After two days of rain, we were finally able to put into the history books the first competition day of the first Continental Championships to be held in the USA!

The forecast told us to expect good soaring conditions as long as the sun reached the ground.  With the recent rain, it was impossible to predict whether the cloud cover would reach an equillibrium or would cycle several times throughout the day.  Because of this, our Task Setter John Good called Assigned Area Tasks with 5 circles, to allow maximum flexibility.

In the end, we had good soaring conditions that lasted until at least 1800 local time.  We had 5 outlandings, with most of those pilots blaming themselves for being "too aggressive."

The 15 Metre Class winner was Jerzy Szemplinkski of Canada, and in the Handicap Class, Phil Gaisford (USA) took the honors. (At this contest, the Handicap Class is the Club Class with a few additional Standard Class gliders that fall within the IGC Club Class performance range).

Tomorrow's weather looks promising, but it's difficult to tell without our met man Tony Condon, who has not yet returned from his outlanding.