Charleston Lightning Fleet 429 had it's year-end awards ceremony today at Taco Boy over lunch.  About a dozen people attended.

Fleet Championship trophies were awarded to:

1. Lenny Krawcheck
2. Patrick Hogan and Nancy Hagood
3. Mark Marenakos

The group also talked about things we could do to make 2013 even better.  The main idea was that we travel as a block, whenever possible, to about 5 out of town regattas and announce our intentions so that others in the SELD also target those regattas.  The top names that I heard were:

1. Deep South Regatta in Savannah (and the rest of the Southern Circuit)
2. Wilmington's June regatta
3. Wilmington's Atlantic Coast Championships
4. North American's in Connecticut
5. Augusta Halloween regatta

If you want to suggest other venues, everyone is open to suggestions.

Of course, the main in town regattas will be

1. Hobcaw
2. James Island
3. Charleston
4. Carolina — this event conflicts with the ACC's in Wilmington; so we should choose which to attend in 2013
5. Wild Oyster

It was great to see everyone.  Greg Fisher mentioned that we might be able to have a cookout at the College of Charleston some time.