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Toledo Prodigy racing !!
By Scott | June 2, 2009
We had 14 Prodigies registered but one no show and one I don’t know what happenned too that finished with all DNS. Anyway a group of 12 makes for a nice race and a good showing in general for one design racing. I ended up 5th overall. For trophy purpose we were able to break into two age groups < 55 and 55+. There were five races in big gusting winds on Saturday with 3 races before lunch and 2 late afternoon. I was really spent after the 4th race Saturday and should have taken out my 7.5 Sailworks Retro which was on the beach ready to go. I couldn’t decide if there were more lulls then gusts to deal with so I went with the 8.5 Prodigy Comp sail as did everyone else. We surely all were worn out at the end of the day. On Sunday it didn’t blow much at all and we only did one race in very light conditions but I did well in that one which boosted my point total. Below you can see me (# H in the middle) in Sunday’s light air race going to the mark as others get headed bad.
Toledo 2009 Prodigy overall results pdf
In general I sailed well and only had one minor bump with US64 that got me wet. I tried to pass too close and a big gust came and my sail could not sheet out as it was pinned against Rod and I end up being catapulted over the front. Chalk that up as another lesson learned. My downwind sailing was better as I was leaving the track forward and I only dropped the sail twice on the down wind legs. Still those two drops hurt a bit. Some good news was my carpal tunnel release surgery on the right hand back in Novermber appears to have worked. I felt no numbness and this race really was an arm stretcher.
I
sold my 1992 Equipe Carbon XR longboard a couple years ago but now I own another longboard. I bought a used 1995ish Equipe XR that is in very nice shape at the regatta. With my old 1985 Superlight and the Equipe XR I plan to enter in A Fleet 8.5 using my Prodigy sail at the Grosse Point Windsurfing Regatta coming up in two weeks. I’m not abandoning Prodigy class just switching one time to see how I still stack up against those longboards. Also if it’s light air I want to see how good or bad the old Superlight is. Should be fun using a board from 1985!
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