First Corinthians Draws a Crowd

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.

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.

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.