The French Canadians rigid wing pilots are here and Daniel, made it to the
goal today, Venice beach, 170 km to the south southwest. He landed on the beach and ate at Sharkey's.

Mitch and I landed within an hour after launching not far to the south of Quest.
Two of the rigid wing pilots landed back at Quest Air, apparently not impressed
with the conditions.

I was off first again with a 10 mph northeast wind, which is why I had set the
goal at Venice. I pinned off early but the lift was weak and I had to hang in
less than 100 fpm to get up to almost 3,000'. There were plenty of cu's but the
lift was disorganized. I assume that the wind wasn't helping.

The clouds were moving quickly to the south and I found 300 fpm at 1,600'
further south to 3,700'. Not cloud base, but getting close.

Down low the lift was broken up and weak. I kept going to the north eastern
edges of the shadows, but nothing coherent was happening although I had a couple
more climbs digging out from low. Finally I decided that it just wasn't worth
the hassle and decided to go to a big field to land unless something strong
appeared. It didn't.

Mitch didn't launch until three pilots later, but found similar conditions. Not
taking 150 fpm in broken lift he didn't find anything that got him back to
4,000' which he was able to obtain at Quest Air. He landed at a blue berry farm
at the edge of the Green Swamp west of Seminole sailplane port. He saw the rigid
wing pilot high over his head heading south at the edge of the Green Swamp.

Armand showed up and his here for a week. Looks like it will be very busy this
weekend. Breezy on Saturday from the east. Jamie Shelden and Glen should be
showing up on Saturday.