Just walked in 30 seconds ago.

What a fustrating weekend. The regatta was great. Excellent facillities, extraordinarily nice and pleasant people, and a beautiful lake. Only one thing. No wind! The first day we got 4 or 5 race in with wind ~5 knots. Not enough to let the 6.0 stretch her legs. We would do great to the windward mark, usually out in front, but with our full shouldered chute, we would get waxed going downwind by the F18's and the I20. Damn those boats would skim across the water like they were floating on air. We tried everything to go faster, even the "hey Trey, pull my finger" routine, but we just couldn't. All the tricks didn't work, so we're consigned to the fact that we're piss-poor downwind sailors and/or the 400+ sqft chute on the 6.0 is just too deep to carry. Its luff is to loose to heat up, and it can't carry deep, theres no in between with it. Ahh well.
Today the wind was even lighter. When heading to the course it was blowing about 7-8knots, but as soon as the open fleet boats reached the A mark, the wind completely dropped out. We couldn't fly out 1/3oz spin, it was so dead. The RC did the wise thing and shortened the course and we headed for the hamburgers.
Still a great day to be on the water. Lake Murray is so nice and clear, we were able to see to the bottom of it when we were still 20 feet deep. Couldn't resist taking a swim in it, did my best cannon ball routine.
The steak dinner was beyond words. It was delicious. The outback people did a good job of keeping tons of hungry sailors away from the steaks until they were good and ready. I was so hungry, I made off with two of those beauties.
All in all a great event. Highly recommended.