A lovely George Washington Day Regatta at Lake Eustis this weekend with Waves (Rick and Mary and lots of friends). There was a huge fleet of 38 shiny new Melges 17s scows with highly roached mains (no flat tops yet tho) on Aussie 18 highly prebent round masts (no mast rotation yet), & colored spinnakers. After racing was over Saturday the wind came up to about 13-14 knots for the run home, so I went Melges hunting.

With a lot of lake left, I caught 3 of them duelling all out with chutes up trying to run over each other. There was a great breeze for the Wild Thing- and it worked. With maybe a 6+ knot speed differential, I rolled over all of them on the same course with 150 square feet of sail vs their 3 sails, and lots of wetted surface. Maybe not fair, but... It almost made up for being whupped by Woodie Cope again.