2005 Crescent Day

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Crescent Day!

Sunday, August 7^th

The one week delay was well worth it! The weather was great and just ask the 20 kids and the numerous "big kids" about how fun it was! This is a tradition where Thistle Fleet #2 runs this all day event for the kids. It is sponsored by CSYC.
Check out photos of the Watermelon Race and Shoe Box Race below.

Credit where credit is due - Thanks to all of the helpers!
Lori Swetka - for helping me shop for all the stuff...I hate shopping...and helping all day.
Brendon Swetka - helping to run the race, load and unload stuff, and helping out all day.
Chris and Wendy Hawksley - for buying the pies, two weeks in a row! Also for buying the ice cream that I totally forgot about...
Greg and Mel Gerhardstein - for setting up the watermelon race and for organizing the stuff last year to make this year easier. Mel also was a judge in the shoe box race.
Wick and Mary Smith - Wick for shoe box retrieval and Mary was a judge in the shoe box race.
Ron Sherry - for running some of the games near the end when I was stressed! He says his favorite is the peanut in the flour contest.
You can always count on all of the parents who show up for this to lend a hand. Everyone who was there helped out in one way or another. Thanks to all!

Watermelon Race

Thanks to Greg and Mel for setting a perfect crazy "W" shaped course. The basic "rules" are everyone has to be behind the start line either anchored, sails down, capsized, or whatever is decided that morning by the rulemaker (me...). Near the finish a bunch of watermelons are be dropped. You must grab a watermelon and finish. Afterwards we get to eat the melons!

Although we award trophies for this, everyone is a winner as you can tell by the smiles!

Here is how it looked. You can click on each picture to get a higher resolution image. If anyone want originals, let me know.

Prestart preparation...waiting for everyone to look as disorganized as possible.

The Start!

First leg madness!

First mark battle!

Melondrop - The Watermelons are dropped.

Now is where the REAL race begins! Try to get a watermelon in your boat ASAP!

Battle for the finish!

Teamwork in action!

First place smiles! Team JES

Second - Team Pytell (the only all female team!)

Victory cheer from Team JES

Third - Team Tipsy

Pickle - Team Das Boot

Watermelon feast - freshly cleaned by Lake St Clair!

More watermelon feasting!

Victory speech from some of the team on JES

Team Das Boot accepting the Pickle Award

Shoe Box Race

Here is how it works-
In the meeting room is all the stuff you need to build a shoe box yacht for a race across the harbor! There will be awards given out for all kinds of things like the most colorful, the biggest, the smallest, the first to sink, and oh yeah...the first to finish.

Construction begins!

Team building!

I hope I didn't leave my phone in there...

The line up for pre judging!

The first race for 7 and under!

The next race for everyone!

The Launching Platform! Thanks to the guys for organizing this!

More Racing!

The Winners (everyone wins!)
Carlie Zitkus age 10 - best high tech and 1st place
Jimmy Sgrazzutti age 4 1/2 - smallest sail
Christiana Scheibner - biggest rig
Andrea Vortriede - most symmetrical and 3rd place
Lynn Pytell age 8 - best pirate ship and 4th place
Tony Sgrazzutti age 2 1/2 - best elephant boat
Grace Pytell and Caroline Sherry age 11 and 12 - best team effort
Bret Zimmerman age 35 - best keel
Andrew Smith age 10 - best bow and 2nd place
Alex Zimmerman age 7 - best balloon boat
James Wenzler age 7 - best use of quarry materials (rocks)
Meredith Wenzler age 4 - smallest boat
Griffin Sherry age 7 - biggest bow sprit
TJ Sherry age 9 - fastest trimaran
Emmy age 3 - best name
Annalise age 5 - most sails

The rest of the games for the day! After each event the kids get to choose a prize out of the prize bag for their age group!

Sit on the Balloon (ages 5 and under)

Coin Scramble/Hunt (ages 5 and under)

MARSHMALLOW ON THE SPOON / RELAY GAME (AGES 6-8)

FILL THE BUCKET WITH WATER GAME (AGES 6-8)

PIE EATING GAME (AGES 9-12)

PIE EATING GAME (AGES 13-18)

PEANUT IN THE FLOUR GAME (AGES 9-12)

BALLOON STOMP GAME (AGES 13-18)

WATER BALLOON TOSS GAME (ADULTS - this years prize was a bottle of rum! Crescent Day is not just for kids...)

The galley was open with a full lunch fare (also breakfast for earlybirds) and during the day we had free hotdogs cooking on the barbeque.

Come sail with us!