Got the best text ever from Madi asking to take a 420 out after work on Wednesday. Did a bad job leaving work on time (thanks deadlines), but made it out for a solid evening sail with decent wind, and chill enough for her to take the helm comfortably for a good while
Century Club: Sage Leone
Monday, August 25, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Last night of the summer series (and last Monday night) foiled by lightning strikes! CBI opened, but not in time to rig and get a course and make it home for call-in, so we packed some Mercs with Laser sailors and headed out to fool around in the very low wind. Downwind race home, which Madi, Mason, and I won, but against a boat of 4 men, so take it with a grain of salt...
Sunday, August 24, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Another double duty day!
Found myself with no plans the night before, so shot a text over to MOW to hop on their boat for Clemson Chase. What was supposed to be a super windy day just didn't feel satisfying enough on that boat, and since it was still raging when I was done, shot Madi a text looking for a 420 buddy on my return. I am luck to have friends as crazy as I, so headed out with her when I got back and got a few hours zipping around the Charles with her!
Saturday, August 23, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Came down after an epic day of waves at Rever hoping to get a yellow Laser today, for the dockstaff to tell me not possible (algae) and they had no idea how I got a green the day before.
Hopped on a singlehanded Merc instead and quickly decided that I didn't want to hold three things in my hands, so I abandoned the rudder and had a great time rudderless sailing around! Nearly had a collision with an MIT sailor who was 1. on starboard, 2. pushing me into sailing by the lee WITH NO RUDDER, and 3. had the audacity to say "wow that was close" when he passed me without having headed down at ALL.
Friday, August 22, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
This algae is keeping me from windsurfing STILL, and I am going crazy, so I bullied a dockstaff into letting me take my green test on a Laser tonight! didn't have to capsize for my test (thank you algae), but tried to roll just a little too hard, got stuck in my little rolling ball at the bottom side of the boat, and went over anyways...fully wet... but had a blast bouncing around with Mark, Mason, and Tristan, and being one of the gang, finally!
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
taking the helm after my crew Sara passed her red wind test!
Race night transformed into social sailing because of a 7pm dock party (open bar! food! robo-subs!). Bummed cause it was a windy day and would have made for some awesome racing, but instead we had a day full of red tests and added 4 new red rated Merc sailors to our group!! and the only capsizes were men hehehe
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Booked it back to Boston from home on an early morning train to make it in time for a 5pm Soling dock call. No spinnaker tonight (because I'm still not good enough to make it fast) and we lost just about every race but had one or two great starts! a blast for my last night racing with them in the summer series!
Thursday, August 14, 2025 to Monday, August 18, 2025
Number of days:
4 days
the big boat and a brave soul attempting foiling
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
grinding on the downwind
the ladies of the pony (it sails better when there’s 50+% women)
rearview mirror
en route to the party via motor (yes it’s cheating, but it’s really hard to dock with a broken engine)
"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.