June 23rd - We switched nights with another club boat for RC. His boat had been our of the water for months and the same week they went into the water, was the week he has signed up for RC! I happly switched with him. Too bad we had no wind!
June 24th - Racing with my son on his Muttineer 15. This would be the last sail on this boat with the old sails. The new sails arrived on Friday and man are they "crispy"!!! tommy is excited to get them on the boat and try them out... i am too!
June 24th - Moved my boat from Washburns marina back to my slip.
June 26th - 42nm distance race down the bay to marker 70R and back to solomons. We got very wet, ate chicken, dank rum... rounded the windward mark at 70R and launched th kite. Everything went great till... the gybe.... it all went to hell in a hurry. wrapped the kite around teh head stay, hour glass, rounded up resulting in the spin pole "pitch poling" and almost distroying the pole car on the mast, the spinaker tore almost completly in half... it was a mess.After collecting our selfs, we rigged somethignt o get the pile back up and winged the Genoa out, going wing on wing. With following seas and a stiff 20kts of wind, we git 10.4kts! It is the official fastest he boat has ever gone... we didtn win... but survived and learned and finished all the rum we had left!
June 27- Reduced crew for a 20nm total race. I oppted to go Non spin for this race due to the crew skill level and the conditions were the same as the day befor. we too second place.
Over all covered 80+ nm over the weekend. High highs and Lowe lows...