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!
Century Club: Sage Leone
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
more Mercury racing! with enough wind until we had to use a bailer to paddle our way in for the night...
Friday, May 23, 2025 to Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Number of days:
4 days
view from the rail, rounding green mark to starboard
our crew on Chingona
a much calmer Nantucket sound en route back to Boston
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"...)
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
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!
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
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)!
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
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...
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Planned to go out on the 420s in honor of 4/20, but didn't have an even number of people, so ended up out on a Mercury instead
Friday, April 18, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Took two friends out for their first ever sail on a very windy Friday evening, got nice and wet! let one take the helm, and she did great, despite what the other believes LOL
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
me being yelled at to head the other boat up and not being brave enough to do it...
great day of racing, greater day of rules learning!
after getting headed up at least twice on the start and blatently barging at least once, I finally got the rundown on how NOT to do those things that I know I'm not supposed to do (and why I'm actually not supposed to do them - who knew there's no proper course before a start!), aka don't let people be below you, and wiggle to keep them from wanting to go there.