The tide reached its peak at just about 11 am, with a temperature in the low seventies, and a west wind at about 10 mph. Humidity was low, and it just felt like a comfortable late-summer day. A record eleven members thought so too, and brought their boats to the cove for some high-tide fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our amazing helpers, Judy and Connie, were there as usual to keep score, start races, and do whatever else was necessary. Thank you both very much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was good to see members Pat Donovan and Bill Reposa, who came to spectate, and Shelley, who came to support Bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The DroneBuoy and the pin formed the east-west start line. The boats set off heading south to take the blue, then the green to port, head north to the pink\/white, also to port, and back to the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The second race was twice around, but too many boats collected weed, so Rob took the dinghy and put in a red mark south of the pink\/white. We then dropped the green mark from the course in the hope that the bulk of the weed would be avoided. Unfortunately, this didn’t happen so much so that Rob and Wes withdrew in frustration!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There were seven races with only two different winners: Nick was racing a different boat this week, with sail number 1738, and he notched up three, while Fokka won the other four. However, Nick added three second places to become today’s champion. Fokka was runner-up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other second-place finishers were Rob, Al, Bill Northup, and Kim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greg had three third-place finishes, which gave him enough points to place third overall today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other third places went to Kim, Mike, and Louis. Kim and Mike finished level on points, but Kim got fourth place today by virtue of his second-place finish. It was very unusual for Bill David not to finish in the top three in any race. I can’t remember it ever happening before<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The results are attached and can also be found on our website mhbmyc.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n DF95 racing resumes next Tuesday, September 2nd, when the tide will be coming in towards a high at 2.21 pm, Kim and I will be in mid-Atlantic, and events will be in the very capable hands of Commodore Mike, ably assisted by Connie. Judy and Bill have another appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Very best wishes to all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s been a privilege and a joy to play a role in this club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Have fun and keep on rockin’<\/p>\n\n\n\n Derek<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The tide reached its peak at just about 11 am, with a temperature in the low seventies, and a west wind at about 10 mph. Humidity was low, and it just felt like a comfortable late-summer day. A record eleven members thought so too, and brought their boats to the cove for some high-tide fun. Our amazing helpers, … Continue reading DF95 Racing. 8\/26\/25<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-15","category-news","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mhbmyc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mhbmyc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mhbmyc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mhbmyc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mhbmyc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mhbmyc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3144,"href":"https:\/\/mhbmyc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions\/3144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mhbmyc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mhbmyc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mhbmyc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}