Century Club: Mario Santana

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
PCRC on Specific Gravity
  • Motoring home after racing
  • The view from the rail
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We raced short handed, with cross sheeting and no spin.  Great practice.

Monday, September 16, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
MNR
  • Reefed Madness
  • My ugly mug
  • Tight racing
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Another successful Monday Night Races.  Not my best sailing, but I wasn't super late on the start and I tacked to stay in phase, and I was beating everyone to the to mark but on port tack.  A couple of ducks and a precision tack left me in third, a crap rounding got me to fifth, and a solid downwind had me finish in third. 

A lot of work and a bunch of valuable reps.  10/10 will do again

Sunday, September 15, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
Evening cruise on Tom Swift
  • Trap and Spin is the name of my next punk band
  • I only joined for the last 90 minutes of this
  • Just a glorious sunset
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After a morning spent watching G practice trap/spin 420 with a teammate from over the summer, I had the option to jump on Tom Swift for the evening.  We watched the Rainbows Sunday Night Races on a wonderful late summer evening.  Thanks, Todd, for another wonderful sail!

Monday, September 9, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
MNR
  • The fearless crew
  • Sunset after racing
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Tonight I decided we'd do lots of tacking in the shifty conditions, and it paid off.  As our maneuvers got better during the course of the races, or performance improved, and we won the last race after an epic tack battle with Zephyr when we forced her to cross outside the finish line. 

An absolutely glorious evening for it, too 

Sunday, September 8, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
SNR
  • Sunsets and Rainbows
  • It was a Smith Island cake of a sunset
  • The real sailing is the friends we made along the way
  • To late to catch the actual sunset over back Creek
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Start practice paid off and we did pretty well.  A couple of third place finishes, a middle of the pack, and a second, IIRC.

Saturday, September 7, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
Aborted time trials

Was supposed to do time trials on the P15 solo and on a rainbow with G.  The wind was up so didn't take the P15 out.  Took Chinook out with G but with winds doing 20kt steady and gusting strongly, we depowered and turned back for home.

 

I'm glad to have gone out in it, probably would have raced with another crew or two.

Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
Solo practice
  • The Rainbow's rainbow halo

Another nice day, more starts and maneuvers.

Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
Solo practice
  • My ugly mug
  • Always a great view
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Beautiful day to practice starts and maneuvers

Monday, September 2, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
Flying Hulls

G and I took Hippie Chic out to practice flying a hull.  We got one up for probably 15 seconds or more, at one point.  To much fun, need more practice.

Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
Racing on Specific Gravity
  • Motoring home after dark
  • Rail Meat
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Low wind.  We retired after sitting in the same spot for 20 minutes or more in the dark.  Decent spin work though!

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