Well, I guess it was predictable. Beachcat sailors are notorious procrastinators about leaving the beach. When the sailors no longer had a deadline to meet of getting to the lift bridge by 8:30 for the opening, very few got to the starting line by the scheduled 9:00 a.m. start. They straggled under the new high bridge and up Jewfish Creek to Barnes Sound, and finally all 21 boats were assembled, and the start was at 9:30.
I figure Rick would be firm and still start on time. Yes, I wasn't there, I don't race often and am not any good at it (no where near the experience of the racers participating), and people can yell at me, but why put a start time in the SIs and then change it because people have procrastinated? Are other parts of the SIs up for discussion too? Were they late because of the wind or because they didn't get off the beach?
