No rain .. sun .. warm air .. and onshore wind made for a great weekend on Maumee Bay on Lake Erie. A simple two mark course with a windward and a leeward mark was used with A fleet doing twice around and sport fleet once. The conditions on Saturday went from 7.5 at the start of the first race quickly to 5.5 conditions by the end of the second race before lunch break. I battled my way around the course on a 7.5 and was totally spent afterwards. Many had to drop out. After lunch the wind decided to pick up even more and was a solid 20 with big gusts. Though we tried, it became apparent our smallish RC boats were not going to cut it in the three foot rollers that formed. Those that had them broke out their short boards and were treated to 3.5 to 4.5 conditions to dark. Below is the shot of the wind whipping up a sand storm on the beach that day. Truly epic conditions.
Sunday morning winds were again onshore at about fifth-teen mph with long gusts and a few lulls. We did four one lap races and it was all I could do at times to hold down the Prodigy 8.5 Comp sail. There were lots of smiles and I believe everyone felt they got more wind then they bargained for this year. Below A fleeters play bumper cars at the start line.
Several in attendance are planning on showing up at the Nationals and this was surely a good warm up race. We had about 34 registered which we thought was a great turnout with gas prices being up there like they are. The Saturday night party at Packos as always was outstanding and the raffle was extra large this year with many taking home some really nice items. We will get the scores posted later this week.
Scott Haas / #H
Here are the scores that we ended up with. Race 2 had many DNFs that were not recorded, however in most cases that race was the throwout score.
2008 Toledo Championships Scores
And here is another picture
Jack / F1