Daily Reports

Day 2– Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Marblehead, MA (September 20) -- Scott Young and his crew from Austin Yacht Club dominated the day's racing with 4 First Places out of the 5 races in today's U.S. Men's Sailing Championships.  Racers repeatedly said "It doesn't get any better than this".  "The boats are tight and even," said Dan Vought of Monmouth Boat Club.

The racing was tight, too. The pack never spread out. "If you blinked, you had ten angry men right down on top of you," said one skipper. "It was a perfect day of racing," he said. Young is followed by Charlie Quigley of Marblehead's Boston Yacht Club, just 6 points behind and David Bolyard, Jr. of Pontchatrain, another 8 points back.

The weather was flawless. We saw a steady NorthWest wind blowing 10 to 15 all day.

Many racers praised the Race Committee as having run the tightest group of 5 races that could have been run. "They got in a race an hour, until the one breakdown of the day, which got handled in 15 minutes", said Charlie Garrard of Boston Yacht Club. The Race Committee in turn complements the racers for their help in organizing boats at the end of the days activities.  "They didn't just leave it to the volunteers," said one official.