Having fun!
I'm envious ... I'd love to race against similar boats, but all the racing on our lake are one design fleets from LHYC. They have very active fleets for E-Scows, Stars, Thistles & A-Cats. They also have a sizable youth program for Optimists. I'd say up to almost 20 per fleet for the 4 fleets that race on Saturday and Sunday mornings on many weekends through the summer. There are no mid-week races. I'm guessing that we work too hard in NJ to pursue mid-week frivolity. :cry:
I think Sue would get into it if there was a cruising class which would likely be filled with Catalinas, Hunters, O'Days and Magregors, all from 18' to 25' if there were any interest.
Sunday was interesting as about what seemed like 80 boats were occupying the entire length of the main lake. The fleets have separately timed starts. At one point, I was thinking about crossing the back end of one fleet on a port reach before the next fleet came marching upwind on port tack. The problem is that these fleets are much faster than me and they point higher than I can anticipate. I chickened before getting into the middle of the fleet and gybed over to head for the west shoreline to get out of the way. I don't feel like getting into a position where I feel there is no place to maneuver without crossing somebody the wrong way once they start converging in one wall of sailboats. If I'm not mistaken, all were on port side but I was upwind, so I'd be trying to give way to a wall of boats. I re-considered and just gybed out of the way (even though I didn't want to go to the west shoreline) at a point in time when some were probably wondering what the heck I was going to do. There isn't enough room to avoid them completely on some mornings and there are often times when my available sailing time just happens to coincide with their race schedule.
