Flying Scot Midwinters Day 1 - Breeze On!

True to form for the Midwinters the breeze showed up right on schedule. It was a nice day though with bright sun and temperatures in the high 60's. Racing began at about 2:30 following some Class meetings and the Top Gun School in the morning. The Top Gun was led by Greg Fisher and featured Marc Eagan, Brian Hayes, Harry Carpenter and Al Terhune. The open format was very cool and a lot of good information was offered to a very attentive audience.

Some of the local forecasts were calling for wind as high as 25, at around lunchtime, it looked like the usual exaggeration. The RC sent out a reconiscience boat to check out the conditions, they had small waves and wind of 14 to 17.
We left the dock about an hour before the start and after we cleared the Pier we had a fun reach out to the course.

I've included some pictures which are relatively small but if you click them you can get a full screen image, in most cases. There is nothing I can do about the small ones, its a feature of this site.



Looking back at the Pier and fleet


During the starting sequence, notice the riding sail hoisted on the RC boat. Even with a brisk breeze blowing, a ton of windage, the riding sail up, the RC boat still will not hang down wind of it's anchor. This was due to the swift current which is apposing the wind.


An action shot by PHOTOBOAT.COM, after I saw this photo I went outside to check the boom, its fine.


Ouch! Fortunently, no real damage to crew or boat and the Carpenters are standing ready with replacement parts.


Not so sure about this wind graph, maybe they need to McLube that thing, and maybe the Weather Channel wasn't exagerating after all.

Results would be good to add here but instead you can click the link to the Flying Scot Sailing Association in the right column. I know the Eagens got a bullet and a few others and I'd like to forget mine. Hank will be updating the results on the FSSA website daily.