Thought I'd practice single handing an FJ. Ended up talking about sailing with Rick and getting lessons about the coreolis effect in sailing, wind loft (how there is more wind at the top of the mast), when to use vang to increase or decrease twist, what the heck that 150 , 130 etc means for jibs (and the "j" factor- distance between forestay and mast? ..hope I remembered right), etc. Rick also shared that he has a youtube channel, Sailing Poor Richard, where he will be posting educational videos of sailing. Was cool to see the visualizations of sailing on engineering software!
Then I went and did RC for the small boat race. The wind was very light. We shortened the course when it dropped below 5 kts. Randy and Chip were teaching me about clouds, how they can indicate wind, how to locate the clouds to be able to better start telling how far away they are (radar), and learned a lot about their awesome sailing histories! Next time I do RC I need to wear grimier clothes bc the anchor is so muddy haha