Stars Are Out

Star sailors will be out this weekend in St Michaels for the First race of the year for the Miles River Yacht Club - the Dr. David Oursler Star Spring Championship.

The weather for Saturday is calling for rain, thunderstorms, and only 7 knots of wind. That's no fun. Perhaps Sunday will be better. I'll be on the water Sunday and will try to get some photos of our St Mikes people in action.

Miles River Yacht Club 2009 Regatta Schedule

I've had a few email requests for the schedule of racing this year at the Miles River Yacht Club. There is a lot of racing planned, so I broke it into several posts. You're already seen the post about the Log Canoe Race Schedule of which the MRYC is hosting several weekends, but I wanted to give you the other races as well.

Here is the 2009 Schedule for Regional Races (races where many yacht clubs and YRAs are invited to participate):

May 2 & 3	Star Spring Championship Regatta
May 23	Annapolis to Miles River Race
May 24	Race Back to Annapolis
Aug 1 & 2	MRYC Annual One Design Regatta
Aug 3	MRYC Annual Junior Regatta
Oct 10 & 11	H. Shuster Star Fall Series

All too familiar

SailKarma is reporting that Star boat USA-8250 (Andrew Macdonald and Brian Faith) broke a mast during the Sofia regatta in Palma. Ouch! I wish we could say we've never seen that before on the Miles River.

Miami OCR: Star Medal Race

An awesome video for all you Star sailors. It's the medal race from the Miami OCR presented by Sailgrove.com



Lots of downwind action! Just because you rounded the windward mark in 9th place doesn't mean you can't win the regatta.

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