A great turnout is expected for this weekends Duck Cup. A change in format for 2 distance races has helped attendance. We have confirmed
5 Hobie 16's, 5 Hobie Getaways, 3 Windrider Trimarans, 1 F-18, 1 I-20, 2 Weta 4.4's, 2 Isotopes and a bunch more boats on the fence or that have not confirmed what they are sailing. It is not too late to decide to come!

Jon

+1 nacra 5.0

i'll be there with a first timer crew on my supercat 19

I'm heading up there. I'm on a H16 1-up. I know of three other NC guys from Wrightsville Beach coming up. I didn't see anywhere to pre-register on the site. It sounds like a lot of fun.

where is this event & start time?

heres the link that explains everything.....

http://www.norbanks.com/Events.htm

David and I will be there on the Infusion.

Looking forward to sailing the weta and reporting b ack to the masses...

heard something about outer banks wild fires from my friends in Raleigh who were apparently sucking down the fumes. Whats up with that?

I think the fires are south of Columbia, NC with the wind blowing smoke as far as Raleigh. I do not beleive the fires are on the barrier islands and no roads have been closed.

Can anyone confirm?

No matter the conditions, wish I was going.

map

Duck is close but to the north of all this.

The fires are not here they are in Pungo NC,which is a pretty good ways from the Outer Banks. We've had some smoke but that's it. No smoke even for the last few days.
Tad, Is that your excuse this year? The world's on fire ,I can't do the Duck Cup, WWWWAAAAAAAHHHHHHH. Somebody call the Wahmbulance. You punk.
Todd

Todd

You're my hero.

I gots to work this weekend actually.

The smoke made for some interesting conditions today. Jon was working on the results for Day 1.

I have a couple pics I will post

everyone had a great time, some more than others

really smoking the fleet about halfway through the first race

Good pics and congrats on the nice sailing. I was hoping someone would write a summary.If no one else does I will when I get down to my ankles in alligators.
Todd

So you're doing a head-stand right now?

Either way it hurts.
To bad You missed it, it was a blast. Beergaritas for everyone <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Since Todd is too busy to post a wrap up (but yet can post at a little after midnight), I will give a brief report.

The 9th Annual Duck Cup was held this weekend at Nor'Banks Sailing in Duck.
We did a change of format this year and turned the race into a 2 day distance event with Day 1 being a 24 Mile (as a crow flies) round trip race to off of the Corolla Lighthouse and Day 2 being the original Duck Cup course of the bridge and back. We also did a $5/day entry fee to help with travel expenses and we had a great turnout. 25 boats headed North on Saturday morning on a beam reach in 5 knots of breeze, once most of the fleet rounded the marker in Corolla, it had filled in to 15-20 out of the South (dead upwind to go home). It also blew in the smoke and I was actually in my home waters sailing by GPS at one point. It was a long day and almost everyone finished with Dave Lennard and Mike Krantz taking line honors and correcting into 1st place after Day 1. Sunday was forecasted to be light but he wind gods actually gave us 2 hours of 12-16 knots and a great broad reach run to the bridge followed by a reach back. Dave and Mike took line honors again and Dave took home the Duck Cup for the 3rd time. Derek Brinkley and Allison Jones won the tightly contested Hobie 16 class. It was a great turnout and a fun event. We will have the full results and some photos up at norbanks.com shortly. The OBXCC would like to thank everyone that came and hopes this race can continue to grow with the new format. The dates for next year are June 13-14.