This is the perfect opportunity for non-racers and potential racers to get their feet wet and see how their boat speed stacks up against others without the stress of formal  races. See details under Racing Calendar link.

Season Statistics:
       21 different boats participated in 28 races to the south bridge and back.... There were 11 different winners... $235.00 prize money was shared...
       Bob Ingle recorded times in 15 races and won 9 of them collecting $95.00.... Keith Ford recorded 5 times and  won 3 earning $24.00....
       Butch won both races that he entered and took home $22.00... Mario entered 13 races and won 2 for $13.00... EJ Tews won 2 races and $16.00....
       Glyn Buckley and Craig Rowland each won a  $16.00  race......... Dan Brown won a $12.00 race.............. Chris Bane won $10.00....Spencer Farrington won $3.00.....the fast boat and the thin purse.!!
       Fastest trip time was Spencer Farrington in his J-27 @ 81.85 min.... Second fastest was Gus in his Laser-28 @ 85 min...
       Largest boat was the Halberg-Rassey of Butch Wineberg @ 34ft... and the smallest was the Venture-17 of Evan Casey's............
       Guess the facts bear out the fact that Bob Ingle is the Champion of the Lo-Stress.racing..... He has a "Target Time" that is the result of the collected data from many of the 59 races, so that he does not have a favorable rating----he must be a better sailor !!!!!
       If we do this again next year it will be the 5th year for Lo-Stress and it is based on 2 l/2 years using the same course to the bridge and back................
                THANKS,     GUS

October 29 results:
With the south winds forcast as 15 - 25 mph ,five boats were out cavorting in gusts that must have been in the 30's.... Encanto took off under a reduced main and jib, and Hewitt sailed under a 135% genoa only.... Cam Marcus was first seen sailing back toward the marina with the main and jib reefed but was later seen headed to the bridge under the 150% genoa only... One other boat (Cat-28) was sailing under a reefed main only...       Hewitt passed the early starters on the way to the bridge because they were being over powered and had trouble pointing.... While looking back towards the competition we saw a lovely 360 degree "round-up and out" by Cam's S-2 7.9 at Estes Point... The Aguirre's thought Cam was doing a penalty turn for hitting a marker buoy or something.... Later, as Cam was nearing the bridge, he was observed to be doing "doughnuts" again.... It looked like a "1 1/2 in the tuck position " and a score of 7.2 score.... The ride downwind from the bridge was mild and slow due to the wind moderating.... Bob Ingle was seen on the far side (Cedar Hill) heading toward the bridge under full sail and was fast enough to take first place with 103 min (103%).... Mario had 115 min and a % of 115 and Hewitt sailed it in 109.45 min at 115% performance for a tie for second place... The other boats "did not enter" but provided entertainment... I think Cam must have suffered from the "Sun Storm " or the "Corriolus Effect" since all his roundups were to Starboard while heading in a direcrion of 90 degrees magnetic.... We had $6.00 from last weeks race and have $4.00 from last night for a total of $10.00 which "Queenie" and l suggest we donate to the LCYC general fund.... OK ???.....Good Sail ................................GUS

October 22 results:
Last night the stouthearted racers took off in what was scheduled to be the last race of the year.... However, some boats got to the bridge when the lake turned to glass, some boats motored back, and some boats ran out of gas within a mile of the docks.... Three boats paid their entry but all 3 were DNF: the Aguirre's, Cam Marcus and Dan Brown.... However, even though Daylight Savings time goes out on Sunday the 26th, we should have a proper FINAL RACE and try again on Wed the 29th... Hewitt must have brought a Voodoo hex to shut the wind off at dark.... Fast Forward will have to get the running lights working for next Wed... Lets get everyone to come out and sail and have a big fleet ................ The $6.00 will be a carryover for the 3 boats that paid........ GUS

October 8 results:
Four boats signed up and invested their hard earned cash... Fast Forward took off after Encanto and Bodacious who were working to keep their speed up.... The wind had been rather good around 3 pm but by 5 it was on the wane... We had sailed down to the south bridge and were headed home when we saw several more boats headed south.... Happy Ours and Starlite Express were sailing rather slow  and then we saw Spencer in his J-27 following along with a crew of 2 grandchildren on board.... At about this time our speed had dropped to 0.8kts and l decided to DNF and started the diesel .... Spencer did the same, powered back to the dock, that is.... Only the Aguirre's and Ford recorded finish times .. Gus entered DNF and Steve Raye l guess did too, since he did not record any time..... Ford's time of 182 min gave him a 1.844% and second place went to Mario with a time of 219 min for 2.192% ....The POT of $8.00 goes to Keith.... The two finishing boats are to be commended for enduring a 3 hour trip over a race course that has seen each of them cover in 90+min..... THANKS--- Gus

October 1 results:
Only three boat signed up for the race last nite.... The weather was mild and cloudy, without rain or much breeze... However, Bob Ingle sailed the 8.33 mi. in just over two hours... and Evan Casey covered it in a little over 3 Hours.... The 135min of Bob's gives a performance of 1.35%... Aguirre's time of 183min gives 1.83%.... and Evan's time of 192min gives 1.536%.... The $6.00 pot is Bob's, he said figuratively....... Since daylight savings time is nearing an end, there are only three more Lo-Stress races scheduled ... Get out and get involved, it really is a good excuse to go sailing.................. GUS

September 24 results:
The evening was cool, with a nice wind and a beautiful sunset.... You should have been there! Butch took off first in his 34 ft "palace" followed by Spencer Farrington sailing his J-27 single handed.... Then Mario and Bob Ingle headed down to the point... Keith Ford beat us out of the slip as we were waiting for our last crew member to arrive.... By the time Fast Forward got to Estes Pt. Spencer and Butch were a few boat lengths apart and about to round the Point for home...... Butch had the fast time of 93.8min and took first place with a performance of 1.009%.. Keith at 102min was second at 1.033%... Ingle at 105min had 1.051%... Aguirre's were in at 107min for 1.07%............ Gus had the second fastest time of 99.25 min but a performance of 1.143% due to a low Tgt Time........... (If Spencer had a time of less than 85.5 min he would have won but did not put any $$$ in the pot)......... Butch wins the $10.00 pot  and he won it last Wed too.... Was Cam really steering??         GUS

September 17 results:
It seems that each night that we sail is a nicer one than the last..... Perfect temp. wind and sky.... Sunset was outstanding........ We had 6 boats signed up to race but there were about 3 others from LCYC out there as well as a few from the other Marina across the lake............. Fast Forward sailed the quick time of 92min and Butch Wineberg did 96 min in his 34ft. Halberg -Rassey..... The slowest time was a Catalina 30 at 139.85 min........... Butch wins the $12.00 pot with a performance of 1.0323%..... Bob Ingle's time, sailing the smallest boat (SJ-24), gave him 2nd place at 1.0410%, followed by Gus at 1.0455%...... Steve Raye had 1.0459% and Dan Brown had 1.0508%... Jim Atkinson had 1.1188% but really did not officially race since he did not start by crossing  the starting line.... (the starting line, and the finish line, is between the Rock Breakwater and the western most "No Wake " buoy)......... Those of you sailors who are not enjoying these early fall evenings are missing out on some great sailing......... Come out next Wed .......... GUS

September 10 results:
Last night while waiting for the weather to make up it's mind... we heard thunder, saw lightning, saw rain, saw a rainbow and observed a 90 degree wind shift and whitecaps. Cam Marcus and Spencer Farrington were the first two boats to head out and Steve Raye, the Aguirres and the Gustafsons followed......  At Estes Point , Rag Doll and the J-27 were heading north and Gus was heading south..... Cam did not put any money in the pot but instead was hauling passengers... (crew members from T-N-T, Amazing Grace, and Yachta-Yachta-Yachta) for ballast I think.... All the racers recorded their fastest trip times ever....Spencer had the quickest time of 81.85 min.... Gus was next with a time of 85 min... Steve Raye was 94 min. and the Aguirres had a time of 95 min.... Because the wind was great all of the boats lowered their Target Times....  Steve took the $8.00 pot with a .817% of Tgt. ... Farrington was second at .89%... Mario had .925% for third .... and Gus was at .926%........ Gus sailed his new Doyle sails and was able to tack tighter than 90 degrees---that was a first---.since the old sails tacked in about 100 to 110 regrees.... Guess that l now need to get a new knotmeter so that l can keep my speed up............................ Thanks for the good wind.... GUS

September 3 results:
Quite a few boats were out sailing but only 4 boats had entered .... The weather could not have been better..... Temperature in the 80s, smooth water, steady wind and moonlight too...  E .J. Tews had the winning performance... 1.108% and gets the $8.00 pot.... Bob Ingle was #2 and had 1.121%f.... Gus was third at 1.225%.... and Craig Rowland was 4th at 1.402%.... Fast Forward had the fast time of 117 min  and Tews had the long time of 158.2min.... The Aguirre's were out sailing with a boat load of guests and John Wroble was exercising his Cal-33.... Jon said he had a horrendous override on his Genoa winch  and sailing solo he considered cutting the line but didn't have to do that.... The sailing reminded me of sailing in the Sir Francis Drake channel, except for the color of the water .... Brown vs Blue-Green......You should have been there !!!!                  GUS

August 27 results:
The evening began with a nice breeze that had every indication of getting really good with all the towering cumulus clouds all around the lake...cSpencer Farrington took off with his son as crew and looked like the J-27 was moving very well....cFast Forward milled around a bit waiting for Happy Ours to come out and accept the challenge...cl had put on 170% genoa and Bob Ingle went down the dock and convinced them to put up a 165% genoa.... Somewhere in there the Aguirre bunch snuck in and got over in the middle of the lake and headed for the Estes Pt which Spencer had long since rounded..... We got tired of "milling" and headed to the Pt.....  Finally Ralph Hewitt, with a crew of two came out looking like another challenger (he sailed solo last week under just a genoa).... The wind died and we three boats  flopped our ways to the Pt in about an hour plus..... I think it was due to the proximity of Mars to the Earth and the gravitational pull of this cosmic event took the wind with it...... Fast Forward had visions of Steaks and Martini's and put the BUKH (thats my diesel) to work for a fast ride back to the docks..... Happy Ours never did show up ....guess they retired to the Oasis for a happy hour..... Spencer may still be out there................... Thanks for all getting out there............ No Race...... GUS

August 20 results:
Four boats signed up and the weather was balmy and the wind was mild.....Gus' boat (Fast Forward) had the quick time of 124.5 min followed by Steve Raye (Starlight Express) at 125.5 min.... E J Tews (Jennifer Lea) finished in 146.6 min  for third fastest...... Dan Brown (Joy Ride) must have lost his concentration as he ended up as DNF............. E J Tews sailed w/o a tgt time due to my oversight, and after reviewing all of the prior recorded race data he should have had an "adjusted tgt time" of 137 min.... Which when coupled with his 146.6 min act time he gets a 1.07% performance and wins the pot of $8.00........ Steve Raye sailed a 1.090% of target, and Gus game in last at 1.30% of target.... Dan Brown recorded a DNF............ EJ Tews will have a new Tgt time of 142.8 min based on his 3 best races.............. Sorry that this took so long but George was recovering from disc surgery... Jon hurt his back pulling Wake boards and couldn't get out of bed for a few days... Gus was under the spell of an infection... Gail was able to assist us and Julia.... THANKS Gail............... Hope to see you all on Wed 27 August for race #21 ... (27th is the closest Mars will ever get to YOU - Better be there to see it in the Western Quadrant or you will miss seeing it next time)................... GUS

August 13 results:
      The race either got "blown out" or "rained out " depending on your point of view... Fast Forward took off with some trepidation and was closing slightly on Happy Ours but  Spencer was near us and, sailing alone in his J-27, was having trouble getting his sails up... So for a moment or two there were 3 sails in the water headed east toward Estes Pt....... While watching Happy Ours struggle to stand up and not broach, l elected to roll up the genoa, and  after a total sail of about 15min l said the heck lets go back..... Spencer asked if we had heard thunder, and we had, we said yes and he too headed back...... Looking back over our shoulder we could see the San Juan heading south at a great clip..... l said to Gail that the "gung ho" crew would not back down... they were playing "chicken" with each other..... Bob Ingle's e-mail of Thursday said it all..... with all the rain that they sailed through Bob should have shrunk a size or two.... but l heard that he must have been sanforized 'cuz he looked the same after they got back to the dock..... Encanto with a crew of 4-5 took off for a sail as we were walking off the dock.... Queeny said l should have issued a "no-race" e-mail.... but when Gail and l took off it looked promising for a dry but fast sail...... Thanks to the boats and crew that came out to play..... GUS

August 6 results:
      Five boats were signed up and they were all observed out on the water.... The pot contained $10.00 last night, and $3.00 this morning.... Ordinarily one might assume that 6.5 boats were racing ...   BUT.....Buckley said he put in $10.00 and took out $6.00, and Jim Monroe said he owed $2.00 ... but this am where did the $3.00 come from.???... This is the kind of problem that is not covered in the sailing rule book... The solution l find most acceptable is   WINNER TAKES ALL.......
      Gus started first followed by Bob Ingle at a safe distance of about 300 yds..... This interval held the length of the lake and half way back up.... Bob was pointing tight and Fast Foward was not able to match it and had to tack back out toward the middle of the lake whereupon the 300 yd interval stayed the same but now Gus was following Bob...... In order to pick up some distance on Bob, Gus cut the corner at Estes Pt. and proved that his boat could sail in water more shallow than the advertised 5 ft. draft... Good thing that we were heeling 'cuz the depth gage said 4.5 ft then 4.2 ft.... We did feel the slowdown and l looked back and saw some mud boiling up.... We were all puckered-up, to coin a phrase....
       Saw Buckley and the Hewitt sailing south, plus Encanto dallying around out in the middle..... Fast Foward must have been embarrassed at the Point since she started to gain on Bob and by the time we were at the swimming beach area the gap between us was about 2 -3 boat lengths...and that was the way we finished............. That was right after Monroe yelled that he was $2.00 light................ lngle finished in 125 min, Gus had 128min, Hewitt had 152min, Buckley had 194min and Monroe had 216min.......... However lngle's % was 1.25,.... Gus was second at 1.34%.... Monroe was 3rd @ 1.44%....Hewitt was fourth @ 1.62%  ...and Buckley was last @1.69%..... Bob wins the 6.5 boat POT and the $13.00.... Thanks for a nice breeze that made the 102 degree heat bearable....GUS

July 30 results:
       At a little after 5pm Bob Ingle and l departed the starting line , he said slowly.... Amazing Grace drifted faster than Fast Forward and beat us around the point by a bunch.... As we rounded, l looked back and saw 3 more sails leaving the marina and trying to keep their sails full to look as though they were sailing...... They were Encanto (Aguirre), Starlight Express (Steve Raye), and Happy Ours (Keith Ford)....... It was now about 6pm and a breeze started to come in from the N.E. and was whitecapping by the time we got to the turning mark at the south bridge..... Heading north we met Mario/Esther /Dan Brown heading south, who turned Encanto in between Bob and l and chased us to the finish line.... Keith had better wind at his start as he left later than we did, and he had great wind at his finish due to the threatening weather, (he must have sailed pretty good too)....... Keith's time of 118min beat Bob's time of 129min and my time of 128min.... Keith's tgt time = 97.2... Bob's = 99.9min... Gus's = 95.5min................ GOOD RACE....Mario and Steve both were DNE..... The $6.00 pot goes to Happy Ours..................Thanks,    GUS

July 23 results:
       Last nite's race was apparently sailed by 4.5 boats as the $9.00 pot was won by Bob lngle.... Bob, with a tgt.time of 99.9min covered the course in 127min for a % =1.27.... Cam Marcus, who has a lower tgt.time (91.6min) sailed the race in less time (124min) than Bob but was 1.35 % of his target..... Ralph Hewitt sailed in 147.3min vs a tgt time of 93.5 min for a 1.57% performance.... Jim Atkinson sailed but had a DNF..... Forest Atkins ??? l think sailed Mithrander and also had a DNF.... Based on the sign in sheet l guess the wind was "sad" or lousey......
       FAST FORWARD now has a "re-bearinged" diesel lying on the cabin sole.... If Jon and l can get it poked through the hole in the bottom of the boat tonight, l should be able to have it operating this weekend.... Then you may expect to see me on the lake for next Wednesday's  "Lo-Stress"...................................GUS

July 16 results:
       l forgot to remind everyone that last weeks "Pot",  which Encanto won, also contained the $6.00 carryover from the week before..... Yesterday's race was close.... The winning performance was .99%,  followed by Craig Rowland at 1.006%,   Ralph Hewitt at 1.008%,   Mario Aguirre at 1.011%,  Jim Atkinson at 1.028%, and Hudson's "Genevieve" at 1.056%.... indicating that each boat was operating within about 5% of their target times.....
       Bob Ingle won the $16.00 and also had the fast time.... Railey in his Capri-22 had not raced lo-stress before and did not have a "tgt.time", but will have a 99min tgt for the next race.... Steve Raye did not show a finish time but would have to better 114min to beat Bob Ingle.....
       l can't believe that each boat did so well against their "Tgt Times"..... all boats must have had good and steady wind..........................Thanks,    GUS

July 9 results:
      The fastest lap time was recorded by Cam Marcus at 100 min (1.092%) but the fastest performance was ENCANTO with 110 min at 1.072% and they win the pot.... There were 7 boats signed in but only $12.00 in the can.... Monroe failed to enter a finish time, but he would win if his time were 172 min or better........ Jim Atkinson was the slow boat at 173 min.... Since he "slips" next to Fast Forward, my slow times must be infectious to his 30ft Catalina and are all bad........ Encanto must have left the dock when the breeze was fresh, since they must have been flying... Jay Blass was out practicing in his Colgate 26 at 2pm and looked to be fast, guess he used up all the fast trim (1.593%)........ Ralph Hewitt 's new cabin sole must be heavy... He was SLOW... Jim Monroe may still be out there somewhere... Has any one seen him lately ????......................THANKS..........GUS

July 2 results:
Sorry that the wind gods were not cooperative and that the race ended up in "Dead Heat" to coin a phrase!!  Three boats, "Amazing Grace", "Starlight Express", and "Alchemy" all took off with good intentions, only to be out done by the lack of wind... All the boats ended up as D.N.F...... The $6.00 pot will be carried over to the next week, if that is acceptable to the 3 contenders.... Thanks for trying!!!!        PS: My diesel engine parts have arrived so, with luck, l may have the boat operational again soon.............................. GUS

June 25 results:
$10.00 was in the "Pot" and Keith Ford's repaired engine-transmission must be fixed 'cause he won !!!   But not by much !!!   Dan Brown was second and he would have won if he had sailed 3% faster.... Last week "they" were accused of "hooting and hollerin" but this week "they" must have been concentrating on speed.............. .. Keith sailed the course in 108min....=   1.111%   .......... Dan: 135.5min = 1.148%
                              Craig Rowland: 117min   =  1.155%
                                Cam Marcus: 110min   = 1.201 % 
Jim Monroe would have won if his time was better than 167min. (what was your time Jim?)  At about 5pm Julia and l were driving down toward the south bridge and saw 4 boats approaching Estes point, and "Just Crusin" leaving the marina under full sail... One tall mast was seen having rounded the point, and a "Sport type boat" had just turned at the bridge and was headed north..... 5 racers out of 7 sails is pretty good, about average for our Lo-Stress game.............. Thanks,    Gus

June 18 results:
Bob Ingle provided the missing times, and strangely enough, Bob Ingle won the $8.00 pot with a performance of  1.73%with a time of 173min... Cam used up 176 min and had a performance of 1.92%... Craig sailed 194 min and his performance was 191%..... As nice as the evening was the wind left much to be desired as witnessed by the long elapsed times.... Encanto must have pulled over to sip some cool ones as they must have said the heck with it and settled for a DNF..... Thanks for showing up to sail.... My Honda O/B is back for the second time and the shop assured me it would start this time... Hope to get it on Fast Foward this weekend so that l can sail ... The Diesel will be ballast for a while......Have a nice weekend....GUS

June 11 results:
Five boats took off in what seemed like a nice breeze.... The winning boat, Chris Bame's boat "Soul Shine" was second to Bob Ingle's "Amazon Grace" in elapsed time but corrected to 1.038% vs Bob's 1.071%..... Chris gets the $10.00 pot.   ." Encanto " sailed to 1.142% for 3rd place, and Glyn Buckley's " Summer Breeze" was 4th at 1.31% and Craig Rowland in" Wind Dancer " was either last or next to last... His time was recorded as 158 which computes to 1.55%... or if his time was 1hr. 58min he would have gotten 1.165% .... The wind must have let up some by the end of the race as the time for Buckley was rather long compared to the others.... Sorry that l could not participate ...as you may know l am in the Diesel repair business again to replace the main bearings on the crankshaft... If you don't have an audible alarm system on your engine in addition to a pressure gage "it could happen to you "..... My pressure gage was below the cockpit floor and not often looked at....It leaked and the loss of oil pressure did me in...... "Greasey Gus"

June 4 results:
5 Boats signed up to race, and with a fresh breeze blowing "Devil Dog," Mark Geising's Melges 24, crossed the line first with a full spinaker pulling hard.... "Amazing Grace" the SJ-24 of Bob Ingle's was also moving fast and was either 2nd or 3rd over the line....... However, these two boats did not enter and therefore Buckley's Cat-22 won the gold.... The "Handicapper" gave Buckley's boat too high a target time and with the wind close to whitecapping, his time of 1:57 gave him the winning 85% of target...... Cam Marcus sailed his S2-7.9 exactly to his target time and had 100% performance, but to no avail.... Craig Rowland sailed his Cat-28 to 5% over his target and the Aguirre's sailed their Cat-28 to 10% over target............ Since we had 3 DNFs last week due to the dying wind, there was a $6.00 carryover in the coffee can ... Total prize was $16.00 to Buckley. Fast Forward chose not to sail after having so much fun being blown down the channel between G-dock and F-dock... Fortunately Mark Bryan and at least 3 others were there to "fend me off".... Got towed out into the lake by a JET SKI----- Oh the Embarrassment of it all!!! I didn't break any outboard motors but probably left some paint on their props.... If l did let me know! I must get my Diesel working again!!!!      Thanks for the turn out....GUS

May 28 results:
The wind gods were not paying attention.... Ralph Hewitt was already around the point when l got there... Dan Brown was by the swimming beach and l took off in a windless environment..... By the time I got across the start line Dan was getting close to the point but looked to be closer to the dam..... Fast Forward never got more than 100 or 200 yards from the start line when we found we could sail better with the genoa furled and the main generally trying to look like a sail, as we limped back into the docks..... As we were securing the boat l saw a sail coming around the point and l think it was Bob Ingle.... I logged in at the clip board - DNF.... Next morning l checked and found both Dan and Ralph had also logged   DNFs... The next Wed race will have a $6.00 carryover in the pot.... Note:   It sure is slow trying to get back to the slip in no wind w/o a diesel...                Thanks for the good try...... GUS

May 21 results:
Due to the lousy weather (Rain and almost no wind) tonight's race is postponed   !!!!     Besides that my diesel is froze..... See you all on Saturday at the starting line of the MAY DAY REGATTA....................Cheers.................GUS

May 14 results:
  Six boats raced in light to lousy wind....the times were all long , but surprisingly they were rather close....
      
       Cam had the fastest time of 2 hr. and 21 min.  = 1.54% of target time
       Gus sailed the course in      2 hr.    - 32min.     = 1.66% of target time
       Mark Bryan sailed              2 hr. -33min          = 1.58% of target time
       Bob Ingle sailed                 2 hr. - 36min.         = 1.56% of target time
       Mario had a time of            3hr. - 9min.           = 1.84% of target time
       Steve Raye had no recorded time....

       Bob Ingle gets the $13.00 pot.............Some of us tried to fly Spinnakers but due to the fluky winds it was a disaster.........................Thanks,   GUS

May 7 results:
       Eight boats were flying around the course with Spencer Farrington logging the fastest time of 84.85 min........ Craig Rowland sailing solo in his Catalina 28, despite a replaced shoulder, had a time of 96.5 min. and took the $16.00 pot..... Encanto sailed their second fastest time in over 30 trips to the bridge and back but only ended up as 4th place in %........... Fast Foward came in last place...
       Skipper       Time              Target              % of Tgt      New Target
       Spencer........84.85min........88.9min................95%...............87.1min
       Marcus.........93.5...............91.6......................102............... n/c
       K.Ford..........94.................101.9.....................92..................97.2
       Rowland.......96.5...............110.5.....................87................101.3
       Gustafson.....98.22.............91.8......................107.............   n/c
       Ingle.............101................99.9......................101.............   n/c
       Aguirre.........102.4.............104.8.....................98................102.6
       Hudson........131................126.......................104...............134

The wind was great and the weather never did get looking too bad......... The early starters got the fast times due to the better wind, although the wind never did die out............ .............. GUS

April 30 results:
       Seven boats participated in winds predicted to be15-25 mph , but l don't think it blew that good..... Spencer in his J-27 had the quick time of 94.7 min.... Gus in Fast Forward logged in at 100.5 min.... Cam Marcus (you remember him) had 102 min.... Bob Ingle had 105 min...... The Aguirres in Encanto and Chris Bame in his SJ-26 each completed the 8.33mi in 121min... Hudson in his O-Day 22 recorded 144 min..... Bob Ingle took the $14.00 purse with the best performance of 1.051%...... Spencer had 1.066% .... Gus had 1.094%... Bame was 1.112%... Cam was 1.114%   and Mario had 1.137% .... Hudson, who didn't have a target time, is assigned a 126 min target for a starting point........ I'm sure Fast Forward would have won except for my "World Class Broach "...... almost lost 2 kids, 2 grandkids and 1 passing acquaintance.... Life lines do have a purpose !!!   Gail crossed the finish line indicating 7.2 kt. which was about as fast as we had sailed all evening................Great time...............GUS

April 23 results:
      DUE TO THE THREAT OF FOUL WEATHER TONIGHT----------RACE IS CANCELLED---------------------Discretion is the better part of valor............GUS

April 16 Results:
       6 boats signed up and the earlier starters had the best performance. Like last week, the wind reduced in strength as the sun was setting in the west. Dan Brown with 111.2 minutes time took the $12.00  first place with a target performance of 91.37%. A new target time of 118 min has been awarded. Bob Ingle was second at 99 minutes for a 96.5% performance. His new target time will be 99.9minutes. Third was Ralph Hewitt at 93.2 min which was 98% of his target. Ralph's new target time is 93.7 minutes. Farrington in his J-27 was seen sailing north from the bridge with only his mainsail up. He still had a time of 96.3 min which was 8 % above his target. Gustafson in Fast Forward, with Gail, Jon, George and 2 grand daughters on board finished in 103 minutes for 112% performance. Buckley in his Catalina 22 didn't sail very fast so he ended up at 149 minutes elapsed time. However his target time will be raised since this was only his 3rd Lo-Stress race. Bill Thomas in his San Juan-34 was seen headed to the bridge but he did not sign up. It was another memorable evening with nice wind and great temperatures...........GUS

April 9 Results:
       The first race of 2003 was conducted with 6 boats and strangely 2 boats tied for first and 2 boats tied for second place. Mario and Esther were the first boat to start and in 18 minutes they had rounded Estes Point. Then Spencer Farrington in his J-27 started  and the wind must have been favorable 'cause they shared first Prize at 1.23% of their target times. Spencer gets $6.00 and Esther gets $3.00 and Mario gets $3.00. Spencer's time was 109 minutes. Fast Forward started third and tied with Keith Ford in his Happy Ours at 1.26% of their target times. Ralph Hewitt, sailing with a paid crew, had a performance of 1.38% at 131 minutes and took 3rd place. Bob Ingle was last seen trying to get back to the dock while sitting in a glassy part of the lake and had no time recorded. The wind died as the daylight faded but the temperature was great and it was good to get sailing again... GUS

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