The club had a great time at the Irish Fun Race Aug 5 and then
enjoyed the Wild Cover Band at the Beach Bar. Here are the race
instuctions for the fun race won by Burke Phelps and Luke Mellman.
Tom and Jane Day's lead slipped away by not solving the riddle to
find a mark.

Next time it will be more fair if we have each skipper supply the
riddle on the mark's location and then set that mark or have a
neutral party set the marks. It was a great time since not only did
you have to sail in 20 mph wind by solve a riddle to locate the
marks:

Irish Fun Race
6 mile course(all are non spinnaker except as listed--- If these
boats race non spinnaker, they can subtract 1 min 12 sec from listed
time.

Boat model PHRF Start time (first boat starts at
designated time and all others start at the listed minutes and
seconds after start time)

Santana 21 (285) 00:00

Spindrift 22 (271) 1:24 minutes later

Hunter 23 W Spin (247) 3:48

MacGregor 26 (246) 3:54

Hunter 23.5 (235) 5:00

Beneteau 210 Spin. (222) 6:18

Mirage 236 Spin (181) 10:24

Dragonfly 800 (114) 17:05

Start: the outer mark at Paddytons Harbor. To Start: the skipper
must propose a toast to the Irish and chug his drink!

Mark One: can be found outside another boat launch ramp one mile
away. To round the mark the First Mate must drink a toast to the
duck hunters in the area and chug his or her drink!

Mark Two: can be found beyond some thin water one mile away and near
a dangerous obstruction. Sail this leg at your own risk. To round
any of the marks in the area the ship must sail within 20 yards of
your favorite mark and all sailors aboard must poor a very small
portion of their drinks in the lake as an offering to the pathetic
state of Kansas and say: Take that too, you water greedy bastards!

Mark Three: can be found, if you search your memory, as you've seen
it before, just outside the harbor where the Wild Clover Band will
play some tunes. To properly round this mark the ship's bartender
must propose a toast to the Irish and chug his drink!

Mark Four: can be found if one gazes towards the sunset, which may
not be distinguishable from the sunrise, if you have been drinking
Irish Whiskey. When you get near you can see some pipes on one shore
and some damn Englishmen's houses on the other. It's somewhere out
there but I'm mak-in no promises. If you find it--- the ship's
navigator must propose a toast to the cursed skipper in front of you
who showed you the way! and chug his drink.

The Finish: Can be found a mile and a half away, and ten paces up on
shore where the bones of many a wayward skipper have washed up in
the cove. There's a stake with a red swatch of clothing marking the
finish line. The ship's `shore landing mate' must touch the stake to
properly finish. May want to get your anchors out and rest a bit to
sober up on shore. There we can get a little sunshine and discuss
the politics of our oppressive government who squanders our water
and taxes us into poverty!

Hamburgers and Pot Luck dinner at Burke and Kim Phelps cabin at
about 6:30. Our favorite band, Wild Clover plays at 8:00.