In order not to abandon the only non-core women's sailing sailor there, I jumped ship on my friends' boat and went with an anchient captain who didn't seem to want to let the mainsheet out... ever... we drifted and we struggled and eventually managed to convert our drift downwind into an attempt at sailing home, and made it only about 30 minutes after the others. but being out on the Charles at night is so cool
Century Club: Sage Leone
Monday, July 28, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Came in pretty much dead last, but had a blast dragging Michael out on a 420 with me. He insisted on lounging with his feet up on the side, which was not the most efficient or dignified, but what can you do with a 6'5" seasickness-inclined man on a boat
Thursday, July 24, 2025
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1 day
Grace was in town to drop a friend at the airport, so I took her racing! super windy day at first, that settled out into a beautiful day for her to take the helm on a first 420 sail. then pizza and no beers at Night Shift!
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
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1 day
adopted a girlie there for a guided sail whose instructor bailed on her, had a blast. "I've been looking at these boats since I moved here and I finally made it out!" "oh how long have you been here" "oh three weeks"
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
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1 day
With chingona partying it up in Ptown this week, I was left boatless for Rumble until Jake scooped me up onto Ghost. A kinda crappy but fun race for us, getting 5/6, but failing to involve ourselves in any of the many shenanigans, including rounding a mark while touching it the entire time, and nearly smashing a leg between two boats. Yay Rumble, yay current!
i was jib trim and am really really enjoying being more important on these boats and not entirely incompetent! My boat confidence has skyrocketed this year, and only keeps going up as I sail more and am trusted more.
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
maybe my second to last day out there? windier than I have ever been out, but still not too bad. my first raise of the pole was horrific, but then I got my feet a little bit under me for the gybe and douse. but then, of course, the next race the spin sheet came undone from the sail and we had to douse and give up with the spin for the day. Alex was ROCKING our starts though! our first couple were tough but then we crushed a few in a row. in there with other boats, weaving up and down, heading people up, usually not being headed up ourselves, some clean air.
Learned: to accelerate off the head to wind, backwind the jib, head a little down to get speed, come back up, maybe weight to leeward (and I assume then flatten?)
Monday, July 14, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
sail 2!
got to sail with Terry and had SO much fun. More rolltacking (which I sucked way harder at today that last Thursday) and let her skipper the whole thing which did mean we pretty much crushed it, but I was having fun getting my feet back under me on the crew side.
figured out that I can pretty much only have a good roll if BOTH my feet make it ont the side that I am rolling, but then I kept abandoning one of those feet down there and had a really hard time getting both back up to flatten. got to watch a couple of roll tacks that Terry did as skipper too, so hopefully I have more hope there next time I'm skippering. Her trick is that when you reach up to the side to climb up and flatten, clamp that rudder with that hand there, which is basically steering straight, until you're sitting high and pretty, then transfer behind your back.