Back in January, the Flying Scot Sailing Association published a survey of Scot Sailors.
I found the most surprising stat related to primary use! 65.8% of Scot sailor primary race.
See Attachment below...

Jennifer, Will and I were able to get a one week summer vacation and wanted to get more experience racing Scots. Even though Jen and I have participated in some club races and Wednesday night races, two regattas (Clinton Lake SA 2009 Glow, 2010 Egyptian cup) and the Mid Winters in New Orleans, we feel out of our element racing in a larger group.

Well, it might seem that we fell of the end of the world there for a few days,but things got a little hectic. In catching up, this post is a bit long, I give you fair warning.

After the qualifying rounds finished on Tuesday, we showed up Wednesday for the 1 pm start only to be met with more weather. The winds were high, storms kept sweeping through and so we sat in the club house watching the radar and the clouds.

Well, when I left you all yesterday, we dashed out to the racecourse during a break in the weather and, between one thing and another managed to complete all three races of the round-robin qualifying series. Unfortunately, it took about 8 hours, with winds topping out at about 18 with gusts over 20 and lots of chop. In addition, we had almost finished one race that they subsequently abandoned when a squall came through, and had several general recalls in which one fleet sailed almost an entire leg. So that made for a long day!
 

Greetings from Bay-Waveland, Mississippi, where the Flying Scot North Americans have been stalled due to Hurricane Alex's far reach. Sunday, when we were getting measured, the weather was lovely and both the Junior and the women's divisions were able to compete.

This year's Flying Scot Midwestern Districts were held on Medicine Lake, MN, Larry Klick's home club. Those of you who have sailed at the Glow will know Larry, since he owns the bright red boat named Ketchup. 

The turnout for the regatta was exceptional, with ten out-of-town boats, including three from Ephraim, two from Madison, one from Ames, Iowa, as well as Bill Vogler from Carlyle, Frank and Marianne Gerry from Delavan.

Yesterday we had a Red Letter evening for the Flying Scot fleet.

This past weekend not only did three Flying Scots travel to Carlyle Lake for the annual Egyptian Cup regatta, but one of our newest fleet members, Dave Sherwood, picked up his brand new boat from builder Harry Carpenter, who traveled from Deep Creek, Maryland, with the gorgeous boat. Say "hi" to Dave when you see him at the lake. He'll be the one with the big grin and the shiny new boat with a nice blue stripe at the water line.

The days are lengthening now and that special time has returned to Clinton Lake between 5:00p.m. and 8:oo on Wednesday evenings. With the usual concerns about potential weather threats and goofy or non-existant winds [to excuse oneself from going]..the Scot Fleet [led by Hosts Ben and Deb Williams] had a blast. It turned out there wasn't any threatening weather at all and the winds were 10 to 12 mph! Clsa even had two new visitors show up[Carole Kaufman and Terry Klintworth] asking questions about learning to sail..and boy did they get a ride they didn't expect!

Skippers Don Johnson and Ben Williams made the nine-hour drive to Chattanooga to take part in the annual Chattanooga Choo Choo regatta. The weather was mild and sunny and the regatta committee ran a total of five races over the two days. Saturday started out with a light breeze out of the east, which gradually through the day ended up clocking all the way around the compass, so that by the end of the day we were sailing in a south western breeze. The last race the wind died and, thankfully, the committee shortened course. Unfortunately, it was a little too late for Ben and Deb in Sophie.