As a memorial to Ed Long, the person who used to run Friday night casual racing, every year CBI hosts a Friday night "un-regatta" where the courses are wacky and the sailing is a mess. This was my first Ed Long, and it was a beautiful day for it. The courses were a warm-up W4 (sailed as per usual), a W2 Haiku race (write a Haiku between the start and finish, not done until it is turned in at the RC), a "backwards" race (which does not mean sail backwards, as we all thought, instead means start downwind, roundings to starboard), and the CBI 500 (a figure 8 where you collect a washer that gives bonus points at the RC boat each lap). As I'm sure they predicted, anytime we were required to gather at the RC resulted in an absurd amount of bumper boat, and the backwards race's leeward mark was a similar pileup (I think the start also had some issues, aka almost the whole fleet was over the line before go). We collected a special washer that won us a CBI pint glass, but certainly were far from the top of the rankings.