Had a blast in Penticton this weekend. Weather was almost perfect! (Lots of sun, nice breeze followed by blowing gusts). 2nd round on Saturday was cancelled because of sudden winds, start grid was full of whitecaps so there was no way to line up the start. The last couple of races you could see an added 10-20, heck 30 seconds on teams times. Good call GO organizers. IMO the GO organizers did a good job improvising Sundays race grid to compensate for not having Round 2 results. I noticed they put up a revised race grid but my race was unchanged. Curious if anyone else felt like they should have shuffled around some more teams for round 3? The results have disappeared from the GO webpage, can't find them anywhere. All I can say is the mixed and womens diamond and platinum finals were all super competitive and VERY entertaining races to watch. My only complaint was that lane 1 (closest to the beach) felt cramped and it was really shallow. Anyone here have any theories on boat times in shallow vs. deeper water? Looking forward to hearing more about the Portland race as well, surprised this forum is not buzzing right now with news from either event, this topic has over 100 views already and portland has over 400 views.
Ryan
I have the exact same experience as you did on Lane 1, I can easily see the bottom in Lane 1 plus I was one of the first boats to race on that lane early morning at 9AM, it was impossible to see anything at the finish line, the only thing I could see was boat 2 and the finish marker for lane 5, everything else to the left was a black mark. I even took a picture and showed to my team mates and everyone agreed to the same problem. I think the race course should be out further by another 100 feet! I just put myself 1" away from boat 2 and race right beside it because I was completely blind in the sunlight. I have already spoken to the officials about what happened as I am unable to see and only can see the shallow water below me and how close to boat 2. I was not the one who got penalty in this race, there was another similar incident later on during that day where 2 teams got penalty times for their races. I was given a warning not to do it again. However this is my first time ever to race in Penticton, also first time on a Millenium F2000 and first time on fresh water. Also there were no lane markers to lead me which was the correct lane way to be on.
The team that helped steer for supported my actions and was very pleased with the racing results during this regetta.
I am still looking for the official time results for Penticton to be released because someone ripped race 45 off the posting board in Penticton. I wanted to see what were the finishing times were. All other postings were there except that one. I do know that particular race was very very close race between the top 3 boats crossing the finish line. It was so close, it was a hard call to make watching from shore.
I agree all the womens teams were super competitive especially for positions #4 and #5 only 16/100th of a second to determine your final team position.
