August 18, 2007, a few of us decided to gather together to get in a bit of practice for next weekends Wife/Husband Championship. This regatta is one of the Flying Scot Class sanctioned regattas and the defending Champs are the Lintons. This year it looks like we will have three teams from the Tampa fleet vying for the top spot. This is may not sound like many but when you consider it is a two day event and it is being held in Connecticut, we’re talking about some effort and expense.
So today was a great day for sailing aside from the heat. It seems like we have been lucky this year to have pretty good wind for our fleet races this summer.
So today was a great day for sailing aside from the heat. It seems like we have been lucky this year to have pretty good wind for our fleet races this summer.
Davis Island Yacht Club
When we arrived it looked a little iffy, the view from the second floor deck showed very patchy and light breeze. Check out this cool site showing the sailing area, etc, http://marinas.com/view/marina/3998
We decide to get some lunch to give the breeze a little more time to get it going, which it did. I’d say we had between 5 and 10 knots about 80% of the time. Throw in a few lulls and a few more puffs approaching 15 and I guess you have a typical day at DIYC, if there is such a thing. I continue to be amazed at the relatively strong puffs that seem to come from nowhere especially on an Easterly.
We decided to run a whole bunch of short races in order to get lots of starts and mark rounding practice. I lost count of the number of races but it was about 3 hours worth. In attendance were Andy and Lisa on #38, Kim and Dave #812, Amy and Jeff #4321, Leslie and Paul #5026 and Robert Hobbs and his young son came out on there newly purchased Scot named “Animal House” (#2462, I think).
Following the sailing we all quickly put the boats away and retired to the club pool. Spending an hour or two in the pool (with cocktails in hand) has become a bit of a ritual this summer. Only an approaching storm convinced us to abandon the pool for the clubhouse.
Good luck to Team Tampa at the Wife/Husband Championship!
We decided to run a whole bunch of short races in order to get lots of starts and mark rounding practice. I lost count of the number of races but it was about 3 hours worth. In attendance were Andy and Lisa on #38, Kim and Dave #812, Amy and Jeff #4321, Leslie and Paul #5026 and Robert Hobbs and his young son came out on there newly purchased Scot named “Animal House” (#2462, I think).
Following the sailing we all quickly put the boats away and retired to the club pool. Spending an hour or two in the pool (with cocktails in hand) has become a bit of a ritual this summer. Only an approaching storm convinced us to abandon the pool for the clubhouse.
Good luck to Team Tampa at the Wife/Husband Championship!
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