Lake Erie Solo Challenge
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Lake Erie Solo Challenge
The second Lake Erie Solo Challenge will take place on August 23, 2008. The documents for the 2008 Lake Erie Solo Challenge are posted in links below - feel free to download them at your convenience! They are all available as PDF files - if you don’t have Adobe Reader™ installed on your computer, it is available as a free download by clicking the button below. The Challenge True to the mandate stated in the GLSS Constitution, the Lake Erie Solo Challenge represents the latest effort to establish a solo sailing Challenge upon all of the Great Lakes. While Lake Erie may be the smallest and shallowest of the Great Lakes, those very characteristics make for some extraordinarily difficult sailing at times. Winds can produce large, steep-faced waves seemingly in minutes, and summer thunderstorms can turn a placid body of water into a tempest just as quickly. Throw in in a high concentration of pleasure craft, fishermen, and fish nets interspersed with commercial freighter traffic, and the ingredients are in place for a Challenge on par with those of any other lake. The Lake Erie Solo Challenge begins with al start off of North Cape Yacht Club near Monroe, MI and the fleet proceeds past Pelee Island, Ontario and eastward to a rounding of the Seneca Shoal Light near Buffalo, NY, thence on to a finish off of Presque Isle Harbor at Erie, PA. The course measures 312 statute miles, and in terms of comparison to the other GLSS Challenges, it ranks third behind the Trans Superior Solo, and the Chicago to Mackinac Island Solo Challenge. The 2008 event marks the second running of the event - come on down to Erie and see what all the excitement is about! Would you like to see what the inaugural Lake Erie Solo Challenge offered? The 2008 LESC Race Chairman, Paul Nickerson, has posted an excellent recap of the 2007 event. 2008 Lake Erie Solo Challenge Documents Changes for 2008
2008 Notice of Race Resumé and Solo Passage Documentation - Non GLSS Members Only Resumé form for the Lake Erie Solo Challenge Additional info at: |
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