FLorida District in Sarasota

The second stop on the district tour was in Sunny Sarasota. Twenty seven skippers attended and enjoyed nearly perfect conditions. I failed to get any photos but here is a wind graph for saturday showing a nice afternoon sea breeze;


We started at 12:30 and sailed three races saturday with the result being a tightly packed bunch, aside from the Lintons who were cruising with three bullets!

Here is Sundays graph;


We started at 10:30 in a light easterly but as the lead boats approached the weather mark the wind vanished. As is normal with an abandonement nearly everyone was leading the race!

The transition to sea breeze was slow (as the graph shows) but around 1-ish we got going again and had nice conditions for the Lintons to grab two more bullets. Marshall Pardey was going strong as well and finished with a solid second. We were ocs in the last race and finished tenth (I think), Chris Morgan had one too so that was costly.

Awesome job by the volunteers led by Charlie Clifton, PRO and Chuck Tanner, Regatta Chair. I'll add a link to results when they are up.

Next up is Jacksonville, December 4 and 5, here is a link to the Rudder Club website; http://www.rudderclub.com/ . Lets Go!