2005 Borderline Regatta
Kerr Lake North Carolina
October 22 - 23 2005

By Bob Astrove

Nabeel, Pat and myself comprised our three boat fleet 50 contingency at the Borderline Regatta near Henderson North Carolina this past weekend.  Also joining the 24 boat fleet were a couple of former fleet 50 members, Dave Pyle now from Wilmington and Ron Buchanan from Richmond.   

As always, the regatta was well run, great fun, in the most beautiful of settings on Kerr Lake, as the leaves begin to turn.   The sailing was good, in mostly 5 to 8 mph breezes.  And despite our Potomac River experience in shifty winds I think I can speak for Nabeel and Pat in saying that understanding the shifts and avoiding the holes was extremely challenging.   

Allan Turhune won the regatta with outstanding finishes of 2,3,1,2.  Second went to Bob Harkrider (9,1,2,4), and third was Bill Fastiggi (3,2,11,3).     

Our local fleet boats didn’t fare so well (remember I said it was challenging!)  Nabeel with Scott and Lisbet finished 11^th  with 50 points (6,9,15,20).  Pat, along with Paul and Craig finished 15^th with 59 (14,11,19,15).  And yours truly with former fleet 50 members Doug Dixon and his daughter Caroline and wife Gina swapping days finished 17^th w’ 63 (19,19,7,18). 

 As always we had the only Woody in the fleet, but even with the low hull number and a very exciting 7^th in the third race, we were only good enough to finish second in the hull number handicap scoring.   

Silver wise there was something to cheer about with  Nabeel taking third in the combined Frigid Digit / Borderline series. 

Okay, us fleet 50 folks have a little work to do figuring that place out,  But it is a beautiful setting, and a fun regatta.  It is only 4 hours away and I’d encourage everyone in fleet 50 to make the trip next year.

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