Skippers and Friends,

The Jim and Susan Linville Memorial Regatta was held today at Sandy Pond, in New Hampshire.  The change of venue was sudden, but necessary, and somewhat inconvenient for some skippers.

The day was sunny and warm with lite breezes.  Nine skippers showed up to compete for coveted ducky trophies.  Three skippers were in the DF95 fleet and 6 skippers were in the Soling fleet.

Both fleets started at the same time and worked their way around the course, lazily moving from one pocket of breeze to another.  The lite winds meant that there was little separation of the boats as they maneuvered the course, and mark rounding’s were, well, you know!  Then there was the occasional gust which caused mayhem in the fleet, and reminded everyone that this was, in fact, a race and there was no time to work on your tan.

Of note, during the last race, while rounding the far mark, the rig on Greg LaPlante’s Soling collapsed.  I suspect the sail was just tired of standing up for 12 heats with very little to do.  As it turned out, Greg still won first place in Soling’s and got the perpetual Ducky Trophy to keep for a year.  For a complete list of winners see our website.

The trials and tribulations of lite winds aside, the day was fun, and it was good to see everybody and talking/thinking about Jim and Sue.

Cliff Martin, Commodore