A1

The opening day of the regular race season didn't exactly open with a bang, it was more like a whisper. 10 boats showed up on this cold snowy, windless morning to face off on race 1 of what is sure to be a fantastic sailing season. Seldom have I seen very glassy conditions over the entire lake like we had today. The RC posted a course of SACAF and we were off under peak wind speeds of about 1.5 knots. We had a great start, right up on the line, near the pin favored end and crossed right at the gun. We worked our way upwind on starboard tack, neck and neck with Pentameter and Predator to the A mark. Not long after rounding the windward mark we started to get passed by all the symmetric spinnakers. It became painfully obvious that there just was not enough wind to fill our big kite. About halfway down from mark A to C the RC shortened the course to end at C mark. Congratulations to Woo Hoo, they not only managed to place first in fleet 1, but actually crossed ahead of the 525 fleet, well done!