Trip dates:
Thursday, September 7, 2023
Trip length:
1 day
Type of watercraft:
Sail
I was fretting about the forecast all afternoon as I considered whether to race today. I finally decided to go to the club, and was still on the fence even as I was rigging the boat. I decided to go for it, and took Tommy and his friend Nolan with me for crew. We sailed out in the river and found conditions to be much more pleasant than expected, with wind around 8kts. Got the boat around the course pretty efficiently, taught Tommy and Nolan how to fly a spin on a Bucc, and ended the short evening running from a lightning storm, culminating in the amusing sight of 6 boats neck-in-neck sailing up the narrows. Glad I decided to go out, and we all had an enjoyable evening on the water.