Day Two of three at the North Americans:

 

Lake Naomi flukie winds showed up today as we went to full draft on A sails for the entire day and seven races. But the sun and sky were brilliant and the temps were in the 70's. Yesterday's glorious winds are a memory as we laid out 3 different courses and used all three as the winds moved up and down and left to right to left. Tested our patience and the race committee's all day.

 

At the top of the heap, Jim Kaighin, with six wins yesterday, mustered only one today but sailed to 5 seconds and one fifth. Ryan Lippincott also had one win today and remained in second five points behind Jim Kaighin. In third, with a four win, 2 second and a third kind of day, is Steve Lang, who jumped over Hank Buchanan and Rob Seidelmann. Rob is in fourth, 3 points from 3rd and Hank is in 5th, two points from Robbie.

 

The Oxford team, after a pep talk, had some great moments today. Harry won a race, added two seconds and a third, and otherwise sailed very consistantly to move up a place to 8th. Dave had two firsts today, stayed tied with Jamie Betz (who also won two today) for 7th, nine points out of 5th. Tom Lucke ( a second and a third) and Roger Baldwin ( two thirds and a 4th) had chances to steal a couple of races but mother nature shut them out. They remain in 13th and 16th respectively.

 

Weather tomorrow is looking rainy so if we get one race in we get another throw out.

 

The hosts are terrific. We had a great cocktail party and dinner last night at a private residence club and lots of door prizes as we bought a bunch of chances to support the local club. Tonight is a more dressy cocktails and dinner at The Lake Naomi Yacht Club. La Dee Dah!