OK. So I didn't mean let's end Wednesday Night racing. I meant (obviously) a Turkey Race might be a nice traditional event to end the Wednesday Night racing series each year. You can stop the e-mails. But this gives me an opportunity to apologize for leaving Mike Lucas off the Race Committee list, and to Lou Spitz for making a typo on his finish time (19:13:21, not 19:31:21). Sorry Mike and Lou. Even though Wednesday Night racing is done for the year, there are still eight Sundays of beautiful Fall racing left in the season. If Encore does the impossible to achieve a 100% racing attendance record, you can be sure she'll be on the line and taking on all challengers between now and the end of October. Go Encore! See you on the water. Lee Luce Cruising Fleet Secretary From: Wednightracing [mailto:wednightracing-bounces@maillist.nyackboatclub.org] On Behalf Of Lee via Wednightracing Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 11:36 PM To: Cruising Fleet Racers Subject: [CruisingFleetRacing] Turkey Race To All - Well, maybe we should do this every Wednesday night. In case you missed it, the Turkey Race was really fun thanks to our Race Committee Howie Rinehart, et. al. The wind came up from the northwest just before the start, everyone had a broad reach of one mile to mark C, and a beat back to the finish. The staggered starts caught some unaware, but others were right on the line at their start times. There must be some awesome photographs of this race as everyone headed downwind at once! First to round the leeward mark was Joanne Smolen in 50/50, followed closely by Matt Schlanger and Caleb Davison in Odalisque. As advertised, the first to cross the finish line after the one mile beat back - won. Our winner, Dave Otterbein and his crew in Breakaway, received their 12 lb frozen turkey, and Dan Blitzer, in Solar Wind, accepted his last place chicken with good grace. We hope everyone had a good time and, once again, thanks to Howie and his Race Committee. Let's hope we've started an annual thing to end Wednesday Night racing. Lee Luce Cruising Fleet Secretary