The hot and humid trend continued as 12 members with boats made their way to the cove this morning. Among them were rare visitor, Greg LaPlante, and new member Wes Siegner who spectated last week, decided to build a boat and was here to race today. His boat will sail with sail number 26. Welcome back, Greg, and welcome Wes. 

The tide was at a low at about 11.30 so there was lots of space to spread out on the beach. Paul took advantage of this and brought his wife and grandchildren. The youngsters had a terrific time.

Paul had also brought his new and impressive buoys but we needed a strong chain cutter to finish the job. Wilkie will get the chain cut to length ready for next Thursday.

Apart from Wilkie other boatless members were Bill Raposa and me. Judy and Connie were there to take care of the starting and scoring once again. thank you both very much. 

The wind was from the southwest and Paul positioned the Drone-Buoy to form a starting line with the brown/blue mark. the course was south to the brown mark, north to the blue mark, and back to the line. All port rounding. The quirky wind and the random acts of weed collection made for some mixed races, just a bit of frustration but lots of interest.

We ran six races and had five different winners: Fokka, Greg, Bill David, John, and, our only twice winner, Nick.

Reflecting the race conditions, we also had five different second-place finishers: Rob, Wes, Bill D, Paul, and, twice, John.

Bill D also had a couple of third-place finishes, enough for Bill to become our Champion today.

In second place was John, just two points ahead of Paul who was third and just two points ahead of Fokka.

 The full results and all the other news are on our website mhbmyc.org

DF95s race again next Thursday, August 8th when the tide will be a high at 11.32

Keep smiling, stay cool and have a wonderful weekend,

Derek