420 sailing with Johnathan, a healthy amount of wind but not quite enough to be wild. 3 other 420s and somehow we ended up with way more boat conflict than I desired, including a foul or two on our end (room at the mark also means room to gybe...). generally middle of the pack!
Century Club: Sage Leone
got on the water with a wrong for my first time! so so cool, did make me want to kite again. ended with paddling home for what felt like an eternity, but was probably only 30 minutes
beautiful 80+ degree day with decent wind, perfect for an evening on boston harbor. and second to cross the line, second in our class corrected!
more Mercury racing! with enough wind until we had to use a bailer to paddle our way in for the night...
Raced the 2025 MDW Figawi race from Hyannis to Nantucket on Chingona, a Jeanneau 37 out of Savin Hill YC
Friday, the delivery crew met in Onset (just past the canal through the Cape) to bring the boat to Hyannis. was a chilly day but turned out to be less rainy and more windy than expected, giving us a beautiful sail! spent the night in Hyannis, and woke up the next morning to head out to the race! On the way out, we officially christened the boat "Chingona". The race was windy and fast and fun, and we came in 4th out of 10 boats in our class (after the winners majorly barged at the start and we were nice enough not to protest them). Spend Sunday in Nantucket not sailing, before a mostly windless but very sunny delivery home to Boston Monday and Tuesday (but that jib went out for a few seconds - so it counts as "sailing"...)
Finally the stars aligned and someone pulled my name off the crew list for a day that I was actually available! ducked out of work early to get out there for some great races! We did not do too hot, but I'm told we also didn't lose.
I was main and spin trim (which I've only done once on the way back in from a race, and never for gybes before), which meant that we had a tough spin day and only flew it for two races. I rocked pulling that traveller up and down though. I am SUPER hype about the chance to get some more spinakker experience in in chiller races and smaller boats than normal!
Practice on Man of War out of Marblehead. Wet and windy day, with the sun coming out just as we got back to the mooring. Spent some time at the helm (with the most massive wheel)!
Big windy day and I took a bigger sail and a smaller board than my first day of the season. got about halfway down the river until I took a fall backwards off the board, and coming up the board flipped right onto the bridge of my nose. Gave me a bloody nose for a few minutes, and two barely black eyes for two weeks. Ouch...