Flying Scot - North American Championship 2008

The Flying Scot North American Championship is almost upon us, racing starts Monday July 21, 2008. This blog kind of got it's start about this time last year when Kim and I detailed our trip to the 2007 NAC in Deltaville Va. We aren't attending this year but Mark and Tom Taylor from the Davis Island fleet in Tampa are and will be sending daily updates. In case you don't know the Taylors, Tom is Mark's dad and is very supportive of our fleet. Tom has done RC more than his fair share and has hosted the Lake Hollingsworth International Regatta (or something like that) and associated party the last two years. Mark was the first "Lightning guy" at DIYC to get a Scot, he bought #4321 Blast Off about 3 or 4 years ago. Since then fellow Lightning sailers; Andy Hayward (Fleet Captain) and Jeff Linton have also picked up Scots, Jeff continues to seriously campaign the Lightning, as well. We have become accustomed to seeing Mark sailing with some combination of his own kids; Stew, Drew or Lily.


Here is Mark and Tom in action. How about those cool one-of-a-kind graphics.

Hers is Mark's first report:

WE ARE OFF!

Well, we are on the road. I left for Lakeland after the rain finally quit on Thursday, about 4:30. Looked like the rain had sucked all the wind out for sailing ;-}. Had dinner with mom and dad and we packed dad's car.

Snafoo #1. Some of you may have noticed I check my lightbar on dad's car last weekend. Everything worked great - until now. We checked the lights before leaving and only had right side. After fooling with the plugs and crap, looks like issue between trailor plug and car plug. Fun Fun. We tried putting a 1 foot extension between the 2 plugs and BINGO! Lights - go figure.

Took off from Lakeland around 7pm. Traffic was light with a slight off and on drizzle. We made it to just north of Jacksonville at 11pm and called it a night.

Left Jacksonville around 9:30am in Georga now. Dad is driving, I'm searching the internet for cheap gas - exit 29 $3.91, not bad. Looks like we are going to run into the backside of that low again. More rain in our future.