Konas at the National Capital Regatta - August 10-11, 2013

After the masters weekend, it was time to participate in the National Capital Regatta at my club, the Britannia Yacht Club. Fifteen windsurfers came to Ottawa to participate in this annual event, which has been held now for 56  years.

Saturday was pretty windy with winds between 15-20 knots. At that wind speed, I am not strong enough to race so I went out anyway on my Kona and 7.4 Kona sail and had a blast just going fast and practicing jibes. Now I know that I can hang on and sail that 7.4 in that much wind! But racing in that wind is another story because of the downwind legs. The others did 5 races so everybody was pretty tired at night.

Sunday was a more tamed day, just my kind of wind. We did 3 races in the morning and started a 4th one that was abandoned due to the lack of wind. But of course, as soon as it was abandoned, the wind came back and we could have finished it. We all went in for lunch and the Race Committee called it a day. Everyone packed up and attended the awards ceremony before going home.

Left, Phil Moorman, our commodore, Olivia Mew, Nick Cox, Rick Collins & Andrée Gauthier, winners of the weekend.

A slow action picture, I am number 1703.