C22 First Race on Windless Wedesday

First Wednesday night race and the forecast was calling for 2-4 knots of breeze and dropping.

John injured his knee in hockey so it was Melissa, Chris, and I.

Full racing main and #1 genoa.

We had 20+ boats out including some new ones:

Peter Smith and Leon Irish's Razorbill (1D35):

New Member Gina Eisler's Scalliwag (C&C 27):

Green hull on left

Dave Hillier's Ninth Wave (Sirius 22)

Some other random shots:

The Berrys on Cheeky Monkey

Commodore Rudik on Paroose II (Viking 34)

Here is a picture of Peter meaning business on the bow of Razorbill:

...and here is a picture of Chris DOING business on the bow of Still Time:

Oh yeah, the race...

There wasn't much wind at the normal start time of 6:30, plus it was shifting all over the place making it difficult for the race committee to set a line.  They won't start a race until there is a sustained 3 knots of wind.  We finally got the race off a little before 7pm; course was 3 short.

We had a decent start and took a flyer towards land hoping to pickup some shore breeze and get lifted to the first mark.  Well, the wind was dying completely, and we had just sailed away from the race course.  Looking a the track, we should have tacked eariler towards the mark.

Winds dropped to nothing, and our entire division floundered on a broad reach to the next mark.  After an hour, we determined that we could not finish the race in time to get back to the bar.

Besides, it was cold on the water.

Another nice sunset

Trip Odometer: 8 miles
Avg Speed: 2.6 knots
Moving Time: 02:30:00

Estimate, as I left my GPS on for the ride home in the car.

Google Earth Track: Track

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