Gator Bowl Day One

The steady rain from Friday continued through the night but began to break up by mid-morning Saturday. It was decidedly chilly but once the rain stopped it felt a whole lot better.

We got started shortly after noon in light breeze that built through the afternoon.



Very gusty and shifty conditions challenged the 19 boat fleet, there were many huge gains and losses with each shift. There were a couple capsizes which reportedly were quickly righted.

Jeff and Amy Linton were pretty untouchable, they had an OCS in the first race knocking them out of first place. Harry Carpenter with Bill Ross crewing lead the scoreboard after four races. We are tied with Mark Taylor for second and third. I don't have thec scores so will stop at that.

Donna and Jon are excellent hosts and the whole group here in Jax put together a great hot meal for us chilled sailors.

There will be a throw out with six races so if we get 2 in tomorrow, the whole situation could change.

Flying Scots at the Gator Bowl Preview

Piggy hitched up and ready to leave the house

It is Friday evening and we are checked in to the hotel and have the heat on! WTF! It was a lousy day to travel;

Near Ocala on I-75 is that a motorcycle?

rain the whole way sometimes a little heavy but we encountered no real tie-ups just a little slow going which wasn't so bad.


And we thought traveling in the rain sucked

I guess it was almost 6 pm when we arrived at the club. We dumped the boat and went to Trents for dinner, their specialty is to fry stuff, mostly seafood and cold beer. In attendance were our hosts and fleet captain; Jon Hamilton/Donna Mohr, along with Harry Carpenter/Bill Ross, John Wake/Joe Brake, Amy/Jeff Linton and Kim and me. Others are en route but not in time for dinner, hope thier trip is good.

Early in the week the weekend forecast was fairly good, each day it got a little worse; colder and wetter. This morning the forecast for Saturday had a high of 56 with 100% chance of rain, that will cost us a few boats for sure. This evening the latest forecast is a high of 58 and 50% rain that should end early afternoon. Thats a little better so we'll go with it, and keep the heat on.

Out.