The Vanguard cup was light this year, with 8 boats starting the race and only 2 finishing. I had my wife's cousin Dominic with me for this hair raising event!
On this day, most of the fleet headed out/south into the middle of the Lake for better wind. The day was hot and humid and land breezes were within 1/2 to 1 mile from shore. If you were outside that limit you were screwed. We were 1 of the lucky 2 boats that finished. Here is our track:
https://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&q=http://www.newcastleyachtclub.com/bart/Vanguard2012_new.kml&ie=UTF-8
Race duration was about 2 hours. This race was almost won by Dave Thompson and his son on Patricia if the wind hadn't died when they were within 200 meters from the finish line. Weird and fluky day for wind.
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