Introducing the Summer Partners Series

Starting with the summer series, we're introducing an informal, unofficial, experimental and for-the-moment completely secondary scoring scheme for the Wednesday Night series. Partner teams are pairs of boats determined by pairing high + low scoring spring series boats. Since the spring series isn't technically over until the first of (hopefully) 2 races is held on June 20th, partners were scored based on their points through June 13th, with average points (for RC duty) applied to date. After the top and bottom scoring boats were paired, the next pair is the 2nd highest/2nd lowest scoring boats, and so on. Any boat that had more than one DNC didn't qualify to race in this series, but can easily qualify for the fall series by competing regularly in the summer. Here are the summer series partnerships and their spring series points.

• 1 & 74: 85+13 = 98
• 164 & 107: 78+14 = 92
• 29 & 202: 78+15 = 93
• 127 & 201: 73+20 = 93
• 163 & 138: 67+23 = 90
• 15 & 217: 66+24 = 90
• 33 & 145: 64+24 = 90
• 232 & 76: 62+24 = 86
• 71 & 245: 59 + 26 = 85
• 59 & 224: 57 + 31 = 88
• 21 & 53: 55 + 37 = 92
• 36 & 222: 53 + 42 = 94
• 166 & 143: 47 + 43 = 90

Winners: The top teams are determined during the summer series by combining individual scores and calculating which team's partner points improve the most relative to the spring series. After the summer series, we'll assign new partners and add boats that didn't qualify earlier. If you're looking for prizes, don't. This is for bragging rights, but you never know... For anyone who is confused by this, don't worry about it. Just call your partner on Mondays and make sure he or she has a full crew. Help them fix something or do some pre-race tuning. Share a few laughs. Any complaints should be addressed to the Czar of the Partners Series, whose email address will be made available sometime in November. All his decisions are final unless he changes his mind.