48 North Coverage of Mallory HS Sailing National Championship in June Issue p.72

[Jim Mackey]

48 North will have nearly a 2/3 page COLOR article on our Mallory HS Sailing National Championship June Issue Page 72.  Pre-production proof attached.  Brendan Fahey wrote a great race write up, with Burke's photos. 

 

Please push for recognizing sailing in the High Schools, using this 48 N article with the Seattle Times coverage, and other earlier HS coverage on ThreeSheetsNW.com like http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/03/high-school-sailing/ and http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2012/05/north-kitsap-wins-district-high-school-sailing-championships/ .  We need to push now while we are in the press (and the weather is nice).

We even got space to include sponsor thank yous to Gill, West Marine, and West Coast Sailing in the article - Thanks guys!

 

- Jim Mackey

Mallory Regatta Chair

(425) 449-0070

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Jim Mackey <jim.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sailors & Friends of Sailing,

 

Open today's Seattle Times Sports section to page C2 Top Left Corner - to see coverage of the High School National Championship Mallory Trophy in the Newspaper. referencing the write-up on ThreeSheetsNW.com  We are also linked at the Seattle Times on-line here:  http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/highschoolsports/2018223952_websailing17.html with a photo!  The official write up and results are on the Mallory Website http://www.mallorytrophy2012.com/results.html

 

Thanks to everyone throughout the Northwest who came together to pull of an absolutely exemplary event for NWISA and ISSA.  With ideal weather, a fantastic and historic city center venue (Center for Wooden Boats), superior race management, great food, awesome shirts, media coverage, great sponsors & give aways, hotel & airfare discounts, and most challenging - no disasters/mistakes in execution.  I truly feel together we have raised the bar on delivering a world class high school sailing event.  Thank you to the 160 sailors, 20 coaches, and dozens of parents who came from across the country, and sailed with extreme skill and sportsmanship - the participants make the event and you all were fantastic.

 

Some folks I want to especially thank:

- The Almighty for the best weekend sailing weather we've seen on Lake Union in May for probably a decade

- Burke Thomas - the real driving force for making EVERYTHING happen - and driving the On-Water coordination directly

 

Off-Water / Hosting

- Stephanie Aird - my #1 go to person for - Graphics (T-Shirts, Banner, Fliers)  - Food - Planning, buying, volunteer coordination, and spending Mother's day weekend in the Kitchen

- Sugar Flannigan - our site coordinator who lived on-site for a week in schooner Alcyone

- Edel O'Connor - Our Center for Wooden Boats host/coordinator - thanks to everyone at CWB

- Carol Clement - Coordinating with SYC & guiding my interactions there + help with food

- Sarah Mackey (my daughter) - my vice-chair, council on most decisions, recipient of about 10,000 emails, pick-up and drop off, HS volunteer & SYC coordinator, and Sponsor coordinator, and safety boat all weekend

- Mimi Mackey (my wife) - for stepping in on buying the food for 200 people and spending Mother's day weekend in the kitchen

- Rich Tong - our team photographer who provided great team photos to all the participants

- Other HS Sailing mom & dad volunteers - Anne O'leary, Laurien & Marv Toland, John Clement - who spent much of Mother's day with us.

 

On-Water / Sailing

- Johnathan Mckee - our Olympic gold medalist PRO who also shared great guidance with the sailors

- Brendan Fahey - race committee lead

- Scott Boye - Boat set-up and Scoring

- Scott Wilson - Website, and Scoring - with real-time score updates on-line as the boats finished

- Dick Rose - Judges, NOR, Sailing Instructions

- Steve Trunkey & Kyle Eaton - our dock masters

- College and High School sailors from the Northwest who manned the booth, loaded boats, spent the day on the water as race committee support

- Seattle Yacht Club, Orcus Isand, Sail Sand Point, and Bellingham for loaning, loading, and delivering the sailboats

- Cam & Brian for delivering powerboats from SYC

 

I also want to thank our sponsors:  Gill, West Marine, West Coast Sailing, the Sailing Foundation, SYC Foundation, Seattle Yacht Club who made this possible, world class (with all new sails), and fun for the kids with great give aways.

 

And a thank you to media contacts Deborah Bach and Todd Dybas at ThreeSheetsNW.com for a great article write up. Don Shelton for the link and write up in the Seattle Times, and Karen Higginson for coverage in next month's 48 North.  You are the key to getting high school sailing recognized, to bring it to the schools, and making this sport accessible to the next generation.

 

There are dozens more who helped - Thank you so much to everyone.

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Best regards,

Jim Mackey

Regatta Chair
(425) 449-0070 (mobile)