Mid Summer's Nightmare?

Well it was not THAT bad! Look at this this way, if you can have fun in a J-22 in less then 5 knots of breeze with plenty of current, then you really need to have your head examined..... just kidding, but of course the big race of the summer would be the slowest weekend yet! After all was said and done we did get 6 fair races off, and special thanks to Gary Orkney & Crew for doing their best in less then an ideal situation.

At the end of the day, as is becoming a tradition, it came down to a tie breaker to decide first place. Even better yet, first through forth place was decided by just 3 points! Congrats to the Don't Tell Mom team with another consistent day for an overall tiebreaker win over Bill Griffin & team on Woof. It's pretty cool to think in a 9 boat fleet, after 6 races, that the winners did not even average 3rd place per race!

Afterwards a very well attended post race party with plenty of commiseration made us all feel better about our days mistakes. The awards featured our Yankee swap format allowing the top finisher to choose the award of their choice. Bill Griffin passed up the chance to stay in his own hotel, and traded down to grab the Samson sheets from Bruce Lockwood. Enjoy the night at the inn Bruce!

Special thanks to first timers Lockwoods/Bergandahls and Fast family. Great to see new sailors in the fleet drift bye! 9 boats is an all time high for the fleet, and it's cool to see the nice steady growth. If the goal of our fleet was to create a competitive, affordable, local one design keelboat fleet then today showed we are well on our way (and we have areas to improve on too). The view from the cheap seats (8th) still did not feel that bad knowing we sailed well but just got beat by the best local talent sailing out on Fishers Island sound.

Thanks to our sponsors... Musto, The Inn at Stonington, Samson and Halls Spars and Rigging!

Cheers! Click here for race by race results in high point format.

-Brandon

P.S. Next week.... SATURDAY RACING - NOT SUNDAY - 1:30 Start!