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aeckhart
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Initially Posted - 09/05/2006 : 16:13:11

We had our club championship regatta on Sunday. I say regatta but the wind was so light, less than 5 mph, that we could only run one race. Surprisingly I placed 5th of 14 boats. We ran a three mile course and I don't think the speedo moved off zero once. I was beaten by a Santa Cruz 27 (which not unexpectedly passed us in the first half mile), a Lazer 28 which passed me half way down the second leg, a Seidelman 25 which passed me about half way down the third lag, and a C&C Redwing nicked us at the finish. A Morgan 35 finished 30 minutes behind me. I'm sure that if I'd flown my asymetric spinnaker I would have beaten the Red Wing and Seidelman. I was afraid that the process of changing sails would have voided any future gains in such light air. Again I'm convinced that my loose-footed main was an immense help.

All in all a real drifter. I was fortunate to beat my traditional rivals, a Flying Scot, a Beneteau 35, and a Tartan 28 Piper, off the line and to the first mark. After that the wind died to almost zero. The fleet behind, which was trying to beat upwind with no wind, was knocked around pretty badly by power boat wakes. Some were reduced to just sitting and rotating 360 degrees, at the mercy of "no wind and big wake".

Ironically, as I tied to our mooring, a nice 10 mph breeze came up and sustained itself for about 2 hours. Go figure. We have one moe race on Lake Superior, then oour 6-race Frostbite series which ends the season. I'll be buttoned up on the hard by the 3rd week in October.

Al Eckhart
GALLIVANT #5801
'88TR

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Ben
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Response Posted - 09/07/2006 : 06:36:38

Congratulations Al. 5th out of 14 is pretty good in my book, especially in those conditions.

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PZell
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Response Posted - 09/07/2006 : 14:45:57

Sounds familiar. Our last beer can race everybody tore out around the course, some with spinnackers really hauling...Two starts various boats. Then everybody bunched up a couple of miles from the finish with no wind. Many finally gave up and DNF. We carried on against another Cat 25 into the dark. Changed up to my biggest sail. The other guy finally drifted past me in the last quarter or half mile. We finished tho and was our first night sail of the year. The wind always pipes up after you get off the course in these situations...Murphy working.

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