Maybe you armchair sailors should actually go out sailing.
@Tad, I sail in places beside the Chesapeake. Come talk to me after you've gotten a new boat and done Catacup. Today was much tougher than any leg in the last Tybee 500, 5'+ swells w/ confused chop on top in big breeze.
It was gusting to 27 on Saturday at Molasses Reef. It was gusting to 25 on Sunday at the dock at the Islander according to the anemometer, with sustained 23. It was blowing closer to 18 at the start today. Both the M20 and the F20C went off on port tack, everyone else started on starboard. No one was tacking out and hoisting a kite at any point today. It was FULL breeze on, 23 gusting 25 at Fowey Rock when the teams went past (just in case my Chesapeake Bay wind readings aren't good enough: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=fwyf1). Everyone is wiped, tomorrows forecast is for more 20+ kt condition but at close reaching angles. I expect the kites will remain in the bag until Wednesday or Thursday.
Finish order: M20 F20C Waveyhaven on the ex. Ronstan Rocket F18 Infusion, in touch with the F20C Royal Yellow, N20 Ding, F18 C2 SMS Racing, Chris & H.M N20, Open 20 sail plan Turtle Mojo, Dick & Mark, Cirrus R F18 Team Cat Fever, Todd Hart & Dalton, C2 F18 (my boys forgot to do their P.T before committing to the race).
Not sure who came in after that, the Hobie Tiger I believe was last to the beach. Royal White sailed the same distance but to Hobie Beach for a pullout due to illness.
