Svendsen's Thursday Night Series #14 at Treasure Island Sailing CenterJuly 5

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One of our windiest days this season! Prior to heading out, Gordon checked out the breeze from the dock got a wind reading of about 20 knots. And that's probably a few knots less than in the middle of the course.

The results were some of the closest we've seen all season. Steve and Amanda sailed consistently to take first for the day, one point ahead of yours truly (Al and Rachel), who were over early in race one and had to go back. (Thanks to Jack and Gordon for telling us, since we didn't hear the race committee call our number.) Just one point behind were Dan and Claire, who won a tie-breaker with Dave Byron who had Matthew Sessions crewing for at least some of the races. Rounding out the top five were Rolf and Jordan.

Thanks all the sailors who went out on a windy day. It's never fun trying to get a boat back up after a capsize, especially after sticking your mast in the mud of our shallow cove, but hopefully the fun of sailing in the big breeze made it worth it on the balance.

Thankfully we had a second crash boat in the water to help. Kudos to Mike Bishop in the Laser fleet from asking TISC to loan that to us last minute, and to the folks that drove it and rescued capsized boats.

Note for future windy faces: if anyone ever gets hypothermic, which can happen in 10-15 minutes in the water without a wetsuit, I carry a mylar thermal blanket in my lifejacket. I've got a bunch in my car and am happy to pass them out to other fleet members to carry with them on the water. Or you can just buy them on Amazon for $8 for a ten pack: http://j.mp/NeeEd2

Finally, thanks to the Laser fleet for social chairing and bringing plenty of dogs for hungry sailors back on shore.

Final notes: please register for each night so that social chairs know how much to bring. (I'm looking at you, 0 and 631.) And get unique numbers to make scoring easier -- two strips of duct tape on a mainsail is all it takes to change, say, 631 to 6311.

See you next week!
Result
PosBoatNameTotalRace 1Race 2Race 3Race 4
11005Steve Kleha & Amanda Kleha122(2)2(4)6(10)2 (12)
2740Al Sargent & Rachel Maxson1310(10)1(11)1(12)1 (13)
31203Daniel Altreuter & Claire Hulse141(1)4(5)4(9)5 (14)
4907Dave Byron & Kara & Matthew Sessions146(6)3(9)2(11)3 (14)
51761Rolf Kaiser & Jordan Paxhia217(7)7(14)3(17)4 (21)
61765Dave Wilson & Jessica Barhydt224(4)5(9)7(16)6 (22)
7631Chad Gray & Natasha Baker273(3)6(9)9(18)9 (27)
8511Jack Porter & Gordon Porter285(5)10(15)5(20)8 (28)
9694Alexander Symes & Michele Sumpton338(8)8(16)8(24)9 (33)
10630TISC instructors3812(12)9(21)10(31)7 (38)
11631aThe unregistered399(9)10(19)11(30)9 (39)
12995Jonathan & Mason4111(11)10(21)11(32)9(41)
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