Century Club: Tim Ford

Sort of a hectic morning.  As PRO for a CBYRA sanctioned race, I try as hard as possible to make it a 100% mistake-free exercise.  I usually fail.  In this case, look at the course board and note the RED "W" as the finish mark.  It should have been green, as we ended up, due to traffic in the fairway, achoring on the offshore side of the mark.

And there was another CF factor...another club ended their race, simultaneously, at the SAME MARK. Then it got truly weird.  The other club, out of Philadelphia, had a boat of the same color, same builder (Sabre) and very similar LOA, WITH THE SAME NAME ON THEIR TRANSOM as one of our Race to Rock Hall competitors.  I mean, WHAT ARE THE ODDS???

This lead to a certain level of confusion.

Anyway, the party was fun and we stayed way too late and somehow got back safely to the anchored Signal boat at about midnight..

Morning, devoid of hangover but still very foggy, in more than one sense, we made it back to PSA without incident.  Running AIS and iNavX on the phone meant a LOT of screen time.  Luckily, even with the ILA strike being resolved, we had very little heavy metal traffic transversing our two trips across the channels ("East" and "Craighill")

Fun weekend!

Last regular series race at BCYA...and we could have really used it.  It was light and we do very, very well in light.  But the RC thought it was too light. Differences of opinions exist. But anyway it was a short but enjoyable evening on the water.

Plus: it gets dark at 7pm.

Man, what a weird night.  So much went wrong.  Jib peel. Jib hoist. Spinn hoist. Sail call. Etc. 

We were bad last week and we were bad this week.  I got to the boat and that's when the rain started.  Just like last week. I thought it was Groundhog Day.  Same sky, same light. 

And then racing, it went just about the same way.  Different mistakes but same result.

I got home and switched on the tube to watch the last few innings of the O's game.  Our TV opens to some sort of Samsung movie channel or some such offering. I really don't know.  But I looked up and there was Bill Murray talking to Andie MacDowell.

Groundhog Day.

At least petrol prices are low...

Ugh, a wet night and a less than stellar performance on BOXCAR.  Found a hole from hell and watched the entire fleet sail away.  Luckily, there is beer.  Beer exists.

Earlier that day, paddling on the creek, spotted a bunch of turkey vultures circling shore in the wooded point south of the club. They let me ghost on by very closely, just hung there in the trees a dozen yards away,  Kind of creepy and I have no idea why they were hanging around so calmly.