One race planned for today (Sunday). Gray skies, moment of brightness and blue, then more gray with some drizzle thrown in. We were ready for inclement weather with our fowl weather gear and Fowler sails!
Early morning dreariness before the breeze arrives.The puffs remained big, likely over 20 knots, as we saw more Scot bottoms than usual, the wind causing more heel than you'd like for efficient and speedy Scot sailing.
We wonder how are friends are doing in Toms River (Lightning ACCs) and in the Cape (Daysailer NACs). The weather folks were not giving the greatest forecasts for the conditions in the northeast.
Finishing the course was the goal for the day and we achieved it! Not spending any more money on broken parts was a secondary bonus! We had our share of fire drills, though…hope we have the kinks out, as we cannot afford these mishaps in WI! Dave mashed is big toe in some uncoordinated maneuver so a new toe nail will be in his future.
Going into the day, John Meredeth with crew Tom Wolffe were tied for first (at three points each) with Chris and the family Danilek: Linda, Lee, and Roger.
Local knowledge prevailed with Tom and John winning the race and the day. The Danileks had the additional challenge of digging out from and around-end maneuver at the start. Good Show!
The Winners!!
Our housemates for the weekend were third in the race today, the Blonski family from Ohio sailed 3 up with father Paul skippering, daughter Jody and son Paul Jr. as crew, they were 4th in the overall standings. Local rock star Joni Palmer and crew Darrell Van Hutten were 3rd in the final standings with an 8th for today.
Melanie, Bill and Courtney Dunham invited us to dinner with Mel's parents and their 2 labs Mocha and Jibe. Harry and Karen Carpenter joined us with Buffet (golden retriever) and while Missy had about all the canine companionship she could take, we had a lovely time with friends.
Buffet and Jibey sharing the tennis ball
These two did this for about three hours
2 comments:
cape weather...typical...pea soup fog in the a.m.. sun burns off fog, wind builds, as do the seas. everybody hangs on for dear life. sail home in newly arriving evening fog. derig as everything is coated in a fine mist. next day repeat!
Hope that Cape weather doesn't infiltrate Ephraim WI next week.
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