The plan was to take some of Mandy’s old friends out for a cruise to see if they enjoyed the whole sailing thing. We all met at th club and proceeded to go sailing. It was Mandy, her old friends and their two boys, their cousins from out of town, and their two kidos…and me. We had 10 on the boat…I was not sure that many could fit. Read more…
Pictures don't do her Justice, THE NEW NAV LIGHT!
WooooHooooooooooooooooooooo…We raised Dwight up the mast today and he fixed the NAV light…WE ARE LEGAL BABY!!! No more “Borrowing” a light. We also removed the babystay and got some other minor repairs done. Read more…
Saturday night we headed up to RCYC for the usual race…but this was not a usual race. First of all, we were not one of the two boats racing…there were actually a hand full of IC24′s, some J22′s, and a couple of Melges 24′s…Woooohoooooo….AND we had a race committe boat. I was just shocked!!!
At the very least, we had a great crew on the boat. Dwight on the foredeck, Jamie and Mandy trimming the Jib, Sheryl on spinnaker duty, with me at the helm and Joanne was there for emotional support. We did OK with the start sequence and only were off by seconds. Sure beats being off by minutes like we were last Wednesday.
Did our laps and ended the race trying to gybe the boat at the finish and hanging the spinnaker around the forestay…That was ugly…and everyone made sure to come by and make a comment. THANKS!
We went back to drop Mandy off at the marina, and ended up staying there all night finishing up the beer we had brought. YEAH, I might have spent the night on the boat…
Dwight has the pics! Needless to say, I might have been enjoying myself a bit too much. Photo Album
We left the boat at RCYC when the race got canceled. So today we had to take it back to Chandler’s for the race. As soon as I got the motor up and running, Peter found some wind and we started hauling down. Just my luck. Read more…
Light winds, real light winds, and we are headed towards RCYC. So Light that Spencer actually asked to get off the boat so he could get home at a reasonable hour. None of us really thought there would be a race tonight. Woody called telling me he was on his way and I told him to turn around since there was no wind to speak of. Read more…
Hotsy Totsy and Speedster, pic from Orion.
Last weekend we participated in the first Founders Regatta at RCYC celebrating the club’s 40th anniversary. I was very pleased to see the number of boats involved from all across the lake. We had racers competing from Chandler’s Landing Yacht Club as well as BayView Yacht Club.
