Day one of the Classic was rained out. We had showers on and off all day with no wind. Nigel had arrived the day before with his rig and a lot of stories about the trip, something about 9 hours of travel time for a 4-5 hour normal trip. So Saturday he disappeared for a while with the motorhome to look at a new one, but returned with the same bus. Well around 4 pm the showers stopped and the rest of the boats were setup, and the r/c boats came out. There was some intense racing in the R/C fleet, but I think postion on the end of the dock might of been more important and contested then boat postion. Well Oley, Joanna and I went around studing the F18 setups and found some new ways to rig the spins that evening from Mike and David. Well that night was some good food, and some fun music. The next day was dry but started out overcast. The first race saw as lot of lead changes thanks to the lakes wonderful pockets and weird breezy. Oley and Joanna easiy walked away on the last 2 legs and took the gun. The next race had to move to a totally different part of the lake as the wind changed almost 100 degrees. The wind picked up over the next 3 races and a lot of the winning was being at the right place for some strange lift. Was actually some double trapping conditions. I am not sure the actually finishes of the last few races but the F16s for the most part were near or ahead of many of the f18s. I think that upwind we were real close to even with them, but downwind we might lose a little as both of us are still finding how much to push the boat in a breeze with the spin. Well the final results came out with Oley and joanna 1st, Nigel 2nd and me third. So I think we did ok. Was a fun weekend. Hope to see everyone and more at Tommy Whiteside.