We've all got em. And most of us have hundreds. I only need a few. I just realized I haven't posted in a while and I haven't shown a good pic of the boat! Here is a pic I pulled off of the SPINSHEET site that was taken during a benefit race in Annapolis last August. (And tomorrow is THIS YEAR'S event!) Even though the boat looks like it's driving itself, I am down there on the low side! It's hard to get a good pic of your own boat when you're always ON the boat.
I also haven't been sailing as much as I should. Which leads to excuse number 2. I was really (still am) busy this spring. Between tearing out a bathroom and re-tiling, training in the gym to get ready for an offshore race and actually sailing said offshore race... (George and I did MARION to BERMUDA on his C&C 44, Doublehanded!) And #3. We didn't place well in the race despite being 1st or 2nd in our class for a couple of days because we couldn't link into the Internet and download updated weather. Thus we were not as far west as we should have been and got killed the last day and a half and ended up beating our way into Bermuda. BUT, we had fun and it was a neat experience. Of course it helped that the Gulf Stream was pretty much a non-event and the whole passage was probably the easiest one I've ever had to Bermuda.
Excuse #4 Right before I left for the Bermuda race I did a Wednesday night race, singlehanded. Blew away the slower boats and actually took the "gun" as first to finish in the NonSpin Class. Silly me, not having sailed w/ this group before and not having the SI's, sailed one mark too far up the channel which allowed some of the boats to close on me and end up correcting over me on time. Had I not done this stupid thing the worse I would have been was 2nd. Oh well, live and learn. But I did get a nice pic out of that race!
So I'll put this post up and then later next week I'll update the blog w/ some really cool news as well as pics of the projects I've been working on.
