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.
