Finally, the day we've been waiting for! Racing!! There are 3 Qualifying races scheduled for today and tomorrow, and we were able to sail 2 of them today. Wind was good, another knot or two higher and it would have been uncomfortable. It came from the Northeast and was able to fetch down the 15 mi long lake and that made for some nice swells to surf downwind.
The first race was 4 legs, downwind finish, and the second race, to our disbelief, was a 5 legger. sheesh. More upwind practice in breeze, though, I guess. Seems like finishing downwind would have been preferred since that end of the course was near the marina cove, but maybe they had difficulty seeing boat numbers downwind.
Team Florida is doing well so far, and Team Mad Sails had some good finishes, too. Tomorrow looks to be a little less windy, so that will be nice.
The pups seem to be taking this all in stride. Presently, sleeping on the floor of the RV. Missy found the front seat this morning and she thought she looked pretty cute riding shotgun!
Looking at the weather at home, though....tornado watches, floods, craziness!! Everybody- hunker down!!
The weather here has been nice so far, hopefully they are wrong about the forecast high temps for the end of the week (102-104 deg. yikes!) The campsite area has been really comfortable with nice breeze and shade. (We'd love to post some pics, but technical difficulties prevent it at this time - isn't that always the case. Thought we had it worked out since the change to Apple-ness. Come back to the site after we get home, we'll see if we can figure it out!) The marina parking lot, on the other hand, where the boats are is quite a bit like Africa-hot. After racing we were happy to get back to the coolness of AC and shade. Dinner plans include some chicken on the barbee, yum.
Still no pics.
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