Seven skippers showed up to the pond on what promised to be a hot muggy day with light winds.  Fortunately, the day was not as hot as forecasted.  However, the winds were lighter than forecast and spotty on the pond.  Undaunted, we launched the fleet and were able to get in 10 races before we ran out of time and enthusiasm to continue.

The boats could move on the course, but racing was slow and that made it hard to get a lot of separation between boats.  As you can imagine, mark-rounding was a whole sideshow in itself, and reminded me of happy hour in the harbor where boats were moored together so you could walk from boat to boat.

On the course there was a lot of jockeying for position, and it’s impressive that everybody managed to finish at least once in the top three.  So, not a bad day of sailing.

Whiny Footnote: The struggle to keep my DF95 on the water continues.  In the last 5 weeks my old hull started leaking so badly had to replace it.  The next week, my rudder servo died.  I replace the rudder servo, and the sail winch died the next time I sailed it.  I replace the sail winch and had it back on the water today and my rudder servo died on the last race…again.  Hmmm!

At the end of the day, I had the lowest score in the DF fleet and Rick Gates had the lowest S1M score.

Cliff Martin, Commodore