If you were not there, you missed a good time. The First ever Wednesday Night Race on Friday Night was held on Friday April 11th. The race went off with out a hitch and a good time was had by all. We had wind, which is always a good thing if you are trying to race sailboats. In fact looking back on the race we could of had a two lap race and still of been finished early. The race was from the buoy at the club, to the buoy at Bass Marine, to the power lines at Rocky Creek back to the club. The winners were those Harrell Boys, followed Carl Saylor, Charlotte and myself, then K&J Racing team and then Wilson Racing Company. Saturday’s race we had a little more wind and the winners and times have been posted on the web page. Sunday’s race was a good one. Winds were 20 mph and gusting to 28 mph. The race was scheduled to be a two lap event from the club’s buoy to the power lines at Island Creek and back to the club. We had four boats racing. Those racing were Michael and Charlie (1/2 of the Wilson Racing Company), Ken and Jennifer ( K&J racing Team) George Bloodworth and Bill Lewis and Charlotte and myself. The official starter was Jay Harrell. Charlotte and I were the only ones with a reef main and we had our Genoa furled in some. Charlotte and I had one of our famous starts, terrible, slow, we hit the buoy and were dead last. We decided to enact the Wilson Racing Company’s interpretation of when to do out 360 penalty turn, basically when we got ready to. We raced across the big water watching everyone round up a time or two. Once into Island Creek we unfurled the Genoa and started to creep up on the pack. We started to do our 360 penalty turn, but we were afraid no none would see us so we waited. Once we managed to get ahead of one we finally did our 360. We were able to catch the rest of the group and actually pass them, because they got too close to the lee shore and did not have as much wind as we did. We reached the power lines first and started our return trip. We had to tack because I was worried about the depth, our tack brought us in the path of Michael and George, they had to alter their course. K&J Racing team had past us before this maneuver, this was after they made a 360 penalty turn. We were just a tad behind K&J and we decided to tack again now as opposed to latter. If I tack we would have gone right in front of Michael and George again, so we sailed back down the course to allow them to pass before tacking. In retrospect, I do not think this will be a race tactic we will try again, we were dead last, but we had a another lap to make it up. We decided to roll in the Genoa just before the big water on our return trip to the club. Just as we rolled it in some we saw some really good rounding ups. I believe that the unofficial best rounding up of the day would have to go to George and Bill. We can tell George, with out a doubt his bottom and keel are still very clean. We are getting close to rounding the mark at the club for the return trip and Jennifer’s yells that two of the other boats wanted to call the race, I said I would like to continue and Charlotte yelled in agreement to Jennifer’s suggestion. I guess you know without me saying it turned into a one lap race. Races come and races go but this is one race I will remember, we lost, nothing unusual about that, but it was a great, at least in my eyes, Charlotte may have another opinion. Next race is schedule for April 26 and 27, The Sinclair Open. More to come about that race next week.