And this thing is about a 20% slower than GPS speed...If you ask me, we were going around 13 knots. Yeah, 13 sounds right.

And actually, the fastest I saw on the knot meter was 7.3…but we are just splitting hairs now!  Wednesday night we were prepped to go race and kick some Swale ass!  We got the boat in the water and it was all rigged and ready to go!  There was a little concern over some harsh weather that was kinda heading our way.  We risked it and headed out…Thankfully we got a tow out of the marina, since I could not manage to get the boat out by myself.  There was a western wind, and the path is so narrow I coiuld barely pick up any speed and tack…. Read more…

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This Saturday was our first unOFFICIAL practice for the upcoming Dallas Race Week. We raced with the Chandler’s and BayView Sailors on their Saturday Damn Series.

We had a great group on the boat, and we needed it…Wind was blowing so hard that the little engine on the back could not even push us out of the Marina…we did manage to sail out after fighting to get the main up.

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You have to check out this Video…I thought we were ballsy to go out in the crazy weather during FrostBite. Check out the OLSON 30, its Green w/ a Yellow Spin, well , what is leftover of the spinnaker…These guys put up the Chute…They broached, but they did put up the chute… Read more…

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