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Lake Christina, Saturday, December 4th, 2004

Friday practice session was a good day with significant surface melting at the end of the day. The sailor retired for the night with hopes of a hard freeze. Saturday morning arrived to morning temp 34 and 10 - 20 mph breeze from the North that chilled your bones. The morning sun shined off a beautiful smooth surface and the sailors eyed it with joy.

With the course set and the fleet divided into Gold (30 boats) and Silver (21 boats) the day began.

With a 16 - 18 and gusts of 26 mph the racing got underway. The first leeward rounding of the Gold Fleet provide for some interesting viewing for the silver fleet folks observing. With 6 spin outs on the first leeward rounding the tone was set for the rest of the day.

After 3 Gold and 3 Silver races the big breeze had tired the group and the fleet broke for lunch.

After a 2 hour break the wind started to vain.

The afternoon session started off shots around 10 -12, but after the first Gold race the winds began to subside. The silver fleet had a nice medium air race, but sun was setting soon. Once final race last for the Gold fleet wrapped up the day.

If was a rocket of a day followed up with steller afternoon race and a beautiful sunset with a Pink and red sky

Lake Christina proved to a be special place and we lucked out with amazing conditions and shared it with sailors from all over the world

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