Booked it back to Boston from home on an early morning train to make it in time for a 5pm Soling dock call
Century Club: Sage Leone
Thursday, August 14, 2025 to Monday, August 18, 2025
Number of days:
4 days
Fled the state after Flip Flop, and after a brief reprise in NYC, made it to the Chesapeake for a weekend of water fun at home. As per usual, this includes:
- wakeboarding and waterskiing
- Hobie sailing
- attempting to wing upwind in very little wind
- attempting to pump a foil and, new this trip, attempting to wakesurf with a foil
- various methods of leaping into the water off of various craft
- eating crabs
Saturday, August 9, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
"Christmas for Boston sailors"
The biggest Boston harbor race of the year, a pursuit with 68 boats and a spirit award. And it was another Pony day! we glittered and neon-ed up and got ready to race (a little late, out at the line with only 12 minutes to spare for our start, we checked in as we sailed over the line). What was predicted to be a low wind drift turned into a high speed day, with ripped kites (not ours), broaches (once for us), and wild Boston racing!
Then an even wilder party, with reports of dinghy motors dropped in the water and wayward sailors returning home at 11am.
Friday, August 8, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Wandered down to the river a couple of minutes late as is my tendency to do on Fridays, and found Peter hanging out. Not a normal racer, but he offered to hop in a boat and crew so we could get out there! Spend the night battling Sam and Dwayne (and only truly fouling them once), then made up for it all over beers with Dwayne, Dana, Cole (my Viper connection, if I ever want one) and Max.
Friday, August 8, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Wandered down to the river a couple of minutes late as is my tendency to do on Fridays, and found Peter hanging out. Not a normal racer, but he offered to hop in a boat and crew so we could get out there! Spend the night battling Sam and Dwayne (and only truly fouling them once), then made up for it all over beers with Dwayne, Dana, Cole (my Viper connection, if I ever want one) and Max.
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Adding another boat to my fleet of boats this summer. Raced Doug's boat Andara with mostly Ghosties out of Boston Harbor Yacht club for the Wednesday night races. Booked it out of work on a BlueBike to make it on time for a chilly windy night of racing! Haven't earned my keep on this boat yet, but this was the first step there. He's flying an asym but looking for a team to fly symmetrical (with a dip pole) and hoping I can weasle my way into that!
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Took out my friends FINALLY because Katie is leaving for grad school in Philly in a few weeks! not a lot of wind, but had a lot of fun!
Saturday, August 2, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
splashed at 6am and ready to race at noon! still a broken motor, so we sailed off the dock (only slammed it once) and on to the mooring (entierly successfully). We got second by 20 seconds, which is great for a shakedown sail (and any sail, imo, but not really for the Pony), but annoying because we lost MINUTES accross all of our manuvers, mostly because no one reallyyyy has been flying a spin this year, and we're all a little rusty...
Friday, August 1, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Was supposed to be the splashing of the Pony, but she got delayed a day, so we raced Friday night on Ghost! had a fun race with a super fun crew (including a 4 year old Delilah) and yummy snacks (candy rocks!)
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
It was almost windy and along with that some cold and a storm that justttt held off meant I had to find my way to CBI to get out on a wing. Had a great time, managed to stay pretty much as far upwind as I wanted, pulled off one actually good feeling gybe, and nearly froze to death, but I survived!