The US Nationals were hosted by the Pymatuning Yacht Club on July 2-4 in conjunction with their annual Independence Day Regatta and was almost the perfect regatta.  Although Friday was to have been the first day of racing for the Fireballs, a rare east wind blew in off the lake. That is never a good thing on Pymatuning.  The wind never came up in any consistent manner and when it did look like the fleet might go out the wind just dropped to nothing in a matter of moments.  The race committee postponed the racing for the day in hopes of a better day on Saturday.  Most of the participants had their boats rigged and ready to go except for Mike McEvoy who welcomed the delay as he spent the entire day rigging a new mast and setting up his boat which he just got back from Barbados.  For dinner that night we all headed into Jamestown to eat at Carini’s and then walked across the street to sample 24 flavors of homemade soft ice cream at the local ice cream shop. 

Rumor has it that another Canuck boat has migrated into the Portland Fleet.  CAN14428 (ex-Rob Thompson "Jane") is now being sailed by Paithen Larkins.  No word on what became of his old boat.  All those KC and CAN sails .....

2010 Midwinters  photos   available  here

Thanks to Marcey Sherman for the photos taken from the race committee boat.