Notes and results: Wednesday August 12th

Well, I guess we were due. It took til the 15th midweek race of the season before we had our first really light air night. Not quite a drifter, but certainly not a quick race either. Thankfully, although it resembled it, this race didn't last as long as the four days of my Chicago Mackinac experience this year.

Forty-seven boats participated last night. I think that's a season high. Thanks everybody for supporting North Cape's Midweek Program!

Before the race the wind direction kept flaking around, easterly, southerly, southeasterly. Jonathon Vosler and his Aftermath2 crew picked a tough night to be race committee. We consulted and chose Course #2 (East and then North; Center and North for JAM, marks to Port). No that wasn't going to work, the wind moved southerly and there wouldn't be a weather leg. Okay, then how about Course #3 (North and then South; North and Center for JAM, Marks to Starboard). By the time Aftermath2 picked up anchor and reset on the other side of the West mark the wind moved back to the southeast. Okay, one more try: Course #4 (South and then North, South and Center for the JAM fleet, Marks to Port). Aftermath2 was up with the anchor and moving again. This time the wind decided to stay fairly steady from the southeast. Thanks for being a good sport, Jonathon. So once again we were off to the South Mark for the first leg of the course. That's been happening a lot this year. This time however, it was a loooong weather leg. Two miles to weather at 2 to 3 knots or so ain't happening quickly! Most of the spinnaker fleet pack converged at the South Mark and journeyed together to North.with the JAM boats eventually finding their way to the Center Mark and a welcome turn for the finish line.

It was well after dark before much of the fleet finished and well after most people had gone home before I got a chance to crank out some results which are attached to this email. Congratulations to all the winners and also to everyone who came out to enjoy a quiet evening!

In PHRF A, Abracadabra pretended that there was plenty of wind and cruised to 1st. Mojito rode their subtle lime green chute to 2nd and Fupastank edged out the rest of the fleet for 3rd.

In PHRF B, John Kosmalski's J80 took the honors with a convincing win over Full Tilt in 2nd and Wizard in 3rd.

In PHRF C, Laszlo and the boys romped home in 1st, with Presto using their black chute to advantage for 2nd and Defender in 3rd. Apparently that class has finally found a way to beat the J30s, just sail on nights with no wind!

JAM A found Breakaway breaking away from the orange boats for the win with Mega in 2nd and Orange Crate in 3rd.

JAM B went to La Chiva in 1st over Beach Comber3 in 2nd.

In the overalls, PHRF was 1st Abracadabra, 2nd Mojito, and 3rd went to the J80. JAM was taken by Breakaway with Mega and Orange Crate in 2nd and 3rd.

Hope to see you all this weekend at the Doublehanded Race!

Kent