Giveth and Taketh Away

11 highly motivated, super dedicated yachts we call Scots plying the tannic water of the upper bay, fantastic!
Ah, yet mother nature, who Paulie thumbed his nose at a few months ago, was not done with us yet!
She teased us out with a 4-5k Southwesterly, gonna build into a nice sea breeze right?

Big thanks to Jay Tyson and Kevin Fouche for their efforts on Race Committee. We had a couple of practice starts in what would be the most breeze of the day, helped the teams work on their light air boat handling.
Sharp eyed Jay saw that the breeze was getting softer and quickly got a race going. Details are a bit sketchy but I believe that Paul and Leslie restarted at the pin and hit the left hard in the dying wind.
There was small shaft of breeze in the left corner that #5026 and #38 rode in on port to the mark.
It was #5026, #38, #4925 at the start of the run. The "brain trust" Ha! on #38 tried to stay in that same left breeze but mother nature wasn't having none of it, it filled form the West. The fleet did all coast into the down wind finish line, but the wind was done. Thanks to Wing it, Another Road, and Penny and Ed (power steering) Ruark for the tow ins!

Results:

#5026 Paul Silvernail and Leslie Fisher
#4925 David Clement and Joe Blouin
#4156 Dave Bell and Susan Cintron
#812 Dave Thinel all by his lonesome!
#38 Andy and Lisa Hayward
#5477 Dean Bell and crew
#2262 Matt Dalton and Dawn Narramore
#4321 Tom and Mark Taylor
#504 Al and Corey Thompson
#4305 Mike and Andrew Douglas and Terry
#2007 Nate and Melissa Velardebo

Our post race meeting was lightly attended, Kevin Fouche will have a synopsis out soon to answer questions, all is well with Fleet 168!

Our next fleet race/practice was scheduled for October 18th. We have 4-5 boats leaving town to attend the
Masters Championships in Ft Walton Beach the same day. Much discussion has revolved around this and it
has been decided that the fleet will sail the following day, Sunday the 19th which is the DIYC Dore Drake Regatta. This is a women's only event so Scot ladies form your teams and Scot men come help with Race Committee. I will need a manly Scot man to accompany me and my cooler full of beer on the pin boat.
We also need boats for the teams to use, contact me if your Scot is available. Info at www.diyc.org / women's sailing.

See you at the club!