Another race day on Maui and plenty of wind blowing. Today was a perfect slalom day with 20 to 25 knot trades filled all the way to the beach and clear blue sky. Over 50 keen sailors arrived at Kanaha to hear the very informative skippers meeting from Rick Vetromile. Anyone who knows Rick will appreciate the authority he stamps on the Maui race series and has done so for a number of years now. It was all business as the first sailors lined up for a start at 11am sharp. Sailors are able to race in two divisions of their choice, ie age group and skill level division.

Most sailors were holding onto 5.9’s and 6.3’s, but it was Phil McGain bringing his A game, taking 3 easy victories out of 4 in the Mens 40-49 division. Alex Aguera finished second and Kevin Ozee in third.

The Pro division was stacked with current PWA Slalom 42 World Champion Micah Buzianis, Alex Aguera, Kevin Ozee and veteran Phil McGain to name a few. It was Micah who took victory, closely followed by Phil McGain, who also won the last final, and in third place, it was the local hero, Alex Aguera.

Other notable MauiSails sailors were Baker Grant, winning the under-14 class on a 4.7 TR2, and Ashley Baxter, second in the women's junior division. We'll see Skylar Haywood up  there  soon too, as he was going fast but sails in the toughest division of all, the men's 18 (even though he's not 18 yet). He is racing a league up to push himself to get better.

Mike Yasak, Dave Weeks, and John Monroe all had outstanding performances with the TR-2 and were especially talking about the acceleration out of the turns as a favorite characteristic of these new sails.