Race Recap:
We got one race in Saturday and one race in on Sunday. Six participants: D-Boat, Vixen, Auberg, Raven, Blondie, Grand Cru. Prior to the Saturday start we had winds around 4-5 knots. The pursuit style race at noon. The wind disappeared about five minutes after D-Boat started. Painfully slow sailing ensued but the day was gorgeous with the sun shining and the temp around 25 degrees. The race was scheduled for 7 miles, but shortened during the race to 3.5 miles to end at the rounding mark. D-Boat opted to drop their main sail for the down “wind” portions of the race. Auberg and Grand Cru past the finish line at roughly the same time around 3:45. That averages to less than 1 knot per hour VMG. Raven was next to cross at 4pm. Estimated finish times were given to the remaining boats and final places for the race were: Auberg, Grand Cru, Raven, D-Boat, Vixen, Blondie.
Sunday’s race brought us a little more wind - pretty solid 1-2 knots for most of the race. Some boats didn’t make it to the start line. Pursuit style start for a planned 5 mile race. Some kind of squall came through and we saw wind speeds hit four knots – Raven dropped their headsail to, we assume, protect against sail damage caused by this unexpected double in wind speed. After the squall subsided, it was back to normal racing in moderate winds of 1 knot. Auberg started at 10:20 followed by Raven and Grand Cru. Again, the race was shortened to 2.2 miles and Grand Cru finished shortly after noon, followed by Auberg and Raven. Average VMG of just over 1 knot!
Final results:
1 - Grand Cru
2 - Auberg
3 - Raven
4 - D-Boat
5 - Vixen
6 - Blondie
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