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Chris Sundberg

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Posted on Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 06:23 pm:   

On June 2nd, the 2001 Lake Michigan race series started from the South Haven Yacht Club. There were six, 9.1's ready to race, and the lake served up 10 to 15 knots of breeze out of the southwest. The race committee gave the fleet instructions to use the new starting sequence, which gives lots of flags and horns during the countdown sequence. It will be good to have those starts in before the Chicago NOOD's.
On Saturday we had a full day of racing, starting with 2, 4 leg, 5 mile courses. Then as the wind built, the last race called for 5 legs. The final beat had boats feathering both sails, and crews hiking hard, just to keep from rounding up. Wind speeds over 30 knots were noticed by several boats on that final leg. After racing, and on the way back, we noticed lots of water down below. It reminded us that it is a good idea to keep those bow hatches dogged down in big air, most of the time.
Russ Fender, our fleet commodore, and webmaster, continued to serve our fleet in a big way. He was a key member of the race committee. They did a great job of keeping up with the constant wind changes, moving the weather mark before each race, to keep up with the veering air.
The wind never let up through the night, so the cold, grey, sunday morning brought another day of racing into question. The waves of 5 to 7 feet, a cold north wind, and sub 30 wind chills made it pretty clear for some boats that racing was done for the weekend. While waiting for the final call on racing, the results were tallied, and when the races were finally called, results were announced right away.
So the fleet has 3 races in for the season, and the boats that raced, got big air, double digit boat speed, exciting jibes and mark roundings, and valuable crew training. Following are the results:

PlaceSkipperBoat123Total
1SundburgStimulator1113
2DanielsEntropy 2226
3OesterleSling Shot 35412
4ThompsonKahuna 44513
5EnglishTenacity 56314
6CorderScooter63DNC16

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