Agreed spot on Richard, congrats!

We saw a blue kite round the Thames way ahead of everyone, I thought it was the Melges 32!

Results are here: http://www.drya.org/race2006/Results/bycLD.htm

:: Richard Gilbert and his crew on Punk Dolphin again
:: demonstrated the legendary speed of the "ultimate
:: sailing machine" in the Bayview YC 55 nautical mile Long
:: Distance Race last Saturday on Lake St. Clair. The race
:: was postponed for several hours for lack of wind and
:: finally started in around 5 knots or less around 2 pm.
:: Punkers sneaked up the Canadian shore and was first boat
:: around the Thames Light far ahead of the rest of the E27
:: fleet and all the big IMS and PHRF boats. She was second
:: to a Melges 32 at the second mark. Punk Dolphin finished
:: the race at 12:22 am in an elapsed time of 10:32. This
:: was faster than all but the fastest PHRF boats rating 12
:: to 70.
::
:: Boats that Punkers beat on elapsed time included a
:: Shannon 43, a C&C 110, Beneteau 41, S2 10.3, Santana 35,
:: J29, J34, Cayenne 12.5, Beneteau 36.7, Peterson 43, C&C
:: 41, 6 C&C 35s, 5 J105s, 4 NA 40s, and 3 Tartan 10s,
:: among others. Punk Dolphin corrected out second overall
:: out of 71 boats to the first place Cal 25 which took
:: 11:54 to get around the course, compared to Punk
:: Dolphin's 10:32.
::
:: Congrats, Rich!