Canadian Nationals - Day 1

Initially, today was not forecast to be a good soaring day, and when weatherman Tony Firmin reported at the meeting that we would see 7000 ft and 7 kt lift, everyone was skeptical.  While the day was not quite as strong as the models suggested, it was still a reasonable day.  I saw 3-5 kt climbs up to 6000 ft.  The biggest issue was the 15-20 kt wind from the west.  It broke up the thermals if you got low and really slowed us down on the leg west from Cambridge to St Mary's.  But it really helped on the leg NE back up to Fergus .  My GPS was showing 180 km/hr groundspeeds with the tailwind.

I had a good day and never got low or into trouble and was able to run cloudstreets on several legs for a speed of 104Km/hr on the day.

Tomorrow appears to be another good day.

Dave