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Work trips: 11 days
Racing: 2 days
Fun sails: 3 days
Some notable guests on my boat
- I had a proposal on my boat! She said yes! Both of the people brought their daughters and it was packed full of family fun. After I set the anchor, they went up to the bow and did the proposal. I'm so flattered. They will never forget this sail!
- I had a guest who was in his early 70s. He said he had a brother who was a world cruiser. In the 80s, out in the pacific, he was lost at sea. I could hear the heartbreak in my guest's voice even though he was trying to mask it and say it wasn't a big deal. :(
- I had another guest who had bought an Island Packet 38 out in Tahiti! I am so excited for him. Cruising the pacific!
Racing
- Me and new crew 'placed' (in quotation marks because we don't track it) 1st overall. Had a great port-side start start and left everyone in the dust in the first heat. Won by half a lap! On the 2nd heat, more people followed my strategy and I got lost in the pack. But I managed to get on a course that required less tacks. Using a lot of offensive strategies, we managed to finish in the top 3. We did all this on the second slowest boat in the fleet!
- This last race was a clusterf*. Firstly, I forgot to bring my boat keys so I wasn't able to bring my power boat to do committee boat. So I drove back to the sailing marina, with my crew snagging the last available, slowest club boat. Then we ended up hitting a boat due to poor watchkeeping. At the end of the race, I lost one of my things so I wasted 30 minutes looking for it (it was in the spinnaker bag).
Spending more than half the month on the water, not too bad.