Sunday 10/4 DCIB Roberts 130, MS 7.5

[DimitriMilovich]

Glass at 1:30. Steve N. rolled in and reported wind coming over the dam, rigged his 7.5 as did I. A light breeze filled in at 2:00. Chris Arendsen (sp?) headed out on his 11.0 and Formula about 2:15 and I saw little whitecaps start to appear. Sucked us right out. Chris headed upwind slowly at first, then disappeared. Steve headed upwind. J and I slogged about. I got one foot in a strap for 15 seconds then slogged and slogged and ... I finally saw Chris planing way upwind of us in Rainbow Bay somewhere. I slogged on for a good hour, occasionally pumping futilely in whitecaps that were just leftovers from far upwind somewhere. I was ready to call it a beautiful but useless sailing day at 4:00, when unbelievably the wind nudged up a little, then a little more. Wait, planing? Yes! Jim magically appeared on his formula and the next hour DC did its best to make our day and we were all finally getting rides. Midway through, King of the Lake Chris blew by us on a high speed hero downwinder and disappeared down towards BWB to play with the kites.

Called it about 5:00, as it began to lighten, and saw Chris come back through disappearing upwind again. Jim came in, thought he was done, then headed out for some more as it filled in again. Yahoo, my best day at DC. Stellar ending to a deceptively light start.

[Steven Nyhus]

That describes it pretty good. It was a beautiful day. The wind may have been a little stronger at SSB. I saw someone up there, maybe they will report.

[JimSouthwick]

[Leo Chan]

Finally someone cam down wind to play with us instead us making the long tacks upwind.