It's a blustery morning here in Islamorada, which was not forecasted by anybody.
Best I can tell the first race is underway. It's hard to see out to the course through the rain.
Only 2 boats on the beach at the moment with their sails up. Must be making a fix or an adjustment.
The commaraderie must have been running high last night as many of the sailors were a smidge on the slow side pushing off the beach this morning. <img src=
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Rain and blustery? It's very nice up here 130 miles north of you. Tell us it's going to get better today?
The clouds broke and the sun shined on the racers for most of the day. It's downright hot and sunny out there at the moment
Final results should be coming out soon. I'm guessing awards will be at about 3pm.
Any updates?
The rain stings like bee bees upwind in 20 knots!
Thanks to the forecast, John and I powered up the rig this morning by standing up the mast and backing off the diamond wires. Nice. However, turns out that we must have been raked too much yesterday as the boat was a little more lively and pointed better today.
Yep. Trophies were awarded, and everybody packed up and left. Very sad.
Oh, you mean what happened with the racing today? <img src=
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Neither Barb nor I were out on the water, so all I have is secondhand information from sailors.
I DO know that there were conflicting opinions about whether there was more or less wind than Saturday. The report was for 20 knots and gusty, and, at least on shore, that seemed about right. A number of boats dropped out intermittently throughout the morning because they did not feel comfortable with the conditions.
Mark Herendeen got separated from his rented A-cat during a capsize, but he was picked up by Robbie Daniel and Enrique Rodriguez on their Capricorn F18 and returned to his boat.
That evened things out because earlier Enrique had fallen off the Capricorn when a trapeze line parted. Guess who picked him up and returned him to the Capricorn? It was Mark Herendeen. Like they say, what goes around comes around -- just not usually that soon. <img src=
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Attached is a picture of some boats coming to the beach after the races today.
Looks gorgeous
I'm so jealous.
I see shorts, a sunhat,beach chairs and a kid swimming.
Winter stinks.
Congrats to Mike Siau for getting the win against some tough competition. 204! 204! 204!
Great to see one of our youngsters doing so well.
Bitter sweet to know he will be beating me now.
Sure sounds like it was great sailing.
Here's another one as the beach is getting more congested. Over at the left side are the outdoor showers. I should add that they have indoor, hot showers over by the swimming pool, and all the sailors received passes to use those if they wanted to.
Aye! That Herendeen boy , he be cursed I says. Now no one with their wits about them will sail on the same craft. He prolly' gots them sea cows all rowled up and all and they flipped him.He is a lucky lad that is cursed I says cursed. Glad a good time was had by all <img src=
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Congratulations to Stephen Acquart on winning the High Portsmouth! Five bullets, with a second for a throw out. Good job on showing the way to the
newer high tech cats
. The Hobie 17 is still the boat to beat, when the going gets tough.
Caleb Tarleton, H-17 #6446
Bumping this up, because it has the latest postings about the regatta.
Sorry for the dupe post
Alan posted a small story and a googlevideo to velocitysailing.com