Century Club: Jonathan Nepini

An evening paddle off Snow Hill Park down to Cole Creek to investigate the waterfront amenities in an old neighborhood I have my eye on. Getting hot again, but still a gorgeous evening to be out, with wonderful golden hour light everywhere. The paddle went well, and the amenities check out reasonably - much to consider in these next few months. 

Out for a quick sail on one of the club's Sunfish after doing a quick repair on Dangerous. I fumbled the launch a bit, but managed to get out and enjoy nice, if light conditions. I sailed out to north of Molly's Leg, up Back Creek a bit, and then slowly floated home. A great way to close out my evening.

One last round for the Patuxent Pursuit. We had our windward/leeward course in the river today, right off the boardwalk and up against the shallows. We fought hard again in several comptitive races, working with shifty conditions, patchy breeze, and boat wakes chopping up the course. We ran the boat harder and sharper than yesterday, by far the best work we've done this season. On the last race, the breeze got reachy on the course, and we capitalized on a good start and a mistake from Pony Express and finally pulled off our only bullet for the weekend. In hindsight we probably could've squeezed in a fourth race. A great way to cap off a fantastic weekend of racing, parties, and camraderie, and certainly a worthy successor to Screwpile. 

Racing on Dangerous this weekend in the inaugural Patuxent Pursuit. The event was born out of the vacuum created by Screwpile's cancellation, and a number of friends are involved in its planning and execution. Today's race was a pursuit race for all competitors. We started at PR3 in light conditions, and close reached out to PR1. We clawed back a lot of ground and nearly led the fleet rounding PR3 again, but got caught in light air close to the next mark, involving a tight rounding and nearly the whole fleet rolling us from over by Drum Point. We did manage to gain back a lot of ground in the river, but only managed a 6th of 9 boats. Despite the mediocre result, the pursuit race was a tremendously fun format, and got us thinking outside the box sailing the boat on a lot of reaching angles we don't usually spend a lot of time on. A great afternoon and a great start to the weekend!