Frostbiters enjoy lively day of sailing

Sunny skies, 40 degrees and 10 mph northwesterlies provided such a good day for the frostbiters that racing finally ended when race committee members Dick Allphin and George Rice announced that they had run out of room on the score sheet.

Eight races were held and it was a busy day of over-earlies, 360 degree penalty turns, bumping, tiebreakers, ducking. Five boats also overlapped on one finish.

Despite a short course there was no winning way to approach the windward mark because of light shifty winds in close to the beach. This resulted in four to five boats approaching the mark from opposite directions at the same time. Sailors with a puff of wind were going fast, while nearby other sailors were barely moving.

This meant more port-starboard fouls and more 360 circles for those without the right of way.

In addition to the sailing fun, the fleet also learned boat handling, some rules and when to quickly do circles when they get caught without the right of way. After eight races, the standings were close in the middle of the fleet, including a tie-breaker for third. John Horton won the day with four first-place, two second-place and one thirdplace finish for 12 points. Martin Keene was second with 29 points; John Quinn, who won the tiebreaker, was third with 32 points, Henry Siegal was fourth with 32 points; Winston Knight was fifth with 39 points; Joe Logan was sixth with 40 points; and Terry Jones was seventh with 42 points.