It was a pleasant morning with lower temperatures and less humidity than recently. The moderate wind was from the northwest and the course was from a line parallel to the shore, west to the red mark, then northeast to the red/green mark, both taken to starboard, then the pin at the end of the line to starboard, back to the red mark taken to port and back to the line. After the third race, the course was modified: Red as before but out to the blue, then to the orange/blue taken to port and downwind to the finish

Seven members brought boats and twelve races were run. Scoring was rather difficult until I had a bad case of “rudder shudder” in race five. It was rather disappointing that no members volunteered to help but we managed and had an enjoyable time. Pat Donovan came down to the cove but without his boat. Good to see you, Pat.  

Apart from my rudder servo problem, one other issue was when Greg lost control of his boat in race six and he had a long walk along the shore to rescue it. Low boat voltage was the cause. Greg said,” Lesson learned”.

Jim Kelly had a connectivity issue in his boat and missed race nine. 

There were two front runners today and you only have to look at who the race winners were to see that this was a very close contest: Paul, Kim, Kim, Paul, Paul, Kim, Paul, Kim. At this point, we had another winner, Bill Northup but Paul won the last three races to carry the day, but only by ONE POINT over Kim.

Congratulations and thanks for some close racing.

Bill Northup finished third ahead of Bill Raposa.

Another nice day with sun, fresh air, and friends. 

The full results can be found on our website. mhbmyc.org

Solings will have another chance at Regatta number three on Tuesday, September 3rd. Mark the date.

DF95s don’t have to wait as long, just until Thursdaywhen the tide will be coming in from a low at 09.48.

See you then,

Derek