A Lake Ontario 300 to remember!

3:04 PM Tue 20 Jul 2010 GMT

'Carnage on the Lake Ontario 300' John Danahy

Most of the fleet is in and the stories have started to flow! Racers are relating their tales of hurricane winds, high seas and resulting damaged sails and equipment. A record number of retirements, over 55 as I write this, most of them associated with the series of line squalls that went through the fleet a few hours after the start on Saturday afternoon. Many yachts got caught with too much sail up as the weather systems came in over their stern at very high speed. Racing on Nick's Caf?, a CS30 from PCYC, we got caught with our spinnaker ...

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by Guy Perrin