long days, we'd love to host your event, as it would be great for the Ritican economy."- Walker Jade, President of the Democratic Republic of Ritico.

Cuban Sunrise had only left & was on its way back home to the cool southern waters, when it was known a new contestant Ritico was seeking to host races in its southern waters too. Cuban Sunrise attacked & changed direction & headed for Ritico, near Ritico City to check out possible locations for races & would meet up with Ritican Officials, however Ritico has a 98% chance it will host an event, due to low numbers but all official detail will be released some time next week.

Bostopia would like to enter her team to the NS Keelboat Championship Tour. The sport is relatively popular in Bostopia.

Team Name: Team Bostopia
Team Members: Harry Narring (31); Jack Carleel (24); Luke Drainger (21); Brian Maccle (35)
Team History/Experience: The team is supported by the Bostopian Government, and was brought together by a magazine competition to find the best 4 Keelboat sailors in Bostopia.
Name of Yacht: CSBS Unity Sailor (The CSBS is used due to Governmental ownership)

Bostopia would also like to host a couple events. A map of our country can be found at the following address: http://www.btinternet.com/~david.boston/_bostopia/bostopiadetail.pdf (Please note the file size is 1.3mb)

The Republic of Ironwell would be delighted to enter a team.

Team Name: The Corsairs
Team Members: Claus Romistad, Jack Perkins, Uri Golgovin, Janet Wright
Team History/Experience: The Corsairs are one the Republic's most renowned sailing teams. Team Captain Romistad is a distinguished sailor and took up keelboating after retiring from the Republican Navy. Jack and Uri are college chums who took the gold on the Iron Rapids university team. The newest team member Janet Wright is the widow of departed team member Eric Wright who was lost in a mountaineering accident.
Name of Yacht: Voyage of the Phoenix.

In addition to the team, it seems the business community is buzzing about the national interest The Corsairs can generate and are interested in sponsorships. the Imperial Bank of Commerce is interested in spending 5 million dollars in associated advertising and sponsorship.

Bostopia - Thanks for joing our Championship tour that will travel around the globe. Team Bostopia has been accepted. However we cannot for some reason access the map could you please tg me a link or somehow fix it, thanks! We thank you for your interest in hosting, this will not go unnoticed

Ironwell - Voyage of the Phoenix shall be seeing plenty of water after being accepted. We also thank you for such a offer!

Team Name: S.O.A.Y.

Team Members: Sanjiro Hotoshi (age 22), Aya Hotoshi (age 19),

Team History/Experience: Mostly sailing near Kanami they have been gradually gaining more experience by trecking long distances. Although being married neither one have been willing to settle down. But now they are willing to, by taking on this challange. They bave been trainging for a long time to participate in this kind of event.



Name of Yacht: Sujiou Kami (Aquatic God)

Welcome team S.O.A.Y.

Cafundéu interested.

Globo Multimedia (Cafundéu's biggest media and TV source) would like to have the media rights of the whole competition, for the price of V$1,000,000 (approx. $2,000,000).

C-Eletronics pays V$400,000 (approx. $800,000) to be considered an official sponsor of the competition, exploring it for marketing purposes. Also want to be able to put outdoors and banners in the places where the competition will be held.

The government also is interest to know if the competition can pass through Cafundéu too. The National Team details will be sent tomorrow.

Team: Chronus

Team Members: Rosette Ximao, (25) Haseo Ximao, (27) Alexis Ximao (7) Sofia Ximao (7)

Team History: Rosette Ximao may be better known as Rosette Christopher, who raced in the Aqua Anu International Boat Race. However sever storms blew her boat way off course, and she and her brother had to be rescued, never able to finish the race. She's been longing for some pay back at the sea, but between leaving the nest fairly early on, along with marriage and birth to twin girls, she's been a bit busy. But now she's asked her family to join her on her quest for revenge on the sea.

Boat Name: The Saint II

The Bostopian Association of Sailing - Keelboat Division - wishes to send it's apologies for the incorrect link. The proper link is - and has been corrected in our original reply - http://www.btinternet.com/~david.boston/_bostopia/bostopiadetail.pdf.

In addition to this, any funding we can put forward toward the competition would be gladly donated.

Cafundéu's official team:

Team Name: Globo/CAC*
*CAC = Cafundéu's Association of Commerce

Team Members: Júlio Maravilha (32), Omar Heferler (28), Lauro Góes (26), Leandra Amaral Lourado (26).

Team History: This team, sponsored by the biggest companies of the country, has the most modern equipment and have been training for a long time, using national events as Opportunity's Cup, Globo Championship and Caf-Tour XX as a training, winning all events. They are hoping for a good performance, as Júlio Maravilha is considered an expert in the sport, and the couple Lauro Góes and Leandra Amaral are very talented too.

Boat Name: Vintém

Bostopia - Thanks, the NS Sailing Federation shall be in-touch within this week with more details

Welcome teams Chronus & Globo/CAC!

Le Crap Requests entry to the championships.

Team Name: Derek Rowntree Memorial Team
Team Members:
Frank Small
Kelly Lewis (Skipper)
Bannister Bannister
Nikki Granger
Team History/Experience: the team consisting of a few different teams all representing Le Crap, has recently gained more time to practice due to all cars being banned in the country, the countries media has turned to the team following the recent death of the nations captain Derek Rowntree. He suddenly died at the wheel of his Pleasure yacht due to a poorly cooked tuna Steak. He was only 28. The team has pledged to fight on, between this four they have over 80 years of sailing experience.
Name of Yacht: Swing Vulture II

Thanks you have been accepted!

Signups will officially end tommorow midnight (aest)!

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NSKCT Signups officially end in a few hours!

Signups officially ended, we shall begin on monday!