OYC Annual Meeting and awards dinner starting 6 PM Sunday night (See agenda in the DOCUMENTS section of the website) Dinner of baked chicken, potato salad, coleslaw and dessert ($7.50/ person) Annual meeting and awards to follow at approximately 7:20 PM. No reservations required.
No Friday Night Party
NOTICE TO YNGLING SAILORS - At the conclusion of racing on Sunday the Yngling sailors will take their boats out of the water using the yacht club crane. Once the pull-out is finished the Yngling fleet will have a planning meeting for the North American Yngling Championships to be held at Okoboji next summer (August 11 - 14). The meeting will be at the yacht club and all interested persons are invited to attend.
SATURDAY 10 AM: forecast NNW Wind at 2 MPH - temp 62 degrees - RC White – Thoreson
SUNDAY 10 AM: forecast SSE Wind at 8 MPH - temp 65 degrees - RC White - Bjornstad
Day three at the MC Invite.
We all arrived at the club with the wiinds from the southwest at 8-10 mph. With this direction we were able to sail right down the middle of the lake. Our windard legs were about 1 mile long and we sailed two races back to back. In the first race the windward end of the line was favored and for the lower 1/2 of the leg the right side paid off. What make this race interesting was that on the upper thrid of the leg you had to be on the left side. So the big decision was when to cross the lake. Bruce Gallagher and Noel Nueman figured it out the best and took first and secound. Paul Wood and Kelly Hirn finished sixth and seventh so with one race to go they were tied.
In the final race the wind built to 10-15 mph. Both Kelly and Paul had on crews. This race was very similar to the first one and finding the right place to cross the lake was key. Dan Fink looked like he was going to win the race but Stephan Schmidt caught him just before the finish. Kelly stayed in the front five boats while Paul slipped back to twelved. This gave Kelly the win.
One of the comments that came up was that when you put 40 MC on a smaller lake like Cedar it feels like you are in a sixty boat fleet. We had five different race winners.