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First Corinthians Draws a Crowd
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The most common question after Saturday’s opening race of the ’10 Corinthian YC Midwinters was, "Did you finish?" A weak northerly meant that many of the classes that actually got started — and not all of them did — on the optimistic North Bay courses counted only a few finishers among them. In the end, less than a third of the roughly 130 entries actually made it to the finish line and racing was abandoned for all but one of the seven one design divisions.
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Most carried breeze all the way up to the entrance to Raccoon Strait while on the way to a CYC Race Deck finish. That’s where the fun began as the breeze shut off — spare sheets were bent to anchor rodes and the strait became a populated roadstead as the boats tried not to get swept out toward the Gate in the ripping ebb.
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Sunday’s results aren’t yet up, but we’ll have more on the regatta in the February issue of Latitude 38, and if you have any party or on-the-water photos you’d like to see in the magazine — the more scandalous the better — please send them here.