We set a fleet race attendance record with 14 boats on the line Saturday, nice!! This was in part due to the generosity of numerous fleet members who loaned out their boats. Big thanks to Mike Roberts, Mark Taylor, Dave Thinel, and Mat Wey.
After a very tough Summer weather wise for our races, we had picture perfect conditions Saturday. Temps in the mid 70's 10k of breeze from the South West and only a "moderately annoying" chop.
From my perspective, Team Linton's boat was sailing above the chop, and the straight bullets they amassed would seem to support my view. All that was left was for the mortals to battle it out for position 2-14, and battle they did!
Results:
Boat R1 R2 R3 R4 Tot
Jeff and Amy Linton #4925 1 1 1 1 4
Andy and Lisa Hayward #38 4 2 3 3 12
Dave and Kim Thinel #5544 2 3 6 7 18
Paul Silvernail and Leslie Fisher #5026 5 11 4 2 22
Nate and Melissa Velardebo #2007 3 6 7 12 28
Gail and Shannon Heausler #812 12 7 2 8 29
Dave Bell and Susan Cintron #4156 6 4 11 9 30
George and Pat Haynie #2339 9 10 5 6 30
Al Thompson and Cameron Salmon # 504 7 5 9 10 31
Dean Bell and Judy Hanlon #5477 10 12 8 5 35
Ed and Penn Ruark #4321 14 9 14 4 41
Brian and Michelle Watts #4921 11 8 12 13 44
Bill Adikes and Crew #3998 8 14 13 11 46
Matt Dalton and Dawn Narramore #2262 13 13 10 14 50
We also had some new faces, welcome George and Pat Haynie and Gal and Shannon Heausler and crew! These folks weren't just out for a day sail, they both ran in the lead pack in their borrowed boats! #812 was a rocket in race #1 until her outhaul failed, ahem, Mr Thinel?
So, in case you ever thought about trying to tow another boat using the outhaul shackle attached to the towee's side shroud, hmmm not so good. Oh did I mention the boats were traveling in opposite directions. Worse yet, the boat owner may then suffer the Fleet Captain's ridicule!
Post repair, Piggy never looked so good as with three ladies abord! Woo Hoo!
Huge thanks to Rod Koch for running the races all by his lonesome!, awesome dude! The breeze was bouncing around and Rod must have weighed anchor on the Mako a half dozen time or more! Also thanks to Ed and Penny Ruark for the us of their Mako!
Here we have the fleet stalking the RC boat, Rod (at the bow) is resetting the anchor, again (solo) and probably cursing, A LOT!
Fleet Captain; Andy (Lisa, wisely is hiding her face from view) after the third race where he obliterated us (port tack) at the weather mark. I think I detect a little smirk...
The post race party was the bomb, the "Heavy Hors' D'oeuvres" were a meal. And the homemade desserts, man, I'm thinking that my blood sugar got close to 500. Thanks to Cameron Salmon and Kim Thinel for the "dessert guidance". Amy Linton's slide show kept everyone's attention, and Lisa Hayward's gift exchange was a riot, keep a close eye on Cameron's lips, he's got lip serum!
Al and Cameron, pre lip serum, of course
Masthead Sailing Gear donated some great and highly sought after bags, (Yea! I got one) for the exchange. If you haven't been to Masthead, you are missing out on the best sailing shop in Florida, perhaps the World.
www.Mastheadsailinggear.com
Returning to the club under colorful spinnakers. OK I thought the sun hitting only the third boat was kinda cool.
Lastly I would like to thank our Fleet Secretary, Leslie Fisher for all her hard work she does for Fleet 168.
Leslie and Paul thinking "We had Jeff in that race....and then...oh shit"
Leslie made all the arrangements with DIYC, mailed the invites, and handle most of the RSVP's and the
paperwork/data collection at the party, Leslie, you rock!
Ok, we don't have much down time, put your relationship to the test this Saturday, @ 1400, DIYC,
for the Winter Couples Race. We are sure to have a bunch of Scots. www.diyc.org
And January 17th we are going to have a Scot class at DIYC's Keelboat/One Design regatta, one day, $30.
trophy's and beer! Heaven! www.diyc.org
This one has nothing to do with sailing, just some fun with the Missy dog trying to be cute and score a food scrap from the table
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