Full Moon Sits One Out

Cap'n John was beleaguered by a nasty cold so Full Moon stayed in her slip for Goosebump Race No. 5, which was a shame since the weather was so beautiful. Meanwhile, the official scoring for all races has been posted on the NW Riggers website (http://www.nwriggers.com/blog/2013-goosebump-races/), including a big change on scoring the third race. Initially, a large group of boats had been disqualified from that race for starting some five minutes early. Rather than alienate ten otherwise happy crews, the Race Committee agreed to count their finishes. This is mildly unfair to the boats that started on time, since they effectively raced with a five minute time penalty, but the feeling was that the finishing order would not likely have changed since it was  the ten fastest and/or biggest boats that were over early. All in all, that was a reasonable compromise, though it drops Full Moon from a rare third place finish to eleventh in that race. Oh, well - we still had a lot of fun!