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Chirs from Swale challenged us to another race.  When will that boy learn!  This time; it JoJo, Bryan, Mike, his girl Kay, and I crewing Speedy!  You know the routine…we load her up.  Drag her 5 miles to the north side of the lake.  Race…Kick some ass…and head back home…You want to read the whole story?

Well, we started a bout 30 seconds late.  Although I think Geronimo started about a minute in-front of us, and she carries the same Handicap as we do.  What are we going to do!?  Yell at her to come back?

We tried the same thing that we did the last time, we headed to the west shore, while the entire fleet (except Hotter Tuna) headed toward the east shore.  I think the fleet found some better wind.  After we got on our eastern tack, we noticed how far ahead of us the rest of the fleet was.  JESUS! Read more…

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Our GPS Track...This is how Winning is DONE!

So after a hiatus from sailing, we went back out on the water.  It had been a while since we last raced Speedy.  We had some new crew on the boat, and some seasoned.  Bryan is back from Kuwait and he stepped on to race.  This was Lisa’s first time on Speedy, so she was learning how everything worked.

So Saturday night, we (JoJo, Bryan, and I) were out a bit late at the Dubliner.  We did win some cool ass hats though from the Jameson Girls.  WoooHooooo…..I love me some free Shwag!  We did a whole “Team Hat” thing…the girls wore the newly acquired Jameson hats, while Bryan and I took on the military hats he brought back from Kuwait.  We looked good.  But how were we going to sail? Read more…

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JoJo’s parents are visiting…they wanted to go out and check out the boat.  So we headed out on a beautiful Sunday afternoon.  We went all over the lake…even got to see the start of the Sunday Afternoon Long distance race. It sure looked like fun.  Maybe one of these days we can go out and the race Speedy…not today though.  We had a long day yesterday at the TX-OU game, so we just went to Flying Saucer instead.  LOVE THAT PLACE!

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Our Fleet had three boats in it.  It was SAD.  Whatever. We took a 2nd.  Got some cool glasses.  Oh and I didn’t hit another boat…this was the first regatta in a while I was able to keep away from the other boats!  Well, there were not that many boats TO hit.  I was really looking forward to this regatta.  It is the last one on the lake for a while.

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Thanks Anjohn! I appreciate this!

Usually we are hurting for crew…tonight we have 8.  Let me tell ya, it didn’t help.  We almost ran over the Opti’s that were trying to race; and I might have run into the anchored Committee Boat.  Thanks to Anjohn, we have photos.  We quit the race very shortly after that leg.  And the GG Regatta is just around the corner. SHIT!!!

We still BOOOOOZED it up after wards…you should check out the pictures.

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We took Speedy to Bayview for the Wednesday Night Races.  The crew was running a bit late, so Jojo and I sailed her down there by ourselves.  It was actually very nice and we got into the groove of handling the boat by ourselves quite quickly. Read more…

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Introducing Jake!  He is not only the newest crew member on the boat, but he is also the youngest and lightest.  Makes him the perfect candidate to be our Snacktician and the one to get hoisted up the mast for whatever reason.  Well, only if his mom and dad let him come back!  We raced last night with a light crew (Dwight, Sheryl, Jake and I).  Jake got his feet wet by trimming in the Genoa with Sheryl.  We did alright.  Better than we had the last couple of weeks….at the very least we went to the right marks!

All the pics are @ http://pics.MySpeedster.info

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