Star Class Intro…

Day 2

Tough day for sailing on San Francisco Bay. The wind did not cooperate for until abou 1400 today and then is was on the light side. However, this coupled with a realively weak current made for the most “open course” racing that you can have on SF Bay. Normally, racing on San Francisco Bay, expecially […]

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Day 1

We started out the Star North American Championship with a bang…a gun acutally. We won the first race which was held on the Berkeley Circle Race course in 12-16 knots of wind. 40 Stars were on the line for the only race of the day which got under way about 14:45. We will race six […]

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Final Report

The medal ceremony, last night, was special. It is the music, the pace and formality medals to the presenter on a silver platter, the way they announce the names and their countries, and the raising of the flags and finally the applause

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Day 6

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 […]

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Day 5

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 […]

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Cadiz Race Day 7-Final

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 […]

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Day 6

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 […]

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Day 4

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 […]

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Day 3

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. […]

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Cadiz Race Day 5

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 […]

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Paul Cayard
Paul Cayard