Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Day 2 of qualifying, or not

One would think that with all the time we had to write today, that we would have a bunch of stuff written...sadly, there was nothing much going on, so not much to write about.

We were quite amazed that 8 hours could pass, without much notice. A summary : sitting, sweating, swimming, socializing, siesta-ing, stretching, snoozing... Also a good Top Gun chat with Allan Terhune, Paul Abdullah, Steve Shaw, and Jeff Linton. Good questions from the group, and good feedback from the experts.
Then the talk turned to dinner. Team Florida and friends planned for pizza at a local fave Pie in the Sky, and the Mad House and friends have reservations at Joe Fish.
The forecast is not too favorable for racing tomorrow, either, although some seem to feel it is "solid".
While we were chatting on the porch and listening to the RC on the radio, apparently some radio pirates captured the airwaves with a Buffet tune, something about being 5o'clock somewhere? Who could that have been. Then, a rogue rendition of the chicken dance heard between wind reports. Those RC folks are doing quite a job, too bad the wind isn't cooperating for them, much. Funny quote of the day, on the radio topic... A time when "let's go private on channel 70" was heard at an event, just made everyone giggle.
Goal for the day: stay cool and in the shade.

As for sailing, the fleet is split based on the race from yesterday, top half championship and bottom half challenger. There were a couple of requests for championship fleet placement but the committee did not grant them. There is some criteria to these things....

Starts for the rest of the week are scheduled for 9:30. The forecasted wind for tomorrow is solid all afternoon, but it is for 4 knots. Time will tell but we think it is on.

Team Tampa is out for dinner.

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