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You would never think when you saw the bay in the morning with spotty north winds that the sea breeze would fill in just about starting time at around noon. But, sure enough, here came the south winds from the other side of the bridge to give us the best winds we had all week, 11-13 MPH with no huge shifts or really big gusts. We had a 5-leg W-L for the final race and some of us found that going right was the right way to go. We were all back into the dock around 2:00 PM waiting for the...
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Today the wind came in mostly from the west and the velocity was not as strong as previous days. For Race 1 we had 5-7 MPH and sailed a 4-leg W-L course. Several boats in the Championship Division went left and were not as fortunate as those who went right. Quite a few Challenger Division boats reached the windward mark before the Championship boats that had gone left. The current at the...
Continue Reading...Two mroe races today - more info will be posted later. Please see reuslts to date here.
Jim Tichenor and his Race Committee started right on time at 1:00 PM and we raced a 4-leg W-L race with a usually steady 8-10 MPH SSW wind. By the finish of the Championship Division, the wind had stopped several boats on the line and the first boats in the Challenger Division were finishing with them. The Race Committee did excellent work tracking the finishes with 5 - 10 spinnakers in the...
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Things looked good on the way out The sky was dark and the rain was steady
The gods were not with us Tuesday 6/23, and although we went out right about on time for racing at 1:00 PM, a storm came and delayed us for what we hoped would be just a little while. This was soon followed by a squall with thunder and lightning that...
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