2009 Westerns - Day 1

The light morning wind filled in nicely allowing five races. The ice got progressively softer all day, but I didn't see any particular runner that was dominating. The sticky ice and 10-15kn breeze made for pretty high loading on equipment, and there were a couple of runners broken, along with one mast.
Preliminary Results are posted here.

My results improved over the course of the day as I tightened my rig, and I finished a half-decent 13th in the last race. The forecast has an overnight low just below freezing, but with clear skies hopefully the ice will firm-up nicely for the last two races. Winds are supposed to start light and build to the low teens sometime in the morning.