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Skippers Meeting - story by Doc Templeton
The 22nd Annual Sandy Douglass Memorial Regatta was held at Deep Creek Lake in Deer Park, Maryland on July 30 and 31. Deer Park is the home of Flying Scot, Incorporated and, nearby, the two yacht clubs that make up the Deep Creek Yacht Racing Association: Deep Creek Lake Sailing Association (DCLSA) and Deep Creek Yacht Club, Inc. (DCYC). This memorial regatta is an annual tribute to Sandy Douglass, the designer...
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Championship Division Winners Challenger Division Winners
We started the day with an hour postponement with a promise of wind coming around 11:00 AM. The wind came and the 17 teams, including 6 visiting boats, sailed out to the course, expertly set by the Race Committee. But the wind gods had other ideas and took the...
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The weather predictions for the weekend were for intermittent thunderstorms so the Race Committee had its hands full trying to get in races for the Saratoga Lake 30th Annual Invitational Regatta which was also the NY Lakes Districts. There were 25 boats registered, 14 Championship and 11 Challenger, with 13 teams vying for the District Championship Friday night was a fun welcome party and we tried to ignore the storms - some brave folks still slept in their tents on the lawn!
Saturday morning was sunny, hot and calm with a light breeze and it looked like we would get in a...
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Delavan Lake Yacht Club hosted the Midwest Districts on August 12-14, 2016. While it seems like it was hot everywhere else in the country, it was actually a little cool in Wisconsin. Twenty-four boats participated from several fleets in the Midwest! There was wind on Saturday when there were 3 races before the wind pretty much died. But the wind gods were less friendly on Sunday and there just was no wind! In the final accounting,... |
Fishing Bay Yacht Club in Deltaville, VA, held its 77th Annual One-Design Regatta with 100+ boats from several one-design classes, plus a handicap division. Debbie Cycotte shared this from the Flying Scot Class:
We had twenty-three Flying Scots racing with some very close competition. Four races were sailed on Saturday in winds of 8 - 15 knots. We managed to get one race completed on Sunday that started with 11 knots but was dying as the day progressed.
The weekend was very HOT. The heat index on Sunday neared 120! The top five finishers were (1) John Kreidler...
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