Wed Beercan Racing Update

Not much racing here in June. The weather has not cooperated, mostly due to summer type storms developing in the evenings.

May 26th racing was abandoned due to the absence of any wind.

The June 2nd was abandonned due approaching thunder storms - luckily for us as we were too busy to head out, we had to go up to Colonial Beach at the weekend so no time for racing.

The 9th we had a race - kind of. The RC was very wish-washy about whether or not to have a race as there were diminishing storms around. They called the race, then under peer pressure reinstated a race! Thus it was not going to count, but get scored anyway.

Wind was S around 11 kn, course sent us from the start to J close hauled, a long spinn broad reach to L, a beat back to the start leaving K to Stbd. A strong flood tide all evening.

We had a killer start with our #3 and full main. We were first to J, gybed, put up the chute and were able to hold off the thundering herd to also be first around L, this was great going! CYMRU wasn't far behind, able to slowly eat away on our lead once they had their big genoa poled out wing-on-wing.

We had a good beat, and used the in-hauler on the genoa and it helped us gain a few degrees closer to the wind.

Got passed by CYMRU not long after rounding L, and they were a freight train upwind, then Baserunner passed us to weather, and maybe one other boat got ahead, so maybe we finished 4th scratch, but we corrected over everybody!!! Shame it doesn't count - but it was a great sail and a lot of fun which is more important. CYMRU was second, despite horrible tactics, and Southern Style was 3rd, having been very fast on the beat.

On the 16th, we were working on the rig, and had to skip racing to work on the boat, but to no harm as racing was abandoned due to oncoming storms! By my count the Summer 5 race series only had one race day!

Lets hope we get better weather the next couple of Wednesdays so we can forget this frustrating spell.