The tide had turned just before 10 so there was lots of beach at the cove this morning. The sun was shining and the sky had a grey tint, courtesy of the Canadian wildfire smoke invading our upper atmosphere. The wind was light but strengthening from the southwest and Paul set the course: from the start line formed by the drone buoy and blue/orange, head south around the green/white mark, the orange/white mark, then north to the blue mark and back to the line. All marks were taken to port. This was the course for the first four races when we switched to twice around as the wind had strengthened. We held eight races and had seven participants. It should have been eight but Rob’s boat had a rudder servo problem and he couldn’t race today. Wes had his boat in the water and coincidentally was talking to Rob about “failsafe”  when his boat took off and sailed off south down the Sakonnet. The boat was switched off so failsafe couldn’t have worked. Lesson: If your boat is in the water it should be switched on. Wes had a very long row to recover his boat but finally, he returned to shore and racing could get started. Well rowed, Wes.

Judy kept score and Connie took some pictures. Thank you both very much. Bill Raposa paid the DF95 crowd a visit and just might get a DF95 in the water next season.

Judy suggested we follow the example of the Olympics and stop calling our breaks, “Water Breaks” so from now on the club will move upmarket and have “Hydration Breaks” instead, 

Now to the racing. we had four different race winners today, Bill David won two, Paul and Kim won one each, but John Reilly won the remaining four to put him in an unassailable position and, of course, he was the champion today. By the way, he also finished second three times.

In addition to his two wins, Bill David had two second places and one third place to become this morning’s runner-up.

Kim and Fokka finished level on points but Kim got third place by reason of his win in the tiebreak.

Paul suffered a rare boat failure when having finished third in race five he could not take part in any more races., The reason was a most unusual incident. His backstay anchor was torn out of his boat when a fragment of plastic broke away from the hull. Repair or replace will be the question.

The “most consistent” award must go to Al who finished sixth in the first four races and fifth in the last three!  Well raced everyone. 

Good racing today and a lot of fun.

The full results are on our website mhbmyc.org

DF95s will race again next Thursday, August 22ndwhen the tide will be very high at 10.45

But, before then, have a great weekend, and keep smiling.

Derek