Sieger
| Handicap Class | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PG | Phil Gaisford | 2.043 |
| 2 | RF | Robin Clark | 1.815 |
| 3 | 55L | Sergio Reinaudo | 1.649 |
| 15-Meter Class | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | XG | Jerzy Szemplinski | 2.164 |
| 2 | 5E | Erik Nelson | 2.038 |
| 3 | 7T | Sean Fidler | 2.020 |
Apr 14 Report
We gave it a good try again today, but in the end we had nothing to show for it. We awoke to gloomy skies and drizzle this morning, and the pessimists began to make their plans for shopping, laundry, and tourism. The Director, whose job is to be an optimist, listened to the forecast of met man Tony Condon, whose job is to be neutral. The forecast indicated that something might be possible in the late afternoon, so we took a chance and gridded after lunch at 1330. The good news was that of the...
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Apr 13 Report
The gastronomical forecast was much better than the meteorological, so we cancelled the Tasks today and assigned a dinner party instead.
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Apr 12 Report
We do not understand cirrostratus clouds. Yesterday we expected them to move out of the way for us, but they lingered in the southern portion of our Task area and brought everyone down. Today, we expected them to stay in place to our west, but they moved over us instead, where they caused widespread pessimism at launch time. So much pessimism, in fact, that the Director decided to reduce the two Racing Tasks to the bare minimum, 150 km for both classes. This seemed like a good idea at the ti...
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Apr 11 Report
We had valid results in both classes today, but we did it the hard way. Optimism prevailed as we staged for a launch into a cool, fresh post-frontal wind under a blue sky. The original tasks were ambitious Racing Tasks of 317 km and 273 km. The forecast called for a straightforward soaring day of at least 5 hours duration. Once again the unforecastable cirrostratus clouds moved in at launch time, and task setter John Good was forced to scale back to tasks of 298 and 257 km over the central pa...
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