Memorial day weekend, block island race

Memorial day weekend is the traditional kickoff to summer in the United States. In New England we are always hopeful, as we are usually emerging from winter with cold and short days. This weekend is less than a month away from the longest day of the year.
  Above is the surface weather, significant because "Leopard of London" left New York saturday evening in an attempt to break the record across the atlantic. Given the weather we had for the Block Island Race, I am confused as to the logic of their departure. The low near Nova Scotia has been there awhile, It is the transit from New York to that low, I am wondering about. Time will tell.
   I drove to Indian Harbor Yacht Club to meet up with "Snow Lion" for the Block Island Race. After a postponement, we were off reaching to 1BI arriving at 1am, arriving at the Race about a half an hour too soon at around 7 am.  We fought our way to the Connecticut shore,then reaching to the finish.

  We were treating this race as a tune up for the Bermuda Race, in three weeks.