Canceled due to no wind. BAH!
Although when I did get to the boat, I did notice that the boat was infested with ants and monkeys….The ants came from the docks, the little bastards had climbed across the dock lines. They are all over the boat. And they are fast little suckers.
The monkeys might have come from Trick Monkey as retaliation for the little Olson/Melges love tap the night before…
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…
Well, we couldn’t do any worst than yesterday, right?
Actually we didn’t. Skiles was on the boat taking care of the helm while I just ran around trying to do everything that needed to be done.
Somehow he hit Trick Monkey before the start. Now this is the Second Melges 24 we have hit this year…I am starting to call Speedster The BigBadMelges Eater… Read more…
SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! RACE DAY!
I was so excited! So we had a full boat. Spencer came on board for the first time, the man knows way more about racing a boat then he let on when we were emailing back and forth. At first we tried to put him up on foredeck, have Dwight fly the chute. Foredeck on the Olson is a bit harder than it sounds…it did not go well. Read more…
Bryan Calk was in from Kuwait on leave. He wanted to get out on the water…there was a race on the lake, so we went to BayView to race the Wed Night Series…Bryan, Dwight, and I sailed her to the north side of the lake and picked up Peter at the dock. We were a bit light on crew, but we handled it. Read more…
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.
