I have just returned back from the excellent Annapolis NOOD regatta where we had awesome racing, tons of current and 6 different race winners in 7 races. The only two timer was Jim Richardson and his Barking Mad crew.

At this event we had 7 Great Lakes boats that attended and of those 4 of us won a race! Congrats to Illusion for winning race 1, Tramp for race 3, Team Krav Maga for race 5 and USA 41 for race 6. We also had 4 boats in the top 10 with Tom Ritter and crew aboard Tramp taking the regatta overall by a comfortable 6 points over Dan Cheresh and Team Krav Maga. Illusion had a tough last day and dropped to 6th and Black Seal with the Young family finishing 8th.

I/ would say quite a great showing for the Great Lakes. We did miss a bunch of you and we hope to start hearing who is going to be attending which events in the near future. Next up is Toronto NOOD where Kevin Brown is working hard at making our stay in the great white north as easy as possible. I hope to get Kevin to pipe in with regatta plans and I am sure that he would appreciate knowing who is in and/or what he can do to get you there!

We are hoping to attract some of the East Coaster's and I will be in contact with Nelson to sort that out over the next few days. Unfortunately neither DC nor I could make the owners meetings the other night as we were stuck on the new boat getting the engine and electronics sorted out for the next day. So we missed a chance to talk up the GL fleet and our events there. Maybe one of those that did attend can give us a brief run down of what happened.

Anyway, just wanted to touch base and give you a heads up on what happened. Congrats to Tom and Tramp for a great regatta looking forward to seeing you all on the race course in the very near future, remember Canadian beer is better! Cheers

Tac Boston

Results: Sailing World NOOD

Chase Boat Commentary

by Nick von der Wense Nick von der Wense (TurboDuck), suffering through his shoulder injury, has posted full Annapolis NOOD chase boat commentary through an RSS feed and on Itunes. See http://sputnikvdw.audioblog.com/rss/racer_chaser.xml for the RSS feed or access the audio through Itunes searching for Racer Chaser. The RSS feed can be easily accessed through Google reader, a free service.