Cleaned bottom with help of Will H then finished a very fast race in the evening. Messed up the start so was in with group so about 2 minutes slow getting arund the course. 6th for the evening.
Century Club: Timothy Dull
Race 7 for summer series. Tied for 1st and finally came in 2nd overall.in series.
Stayed aboard overnight for ealy light start for Chesapeake Lighthouse cruise with Lucky Star and 3/4 Time. U/way at o600 and returned to NOB at 1800 after 64 nm trip. Single handed max speed seen was 7.3 knots sog.One T storm at 1600 required reducing sail to storm jib only. Then motered in after wind died at 1630.
Came in 4th after being corrected over by Arete and Bobinski. Still tied for 1sr with Oh Sheet.
Race 5 of the Summer Series with thunderstorms around. Caught a nice wind-shift at a perfect time and ended up finishing with the White Fleet. Another 1st which makes us solidly in 1st plae for this series. Only 1 second corrected behind the White Fleet winner.
Spent Saturday prepping boat for the trip to Cape Charles underway on Sunday with a nice down-wind ride over. A great party on the afternoon of the 4th and fireworks over Cape Charles marina. Returned to NOB on Wednesday with light wind motor-sailing.
Instead of racing, Skymark was out for an evening cruise with Andrew Perry and his new-to-sailing Wife, Kayla, around Willoughby Bay. Winds were strong enough to really get some nice runs in but not too exciting. Picked up mark left over from previous week's race.
Short on crew so signed up for Cruising fleet for this 7 nm race off Buckroe Beach (Yankee Point). A great day of good winds with no chop and we did well; fiinshed 5 of 10 in non-spin as they moved us into that group since we were the only Cruisier. Took 2nd place in slower NS group!
Picked correst tack for first leg and ran away from all. However, Oh SHeet gained considerably on the off-wind leg to where we were close all the way from the B mark to the finish. Just managed a quick tack at the line taht put us in first by 2 seconds! Patrick and WIll as regulars.
3rd race of Summer season. Picked wrong side of Bay and came in 3 minutes behind Oh Sheet. Tied for 2nd in the series so far.