I checked the weather report early in the morning just as I had the previous two mornings.  It was forecast to be a little cool, a little overcast and somewhat windy, but with no rain.  I had already sent out an email saying it was going to be a good day to sail.

It started raining when I was less than a mile from my home.  Light, but unmistakably rain.  The light rain continued until about an hour before the start of racing.  When the rain stopped, we were left with fairly heavy winds and very cold temperatures.  While we debated just going home, we couldn’t get past the “…are we rugged seafaring men, or comfort loving wimps…” mindset.  So, we reluctantly decided to give it a go.

It was the first race of the season for these two classes, and the high winds quickly found whatever weakness existed in linkage or rigging.  Some skippers had to go to their back-up boat, but we were finally able get 4 boats on the water; two Stars and two US1M’s

In the end Greg LaPlante was the top US1M skipper after his Star broke, and Herb Dreher was the top Star skipper.

Cliff Martin, Commodore