We will have a fun race this coming Saturday. 

 The race committee meeting will start a 10:30 and we will start racing around 12:00.  This race will be called, "Guess My Time." This will be group sail to the dam with a twist.  We will start near the goal posts and race to the finish at bouy 3.  

Here's the twist --  you will sail your boat while guessing the finish time of another boat.  This is how it will work.  There will be a envelope for each boat competing.  You will draw an envelope, guess how long you think that boat will take to race the course, write your guess, seal the envelope and put your name on the outside of the envelope. No one will know who is guessing who.  The best guess will win. If there is a tie, we will flip a coin.  Each boat can chose to race with some or all sails up but must be sailing and proceeding towards bouy 3 at all times. No motor sailing is allowed. There will be some boats racing at full tilt and some might just sand bag.  What will you do?  If you have any questions, give me a call at  919-880-0093.

                                       ~ Ed Walters

Saturday was just about perfect as to weather with one little blemish, not very much wind.  Wind for the start of the race was about 6 knots later falling to to a couple to none.  For the 2012 Steele Creek Hot Dog Race we had 7 boats for the start of the race.  After the captain's meeting all boats started the race cleanly with the able handling of the starting sequence by Jeff on Odyssey.

Early leader was Tim  on Rosebud and Dave and crew on Seahawk flying his spinnaker with the rest of the boats in pursuit.  Wind conditions were very light and variable.  After rounding the first mark H, Tim began to stretch his lead which he would never relinquish.  Following in second was Dave and crew on Seahawk.  A good race between Brenda Gail and Honeycraft followed for third with MM, Deadstick and Family Fued drifting in the after guard in the very light air.  The race conditions continued to be very light to non existent throughout the afternoon with boats being becalmed or speeding along at 1to 2 knots.  Due to the conditions the race was called to end at 4:00 pm with boat finishes based on position down the course.  No boat actually was able to finish due to the lack of wind.  First 3 positions were:

Tim on Rosebud in first place

Dave and Crew Barbara, Kyle and Eddie on Seahawk in second place

Ron and Crew Duane on Honeycraft in third place

After the race we had a gathering of 20 or so folks for a good ole hot dog cooking and fixins with presentation of Hot Dog Burgee and trophies by Ron and last years winner Eddie.  Food and socializing was great.  Special thank you goes to Jeff for race committee, Doug for help with setting marks, food cooking set up, Kyle Wilcox and Dave Rock for cooking, Helen for bringing hot dog fixins and everyone who brought food and came by to enjoy the Hot Dog Race.

Hi everyone. 

The Hot Dog Race is set for this Saturday with hot dogs and fixins.  This is our annual club sponsered race so make your plans to attend with your crew for the challenge of winning the Hot Dog Burgee.  Please email me if you are racing with boat name, type and if you will be using a spinnaker.   I have heard from a few of the boat captains but probably not everyone as most everyone was busy with the boat show.  Now that the show is over let's get out and have some good ole Hot Dog Fun.  Also let me know if you and how many will be joining us for the hot dog dinner and if you can bring any desert, fixing etc.   Lastly, still looking for volunteers for setting marks and helping with the hot dog set up for dinner.

A special thank you goes to Jeff who will be our race committee boat.  We will set a mark by Jeff's boat and use government mark G mark as our start and finish line.  For those who have not raced in this fun race you will get a copy of the course layout at the captains meeting to be at 10:30 on Saturday between Honeycraft and Tennacious C 78 and C 76.  The race will consist of one course and one race with port roundings.   Race course format is different than types used for the racing series.  I will cover course layout and basic rules at the captain's meeting.  We hope to start around 11:45 to 12:00 noon pending getting marks set.   The Hot Dog Burgee and first place trophy goes to the winner, with additional trophies for 2nd and 3rd place.

If you need to you can call me at 252-904-0292 with any questions or if you can help.

Ron Honeycutt

Hot Dog Race Chair

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Hello everyone, 
 
In case you have not heard, the Billy Tee Bluenose Race this past weekend was a great success.  This race was 45 miles from Marker H to Marker 19 at Clarksville and back.  The day started off with heavy rain but backed off some by race time however it was still raining and pretty chilly and it stayed this way pretty much most of the way. 
 
Bluenose stats and information are found in 9/29 blog posts.
 
 
Congratulations goes out Rosebud (Tim Vicknair, Captain and crew Gerd Ottehenning) for their first place finish, crossing the finish line at 8:22 for a total time of 10 hours and 40 minutes. And these poor guys had nowhere to go to get out of the rain!
 
Second place was Tenacious (Eddie Walters, Captain, and crew Dave, Keith and Mike) who crossed the line at 8:37, for a total time of 10 hours and 26 minutes.
 
Third place was Querida (Paul Sullivan, Captain, and crew Don Courtney, Pat Terr and John Pelosi) who crossed the line at 1:04AM for a total time of 15 hours and 4 minutes.
 
A very special mention to Odyssey, Captain and Crew Jeff Matthiae, who sailed for close to 14 hours and it was 15 hours by the time he anchored for the night.  He did a fantastic sailing job at keeping Unplugged behind him.  This one man crew did so wonderful that we have to give him special mention.
 
Unplugged almost made it to the end of the race, sailing for 14 hours.  But the winds had completely died and the remaining 2 members who were awake were exhausted and unfortunately had to call it a night.
 
We want to thank every single person who participated in the Bluenose Race for taking the chance to try it.  You made the event a great success and it makes us happy and excited to host the event again next year.  Thanks for helping us honor Steves dad in such a special way since he is the one who started the Bluenose Race so many years ago. We enjoyed watching the boats throughtout the day and listening to the chatter on the radio--although we only heard half of some of the radio transmissions.
 
Thanks again everyone!!
 
Laura and Steve, Parrotise
  And Bill Twyman (Billy Tee)