Metro Open Regatta

[brianpickton]

The Metro Open Regatta this weekend was blessed with beautiful sunny weather and a decent breeze for the event, which is a chase with a Bermuda start, always an interesting format for a race, since you are constantly striving to overtake the boats that started a head of you while trying to beat the faster boats that started behind you.

The only disappointment was that the Bedford Yacht Club ran out of the combination registration/beer tickets before they registered all of the boats. I was told at the BBYC that they only had 100 of the $5.00 tickets to begin with. Given the size of the regatta I wondered at the time why they would print so few?

Later at the finish ceremonies (where draft beer was selling for $6.00 a plastic glass) a BBYC member alleged that the reason BBYC ran out of tickets was because a select group of BBYC members (he referred to it as the "Shore Drive Yacht Club") had arrogated a number of these tickets for their own use. Let's hope that's not true. It is less offensive to be the victim of incompetence than it is to be the victim of greed.

[brianpickton]

And another complaint heard on race day and again today is that the RC did not record times for the later boats even though they would have finished well within an hour of the leaders. Surely if you register, compete and finish within the time limit you are entitled to know your result.

[robertd]

That doesn't look to good on BBYC

[brianpickton]

Hopefully it was just a hiccup and things will go smoothly for them at the Opening Regatta this weekend. We'll see how it all turns out, and I'll let you know.