AYC WNR Series 3 Number 3 on 21 August 2019

Date: 21 August 2019 18:00 till 21 August 2019 21:00
Endpoints: Yacht Haven Annapolis to Yacht Haven Annapolis
Purpose: Racing
Complement: Rick Chambers, Christian Douglas, and Jonathan Bresler
Weather: Incipient thunderstorm
Engine Hours: 218.1 to 218.6
Chart: 12282 Chesapeake Bay Severn and Magothy Rivers

Course: B4
Time limit: 2020.
Sails: Interrupt mainsail, Interrupt genoa and Interrupt spinnaker.

Headed out to the start. Racing cancelled less than two minutes before our start. Race committee reported a lightning strike about eight miles away. All other starts recalled. Marks pulling. No races scored. Thunderstorm arrived with winds up to 20 knots, some rain, not heavy, some lightning to the west clearly visible from Spa Creek.