Pictures from Friday's first race. Only the brave went out with winds consistently over 20 with higher gusts, waves at 5.

Another... spectator fleet

Beach errosion over night Thursday... scale is tough to tell but the height of the sand drop is about 6 ft at peak.

Here is the wind recordings for the area (from South Haven)

It cracks me up that so many of the Hobie haters on here think that the Hobie 16 is a pitch pole machine and yet the good old 16 would have been out racing in twenty knots.
I hope the wind dies down for you guys.

There was one hobie 16 there and when I left, it was still on the trailer. I don't know what happened in the remainder of the weekend as I headed home... My son and I are 20 lbs under minimum on the I20 so going out in that stuff would not be considered being a responsible parent :-)

Five Day Wind Plot for Muskegon!

Link to site
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/metdata/mkg/plots/plot_5dy.png

That lone Hobie 16 belonged to Bruce Williams. He did put it in the water and sailed single-handed even in the heavier winds on Sunday. CRAM may have damaged their reputation somewhat by catering more to the low portsmouth boats than high portsmouth boats. Hobie 16's and 18's did not show up this year...maybe because of excessive in between race waits and single lap courses of past Cat Fights. Not much fun for the paying customer IMHO. The majority of Hobies at Cat Fight VI were Tigers racing F18.

Thanks for the postings,,, pic's and info,, Mike !! Obviously,,, the sailors had a handful, to deal with, in those conditions.

Are there any results available at this point ??

downhaul the hell outta the sail and go have fun!

(eat a cheesecake before you push off too!)

Friday morning was just plain mean. The only thing I would have felt comfortable on would have been a Hobie 14. By the afternoon, it was much more reasonable and more people went out to play.

Saturday was fun, despite the rain that came and went. The afternoon / evening was delightful. The wind slowly died off during the day until the last race it was marginal trapezing on the Tiger (with big waves for surfing downwind).

Sunday was just nuclear. The sun was out, making it "cheerfuly nuclear," but it was nuking, nonetheless. It was a blast.

Here's John (Tigerboy) and Giselle going out through the surf:

Much better graph Ken_H!!! Looks like the winds in Muskegon were about 10 higher than South Haven light.

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OHHH When Wouter wakes up there'll be plenty of pics for him to critique for proper surf launchings.

CRAM

To be fair, CRAM is an OPEN club (I am a newer member).

The invitation was thrown out to all classes - see the NOR(including H-18 & H-16 cats).

They had a decent showing of Tornado class cats this year again...

NACRA F-18 Matt & Domonique Struble 1st place CatFight low portsmouth spinnaker class!

Struble's NACRA F-18 airborne in Lake Michigan chop!

Hello all,

Is there a site with the results?

There were alot of classes and I am interested.

regards,

Bruce
St. Croix
I-17

Results should be posted (soon)at http://www.websitemagic.com/cram/ or
http://catfightrace.com/

Check out the Nacra F-17 Pics!

Nacra F-17 & NEW A2 @ CatFight VI - Lake Michigan

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