Sorry for the delayed updates...

Some drama north of the Mount Hope Bridge. Zellmer and Valente had a bit of an uncontrolled foiling moment, Joe somehow would up inverted while on the wire, banged his head on the hull, filled his ears with seawater, and lost his glasses. Jim kept sailing... (just kidding). They recovered, and eventually shot so far ahead of the fleet that we couldn't catch them before they finished!

Whyte and Sertl capsized, but quickly recovered.

After getting back down through the Mount Hope, the fleet headed Northwest up into Bristol harbor. Giulianos picked the wrong mark and got passed by Bulgers. Took them quite a while to get back out front.

As mentioned, we tried to catch (find!) Zellmer and Valente, but didn't even spot them until we got back to Newport to the finish line area. They'd already finished, and were sailing in. We caught them, had a nice chat, got their finish time, and headed back over to set up the finish for the rest of the fleet.

No more drama (other than stopping the fast ferry from cutting through the finish line and wiping out one of the F-18s....).

Got packed up, and scoring is online. Note, it's under the Race Docs header (not the Results header). I'm working on my remedial Regatta Network skills...



Tomorrow's forecast is a major problem. Not too many models say it'll be safe to actually sail (lightning and heavy winds and gusts), but the fleet elected to wait it out to make a final call in the morning. We had them tie down boats or drop masts to protect themselves and other boats on the property from damage if we get the 40+ knots of predicted gusts overnight tonight...

Mike