Would of, could of, should of. We got the Silver. Not bad. Saving some improvement for next year. The day started out with us in fourth, 5 points out of first. We knew it would be all on today because of the caliber of the competition and the conditions. It was too light to race […]
God likes us. Nothing bad happened to us before the start, we had a good start sailed well on the first lap and rounded the first downwind mark in 5 th . Then, the wind started getting weird. First it was our turn to loose a bunch. People on all sides of us had a […]
One race today and we treaded water. Actually we did close in quite a bit on the guys in front of us, finishing 4 points out of 6th but not enough to pass them. The race got started in 7 knots of wind from 290 at 1430. We had a bad start in that a […]
We had a terrible day. But somehow, we are still in fourth place,,, 9 points out of first. It started by me having the stomach flew. We all know what that entails so I wont go into the gory details. Needless to say, I wasn’t feeling my best. Next, we realize that the mainsail is […]
Sailing is a beautifully sport some days. Today was one for us. We got a third and moved ourselves up into 8th over all. We were scheduled to start at 1500 after the Tornados but at 1500 the Tornados still had not raced. Nada Vento on the Charlie course today and very little wind anywhere […]
Before the first race a batten pocket in our mainsail tore. We had a spare mainsail out there but it was the wrong one for the conditions. So I sewed the batten pocket back together 10 minutes before the start. Put me on Martha Stewart. The Meltemi prevailed again today, a bit stronger than yesterday. […]
It feels like the world is coming to the end then you realize that it is just a sailboat race. Today was the first day of the combined fleet. So all the best teams on the same race course. Race 1 toady, we led wire around all the marks, lost 4 boats on the run […]
The shifty Meltemi conditions of yesterday continued today despite a sea breeze being forecasted. The start of race one got off at 1400 in 8-12 knots of wind. We got into a bad situation at the first windward mark and fouled the Greek boat and had to do a 720 penalty turn. That put us […]
One race today that started at 1600. The Tornados were sharing our race course today so they got to start at 12:00 and we had to wait until they were done. The wind was 16-18 knots from 125.nice big waves for surfing downwind. We had a good start near the leeward end and going left. […]
The first thing that happened today was that the organizers decided at 10:00 ( today ) that all classes could not race at the same time. There are four racecourses and 11 classes so some courses have three classes on them. So they told the Star, 49er and Tornado classes to stay in and their […]
Bacardi CupMarch 2, 2020 - 7:56 pm
Sailing Scuttlebutt
