It was a busy start to the New Year as the Grandview Island Sunfish fleet held its race on Grandview Island in the Chesapeake Bay on Saturday, January 2. Winds were light and shifty out of the southwest. Sailing close to shore makes for some challenging conditions due to the trees and houses.
The group photo shows Cameron Thurman, Ashley Obermeyer, Dreugh Phillips, BR Flowers, Jamie Chapman, Ken Dameron, Tim Etherington, and Jay Bolan. If we field this kind of a crowd in the winter, you can imagine that this is not just a "frostbite series" but a rather a group that sails year round, every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, with a formal race like this every month of the year.
There are 31 sunfish within a mile of this beach, and it is almost all because of Jamie Chapman, our informal commodore. Find the 2015 recap of all the fleet's events in the Club Notes section.
