Sailors, The start of the regatta season was very rocky to say the least. Ides of March was a Northern blowout that sent us all home licking our wounds. And another sailing event on Lake Travis did not get any racing due to thunderstorms. Hence, I was really restless to get out sailing. I was watching the weather all week. I noted, no fronts, and no rain! But also there would be south wind both days 10-20mph and 80+ temps. So, I was stoked pulling into the park Friday at 5:00. It was gorgeous weather with 60s at night for perfect camping. But it was quite noisy in amongst the kayak fishing tournament and the scout jamborees. Thank God for wax ear plugs.
Saturday did not disappoint. It was white capping at 8:30am. Some forecasts were calling for gusts to 30, but most were 10-20mph and that was the more accurate forecast. It was a perfect sailing day. It really does not get much better at wide open Lake Buchanan. The wind was enough to challenge you, but not overwhelm. It was just a shear joy to have that kind of weather on and off the beach. It was very tactical racing. If you played the shifts and puffs, you could make up a lot. Our Illustrious PRO, Rodger Poe put up 5 races like clockwork. We had 4 boat classes and it was tight racing. Comic relief came in the final race when Piche lost his hat during the 4 minute horn and turtled his boat right in the starting area. We took bets on how quick they would right. They got it up quick, but were dragged under the boat in haste missing the start. Sunday promised more of the same. However, it was much lighter in the morning, the shifts and holes were bigger and you really had to be on your game staying off the laylines. We got in 3 more races which might be a record 8 total races. By the end, everybody but Aaron McCulley had their fill. Aaron went out sailing with a friend after the racing and the wind had finally turned on. Results <https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxhdXN0aW5jYXRzbmV0fGd4OjFiMjk5Y2YxOWRkY2NhMjg> are posted at the AustinCats.net event site or click the link. A big thumbs up go to Mike Beuerlein for chairing the event and doing the trophies and bringing an extra chase boat. And Brigette worked very hard all weekend doing registration and helping with food prep etc... We had a great McCulley spaghetti dinner which after sailing all day, there is nothing better. Terri Reuwsaat put on an auction to support youth sailing. Mike Butler did a great job working the park management to get cables taken down and getting 2 chase boats from the Fire department. Mark Biscotto did a great job scoring. Big thanks to Duke for putting his boat in harms way and hosting the RC. We had a bang up group helping Rodger with Betty Reeh and Kerry. And thanks to Chris Reuwsaat for giving up boat working time to help out. Sorry if I missed anyone. Mike Rohrer 2019 Div6 Chair -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Texas City Dike Yacht Club" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tcdyc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
