Andy Burdick and team (Peter Keck, Coye Harrett, amd Rachael Beers) won the only race today, followed by Vincent Porter and team (Davis Porter, Corbett Porter, and Carl Roth). These two stayed this way for most the race except for a brief time when Vincent got by Andy on the first downwind. The winds were in the twenties and the downwind rides were spectacular - ALL SIX (6), yes 6, of them. No the legs were not short - it was a marathon race that took Andy 1 hour and 53 minutes to finish. He lapped some of the slower boats, so you can imagine those at the end were totally spent when they finished.

Local Tim O'Keefe (D-55) had a good first leg and rounded third followed by Tom Klaban (WH-11), and then Bill Allen M-4), Ken Wruk, and Buddy Melges (D1883).

The race got off at about 2:00 after a general recall and the resetting of the line to square it up to the wind that was clocking right. The lead boats played the right side. The legs were a little over a mile long and at the second upwind mark the first six positions had settled in in this order: Burdick, Porter, Wruk, Melges, Jule Hannaford, and Bill Allen.

The big gains were downwind and the boats the pressed it hard and had all the crew hiking were considerably fast than the boats that tried to sail a little lower with the crew just sitting on the high side. The boat had to be pressed for speed, that was the formula for the fastest downwind, taking a little more than 6 minutes for the leaders.

The 'Tip Over' club included: Tom Burton (M-9), Justin Segersten (H-38), Matt Schmidt H-36), Woodie Jewett (M-77), Tom Klaban (WH-11). Two other tip overs were George Rolfs (V-511), and Mike Kushner (I-17), but they got it back up and finished the race. A few others had DNFs, some related equipment and others to fatigue.

There were no boat or rigging casualties at all that I am aware of.   

The wind began to build at the end of the first race. The PRO, Terry Bishoff, wisely decided to not have a second race. Even if the wind hadn't come up, I think sailor fatigue might have been a good reason to not have a second race. The after race conversations was consistent - WHY didn't they shorten the race when they realized it was much longer than the 60-90 minute target?