I missed the second day of races, but as you can see below the first day was quite the drift fest. A good portion of the race had nearly no wind at all. The blue track was the first race which had very little wind and ran counter-clockwise, the red track was the second race after a bit of wind picked up from the West and we reversed the course to run clock-wise. We eventually peaked at just over 10 mph!

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We dropped some buoys and had a few boats practicing starts and mark roundings for the Summer Games at Deer Creek on June 5th. The thermals kicked in right at noon and we had great wind all day, by late afternoon the wind really picked up as we double trapped back and forth across the lake.

Results have now been posted. See them by viewing the rest of this entry using the link below!

For those of you who missed the Summer Games Regatta it was interrupted after only a single race. The short version of the story is that a micro-burst touched down and leveled every boat on the lake. As far as I could see every boat went turtle almost instantly. Thanks to the quick actions of the Coast Guard Auxiliary, the State Park Rangers and the local Sheriffs everyone was plucked from the lake safely (for the most part). I think only two of us made the trip to the hospital.

Many boats were damaged and broken. Hopefully we can get a few patched up well enough for the 4th of July Event which is only a short 3 weeks away.

Sunday there was also only 1 race held before the State Park Rangers kicked everyone off the lake at the first rain drop for fear of a repeat of what happened Saturday.  The remaining boats included a number of Lasers, a Thistle, 2 Swift Solos, and two catamarans (Shaun’s F-18 and a Nacra 5.7 that showed up to play).

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Thanks to everyone who made it out to our Labor Day event! It was great fun for everyone, especially those who got to join in on the LaBeau LeMans Grand Prix 20. It was a little slow for the first leg of the race, but it was well worth it for the leg back to shore as we were all flying hulls to the finish. You can get more details and view some GPS tracks at the LaBeau LeMans 2008 post.

For those who left early you missed out on some great wind Sunday evening! Tents were flattened, children were rolling down the beach, and a couple of beached catamarans were picked up and flipped over in the 40+ mph wind gusts. The sailing right up to that point was incredible and made it all worthwhile.

The USA has one more event for this year, so don’t put your boat away for the winter just yet. We have our annual Oktoberfest Outing taking place Saturday September 27th up at Pineview Resevoir.

I only recorded the second leg of the race on my GPS. The first leg was pretty slow going so there wasn’t a lot of action. I think I timed in around 1h 55m on the first leg and only 34m on the second leg, so obviously the winds had really picked up over lunch.

The winds on the return trip seemed to come in gusts, but for the most part was pretty strong the whole way. Just about everyone was flying hulls all the way to the finish. A few boats had some close calls with capsizing, but only Randy & Jason really got to practice their trapeze acrobatics before their boat went down.

I never heard what the official race results were, but if I find out I’ll update the post with the top boats.

These are the GPS tracks we recorded from Day 2 of the Regatta, which provided us with some great wind! There are three total races contained in the track, along with a few extra reaches in there to take advantage of the high winds after the races completed.