On Friday before the regatta - If you are at the Great 48 at Lake Norman Yacht Club in Mooresville, NC, this weekend, then you were treated to a fabulous seminar by Greg Fisher.  Greg started off with a classroom session folowed by an on the water session. Participants practiced starts, worked on boat speed and handling, raced a few races in some great wind.  And that's not all - Greg followed that with a wrap up session reviewing videos taken on the water.  We are so lucky to have great sailing friends like Greg to help us out! 

On Saturday - Mark Riefenhauser reports that they had another great day at the Great 48.  Finicky winds proved to be a challenge to both the racers and race committee, but they managed to get in two races. They attempted a third race but after trying to no avail due to the incoporating winds they abandoned for the day.  ALthough Mark managed to steer clear of it all, there may have been a few protests in the first race due to a tight mark rounding with multiple boats bumping into and overtaking one another.  With 38 boats participating, Paul Abdullah from Floridaa Yacht Club leads after Day 1, breaking the tiebreaker with local LNYC sailor Chuck Gise, and Ben Williams from Clinton Lake in Illinois in 3rd place so far.

On Sunday early morning - Not much wind so far today at Lake Norman - let's hope it picks up!  

Sunday later in the day - Still waiting for final results, but Mark Riefenhauser reports that Day 2 ended up with ideal conditions and 3 races were completed.  Playing the shifts and being in the right place at the reight time paid off for Paul Abdullah who won the event.  Lake Norman did a great job hosting the event and full results will be available here as soon as I have them!    

FINAL RESULTS ARE BELOW (Also attached as an Excel file if you want that).