It wasn't the prettiest performance by the J/30's but we managed to have 3 boats racing togther on lake Erie.

Of the four boats registered to race only three were able to make the starting line. Brett Longolf's boat lost it's drive shaft on the delivery transport and he was unable to get repairs in time to make the start.

This year's race was sailed in light and shifty winds (first leg was lumpy seas, 5-8k winds oscillating through 50 degrees) UGH. Second long leg was a reach that was marginal for a kite with winds forward of 90 degrees. We wrestled with whether to fly the a-kite as ours is smaller and not real effective in lighter air. We struggled with our all purpose kite and finally swithched to the a-kite.

I won't bore anyone with the rest of the details of our 55 mile race other than to say we did manage to find the rocky bottom of the lake off of a small island. Fortunatley the wind was light, we were going slow and we managed to free ourselves without doing any damage to the boat.

The three J/30's ended up as follows
Sand Dollar took 4th in class, Wildcat 6th and Conundrum 7th. Congrats to Dale for outsailing the rest of us.

The good news is that a group of J/30 sailors got to meet, greet and get to know each other a little better. We're hoping this is the beginning of more events where the boats are sailing together.