The 2011 Donzo WNRS in the Books!

All that's left is the cheering.  And that is next Wednesday night at the Awards Party at Masons Island Yacht Club.  Last night, the Mudheads finished up our 20th season of Wednesday Night Racing in a light Southerly that never got started.  One short windward leg toward North Dumpling in a raging ebb and it was all over.  And as the sun set on the drooping spinnakers as half a dozen boats tried to sail home, we can look fondly back on our amazing season with 13 races recorded and enough breeze to keep even the most disinterested player in the game.  

Special thanks to the crew of Tony DeLima and his Mayaro crew.  They were out in Soggy Dollar, Jerry Ledger's little runabout, thinking they could party and watch, but we put them to work as the windward mark boat and they did the deed.  Next time, Jerry, we'll give you enough anchor rode.  80 feet you say?  

Once the zephyr from 190 settled in, we started the sequence and the biggest issues in light air is usually clearing the starting line for the next class.  But, everyone ghosted away to the southwest and then the Eddie Maxwell hoisted anchor and the race was on...who was going to get to the windward mark first.  Cosmic Debris?  Breaking Wind?  Or the RC to shut off the pain!  Fortunately, the RC won the race by about a minute and the S flag went up, two guns sounded and we started taking names. Race 13 in the books!  Count 10 for the overall.

Now, the recalculating, retabulating and regurgertating of numbers will commence as your humble scorer will double check and correct all the errors from a season of split second timing. Probably sometime Wednesday afternoon it will all end up neatly typed on paper in time for the ceremonies when we will crown the winners, console the losers and make fun of as many people as we can.   Ihope you'll be there for the festivities.  If you won a Pepetual Trophy last year, bring it with you so we can pass it on to this year's winner.  If not, bring your appetite and thirst.  Stand by for the results.