Sailing World Magazine

The September 2007 issue should not be missed if you are a Flying Scot sailer. A nice four page spread detailing the historic 2007 NAC and 50th Anniversary celebration. You will need to get the hard copy since the Sailing World website does not include all of the printed content. Hey, they have to make a few bucks along the way just like all of us. I do like the format with more pictures with captions instead of a long narrative.

JH Peterson spent a lot of time at the Fishing Bay Yacht Club and then also attended the Anniversary celebration at the Deep Creek Yacht Club. He is a fine photographer and would be happy to sell some so hit http://sims.myphotos.cc/~wave16/2007/flyingscottNA07/index.htm if you want to check them out.

Linton's repeat at Wife/Husband Championship

It has been a heck of a summer for Amy and Jeff. This past weekend they successfully defended their Wife/Husband Championship from 2006 at Lake Murray outside Columbia SC.

Details are scarce but we know that racing Saturday was cancelled due to no wind. Sunday was light but apparently enough to get two races in and complete the regatta.

Since I wrote this original post I have a few more details. For the first race Jeff liked the left side so he started at the pin on time and thinks he's in good shape. After a short time the wind goes way right, maybe 50 or 60 degrees and they are in big trouble. They ended up rounding the weather mark in LAST place. Thankfully, the RC had re-set the course or the race would have turned into a reaching parade. Noticing that most boats ahead were doing jybe sets, because of the righty, Jeff did a bearaway set which was only possible because the course was re-set. They passed a number of boats on the run while enjoying clear air the whole time, it seemed the left had more pressure. Approaching the leeward gate, he wanted to round the right gate and with most boats using the left gate there was not much traffic. After a good rounding he could see more pressure ahead on the left, it took a while to get in it but it wasn't long before he had passed another bunch of boats. Now they are rounding the top mark in the top ten and again did a bearaway set to get to the better pressure on the left and to get more favorable current. By the end of the run they had passed everyone else and won the race. The moral of the story is: keep your head out of the boat and thank the RC for keeping a square course.

The second race was less remarkable: get a decent start, stay in the top three, end up second, win the Regatta. Nothing to it!!

Results can be viewed by clicking this link to the Cedar Point YC website: http://www.cedarpointyc.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=P0FtJtTYO5Y%3d&tabid=123&mid=463

The event photographer was Photoboat.com they have some nice photos posted on their site, here is the link http://www.photoboat.com/ They also attended the Shields Nationals and have some great photos, worth checking out for sure.

Congradulations to Amy and Jeff!

The 2008 Wife/Husband is rumored to be in Oklahoma City next summer.

A Practice Day

August 18, 2007, a few of us decided to gather together to get in a bit of practice for next weekends Wife/Husband Championship. This regatta is one of the Flying Scot Class sanctioned regattas and the defending Champs are the Lintons. This year it looks like we will have three teams from the Tampa fleet vying for the top spot. This is may not sound like many but when you consider it is a two day event and it is being held in Connecticut, we’re talking about some effort and expense.

So today was a great day for sailing aside from the heat. It seems like we have been lucky this year to have pretty good wind for our fleet races this summer.

Davis Island Yacht Club

When we arrived it looked a little iffy, the view from the second floor deck showed very patchy and light breeze. Check out this cool site showing the sailing area, etc, http://marinas.com/view/marina/3998

We decide to get some lunch to give the breeze a little more time to get it going, which it did. I’d say we had between 5 and 10 knots about 80% of the time. Throw in a few lulls and a few more puffs approaching 15 and I guess you have a typical day at DIYC, if there is such a thing. I continue to be amazed at the relatively strong puffs that seem to come from nowhere especially on an Easterly.

We decided to run a whole bunch of short races in order to get lots of starts and mark rounding practice. I lost count of the number of races but it was about 3 hours worth. In attendance were Andy and Lisa on #38, Kim and Dave #812, Amy and Jeff #4321, Leslie and Paul #5026 and Robert Hobbs and his young son came out on there newly purchased Scot named “Animal House” (#2462, I think).

Following the sailing we all quickly put the boats away and retired to the club pool. Spending an hour or two in the pool (with cocktails in hand) has become a bit of a ritual this summer. Only an approaching storm convinced us to abandon the pool for the clubhouse.

Good luck to Team Tampa at the Wife/Husband Championship!

A Hot August Fleet Race

I have posted Andy's report for our fleet race August 4th.

We had a great turnout of 10 boats for our August fleet race. The heat was definitely the "hot" topic as the index was at or near 100. The only saving grace was there was breeze, a Westerly at around 6-10. The water was relatively smooth with the exception being boat wakes.We unfortunately had a couple members feeling the effects of the extreme temp, Lisa Hayward and Dean Bell both "seeing black" for brief spells and Lisa needed a assist into the club cool off, ( Thanks Kim!!)

Nice to see Roy and crew out on the water

The attendee's ( by hull # ) Jeff Linton and Dean Bell, #38, Dave and Kim Thinel, #812, Doug King and Ann Tihansky, #2069, Roy Burnett and Ryan Flynn, #2166, Dave Bell and Susan Cintron, #4156, Mike Douglass and Terry, #4305, Andy and Lisa Hayward, #4318, Mark and Shannon Taylor, #4321, Paul and Leslie Silvernail, #5026, Mike and Stacey Roberts, #5544.

Yes that's the long lost Mike and Stacy Roberts

The racing was challenging, more "connect the puffs'' than shifty, the right seemed to work out more than the left ( ask Andy and Mark about winning the left.) Jeff and Dean, despite the elderly state of their baby blue sloop, took no mercy on the rest of the fleet winning three of the four races.

Jeff and Dean aboard FS 38, hunting for the next victim

Dave and Kim won the last race of the day. Full results will be posted on www.scotsrock.us soon, but it was Linton /Bell 1st, Dave and Kim, 2nd, Paul and Leslie 3rd.
The gang hit the pool post race, (it almost seemed cold at first!) Then invaded the Caprice Bistro for dinner and "attitude adjusters."
Next fleet race is Saturday, September 1st, (Labor Day) We are having separate keeper trophy's, (custom hand made one of a kind) for this event. Killer party to follow at DIYC. If you plan to attend the party please RSVP to tell the social director the covered dish you plan to bring. The fleet is providing hamburg's, hotdog's and beer.

A closer shot of Roy and the tie-die effect spinnaker