Events

Congratulations to Richard!  He is headed home this week so Happy will be acting Skipper of the Week.

I had to leave early after getting Bruce's new radio installed.  Looks like he was able to finish all eight races  It also appears Terry could not finish the last 4 races, was that caused by the rudder servo problem I heard about later?

If anyone wants to add other information about the race day, please "reply to all" with your comments.

Don Armstrong 

Terry, Tom, Rocky, Bruce, Roger and I were joined by Wheat's brother Dan.  So seven boats out for the first sailing of the season.  

The sailing center looked great with the shiny new marks (that were stored indoors all summer) and the brand new windsock with bright orange and white stripes.  The windsock was being held full by a nice 15 MPH breeze hitting us in the face.  We used B sails and occasionally nosed under when hit by a gust going down wind.  The wind direction meant none of our three starting lines faced upwind.  It made for some interesting course trials none of which had a true upwind leg.  Susann volunteered to score the races but with us all being a bit rusty and all, we decided to just sail for fun.

Seven boats, fresh out of storage and only one had a problem.  Terry had to pull his boat after his rudder servo became erratic.  Bruce and I collided and got hooked up together.  We managed to ground the boats not far from the dock, but the shore was very steep in that area. So, Susann and I both decided not to go there.  Roger handed me his controller and went to untangle the boats.   It took a few minutes and he finally had to get both boats out of the water before he could get them seperated.  Then he brought them to the dock and launched them for us.  WHAT A GUY, and he stayed dry!

Early season sailing continues next Sunday.