Rick Goldt delivered a thorough butt-kicking in an old 6xxx boat. I like to think that local knowledge played a large part, but he also had great boatspeed. Hope to see him out on the circuit next season. Rick Clift was a strong second. I came in third, and Brian Pomeroy fourth.
Washed the boat out a couple of times on Sunday - first was attempting a close reach with the chute up to try to catch the guys white sailing ahead of us. We _almost_ pulled it off. But see the earlier part about gusts & shifts! Second dump came just a few feet off of shore - nearly dropped the masthead on dry land - that's one way to prevent turtling!
This was a venue where you'd squeek up as close to shore as you could to play the lift, but you also had to be in synch with the wind shifts coming down the lake. Big gains when you got it right, and big losses when you didn't. The course was set around permanent marks, but the wind direction (average!) was steady enough to give more or less a windward/leeward racecourse with a short reach across the leeward end of the lake. The beats were about a mile long, and seemed never-ending at times.
Great club, great people. About 55 boats in total if you added everything up, making for a rather crowded course. Our start consisted of the 4 fireballs, half a dozen Y-flyers, and 2 Albacores.