Dick Harmon
No one in the fleet traveled to the New Jersey coast for the Comet Internationals this year. We heard there were a record number of our old Bermudian friends in attendance and we certainly missed seeing them.
For the Pigskin regatta, the Comets experienced nearly identical wind conditions to those of the Lido regatta one week earlier. Stronger gusts were from the north-northeast and lighter spots from the east and even south. The wind was better than it sounds, mostly in the range of 5-9 mph. Conditions kept the fleet close, which resulted in two ties and four boats within one point!!! In one race, all the boats finished within 100 yards of each other.
Particularly exciting was the participation of two crews age 10 or under. Rachel crewed for her father Eric and Caleb George crewed for grandfather and Hoover 505 sailor Dave Seiple. Dave Seifert would have had another young crewmember (12) but his day started badly with the news Pablo had suddenly become ill and could not participate. Rosalie Kinney thankfully stepped forward to help Dave. After racing, the fleet retired to El Vaquero to swap great sea stories.
We greatly missed Pete Yeh and Scott Ranney.
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