Seventeen boats came out for Day #2. The wind started out lighter than forecast and then picked up to forecast about 10-12 mph. It started out west-southwest and shifted south-southwest half way through the day. Len and Barb Guenther set a windward-leeward course out in the river. The current was the opposite of last week (coming in all day) and I believe played a big factor in the racing today more on that later. There was some big debris/speed bumps (tree trunks) out in the river causing some to fall out of their boats and other to stop for a minute. If you have not made it out yet this season it has been near perfect sailing conditions and just in luck for you we sail again next Sunday same time same place. Keith Barron and William Kruse will be providing the RC.
It was a beautiful day to be on the water. If you could order up breeze like this every day that would be great. The wind turned out to be more than forecast from the low teens with some gust in the high teens from the north-northeast and east. The current was going out all day. It was a shifty day but Justin Pollack and Jim Klein set a windward-leeward course which they did not have to adjust much during the day. Twenty-two boats came out with three boats being the first day sailing with us. Bob Gotthardt took the day for the newbies to the fleet with an eleventh overall. Making it to the top ten was an accomplishment as a lot of the top guns came out to sail today.
Results posted on the website (Thanks Farley and Scott).
