Saturday, May 1, 2010

Great 48 Day 1

It was a nice day for the 38 boats in attendance, fairly steady breeze in the 10 knot range and comfortable temperatures. We got three 5 leg races in by about 4:30 when it appeared a thunderstorm was soon approaching. It soon skirted to the south and cleared up nicely.

Harry Carpenter is on a roll and leads the pack, two bullets will do that! Chris Danilek is one point behind then there is a bunch who are closely packed in 3 to 7.


Some Piggy carnage right after the start of race three




From the inside


Taped up and ready for Sunday

The damage was to the port bow from a T-bone after the start. This has us feeling pretty good about the decision to bring Piggy instead of the newer boat. We dug out after the collision and ended up 9th in that race which was good considering how deep we were. The 9 drops us down a few spots but there is always tomorrow.

Speaking of tomorrow there is a little more breeze on the way and Kim had too many Margaritas this evening. Uh Oh...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

port bow...hmmmm... starboard! thankg goodness for duct tape.

Unknown said...

Yeah, tape is good.

Doug Carroll said...

How about some details? What were the circumstances? How could it have been avoided?

Thanks

Doug

Unknown said...

We were on starboard shortly after the start and a port tacker tried to cross. The Stb boat below us tagged his stern and swung him toward us for a t bone. Fortunately the stb boats above us had enough room to avoid the mess.
A future blog post will describe the repair which started today.