Tom - the reason I didn't make it out this year was because it fell on the weekend directly after nationals. But let me know if you hold anything between now and cat capers.

Thanks everybody. See you next weekend. Im gonna skip TW but will also be at Spring Fever. -thomas

John, just remember who dubbed you squirrel!

Brett, there is the Ironman Regatta May 15,16 at BSC. We did it two years ago and we (catamarans) got our own course. Great times, nice trophies. Tom mentioned something about it here:
Ironman Regattta
Looking forward to seeing you guys next week at MW on the N20!

Yeah, Cat Caper was the weekend after NAs - so that would have made it tough.

We have a May 16/17 regatta that Philip mentioned. It is a big open event (leaners, dingies, cats...). If we can get enough cats committed, I may try to get them to run us on a "river distance course" on Saturday and do triangles on Sunday - nothing fleshed out.

Looking forward to checking out the 20.

Okay guys...B'ham Iron man is when?? April or May?? I though Tom was telling me May.
Phillip you coming for SF and Cinco?

It's May, 16th, 17th.


I'm going to try to make it to Cinco myself...at least I'm planning on it right now.


Mike

May 16th is going to be hard to make since Brett and I both will be spending the majority of the day somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean between Fernandina Beach and Tybee Island.

Hey Jo, yeah I'll be at SF and plan on going to Cinco. It looks like you guys can make your own class at Ironman (two from Chattanooga, Tom, Andy, Mike, maybe Chris). Can't wait for SF, see ya there.

I had an awesome time this past weekend at Pee Dee, learned a ton crewing with Scott on the H16, and until last weekend if someone told me the wind could come from all directions at once I would have thought they were crazy...not anymore

It was great to meet everyone and be able to put some names with faces! Looking forward to doing it all again next weekend in Columbia!

Welcome to SE Lake sailing!

Lake Robinson (Pee Dee) takes shifty to a completely different level...

The first time I sailed there, I hated it. The next time, I was more open to the idea that the shifts and holes are as much fun as they are challenging...Now I love kicking off the season there because you have to take it as a casual fun time and you just can't take it that seriously!

Poor Mike and Dave were dominating the 4rd race and in a two lap race. At the second A-mark rounding, they had a lead almost one entire leg long. I was rounding c-mark tightly contested for 2nd with Olie/Joanna on an F16 and Jack and Becky Wise on an F18. As I rounded, I looked up the course and saw Mike and Dave parked with the spinnaker drooping about 100 yards from A-mark. I proceeded to work up the shoreline up the right side of the course - trapezing at times. After I rounded A-mark, now in the lead, and got about 50 yards away from it heading downwind, I pass Mike and Dave who had just gotten some breeze again and got their boat going. Mike says; "No lead is a safe lead on Pee Dee!".

How were the conditions other than the expected shiftness? # of races? Turnout? Results?

We'll see you all this weekend at Columbia

Turnout was a little low. 4 races on Saturday but we had everything from 0 to 12 with short periods of sustained trapezing. A couple of boats retired in one or more races toward the end of the day. No races on Sunday as the wind failed to show up in enough quantity for us to try again. Opinions regarding the racing depended on how high up the results sheet you asked! The water was 74 degrees and I thought it enjoyable!

10 boats; 3 a-cats, 3 F18s, 2 BladeF16s, 1 H16, and 1 TheMightyHobie18.

Results:

Low DPN:
Kohl (Acat) - 4pts
Lennard/Krantz (F18) - 6pts
Olson/Lienti (F16) - 7pts
Pitt (Acat) - 11pts
Wise (F18) - 14pts
Harper (Acat) - 15pts
Acosta (F18) - 20pts
Abrams (F16) - 20pts

high DPN
Smith (H16) - 3pts
Kyle (TheMightyHobie18) - 5pts