The wind Gods were not quite as generous tonight as they had been for the past several weeks. We were given about 5 to 7 knots out of the North with very hot conditions and plenty of sunshine. Nights like this make it obvious for everyone just why we all chose to live in the Okanagan. The fleet stacked up and we won the pin end, we were right on the line at the gun but unfortunately a huge starting error cost us dearly. There was a recall signalled on the start and the manner it was signalled indicated a general recall. What we heard was the start horn followed immediatly by 2 more blasts which indicated a general recall. We could not see the flag at the RC boat due to all the traffic off of our starboard hip. We started to spin around and prepare for another start. As we approached the line we could now see the individual recall flag flying and knew we were in trouble. Although we were very certain it was not us over early I elected to restart and finally start racing. The course was SDAF in a drying breeze. We slowy clawed our way out of the basement and managed to finish 4th about 8 seconds behind the Soveral (sp?) 26. Only one more race of the regualy season next Wednesday! One further note, there may be a change to the start time for Sundays. They were conducting an informal pole to determine if a 10am start would be acceptable to most. I believe it has to do with availability of a RC for Sundays.
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