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.

Shaun and I took his F18 up to Deer Creek on Saturday to get some practice in on his new boat before the Summer Games. Sven was up there with his Inter20, and Brett and Beverly were out on a small motor boat scouting the grounds for the Summer Games courses. The winds were incredible from 11am on and we had a great time double-trapping the boat for most of the day. We had a GPS on board and posted the tracks below…

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Last weekend at Utah lake, The keel boats raced in the first half of
the Utah summer Games.

It started out as a rainy, overcast day. Later
in the morning the sky cleared up and it turned into a beautiful Day.
There was a decent turn out of about 9 boats. Shaun, Coty, Pia, and I
went out on our cats to play while the keel boats did their thing.
Wade, Collette and Werner sailed “Hell of a Woman”, They were there to
represent the USA. It was Wades first race on his boat and they had a
great time. He finished 7th overall, even though he didn’t take a
medal he did beat BYU. Way to go Wade, It was a fun day, I hope the
weather is as nice for the summer games at Deer Creek. Brett did a

great job organizing and I think the Provo sailors Had a great time.

-Randy