| Four hardy teams brave cool, windy Pumpkin |
| From: Steph
Romaniuk [mailto:smromaniuk@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 05, 2015 11:05 PM To: Al Schonborn Subject: Pumpkin Hey Al: The locals had never seen an E wind that strong before at FYC in 40+ years. There were white caps in the short fetch from the creek across to the moorings! After a 45 knot gust went through about 11:30am, they called it a day with no racing to start Saturday. Sue was rigging slowly and had pretty well decided she wouldn't go anyway. We put on the furler for the jib and switched to our old boom and main to put in a reef for racing - we joked with the Laser sailors (who had all switched to radial rigs for the day) that we were sailing a Wayfarer radial :) They still put on an amazing Turkey dinner as usual - still only $7.50 pp! Sue and I spent the afternoon finding a way to hang sails inside the van along the roof and then went to see a movie - Everest... we will no longer complain about the weather we decided afterwards. Sunday was mostly 5-8 knots, but came up and down and shifted a lot. We got four races in and they ran them from the race hut. Very port favoured line, so interesting with 2 Y-Flyers, 3 Wayfarers, 1 CL, a dozen Lasers and few odd boats on one start. Light rain on and off, Sun finally came out while derigging! FYI John Kabel lost his Mother-in-law Friday night so he had to go so Jeff & Vera Ames took over as race committee. The rare easterly allowed interesting courses from the A-B start line such as 1-5-4-finish and 3-1-4-finish. While beating up from mark 3 at the dam in the 3rd race, there was a 90° wind shift just as you cleared the last point to put you in view with the finish line - bizarre! We had great duels with Richard and Colin (Belwood Lake) in their Y-flyer and the three Biskaborns (Kevin, Brad and Jens) for the first over the line honours each race - we finally pulled it off in the last race by a good margin. Our results were as follows: 1 - Steph and Sue 1-1-1-1 2 - Steve and Barb Graff of Goderich 2-2-2-2 3 - Brian Hurst and Marc Verreault 3-4-3-3 4 - Arthur and Zsazsa van Raalte 4-3-4-4 CL-16 with no spinnaker (father-daughter) At the awards, I gave one most improved to each of 2nd and 3rd place as neither skipper could be found in the 'latest seeds' I also mentioned that the CL races 1:1 with Wayfarers after hearing they put the CL in the 'open fleet' for the 1st race with the RS400. Here is the link to my pic and a few windy videos: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cobk1fokzg8nxmu/AAD8lvD4HIQ9VJwGVdhLCGFQa?dl=0 Steph and Sue  Sent from my iPhone |