Saturday,
19th April was not the best of sailing days, overcast with very little
wind.
Despite these conditions eight boats were lined up on the outer
breakwater
hoping the forecast wind would fill in. The start of the first race was
delayed to
1035 but even so the start may best be described as gentle. FINAL
DASH and MINKE were first over and soon tacked
over to the Salt Spring shore
where the
wind appeared to be. Long before the speed buoy the whole fleet
was sitting
in a parking lot, and getting to the weather mark off Second Sister
took over
an hour for most boats. A gentle spinnaker run back to the club and
that was it
for the morning. The race was convincingly won by MINKE who also
took line
honors beating out legendary flyers such as ELECTRA and FINAL
DASH.
A break for
lunch and some minor excitement as a little wind developed to rattle
the booms
of most of the boats as mainsails had been left hoisted. The rain
started
but, “who cares--we have some wind”.
A quick repeat of the first race
followed by
a longer race to Batt Rock was the afternoon schedule and so
racing
resumed at 1345. By 1400 the rain had more or less killed the wind and
a repeat of
the morning adventure ensued. Your scribe who was acting as
starter and
score keeper repaired to ALACRITY’s warm cabin and put on the
kettle and
a CD.
It was past
1600 when the last boat crossed the line so racing was clearly over
for the
day. In this race, line honors went to ELECTRA. However, MINKE
corrected
out the winner to make a clean sweep of the day’s racing in very fickle
and
unpredictable conditions. Well done indeed Tony and Alex.
The day was
by no means a bust. All hands gathered in the clubhouse to dry
out and
receive the rating committee’s report and seek clarification on what is
always a
difficult subject. A further
distraction was the fabulous aroma
emanating
from the kitchen area as the Wood family of Nancy, Thea and David
prepared a
chicken curry dinner for us all.
It was a great meal in great company
and with
good conversation. Tony Meek, while accepting a bottle of Saturna
wine as
winner of both races, thanked FANDANGO for being a no show as it
was clearly
a FANDANGO day
out there.
Time on
Time
MORNING
RACE.
|
BOAT |
SKIPPER |
RTG |
ELAPSED |
CORRECTED
|
POINTS |
MINKE |
MEEK |
237 |
1 45 11 |
1 30 19 |
100 |
|
CAT
DANCER |
LETOUR |
245 |
1 55 40 |
1 38 17 |
88 |
|
MADRIGAL |
ZAPH |
243 |
2 01 09 |
1 43 12 |
75 |
|
ELECTRA |
KIBBLE |
141 |
1 45 24 |
1 43 39 |
63 |
|
JEEKERS |
SLADDEN DEW |
183 |
1 55 12 |
1 43 51 |
50 |
|
FINAL
DASH |
WOOD |
110 |
1 46 08 |
1 49 30 |
38 |
|
WESTWIND |
ANDERSEN |
154 |
1 54 25 |
1 50 21 |
25 |
|
QUESTO |
THORBURN |
143 |
1 54 44 |
1 52 29 |
13 |
AFTERNOON
RACE
|
BOAT |
SKIPPER |
RTG |
ELAPSED |
CORRECTED |
POINTS
|
MINKE |
MEEK |
237 |
1 53 37 |
1 37 33 |
100 |
|
ELECTRA |
KIBBLE |
141 |
1 39 36 |
1 37 57 |
86 |
|
MADRIGAL |
ZAPH |
243 |
2 08 37 |
1 49 34 |
72 |
|
JEEKERS |
SLADDEN-DEW |
201 |
2 07 17 |
1 54 45 |
57 |
|
WESTWIND |
ANDERSEN |
154 |
2 02 23 |
1 58 02 |
43 |
|
CAT
DANCER |
LETOUR |
245 |
2 21 05 |
1 59 52 |
28 |
|
FINAL
DASH |
WOOD |
110 |
1 58 55 |
2 02 42 |
14 |
TOTAL
POINTS FOR THE DAY
MINKE |
200 |
|
ELECTRA |
149 |
|
MADRIGAL |
147 |
|
CAT
DANCER |
116 |
|
JEEKERS |
107 |
|
WESTWIND |
68 |
|
FINAL
DASH |
52 |
|
QUESTO |
13 |
Bob Jones,
On the side
line
20 April
2005