Here's a link to the track: http://www.tqci.net/~jkriz/HooperNoPoint2011.htm
Was a wild ride, hitting 10kts over and over again this time out! The wind was from the West approaching 30kts.....and pretty painful for a small boat like Akoni at times! Downwind to Hooper was a hoot and I think we held our own...showed 10.4kts of the speedo a few times but most of the time we were averaging above 8. Looked like a couple of the bigger boats had issues and turned back after rounding Hooper...AmericanFlyer, Cheetah, and maybe another. Upwind to NoPoint was a little much for Akoni...pretty much crawled there in survival mode, but at least the waves were big enough for us to sail around and we did pass Elan. Age of Reason, Audrey, and I think Toby were not far ahead, with Pursuit and Valiant pretty far ahead. The reach back home was not so good to us, thought it would be a screamer, but ended up being too far forward for us to get into hyperspeed and could not reel in anyone ahead (which I think was everyone but Elan). The beat into the river was amazing...I don't think I've ever been in that much breeze going upwind. Audrey was in their element and appeared to give the 'blast reacher' a workout between NoPoint and Cedar Point and finished quite a ways in front of us (ok, they blew our doors off by 10 minutes). I havn't a clue where Lickety Split was in all this, but they came into it #1 in the SMSA middle distance series with 4 points, Age Of Reason 2nd with 6, and Toby 3rd with 6. Coming in, we were 4th with 9 points. I don't think we made any ground on the leading boats in this series.
