Midwinters Race Day 2

The forecast called for almost no wind from the southeast. We arrived at the club to see a light northerly and wondered how long it would hold up. Most people seemed doubtful.

We also found out the Ryan's crew Joe was feeling ill and would not be able to sail. Bummer. Ryan was sitting in third so we decided to fill in for Joe first we thought of Kim but decided to have Dave fill in since he is closer to Joe size. This would be a good chance to learn some of Ryan's go fast tricks which we have talked about several times but never done. The bad part for Ryan is Dave has not crewed on a FS in forever, and then only a couple times.

We hit the water and on the way out to the course the breeze died. We bobbed a while and checked sail flow to find almost all the lakes stations were getting a Southeasterly except for the two stations close to us they were showing a northerly. No question the shift was coming we would just have to wait for it. Yeah right. It filled in nicely from about 025 and shortly after we were racing. You just never know.

We did two races in a surprisingly solid if light breeze. Harry was flying and nabbed two bullets, Zeke was going strong as was Paul. Some of the leaders from the first day were struggling a bit so the standings were getting shuffled a bit. We had a nine and a three so Ryan was hanging in pretty well. The third race was seeing a little less pressure but still ok. We had an ok beat and were going to round top five until the debacle. A port tacker tried to tack inside us at the mark and then tried to shoot it with no speed. End result, the fleet parade on by. We tried banging a corner to get back some of the boats but no luck, ended 19 th and furious.

Zeke had a good day and took over the lead followed closely by Paul. The scores show that anything can happen; FSSA.com.

RC will be looking to get two races on Thursday and wrap up Friday with one more. Out.

Midwinters Race Day 1

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...