Governor's Cup Southern Leg Start
on Tuesday August 4, 2015 10:59PM
Top finishing Fishing Bay Boat on the Southern Leg of the St Mary’s College, Maryland Governors Cup Race was Greg Watt's Incorrigible. Here's their account:
Under the second full moon in July, Incorrigible took First in Class, and Second in Fleet for the inaugural Southern Leg of the 2015 St Mary’s College, Maryland Governors Cup Race! Hosted by FBYC, Incorrigible started the 61nm, overnight race at “1NP” off New Point Comfort at 1600 hrs of Friday and finished at 06:03:53 hrs on Saturday morning in St Mary’s City, MD.
The Southern Leg is the newest addition to the Governor’s Cup with the other converging legs coming down the bay from Annapolis (90 boats) and down the Potomac from Dahlgren (18 boats). With skippers from 3 other boats onboard Incorrigible; David Clark (J/105 Corryvrecken), Leroi Lissenden (Tripp 38, Voodoo2), Brad Miller (Beneteau First 30.5, Schiehallion); the crew was rounded out with Bob Krush and Stephanie Sweeney from Voodoo2, Anthony Burton from Corryvrecken & Incorrigible, and Sherry Riley!
After fighting light and variable winds out of the south through sunset we transitioned from wing and wing to a reach up the Potomac from Smith’s Point. A wind shift carried us up the St Mary’s River until the last 500 yards when the boat speed and wind speed both read 00.0 and we contemplated dropping anchor so as to not get sucked back out into the Potomac. A couple of wind puffs ever so slowly pushed us across the finish line!
After anchoring and a quick swim, the world class Gov Cup party commenced! New this year was live tracking using the RaceQ app and Incorrigible can be seen at http://raceqs.com/
Back on board Incorrigible by 1830 hrs, we started our return to FBYC. A quick reach back down the Potomac turned into 18-20+ kt winds on our nose and 6-8 foot seas as we rounded Smith Point Light. Thanks to all the skippers that helped drive Incorrigible home that night in those gnarly seas. Her 25,500 lbs made a difference. A cold Heineken, and more Sherry Riley tapas never tasted so good, secure at the dock at FBYC, at 0400 hrs.
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