Daily Reports
Day 1- Wednesday, August 9

Yes, it does get hot in Houston in August…

I promise that will be the last time I will mention the heat for the rest of the week.  Consider it a baseline condition, sort of like the smell of the sea.

Texas Corinthian Yacht Club is a terrific venue for this kind of an event.  The yacht club has a campus-like setting with a rambling clubhouse with plenty of rooms big enough to hold meetings and a large number of member-owned cottages all within yards of the clubhouse.  And all of this facing Galveston Bay.  The starting line is only three-quarters of a mile to windward of their dock.  Oh yes, the dock.  It may be the grand-daddy of all yacht club docks.  Galveston Bay is very shallow and in order to get to water deep enough to dock keel boats, the TCYC dock is a quarter-mile long.

Clinic Directors Mike Kalin for the Lasers and John Vandermoer for the 420’s kept the kids inside holding chalk talks to wait for the sea-breeze to fill in.  The plan is to have briefings in the morning, serve lunch on shore and launch around noon to take advantage of when the local thermal normally sets up.

PRO Jim Tichenor and his crew set up a practice race but all of the competitors opted to bail out after the first mark rounding for a dip in the pool and a quiet, early evening before the start of racing tomorrow.