Max Clemons, Andrew Wien, Joe Teno, and Steve Blackman arrived in Cascade Locks, Oregon for the Rainier Cup Regatta at around 1:00 a.m. early Saturday Morning on April 17th. We set up our tent and quickly went to bed. We woke up to find ourselves in a valley next to the Columbian river surrounded by snow-capped mountains. We had a delayed start for sailing because the wind was so light that the current of the river was more powerful. Fortunately the wind quickly picked up and we sailed from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Saturday. We sailed in FJs against multiple West Coast schools such as the University of Oregon, University of Washington, and Portland State. The wind started off light but rose to around 12 knots and beautiful sunny 65 degrees for most of the day. We sailed all right, nothing too special and ended up in the middle of the pack. That night all the schools camped out by the water and had a BBQ, which was a really nice time. Sunday we started sailing at about 10am. We got to truly see why Cascade Locks is one of the windsurfing capitals of the world as the wind was blowing a constant 15 with gusts up to 20 or 25 all day. We did a little bit better today and ended up getting 5th out of 16 overall. The Regatta ended at 3pm and we were able to spend the evening and the next day exploring a local town Hood River, venturing to the Pacific Ocean, and spending an afternoon in Portland, all before catching our redeye flight back to Northwestern Tuesday morning.
-Max Clemons, WCAS 2012
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