Quannapowitt Yacht Club

On Sunday the 8th QYC held its first Sunday race of the season. The day was also used as a kick-off for QYC¿s 125th anniversary celebration including an open house and food for the public with a Boston Globe reporter/photographer there to document the club's vitality. There were more than 20 boats on the water with most participating in the racing. Conditions were the regular Quannapowitt-changeable. The day started with light puffs coming down and skipping along the lake leaving some boats sitting as the race committee set up the course and some boats pulling against their sheets and promising fun racing.

When the horns finally started going off the winds had quit dropping off completely but kept fluctuating between lulls and puffs with some significant shifts and sections of the lake bending the wind enough to give large lifts to the boats that sailed into the advantage.

The pattern of racing is changing a bit this year. The race committees will try to get in three races on Sundays where conditions allow. This seemed to work out well yesterday with all fleets getting in three races.

Some of our new sailors came ashore with glassy eyes and questions about what the wind had been doing. We assured them that if they could learn to react to the shifts and varying strengths here, they could sail anywhere. In fact the day was a bit shiftier than many, but the consensus was that it was a fun day of racing.

We were also pleased with the number of new people that stopped by to check out the club, with a couple signing up for memberships and a few more taking home club information.