Tuesday Evening Series on 7/23/2019
July 23rd Tuesday Series Racing
Back to Camp Stigwandish!! We had a report that “the weeds” were gone. THAT was great news, but alas, it turned out that many of the weeds are gone, but many remain, although they seem to be brown rather than green – a good sign. But, as they die they float near to the surface, where they still can foul our boats and change race results.
Last Saturday, July 20- WRMYC had a very successful Open Sail Date at Camp Stigwandish, which was to have been combined with a Women’s Sailing event. That was cancelled, but the Open Sail was held, per the location in the original announcement, and was very successful. No weeds- but that was also in great air- into the teens, which will “disguise” weed fouling if it happens all.
Tonight, the air was lighter, and the weeds caused some problems. Sailing Director Rick Lawler put it to a vote- and the majority voted to return to Painesville Rec Park starting with the next event- July 27, THIS Saturday, and until the weeds finally give up as usual in early September or UFN.
Tonight, Rick Lawler in Gold Fleet bested Bob Valentine by just 2 points, but those two owned the scoring otherwise. Tom Schreiber and Mike Wyatt tied on points for Third, but 15 points behind Bob and 17 behind Rick. Third went to Tom on the “Most 1s” tiebreaker.
In Silver, Jack Nissen won First with 18 points, 6 ahead of Ron Sieloff AND Tom Bluhm, who had a points tie, with both placing 2nd. Steve Winfield was in 4th Place.
Back to Camp Stigwandish!! We had a report that “the weeds” were gone. THAT was great news, but alas, it turned out that many of the weeds are gone, but many remain, although they seem to be brown rather than green – a good sign. But, as they die they float near to the surface, where they still can foul our boats and change race results.
Last Saturday, July 20- WRMYC had a very successful Open Sail Date at Camp Stigwandish, which was to have been combined with a Women’s Sailing event. That was cancelled, but the Open Sail was held, per the location in the original announcement, and was very successful. No weeds- but that was also in great air- into the teens, which will “disguise” weed fouling if it happens all.
Tonight, the air was lighter, and the weeds caused some problems. Sailing Director Rick Lawler put it to a vote- and the majority voted to return to Painesville Rec Park starting with the next event- July 27, THIS Saturday, and until the weeds finally give up as usual in early September or UFN.
Tonight, Rick Lawler in Gold Fleet bested Bob Valentine by just 2 points, but those two owned the scoring otherwise. Tom Schreiber and Mike Wyatt tied on points for Third, but 15 points behind Bob and 17 behind Rick. Third went to Tom on the “Most 1s” tiebreaker.
In Silver, Jack Nissen won First with 18 points, 6 ahead of Ron Sieloff AND Tom Bluhm, who had a points tie, with both placing 2nd. Steve Winfield was in 4th Place.