239 Entries!

239 entries for the Laser Master Worlds in San Francisco that starts this Sunday. By far not the largest attendance for a LMW .. but it's San Francisco! Laser sailors don't go to the bay to pleasure sail.. most won't even go there to race at all. Sailing on the bay is typically bitterly cold, windy as the north pole with the waves that are big and steep.. Mother nature laughs at a little laser going upwind and tosses it around like a shoe in the dryer. The tides and current rips like a spring river in full runoff.. Why go?? To our group from SouthernCal, it's basically like surfing 30 foot Pipeline in Hawaii or climbing Mount Everest in a snow storm.. It's survival more then racing. Tell me why again? Because you feel like you've won the championship by just surviving the regatta.. surviving the day.. the sail out.. the thrid flip on the last downwind.. those are all victories master laser sailors like to celebrate... over and over again.