We had 12 boats at the BSC Cat Caper last weekend. 6 spin and 6 non-spin. The spin fleet consisted of 3 F16s (1 2-up, 2 1-up), 2 I20s and 1 F17. Saturday was a nice day with the double handed boats double trapped and the singlehanders all working pretty hard. The breeze velocity fluctuated a lot over the race course, so looking for the shifts was very important. 5 races were held Saturday afternoon. A nice dinner and social time followed Sat night. Sunday was very light and holes appeared all over the race course. Two races were held. Luck was certainly involved on this day.

Oley/Joanna (F16) took 1st, Jim Leonard (F17) second, Mark Smith/Karen Ann Xavier (I20) third, Jody Abrams (F16) fourth, Philip Mumm/Rundell Curtis (I20) fifth and I (F16) was 6th. Four different boats won at least 1 race during the series of 7 races (good close racing). I'll post specifics later, when I get the results off to USSA for Portsmouth inclusion.

I did not sail Sunday as the buyer for my boat came by, saw the lack of wind and asked to just get back on the road early. USA712 now resides in Georgia, USA.

Hey, those look like my gloves!!! What's going on!!

Good write up!!!

BTW, I got a new toy coming.


Mike

Tom, thanks for the write up, and where exactly in GA is your boat going? Anywhere near Atlanta? When is your new boat coming?

I'll be up in Auburn Nov. 21-22 to pick up the kid and her horse, wish I could bring my boat but I'll be pulling a big trailer full of very expensive dog food and glue...

Big thanks to Tom, Phillip, Shaun, Stan and all those at BYC that made Cat Capers another great regatta!!! Hope those who missed it will be there next year. We had a wonderful time.

The boat is going to be kept on St Simon's Island. I believe it will mainly be used to zip up and down the coast/ICW. I don't think it will be raced much (I could be mistaken).

I have not ordered anything yet - although, it is harder than I thought to be boatless.

Rumor has it that 2 Vipers are headed to Memphis, TN. Nothing confirmed.

I appreciate the Chattanooga boats supporting the regatta all these years. I believe Oley may have the longest string of years in attendance.

Jim B, from Chatty, won every race in the non-spin fleet on a 1986 H17 with sails from the 90's (maybe??). He was everywhere. It pays to know how to sail.