Wah, poor me. An inversion over Seattle is killing the usual NW seabreeze – and there are forest fires in Washington and BC so we have red smoky sunsets – and very poor air quality. Tonight’s sailing was in a very light west wind that turned SW and then NW after sunset. Because it is Seafair weekend there were lots of powerboats trying to go very fast over there, then back here, and then over there again. All the noisy boats come out for Seafair – don’t get me wrong, I like the festival, especially the Blue Angels show, but it does not attract boat owners that are conscientious, considerate or environmentally-aware. OK – spiel done.
It was a warm evening but only JR and I showed. We took Moya and set a west course.
Race notes: Bullet was late but we got off 3 races anyway. JR drove the 1st two and we did bad. Hard to keep the boat going straight if you did not grow up doing it. Never met someone who tried harder or had a better attitude though. The guy is an inspiration.
3rd race I drove and DK probably threw it but we won (to windward only).
Police boat was very interested in our windward mark. They saw it and drove down at 25kts to see our start, then they drove back at 30+kts to look at the writing on the buoy. It has a sailboat emblem on it so they gave us a pass and roared off to the west to chase DUIs (which I could have done in a sailboat in 2mph breeze! [OK I guess venting was not done])
Forgot to put a SD card in the camera (the thing only has 2 buttons and one slot – how can I keep getting it wrong? What? I am over 50 years old?)
I think that is now 32 races in 2010. So I met my goal – though I have driven fewer races than in past years. And more good news – the next 3 Wednesdays should be very good because a serious team is coming out to race in prep for the worlds. Hope I can get my camera right for that.
