Sarasota Fleet Racing

Saturday was a red letter day in our fleet history. We had a super day for racing and when the gulf breeze kicked in the winds were in the 12 -15 kt range. Sue and John Damagala ran 3 races and mixed things up with 3 different course configurations. THANK YOU!! Twelve boats sailed out to the starting area and 10 entered the races. We were joined by the Thinels and Lintons from the Tampa fleet. They came down to get some practice in before heading north to the Flying Scot North Americans. Super exciting news for the day and our fleet was having two new fleet members come out for the first time. Both, Andy Lindgren in Over Easy and Mark George in Scot Free Joined us for the first time. Welcome to our fleet!!! On top of the leader board after the 3 races were The Lintons in first, Don & Stu (Leprechan) second and Ron and Richard (Sidewalk Express) in Third.
Our next race date on the calendar is June 9th. Start time is 4:30 out on the course.

Sue and John were kind enough to bring a camera along and took many photos including the great ones below. Some may notice that they are all of Kim and I, a benefit of having your own blog! You will, of course, want to click on them for the full screen view.

As mentioned above the Lintons and Kim and I were wanting to get a little tiller time in advance of the NAC. This proved to be a good idea in our case since we were feeling a little rusty, the Lintons were rust-free as is common.

Gotta love Sarasota Bay!!