Trip dates:
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Trip length:
1 day
Type of watercraft:
Sail
Larry Forgy's ITINERANT gets launched
intrepid crew
wind data
We tried going off with a single reef and a number 3. Clearly we had too much sail area up and it quickly became an exercise in futility. I asked the skipper how he felt about retiring. He said fine. We asked the rest of the crew, they said yes, we are fine with that. On the way in we heard two boats in the CRCA fleet having a conversation on 72. One said they were going to retire as he expected the breeze to build. We had already seen gusts over 35 all the way up to 39. But the data from the Patapsco "smart" buoy suggests he was right, as by 3:30 there were puffs in the 40s, one up to 42.7
So it was a good decision. Out of 42 registered boats, only 14 finished. Hats off to them!