Wednesday Night Series: 2023

Oh What a Night!  Our 3rd race of the season brought 7 boats out to sail a W4 course from mid lake to the NE about 1.1 miles to a set mark tetrohydron.  The wind was ininially light to non existent buy during the 5 minute start sequence the wind filled in from the North with an attitude at 20+ knots.  Rodger and Dave on RC decided to motor up to the first mark and do a course change bringing the mark more northerly to align with the start line.  We made the call on the radio.  On the 2nd leg half of the fleet started to fly their chutes but all ended on main and headsail as the winds were heafty.  At the finish Woot was first across the line with Iko Iko second.  Iko Iko took 1st on corrected time followed by Witch Way and Eclat.  We had two boats as DNF.  The RC after the race went and retrieved the marks.  When trying to get the hip-it-tee-hop, I caught one end of the loose line around the prop.  Lucky for me when I put the outdrive up all the way the line slipped off.  I decided to leave the mark till the morning and went out and got it as planned.  Next week Woot will supply a person to assist me with the racing.