Hot Air and More

It won't be long now and Wednesday afternoon and evening windsurfing will be back!  

The Alum Creek regatta keeps on going with a good crowd of 17 entries.  It rained, got too windy and then Sunday just enough wind for a pump fest but we all had a good time and it was great to be out on the water again in Ohio.  The Saturday evening party was held at the Roadhouse Grill just a couple miles from the park and with 99 cent draft beer all night it got pretty loud at our tables.

The TABA Race Committee is hard at work and has met several times to get things organized for our May 31 - June 1st regatta.  If you are not racing and have some time .. even half a day ..  show up and help out please.  Extra hands for setting things up early Saturday morning are always needed as well as food preparers for lunches around 1:00 in the afternoon on both Saturday and Sunday.     

Sat June 7  is the Perrysburg boat club regatta http://www.perrysburgboatclub.org/        if I don't have any lessons scheduled,  I hope to go.  

June 10-15  is the US Windsurfing Nationals in Worthington Minnesota on Lake Okabena "the windiest lake in the mid-west".    This is a long event with registration Mon and Tue and racing Wed - Sunday.  Its a 750 mile drive from Toledo one way, shorter then going to Hatteras.  Lake Okabena is also the home of the MidWest SpeedQuest which runs all season long.  You put on a GPS and see how fast you can go. The winner last year took home $1000.    Everyone is hoping for a great mid-west turnout which will help the Nationals rotate back to the midwest more often.   The only previous Nationals close by I remember were the 94 Nats in Lorain and 2003 in Worthington.   It would be nice if the Nats could rotate back like every 3 or 4 years.

Saturday June 21 is the  Grosse Point Windsurfing Club Regatta up in Detroit.   

Scott