Road To The Cup – Week 14 Top-10 as of 8/25/19 First off, congratulations to our new national champions Chris & Debbie Schreiber, who sailing with their son Chris, just smoked the fleet. They were shot out of a cannon, over eight races putting up a line of 2-7-1-1-3-2-2-3 for 14 points. There are some … Read more
Road To The Cup – Week 12 Top-10 as of 8/11/19 Just five boats showed up for Twilights on Thursday evening, which is their gain and our loss, as it sounds like it was a perfect night for sailing. We have dueling reports this week: one from John Casler and the other from Jim Taylor, … Read more
Road To The Cup – Week 11 Top-10 as of 8/4/19 Six boats showed up to sail a very nice Thursday evening that was both competitive and devoid of any mark-rounding drama. Here’s John Casler’s report. “The wind was light out of the NW for most of this fairly long race, the first round of … Read more
Road To The Cup – Week 10 – Race Week Edition Top-10 as of 7/29/19 As you know, there was no twilight racing Thursday night due to Race Week. Instead we were treated to Jennifer & Steve Uhl’s gracious hospitality – again! That, by the way is a direct quote from the last several year’s … Read more
Road To The Cup – Week 9 Top 10 as of 7/21/19 Twilight Series 2 kicked off with a bang on Thursday, with 7 boats showing up, including Team Lane / Heffernan in their Twilight debut. By all accounts, it was a beautiful evening featuring a light, shifty northeasterly that got lighter as the race … Read more
Road To The Cup – Week 8 Top 10 as of 7/14/19 Eight teams showed up for the final race of Twilight Series 1, which thankfully happened despite yet another threat of thunderstorms. You’ll recall that three consecutive Thursdays were washouts due to weather, and then no race last week due to the holiday. So … Read more
Road To The Cup – Week 7 Top 10 as of 7/7/19 There was no Twilight race this week in deference to the 4th of July holiday. The final race of Series 1 will be Thursday July 11th. Steve Uhl leads with 3 points, followed by Team Taylor in 2nd with 6 points and John … Read more
Road To The Cup – Week 6 Top 10 as of 6/30/19 The twilight race was cancelled for the third straight week due to fog and a lack of air. Here are a couple of shots that give you a flavor of things. The top one is from Jocelyn Cook, who as you may recall … Read more
Road To The Cup – Week 5 Top 10 as of 6/23/19 The twilight race was cancelled for the second straight week due to weather. We got the word in a Thursday afternoon email from El Jefe which went out to a distribution list that included the usual suspects. “There will be no twilight racing … Read more
Road To The Cup – Week 4 Top 10 as of 6/16/19 Happy Father’s Day! Eight teams exchanged a bunch of emails on Thursday, lamenting the crappy weather, analyzing the unfavorable forecast (one model said 25 with gusts to 38 at game time) and debating whether or not to sail. CYC’s David Graham mercifully ended … Read more