Wednesday Night Series 2-2, June 28, 2023

Results Race ( 2 - 2 )

​First, a reminder that we will NOT have a race next Wed, July 5, but we will resume racing on the Wed, July 12. 

Another day and another awesome course by this week’s race committee team.  Thanks to Mike and Rebecca Krantz, Jim Chambers, Linda Hoopes, Bob Burrgarden and JLillian Gray for a fine job this evening and they didn’t have to rescue anyone, that was a real plus.  We always appreciate the VHF announcements because it often is hard to get close to the race committee barge because nobody wants to interfere in another fleet’s start.
 
This was a night when the crew had to work harder than the skipper.  I told my crew, pretend you are on a Melges 24 and you don’t have any cleats (at least that is what I heard).  This was a night where you had to trim all of your sails all of the time, there was no time to cleat.  It was quite enlightening to watch the different spinnaker tactics that came to play tonight in the long leg from H to X. 
 
We had some new starts in the sky!!  In the Mid-PHRF fleet Sotally Tober had the perfect conditions to stomp all over his fleet, while the  X-26 in the Low PHRF fleet has shown that this boat handles well in the extreme conditions we have on Lake Lanier.  In the High Cruiser fleet, Wind Dancer is starting to put the moves on his fleet.  This fleet is becoming very competitive, they are going to have to get new sails to be competitive with Maggie Mae and Wind Spinner.

Thanks Chris Flynn for this great shot of the finishers.  What a sight it must have been for people driving over Brown’s Bridge Road.
See you on the race course,    Dana
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