Well it is the time of the year! REGATTA TIME! Last weekend was the first of the year at RCYC. This was my second Frostbite Regatta, and we could not have asked for better weather. The plan was to have a race in the morning, followed up by two races in the afternoon!
We had a new crew, new spinnaker sheets, new video camera, and yummy Bloody Mary’s. And we only had one close miss with S-Cape. I am still not sure where they came from!
The starts were pretty good, but in retrospect, I think we had too much sail up. Once we had ripped the Genny and were forced to put up the Jib, we noticed a SURGE in speed. We stayed in the back of the fleet most of the day, but had a good time!
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…
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…
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…
