Scots in Tampa

Fleet 168, Tampa, April 24,

10 Scot teams and a building sea breeze, perfection! When we left the dock at 1300 the wind was fairly light and the Southerly chop made it challenging to make the boat go well. By the start of racing the breeze was building nicely to eventually full hike and vang on! The first race was tossed out due to a wayward mark, but once that was fixed Deano and Jan ran some nice races, practicing some general recalls along the way, big thanks!

Robbie Brown and Billy Icely won the day followed by Paul Silvernail and Penny Ruark. There was a bit of Darwin going on out on the water as Dave Clement and Ed Ruark mega hiked their forestay into pieces, bang! Mast in water. Andy and Lisa had their mainsail coming apart at a batten seam. Tom and Drew Taylor struggled with a mainsheet shackle but made a nifty on the water repair.

Results: R1 R2 R3 Tot

Robbie Brown and Billy Icely #2052 - 1 3 1 5
Paul Silvernail and Penny Ruark # 5026 - 2 4 2 8
Dave and Kim Thinel # 4901 - 3 1 6 10
Dave Bell and Susan Cintron # 4156 - 5 5 5 15
Al Thompson and Cameron Salmon # 504 - 7 7 3 17
Mark and Stewart Taylor # 5477 - 8 6 4 18
Matt Dalton and Dawn Naramore # 2262 - 6 8 7 21
Andy and Lisa Hayward # 38 - 4 2 dnc 10 26
Tom and Drew Taylor # 4321 - 9 9 8 26
Dave Clement and Ed Ruark # 2339 - dnf dns dns 30

7 of the boats where represented at the post race shin dig at Mark Taylor's new "Love Shack" huge thanks
for the great eats and hospitality, thank you Taylor's! Cam Sam also provided some snacky gourmet cheese stuff but we forgot it in the car and will break it out next event, thanks Cameron! The eagle and the gingerbread man has new homes, watch out!

Business:

1. TSS Commodore's Cup, Saturday May 8th, Apollo Beach. we have 4 teams with verbal commitments for this event. TSS has graciously offered to give Scots their own RC and course, we need to do better than 4 boats to make this work for them. RSVP to me now please!

2. Fleet Dues are due... nuff said, please don't make me get medieval on you!

3. Our current E-mail updates: This is going to be the last bulk E-mail for fleet updates. All future information is going to be exchanged via Facebook. If you want to continue to monitor Fleet 168 activities go to www.
Facebook.com/flying scot fleet 168. No, I don't get a commission, it cost nothing to join. This is a really slick way for us to keep informed about our goings on!

4. I have transom stickers for all paid FSSA members if you plan to attend a sanctioned event get with me.

I had this all typed up last night but my laptop died :(

Andy