[Sonar] Geneva report

[Thomas_M_Brown at bluecrossmn.com]

I don't have the historical perspective with GLC but here is what happened 
this time:

1st:   John Sligh

3rd  Marty Fossen

Dan (Encore),  Trevor and I were bringing up the end.     Actually the 
three of us had some fairly lively competition...one particular windward 
and leeward mark in particular.

There were 13 or 14 boats I believe.     As I kind of knew going into 
this,  the bar is set pretty high at LG.   The first indication of this 
was the MELGES license plate on the Jimmy in the parking lot.  That and 
having no local knowledge and going into the weekend with some serious 
sleep debt  that we had our work cut out for us.

Other events, comments or observations: 

-  #69 (Encore) almost did a '96' on the tarmac and became history. 
(rolled off the trailer,  on the bow was still between the final set of 
rollers)

-  Shaina and Mike Johnson unintentionally played teeter totter on Tally 
Ho! on the trailer one morning.  It caught the end of the trailer before 
it hit the rudder due only to our location on the slope.  No damage 
though.

-  All of the Geneva boats were dry sailed and were typically hull #400 
and up.

-  All but one of the Geneva boats had Tackticks or something similar

-  At least three of the top Geneva boats had brand new sails just for 
this regatta   (Adios,  Woody and 515)

-  A couple of the Geneva Sonar owners are on their second Sonar  (newer 
hulls). 

-  I was told that every one of the Geneva crews had done this regatta at 
least a half dozen times and several as long as they've had it.

-  The LG Sonar fleet reportedly  is about half the size it was a year 
ago.   There apparently are no new Sonar owners there in the past two 
years.  The same I'm told with the Star class.   There is only one J24 
left and its for sale with its mast laying down.   Big growth area there 
is the scows and Melges boats.   Fixed keelboats seem to be dying out.

-  At 48,   I felt very young against the other LG competitors

-  Great winds both days.    Shifty and unpredictable even when strong. 
There is a lot of local knowledge about wind lifting or bending around 
points that would be extremely useful.

-  No deweeding needed.    But we did see some initial milfoil growth. 


So,  in essence,   we did really well with Marty and John.      For me 
anyways,   it was good that we got to see how high the bar is with this 
group and what we have to work up to.

Thomas Brown
"Maximizing Business by Minimizing Surprises"



"David Olson" <David.Olson at toro.com> 
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Will someone spill the beans?   How was the GLC?
 
David 
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