Dear Keelboat sailors,
Last Saturday we sailed our first race of the year and thank you for all being there at the start line on time. It was a fantastic morning with sunshine, winds up to 15 knots with gusts even higher.
It was great to see us all preparing for the race and even Nabil was on time, hahaha, the start was confusing for some, like Henk, did found out the race already started after a minute or so, Brian, Nabil and Rick and family took off on a starboard tack and Rich sailed free of foul winds on a port reach out to the middle of the Lake with Henk and Wenona in pursuit, Alberto with Brian’s party boat stayed a little behind but came in line as well after a few minutes. After picking up some good winds Henk was able to round the first buoy in front of Rich and was able to make distance of the whole fleet and with his new sail the Macgregor took off with a non-disputed lead. The last minutes of the race Brian and Rich fought for the second and third place and even when Brian was able to overtake Rich it was him to beat them in the last yards.
The plan was to sail a second but shorter Olympic course but it was decided that there was too little time left as the C-Boater’s where supposed to race after us.
Discussions with the CYC board are underway for the Keel Boats to race two small Olympic courses, When the judge sees that one or more boats will take too much time to finish the first race they are entitled to let the skippers know the race stopped so we can all line up for the second race.
If there are any other idea’s please let me know.
See you all at the next race Saturday the 5th at 11 AM
Tom Weigel’s Home
Sailing for many of us it is just having something in our lives that we give our best effort to and try to steadily improve our performance. 
You are all invited at our CYC After-Race Party:
Last Saturday we had the pleasure to welcome the Catalina 27 with Brian and Alberto in to the Keel boat race and with gusts of 15 miles per hour they really raced to the start line where Rich, Rick with Judy as crew alreday cruised around.
We spoke with Abby early this morning and learned that she had had a very rough day with winds up to 60 knots and seas 20-25 feet. She had been knocked down several times but was handling things well. The wind had subsided to around 35 knots which she and Wild Eyes are quite comfortable with. 
We initially thought that the signal was sent automatically from her water-activated EPIRB and that it had been activated during one of her knockdowns. As we pulled the paperwork from her EPIRB registration, we learned that the signal had come from her manually activated EPIRB. 
For the seccond year Wenona and Henk will organize the 4th of July CYC party at Lake Calhoun in front of the boat house, and that afternoon we will be cruising the lake with your family and invited friends, lovers etc. 
For the set-up we would love to have some volunteers at around 1pm, so if you want to help please let us know.
I placed a link here on our blog under "Important Information" where you can find the dates of your tender assignment during the 2010 sailing season. http://www.lakecalhoun.org/cyc/racing/schedule_judge.html
Discussions with the CYC board are underway for the Keel Boats to race two small Olympic courses, When the judge sees that one or more boats will take too much time to finish the first race they are entitled to let the skippers know the race stopped so we can all line up for the second race.
