Wednesday Butterfly One Design

07-07-10

T'was different air - light air - that met the Butterfly fleet for the July 7th race. That meant some close racing for the 8, yes, 8 Buterfly boats on the water. Calen Terry demonstrated go fast ability taking two bullets with Ed Peck and Joe Terry in a tie for 2nd. Ed broke the tie with a win in the last race.

The sailors returned to a course regularly sailed by Lake DuBay sailors up until the late 90's, but not since, the Gold Cup course. A triangle leg followed by a windward-leeward kept the racing exciting and gave opportunity to move around in the fleet. With the oscilating and diminishing winds, Race 1 was a W-1, Race 2 was a G, and race 3 was shortened to one single winward leg as the wind shut off and the boats struggled to finish.

Once again, with a thread of rain the weather held out, and sailors had a great time.


Race Committee: Rich Barker, Jim Force

Name
Race 1, W1, 4 mph
Race 2, G, 3 mph
Race 3, W 1/2, 1 mph
Total
Position
Calen Terry
1
1
4
6
1
Ed Peck
4
2
1
7
2
Joe Terry
2
3
2
7
3
Dennis Gamble
3
4
3
10
4
Kurt Sims
5
5
5
15
5
Tom Jones
6
6
6
18
6
Jack Thielke
7
DNF (9)
DNS (9)
16
7
Sheryl Thielke
DNS (9)
DNF (9)
DNS (9)
27
8