Chesapeake Bay Classic Pre-1975 Boat Festival

[seabuddy]

ACBS rules have several classes for boats. A quick read on page xvii of the 2010 "book" showed me that a ACBS "Classic" is an any hull material boat built between 1943 and 1975, inclusive and "Early Contemporary" is any wood boat built 1976 to the year 25 prior to the current year. I am not a judge, so I wanted to avoid any misunderstanding about the year a fiberglass boat was built and if its one or another class. I understand that some longer standing ACBS members need to be "easied" into metal and fiberglass boats within a Boat Festival. If anyone has a 1975 or 1976 year boat should e-mail me at seabuddy@seabuddy.net and I will send a return e-mail back to that person the home telephone number of this event's Chief Judge (I think it wrong to post his telephone on a public boating board) and they, in my opinon, should talk to him about these model years. I just do not follow this year and hull material issue that closely. This Chesapeake Bay Chapter Festival club has about 275 members in it with about 30 regularly doing assigned jobs to make for a good show / Festival. I do some of the stuff, others do what interests them. I leave such fine points of what is best on this to others and only will join in such a discussion around a bottle of Jack in the middle of winter and in those discussions nobody listens to me. Frankly, everyone wants what they want out of a club that they belong to. I like boat rides, helping others in their garage in the off season, reading up on stuff, going to Festivals and other shows. What boats light a Hot spark for me might be different than another member. Fine by me. Since I have a slip-berthed cruiser now, I need others to give a runabout ride on lakes and tighter rivers. I go to club events and am slways invited to join someone's boat for a ride. Some are special, like a Jersey Speed Skiff, others are more main stream. Over time, our club involvement, is a lot of fun for me and my wife.
Sorry, if I seem to be side-stepping your question.

I want to be a member of this Donzi board personally, not as a rep for this Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the ACBS. I should not speak for them on model years of fiberglass boats. I will say that I, personally, love an early Donzi.
Note: I also am the Editor for an online daily boating lifestyle blog and also do not want to mix business with my hobbies.