After hanging out a couple days Tuesday was the start of real racing. The weather forecast wasn't bad with the cold temps moderating into the 60's and some breeze. The reality was something like that, we had some sun, it did warm up and there was some patchy breeze.
The sailing was tricky, a lot like lake sailing in fact. The breeze started out generally north to northeast and I might of expected it to be more steady, but no. What seemed to work was to pick a side and work it, the middle just wasn't good. Sailing at Davis Island YC seems to work like that as we'll so we should have done better. There were some bright spots for Florida though, Zeke had a good lead in race one and finished third, Greiner had a nice lead in race two and held it, we had the lead in race three until the wind shut down and they abandoned the race.
Results were posted on FSSA.com and can be found by clicking regatta results tab.
Wednesday looks to be warmer but less wind, stay tuned...
Showing posts with label 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2014. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
FS 2014 Midwinters from New Orleans
So we have settled in nicely here in NOLA, back at the Rose Manor Bed and Breakfast where we also stayed two years ago. There is no RV accommodations at the club so it is home and our dogs are with our old friends near Dunedin. I'm sure they are having fun!
We had an easy trip up here and split it up by stopping for an overbite stay with John Damagala. John and Susie have a cool house near Pensacola. John showed us around town and af,ter dinner we stopped in at the yacht club for some bushwackers, which are excellent. Rumor has it we may be doing a little sailing there in the future which would be cool. On a similar note the Midwinters will be returning to St. Andrews Bay for a year in the future. We like the sounds of that especially since it is a camper friendly venue.
The turn out is off a little with about 30 boats entered this year but there is no shortage of talent. It has been chilly but we should have better weather starting Tuesday which is the first day of racing. Temps are supposed to be in the 70's with generally light wind.
We will try to set something posted here Tuesday pm, you might check the class website for news and maybe some GoPro video from Eric who has a bunch of cameras rigged on his Scot. We will add a link later.
We had an easy trip up here and split it up by stopping for an overbite stay with John Damagala. John and Susie have a cool house near Pensacola. John showed us around town and af,ter dinner we stopped in at the yacht club for some bushwackers, which are excellent. Rumor has it we may be doing a little sailing there in the future which would be cool. On a similar note the Midwinters will be returning to St. Andrews Bay for a year in the future. We like the sounds of that especially since it is a camper friendly venue.
The turn out is off a little with about 30 boats entered this year but there is no shortage of talent. It has been chilly but we should have better weather starting Tuesday which is the first day of racing. Temps are supposed to be in the 70's with generally light wind.
We will try to set something posted here Tuesday pm, you might check the class website for news and maybe some GoPro video from Eric who has a bunch of cameras rigged on his Scot. We will add a link later.
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