A tale of two models

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A tale of two models

NWS is predicting dots. Almost all of the other models aren't - lighter wind instead.

"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times."
- NWS (or Dickens. I think I got that one wrong in school.)

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Allatoona looks to have a better forecast. Lanier is in some kind of dead zone.

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I was thinking of going to Galts - the Iwindsurf model seems to be saying the same thing. Park is now open. No reason not to?

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Then again - "If it does not blow, you must not go" (NWS - or was it Johnny Cochran?)

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Galts it is. I'm on my way.

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I might join you. I live near toona and there is breeze. How long do you plan to be out?

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It was a good day at Galts. Micah and I sailed 7.5 and 7.3. Winds probably 10-15 maybe more - there were times the lake was full of whitecaps. Lots of sailboats - they seemed to have 2 races going at once, but all in all tough to be a warm day with good winds.

Anybody sail at Lanier?

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I stopped by Sunrise early afternoon and the water was dead. I didn't stick around.

Galts got the wind today.

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Its the law of averages catching up. Lanier had better winds for most of the last 20 years. Stands to reason Galts will have better winds for the next 20 or so.

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There must have been 30 to 40 boats on the water and Galts isn't that big. I couldn't figure out where the course was. I guess it was a secret course regatta Acute

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Don't feel too bad about that. I'm not sure all the racers knew where the course was either. I think there were also a couple jokers that weren't in the race that were just going where ever they wanted to go as well. I think they also moved the course as least once during the afternoon. So it was confusion reigning supreme.

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Don't feel too bad about that. I'm not sure all the racers knew where the course was either. I think there were also a couple jokers that weren't in the race that were just going where ever they wanted to go as well. I think they also moved the course as least once during the afternoon. So it was confusion reigning supreme.

Standard converstation in the back of the fleet:

Crew: Where's the next mark?
Skipper: Don't know, We'll just follow everyone else.
- source: have followed other lost boats more than once

Marks get moved if there are significant windshifts like probably happened yesterday. Ideally, the first mark is dead upwind so that neither port nor starboard is favored. Not unusual to spend quite a few minutes cruising back and forth waiting for marks to be reset. Invariably the wind shifts after the starting sequence has commenced in order to create the maximum pain for the volunteers on the race committee who would much prefer to be sailing than hauling up 70 feet of wet line.

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