So today I was aboard Starbird, Frank Martien's Tartan 101 for the first race of AYC's Frostbite Racing Second Half. It was a race that brought new meaning to "Linear random". To give a sense of what it was like, Visualize coming into a mark rounding on a port tack beat, hitting a hole in the wind right at the mark, turning 180 degrees around the mark, and ending up on a port tack beat. Yup! Now you got it.
It was one of those races where we went from heroes to hosed and back and forth again over and over again.
But it was a beautiful day on the water. The wind held to the finish line. We corrected to dead in the middle of the fleet, and came back with all of the same number of fingers, toes, and crew. Can't complain.....