Day 16, Thursday NAC cont.

Last evening, we were a little late to the Pig Pen, I mean Pig Roast at the Sauter's house. Dave was involved in a redress meeting, and we were a bit late, but right on time to see one of the most beautiful sunsets yet, from a beautiful venue. After the results of the hearing, we were in 4th place overall after scoring 6s in both races yesterday (consistency is good, we're told). Pretty exciting for the old Piggy. We seem to be the oldest boat, but not without scars, we noticed that there was water coming from the screws holding the rudder piece in place. The nuts were still on the bolts, and Dave screwed them on tighter, but today, a little more water came in. Looks like we need a bit of caulk.

Today, two races were scheduled and the race committee really tried to find enough steady wind, but alas, to no avail. We made productive use of our time, though, preparing for the limerick party, making to do lists, working on our tans…

After a valiant attempt to start a race, the RC made the right decision and abandoned for the day. NOt for lack of trying, the postponement signal went up at 11 am and we waited and waited anwaited, after abandoning we hit the dock at almost 4 pm.

Tonight is the Annual Meeting and dinner with everyone, some awards will be given out tonight, but the biggies will be awarded tomorrow after racing. We'll start an hour earlier in attempt to take advantage of the morning breeze. We need 3 races total to constitute a regatta, we'll keep our fingers crossed for good stuff tomorrow. Another night worrying and no sleep for us, probably.

A taste of things to come at the limerick party:

On Thursday, there wasn't much breeze,
The morning zephyr had been just a tease.
Kids swimming and singing,
Ping, ping went the rigging.
Just a little more wind, if you please.

Maybe we overdid the 5 gusting to 6 prayer a little we ended up with 2 gusting to 3. Oh well we back it off a little.