Well we took Sea Puppy out racing today.. I thought I was going to be the race committe today but Chapel and her husband were in town and volunteered to do it. 🙂 so I got to race Sea Puppy.
I was supposed to have lots of crew and most of them ended up not showing up. Miriam was the only one left with me when we left the dock and because of her surgery she couldn’t help sail… It was looking more like a casual solo race for me than anything really competitive. Once we got out there though we took aboard Richard off the committe boat. He had helped Chapel and husband as well as her niece and friend get the committe boat out and the course set prior to the race. Chapels niece and friend were starting to get sea sick on the committe boat which was anchored so I took them onboard also ( the perked up after getting moving again.)
Long and short of it we lost the first race and took second by a narrow margin from Achilees Heel and took first in the second race. 🙂 hurray 🙂
The excitement of the day was Webejamming having her tiller break and run the committe boat over while out of control.. No one was hurt but the committe boat got tee boned on the port forward quarter, rolled about 45 degrees over and the stainless pulpit around the front 1/3 of the boat stripped off and mangled. Hats off to Chapel and crew as they dealt with it and were writing times down for the next boats across the finish line 40 seconds later.
Later in the day we had a party over at Han’s clubhouse … the turnout was poor… oh well more food for the rest of us.
So here are some pictures from the race and the party.
Richard polling out the jib on the down wind leg.
Runaway looking good
Kathy Lynn and Webejamming in the background during the first race.
Bow Babes 🙂 really!!! actually these are Chapel’s niece and her friend. You can tell they are enjoying the day on the water 🙂
Upwind leg with everyone heading out on the rail. I actually had to many people on the boat and at one point had to bring some weight back off the rail and into the cockpit like richard in this picture.
Picture of me finally. Not often I have someone else on the boat taking pictures so that I get mine taken.. Miriam tool pictures all during the race/day… we apointed her the official photographer. 🙂 lol so there are no pictures of her.
Niece and friend… their names will come backto me later 🙂
Webejamming just after she hit the committe boat. you can just see the committe boat also.
Some pictures from the party.
Al from Achilees Heel
Patrick from Tze Szu
Breck from Runaway and Miriam
Hans and Amanda
Craig. He’s a member of the club and also the manager of the local West Marine.. 🙂 we all spend most of our spare cash with him. 🙂
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