8/8 - 9/1 Work trips, racing, fun sails

Trip dates: 
Monday, August 8, 2022 to Thursday, September 1, 2022
Trip length: 
17 days
Type of watercraft: 
Sail
  • New graphics and DC commercial reg. numbers on Cortina, now moored at the Wharf / Gangplank Marina. ARE YOU ENTERTAINED? (my cat is)
  • Another dog on the boat!
  • Checking out nature with a repeat customer
  • Kids entertaining themselves with knots on Sonora
  • Kate, Tim, and me after a great WNR with SCOW

Work trip: 10 days (3 of them are sailing trips)
Racing: 2 days
Random fun trip on the power boat: 2 days (racing got canceled, committee boat was already in the water) 
Fun fails: 3 days 

I'm probably missing 1-2 days but this is what I have logged.  Some highlights: 
My power boat is at a fancy new marina!  A bulk of my cruising business is based out of the Wharf Marina.  I'm still getting used to the hotel-like showers and floating docks. Its extra nice that I already have friends there.  3 of them are from my sailing club.  Funny thing is, there is a whaler gang there already, so I'm basically the most recent addition to the Boston Whaler cult in that marina.  I am by far the smallest, non-tender boat taking up its own slip there.  

The first of the two races I did was frustrating.  I showed up late and got one of the slowest boats.  The entire centerboard trunk would flex.  The second race was much better.  I chose one of the boats that still has the telltales on the sails.  I use the **** out of the telltales!  It was one of those 'lumpy' wind days where you had to pick spots on the river with more wind.  I am not very good with those.  I couldn't get the boat moving very fast, but I managed to use some offensive tactics -- pushing out boats on the same tack, and blocking the wind for the competitors.  Still learning spinnaker - we fudged it up the first heat, but we managed to fly it on the second heat.  On the 2nd lap of the 2nd heat, the wind had shifted enough where we decided to take on more of a beam reach course.  It kept pace with boats that had a spinnaker up and we pinched in to a third place within the scot fleet.