Road To The Cup – Week 11 Top-10 as of 8/2/14 The dominant theme in the mailbag this week was rules and exoneration after committing a foul (nothing like a street brawl to get people digging for their rule books). I guess the issue is that we don’t seem to be spinning as much as…
Road To The Cup – Week 11 8/2/20 The Twilight on Thursday was a washout. Prior to racing, the boats in the harbor were all pointing in one direction, but that was only due to a strong incoming tide because there sure wasn’t enough wind to do that. On top of that, thunderstorms were forecast…
Road To The Cup – Week 5 Top 10 as of 6/26/22 Five teams showed up for our second Twilight of the season. That’s two Twilights in a row – I guess it’s finally summer. Our writeup this week is from Steve Uhl. “Second week in a row brought a healthy Southeasterly, with…
Road To The Cup – Week 16 Top-10 as of 9/9/18 There were informal, unscored Twilight races scheduled for both Tuesday and Thursday. To our knowledge, no R19s sailed on Tuesday and according to John Casler, Thursday was a washout. In his usual concise way, he summarized the situation in with this. “A few minutes…
Road To The Cup – Week 10 Top 10 as of 8/1/21 Well, it happened again. The weather didn’t accommodate. Twilight PRO David Graham was out in front of this one, sending out a weather email in the morning, with the intention of running races despite the forecast of rain and 15+. (That, by the…
Road To The Cup – Week 6 6/28/20 Happy 4th of July. There was no racing this week, and not a lot to report on the racing front. The Governor moved the Phase 3 transition out a week from June 29 to July 6, most likely to collect more data. Given the resurgence in other…