A tough day today, especially for the race committee. We had two weather systems fighting each other and the transition was right over Biscayne Bay. A cold front is expected here about now and should swing the wind into the NNW. As we towed in after todays one and only race, this was starting to happen. Prior to that, we had a sea breeze from 100-115 degrees at about 8 knots. Before that we had wind from 330 about 10 knots. Before that we had a light seabreeze. First thing this morning we had a NNWﾒerly. Basically it was all over the mapﾅseveral time today.

Finally the wind held still for about one hour at 1500. We got off and went right because that seemed to have the most consistent pressure during all the gyrations of the morning. We got a little shift and crossed most of the way to the left side, ahead of the bulk of the fleet. That got us to the first windward mark about 5th. We batteled around the track in the 3-5 positions and ended up 3rd.

Rick Merriman and Bill Bennett had a nice lead on the first lap but up the second windward leg, Geroge Szabo and Mark Strubbe hooked into a little something special on the left side and closed the distance down markedly. Then Szabo gybed inside Merriman on the second run, got a bit more pressure and took the lead and never gave it up. Merriman/Bennett sailed well and ended up second.

We had another good battle with Vince Brun/Mike Dorgan on the last lap of the race (three lapper again today). Yesterday we battled all day with them as well, each of us winning one and finishing second in the other. They are staying in the same apartment complex we are and tonight we sat in the hot-tub together and traded war stories. I actually crewed for Vince in a few regattaﾒs back in the early 80ﾒs so we go back a bit.

In the scoring you will notice that we are now excluding one race. We will exclude another one after the 12th race. We are still in the lead and Eric Doyle/Brian Sharp are still second. Brun/Dogan have moved up to third, Szabo/Strube 4th, MacCausland/Nichol 5th.

Sammy is cooking up another great dinner, fish I think. I asked but he wont say. He wants it to be a surprise. Icka says a FedEx package of Brownies and Banana Bread should reach our doorstep tomorrow. Emergency rations!

Tomorrow the breeze is supposed to be back up in the 15-20 knot range from 080ﾅsimilar to Saturday but not quite as windy. Three races are on the schedule as we only got one in today. It will be a long hard day. Sleeping 10 hours tonight. Stocking up!

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