Monday, June 16, 2014

North Lake Tahoe Rowing Regatta

At the North Lake Tahoe Regatta I was the only one in my class (21' on the long course). My time was 1:21:31. All four of the 24' class finished between 1:19:00 and 1:20:00. The course is almost exactly 10 miles. So that's 8.15 minutes per mile and 7.36 mph. (The winning 24' was about 7.6 mph.) [For reference only: the 'hull speed' of a 21 is 7.06 mph and for a 24 it is 7.55 mph, depending on which formula one employs.] It's a circuit so the wind pretty much cancels itself out. The Bay 21 is a fantastic rowing shell. It's fast on flat water (at least, it's fast when I row it in a race!) and fast on rough water.