The 2009 Boon Island Race was held on Saturday, June 27, 2009. The skippers of nine race boats gathered at the Arundel Yacht Club at 9:00 AM and contemplated a dismal weather forecast of fog, showers & thunderstorms with light to variable winds. This kind of forecast seems recently to have become routine for a Boon Island Race.
            However, not to be discouraged by a lousy forecast, all nine skippers agreed to go ahead with the race, albeit with a slightly shorter course of 18 miles round trip as opposed to the 26 mile trek to Boon Island and back.
            A later than usual noon start was agreed to, necessitated by a low tide in the river at 9:30 AM.  Commodore Bob Scribner provided the Committee starting boat, ably assisted by Doug Leonard and Dave James. The start was a picture post card event with all nine boats crossing the starting line within a matter of seconds of each other.
            And, as often happens around here, the weather forecast was wrong. The sun came out, the winds kicked up to 14-16 knots and the rains never came. The boats reported one of the best races in recent years.
            Race results were as follows:
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