Racing Results

This posted under: "where to find missing crew members, at Skippers!". Yesterday also saw us checking whether a boat can finish a race with one fewer person aboard.  Fortunately nobody went overboard. Ask Jim for a follow up on the rule details :)

As my crew will attest, we’ve been through a number of squalls, including a very long one with 50kts during a return cruise from the Atlantic. We got ahead of that one by going to bare poles as soon as we saw radar on our phone and the spinnaker did a funny little twist.

The conflict comes when you think you can adjust sails during the wind event because you don’t want to take a speed hit before. I’ve leaned to furl early because if you see it coming it will be on top of you before you can say furl!

Thanks to RC for sticking it out and giving us the gun!

Hope everyone is good and had no damage.

Cheers!

Doug Ellmore

Commodore, Chesapeake Shorthanded Sailing Society (CHESSS)

Racers,

From the stories I am hearing, it was a pretty wild night on Herring Bay. I hope everyone made it back to their docks safely.

Thanks to Jeff Bowen and his crew on Viko30 for handling RC duties tonight..

Preliminary results posted below.

Jim