Friday evening practice brought out only two hardy skippers to brave the 50 degree temps, and a fine misty rain.  But despite the poor weather for the skippers, the wind was strong and consistent making the run up the entire lake into the course, bringing with it 6" seas.

Saturday morning brought bright sunny skies and temps peaking in the mid 70's for the modest fleet of  6 skippers.  Due to the small fleet size the decision was made to run a Match racing double elimination series as well as Fleet.  Between the first two rounds of Match racing we managed to get off 11 Fleet races.  Harry Mote, showed his sailing skills with 7 bullets, despite the sometimes tricky winds (from the north but also running up the lake from the east, converging at various spots on the course). 

Saturday Evenings party at Chuck Aiken's home was much enjoyed. 

Sunday brought a mostly cloudy sky with slightly better winds and an additional skipper.  A course layout change benefited most everyone.  Scott Todd fell victim to a broken rudder linkage forcing him to concede the rematch with Hal from the first round of Match racing.  Hal Slentz-Whalen was very strong on Sunday after fixing his perpetually leaking boat taking 3 firsts from the 5 fleet races and winning the loser's bracket to take a shot at hot Harry Mote in the Match Finals.  Harry came out slightly ahead and took the Match title as well as the Fleet title.

Here are the results

Fleet
  1. Harry Mote                 25
  2. Hal Slentz-Whalen      33
  3. Joe Cole                    48
  4. Ken Shaw                  51
  5. Guy Dickes                52
  6. Scott Todd                 67
  7. Russ Dukehart           92 (Sun ONLY)

Match

  1. Harry Mote
  2. Hal Sletz-Whalen
  3. Scott Todd