Hi All,

With light and variable winds on Saturday the spirit of competition came alive at the Kerr Lake Kup thanks to everyone that came out for the races.  Thanks to all participants, especially the crews and Richard Reed, who assisted me on committee.

Fleet 1. Tenacious decisively won two consecutive races against Journey to capture the trophy.
Fleet 2. Godspeed won the start and first race for the Hunter 38s, but Chang Mai won the second start and race.  With both boats voluntarily retired, so there was no third race, Chang Mai takes the series. (Boat last to win.)
Fleet 3. Loblolly took the first race in a photo finish at the "H" mark (shortened course) against Seahawk, but Seahawk took the second race and trophy.
Fleet 4. The two Hunter 30s formed the fourth fleet.  Brenda Gail took the first race.  Honeycraft led by two boat lengths as the two boats approached the midpoint of the last last leeward committee boat leg, but Brenda Gail continued to work hard and sail a straight line and got the inside position on a wind shift to overtake Honeycraft, sealing their victory.

Notable notes:

1. In the two competitions with two dissimilarly rated boats, the slower boats won.
2. Hopefully, Eddie will be able to share the photo of the photo-finish of the Loblolly and Seahawk at "H" mark.
3. I will try to get the trophies out as soon as possible.  Have to talk to the club treasurer.

Cheers,
Tim (Vicknair)

Hello Fellow Sailors,

There seems to be some unanswered questions about the Kerr Lake Kup.  So please see the responses below.

Crew:
It is the responsibility of the captain to recruit the crew.

Captain:
The captain must be present on the boat, but he does not have to be the helmsman.  The captain is alone responsible for the safety of his/her crew and boat.

Trophies:
Trophies will be handed out in the following weeks with inscriptions.  I plan to have really nice ones, perhaps as perpetual trophies.

Wind conditions:
A minimum of at least 3 knots and a maximum of no more 20 knots sustained for 15 minutes is required to start the race.  Brief lulls or gusts are not be counted.  If wind conditions are not met by the starting time window, the race will be rescheduled.

Skippers' Meeting:
10:30.  All challenges and acceptances should be made known by the end of the skippers' meeting.  The format is match racing, which I will discuss at the skipper's meeting.

Starting Signal:
Between 12:00 and 2:00 PM depending on the wind.

See ya on the 27th.

Cheers,
Tim Vicknair

Thanks to all club racers that showed up this past Saturday.  The weather was great and the wind started out very promising.  

We paired up boats into 4 teams.

• Seahawk & M&M (Team Pink 2)
  
• God Speed & Rosebud ( Team Green )
  
• Querida & Loblolly (Team Pink 1)
  
• Chang Mia & Brenda Gail (Team Blue)
  

Each team had to race to the Bouy 3, pass a noodle from boat-to-boat and race back to the finish line.  Also during the race, each boat had to pull one of their sails down for 10 minutes.  

The race started with great wind out of the northeast at a 8-10 knots.  The fleet headed up the lake with all boats sailing fast.  From the race committee's view, the boats looked close together.  The wind up the lake was starting to lay down a bit. This brought the fleet together at the turn.  

The wind started to come and go so this spread out the fleet on the return trip.  Half of the boats were flying spinnakers the other we're wing-on-wing. With the fickle winds, it was a show of the haves and the have nots.  The teams were trying to encourage each other as best possible.  

As the wind died, some of the boats decided to call it a day.  To win, both boats on a team had to finish.  As Rose Bud was finishing, God Speed was calling it a day.  Next to finish was Seahawk, followed closely behind was Brenda Gail.  Team Journey (boat is so big it counted a 2 boats) finished next.   By this time we had been racing for over 4 hours and most of the teams had folded.  M&M was steaming toward to finish line at maybe a knot.  Seahawk was cheering for them as the come across the line.  

So to wrap it all up, the winning team was Team Pink 2,  Seahawk/ M&M .  Great racing Pink 2.  

Thanks again for coming out and also it was nice to have the sea scouts sailing with us.  

Ed Walters