Sunday, April 7, 2013

Sat & Sun, April 7 & 8 - High School Invitational



Sunday, April 7 - High School Invitational

After completing the full round robin on Saturday, today's racing was for the championship.  27 more races were run in a shifty breeze that eventually settled in from the east northeast.



Saturday, April 8 -  2013 High School Invitational


Ten (10) teams from Minnesota, Michigan, and the greater Chicago area competed in the CYC High School Invitational.  The competitors completed nine (9) flights for a total of forty-five (45) races.  Following a Block “N” pattern, the sailors maintained an average race duration of 11-13 minutes/course.

During the earlier portion of the day, winds remained an average of 150 degrees with a fifteen (15) degree margin. The wind velocity ranged between five (5) and seventeen (17). 

Later in the day winds grew increasingly shifty with intermittent puffs, some up to twenty-eight (28) knots! The number of capsizes increased as the day wore on, allowing sailors to test the thirty-nine degree waters.

There were aggressive starts within individual round rotation assignments in order to cover a specific competitor and compile the lowest combined score possible.  

The Star Award was earned by Jill D. for orderly finish sheets, and keeping the boards up to date.

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