Skippers,

Should be an excellant day at Murphey Candler. Wind is predicted to come down the lake from the northwest at about 7 to 9. Nice. Should be a ferw of us out there by 11am for racing by 11:30am

We had good wind today at Murphy Candler for 4 fleet boats. Jack, Scott, Jim and Eric were joined by Ray, who is a possible future addition to the fleet. For the 6 scored races, the results were as follows:
1) Jack 10pts
2) Scott 11pts
3) Eric 12 pts
4) Jim 15 pts

As you can see we had some great close races with almost everyone scoring a bullet at least once. We should be out on the water again next saturday for some more racing around 11am.

Here is the regatta report as posted on the PMYC website (http://home.mindspring.com/~pmyc100/2009regatta.htm)

2009 28th Annual Century Cup Report

Elon University, Elon, NC

By: Cameron Hunt – RD

For the eighth year in a row the 17 Captains attending the Twenty-eighth Annual Century Cup Regatta held by The Piedmont Model Yacht Club at Elon, NC on June 6-7, 2009 were blessed with good weather and enough wind, though light at times, to race 22 heats.  The 2 fleet promotion relegation heat system was used.Each captain sailed in 2 seeding heats and at least 9 fleet heats.  Their best finish in the seeding heats was carried forward and one additional throw out for the fleet heats was allowed.

Eight captains registered bullets and eight scored second places.  The top four captains at the end of Saturday’s sailing maintained their leads on Sunday with Baron Bremer advancing from being tied for third to taking first.  Finishing just out of the plaques was Scott Vernon in sixth place.

We had light and variable wind from the North for most of the heats.  The changing winds of Elon gave all points of sail as the boats traveled down the course.

Thanks to all the skippers, wives and girl friends for making this a fun event.  Also a big thank you to Frank Angel for all his preliminary work, expertise, and acting as starter; to Linda Angel for being an excellent caterer, being in charge of lunch and putting up with “Uncle” Frank. Thanks to Paul Bowen and Alan Morris for being mark observers, George Morris and Steve Carpenter for helping with the finishes.  I also want to thank Chris Kakavas for setting and removing the marks from the pond, thereby saving a trip to the hospital for Frank and me.

All in all, the fleet was very close with only 6 points separating the top 4 finishing positions as the scores below reflect.

* Did not sail Sunday

Spot should be getting a new deck tonight, baring any catastrophic epoxy problems.  I have put quite a bit of work into the underdeck and decking while she has been in pieces, including new mast rack, shroud racks with lower/lowers,recentering the jib rack (it was port by ~1/2"), a completely new ballast mounted radio board and a new slim figure.  I will post the new photos soon of the redecking.

Scott, Jim and Eric slogged their way a few races on Saturday in the rain at Martin’s Landing.  In the absence of Spot , Scott was kind enough to loan a boat to Eric for sailing fun.  The heavy rain at times caused quite a few problems, namely sheets sticking to the hulls and decks, so the day was called short by weather around 2pm.  We should be out next weekend as well, hopefully for a tuning and racing day in preparation of the Elon regatta.

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