Century Club: Richard Turman

Took friends and their two daughters out on Round Bay for some powerboat playing around and lessons.  Great time.

Then took Lark out by myself sailing; beautiful day!

Had a great evening out single-handing my sailboat.  Shocking, though, how early the sun goes down.  Went out 4:45-6 pm, coming just in around sunset, to try to get the boat put away before it got too dark.  Had a nice 3 mile journey averaging 2.6 knots.  Gotta love fall sunset sailing!

We were all excited to have a Wednesday without rain, since we've been so soggy the past few weeks, but with no rain came very little wind.  3-4 knots at the start, filling in to 4 or 5 as we went along.  Ghosted along from Mark V, where we started, upwind toward mark B.  We banged the left and then came down to the mark, rounded, and put up the spin.  Went high, then came down.  Quite a night!  Sad to pull into the dock at get the boat put away by 8 pm and it had been full dark for quite a while.

Decent wind and no rain was nice, for a chance.  One crew had not been on the boat for a year, and another was on for the first time, so we had some learning.  We also started 30 seconds late by misunderstanding that the first fleet and the second fleet had already started.  Course was A to N and back, and had a decent time with the spin.  Upwind, we also did well, but fell into a hole at the turning mark and got bollixed up with 3 other boats and lost lots and lots of time.  Finsihed 7th out of 11, sadly.