Eastern Lakes Regatta sailed on Button Bay March 2nd, 1996 in beautiful weather when everyone else on the east coast was getting a massive snow storm.
Ice condition: Snow ice fine pebbly surface smoothing through out the day as the temperature rose.
Weather: Partly cloudy; Temp 27 - 35 F. winds 10-18 knots with 15 degree shifts
Course length: 1-1/2 Stature miles
Race Committee and commandant: Peter Hill (ran a good race - try to figure that start!!!)
One of the best conditions this year. The race was sailed on great ice with good weather and a perfect sunset over the Adirondacks. The winds alternated between light air and heavier air giving a good wide variety of conditions.
The race was topped off with a pizza fest at the Brush's who graciously opened their home to the competitors. Who would have expected the topic to turn after passing the bottle of advil (there were seven races run in less than 5 hours) to the potential IDNIYRA adoption of the new materials proposal from the North American fleet of IDNIYRA. What does it mean for next year if the fleet won't know the results of the IDNIYRA vote until sometime between 12/15 and 1/1/97? Will sailors build fiberglass spars anticipating adoption of the new regs on spec? There was no consensus.
Some sailors tried to sail Sunday, but with the intermittent snow squalls and white outs by 2:00 everyone was off the ice and on the road and happy to have sailed another day.
Results were as follows:
1st M. Obrien US 3456 2nd J. Kent US 3535 3rd D. Connell US 1630 4th P. Gervais US 4626 5th J. Spalding US 4340 6th D. Brush US 4009 7th D. Terwillinger US 4244 8th J. Harlow US 4699 9th B. Condon US 4099 10th R. Saccardo US 4897 11th M. Mc Cauley US 4762 12th B. Burgess US 4823 13th T. Cox US 4306 14th R. Meumuller US 1766 15th Irene Gonin US 4417 16th E. Witcomb US 4775 17th Luc Buxton US 3758
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