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Capital City Regatta This Weekend!!!

This Saturday and Sunday March 27/28 our annual Capital City Regatta will be held on the river. So far the weather report is looking good. Registration will start at 10am, skippers meeting at 11am and first gun 12p. After racing we’ll have a BBQ dinner. Sunday after racing will be awards and leftovers.

More information is on our Web site:

http://www.potomacriversailing.org/lasers/regattas/capital_city/index.php

Hope you can make it out!!!

Dogzilla brings home the bacon!!

Well it was certainly a better race on Sunday than the first one. BMW/Oracle (AKA Dogzilla) won the start by 24 seconds, but then the two boats split tacks. Allinghi went right and B/O went left. The Swiss guessed right and a huge right shift helped them to an early lead. That lead extended to about 6oo meters, and they held on to that almost all the way to the Windward mark. B/O hung on though, and helped by a late left shift caught up at the port side layline. The two boats crossed at the layline with Allinghi in front by a couple of boat lengths. However they had to overstand the mark a bit, and then had a really slow sloppy tack which let Dogzilla squeak out in front. B/O rounded the mark 28 seconds in front of Allinghi and turned on the afterburners. They took off like a rocket and never looked back. B/O won the race by almost 6 minutes to bring the Auld Cup back to America where it belongs.

One interesting side bar: Prior to the race, Bertarelli (Allinghi’s owner) decided he did not like the conditions and ordered his RC crew to refuse to start the race. At his instruction they “went on strike”. The ISAF PRO was ready for this kind of Shenanigans and pressed one observer and a rent-a-cop into service to help him raise flags and get the race going. The PRO counted down the time manually as the Bertarelli paid RC team looked on. POOR SHOW on the Swiss! Find the full story here:

Scuttlebutt #59 Bennett Rises Above Tiff

Here is a video clip of the winners:

MARINA UPDATE as of Saturday Afternoon, 2/13.

Per Brian Pavlik:

Saturday, 2/13/10, 4:00 PM.

I first want to thank all of the slipholders who came down on Tuesday to clean off their boats. Many stayed to help out a neighbor. Without this effort many more could have gone down on Wednesday.  Related story, with photos, here.

The only boats still down are G-6 and D-2. If you have not cleaned off your boat yet please do so before Monday as we are expecting a few more inches. There are paths to each dock and down each of the docks. The paths down the docks are icy so be careful.

The dry slip area has been partially plowed. All rows except between A and B have a path. The rest will be plowed Sunday or Monday morning. At first glance there appears to be no damage done to the boats.

The parking lot has been plowed and there is plenty of space to park.