Go For The Gold at Scott's Flat Lake, Nevada City, CaJune 4 - 5
Story
With record breaking heat forecast for the San Joaquin Valley we were
happy to be at 3000' in the Sierra mountains with much more
comfortable weather. Three Windmills were sailing. Eric Swenson and
Harrison McDowell, who is now the new owner of Windmill 2101; Scott
Rovanpera and Kohe from Japan; Darrell Sorensen and Marylou Brenich.
The main event at the regatta was the West Coast Masters Laser
championship with over 20 Lasers taking part. No wind Saturday
morning, everyone sculled or paddled to the committee boat to wait for
wind. The committee boat had music playing, some of the constants were
cooling off in the water and were were entertained by one woman
dancing on her Laser. Finally there was enough wind to sail (just).
One windward/lured race and one to the windward mark where they
thankfully moved the finish to.
Saturday evening there was a nice dinner, followed by music and
dancing to a very good 6 piece band. All six of us shared a campsite
that wasn't far from the launching ramp and party.
Sunday it started out with more of the same, we sailed a shortened
windward leeward course. Then the wind started to fill in. Race 2 was
the full windward, leeward. Race 3 the wind really started to blow
with sailing on a windward, gibe, leeward course. There were several
capsizes, including ours due to a crew error. Eric and Harrison
stopped to give us aid as Marylou and I were having trouble getting
back into the boat. Harrison is young and strong, he shoved me over
the transom first, doing so I landed on the tiller breaking it off the
rudder. Harrison got in last. To get back to shore Harrison steered by
just holding on the the rudder. Amazingly with three in the boat plus
extra water we had the boat on plane for a while. All in all we had a
great time.


Result
PosBoatNameTotalRace 1Race 2Race 3Race 4Race 5
13481 (Jonathan L)Scott Rovanpera/Kohe51(1)1(2)1(3)1(4)1 (5)
25576 (Witch of the West)Darrell Sorensen/Marylou Brenich102(2)2(4)2(6)2(8)2 (10)
32101 (Catchin Up)Eric Swenson/Harrison McDowell163(3)3(6)3(9)3(12)DNF(16)
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