We had an early start yesterday with hundreds of young sailors piling in with a look of fear and anticipation on their faces. The wind was coming out light from the East, and fog was building towards Chatham. However, the inevitable southwesterly seabreeze was on everybody's mind and finally clocked in at about 11 o'clock. We had twenty competent sailors on the Green Fleet line sailing five races. Graham Robinson was our only Stone Horse representative coming in a respectable 15th place.
On the red white and blue line we had 93 sailors, sailing out past the outer harbor jetty in pretty gnarly wind and waves. We had great success in white fleet taking the top three finishes, Drew Kelly in 1st, Brian Mitchell in 2nd and for his first placing of the season, Owen Ward in third. In Blue fleet Michael LaCava came in fourth place and Nicole Welch came in fifth place after winning a race overall! She was successful in that race by splitting with the fleet and going to the left side of the race course upwind after the leeward mark.
We had an awesome barbeque and ice cream sundae line afterwards with some of our younger chefs helping grill and delicious salads and deserts provided by various families. Thank you very much to those of you who helped out with that!
Also remember to thank Mrs. Mitchell for organizing the majority of the event, along with Mrs. Murray and Mrs. Quirk who slaved over the computer in the stifling office yesterday, while everyone else was enjoying being on the water!Double check to make sure you didn't lose any gear, or take anyone else's by mistake. We have a lot of extra gear in the lost and found, and a lot of messages on the answering machine about missing gear.
Thanks again to everyone for making it such a great regatta!
results can be found at : http://www.regattanetwork.com/clubmgmt/applet_regatta_results.php?regatta_id=2937
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