RtRH course
sail over to finishing mark
CMA pre-start
Back at PSA
Fog bank offshore
Viz down to about 3 BL
Hazy morning
Sort of a hectic morning. As PRO for a CBYRA sanctioned race, I try as hard as possible to make it a 100% mistake-free exercise. I usually fail. In this case, look at the course board and note the RED "W" as the finish mark. It should have been green, as we ended up, due to traffic in the fairway, achoring on the offshore side of the mark.
And there was another CF factor...another club ended their race, simultaneously, at the SAME MARK. Then it got truly weird. The other club, out of Philadelphia, had a boat of the same color, same builder (Sabre) and very similar LOA, WITH THE SAME NAME ON THEIR TRANSOM as one of our Race to Rock Hall competitors. I mean, WHAT ARE THE ODDS???
This lead to a certain level of confusion.
Anyway, the party was fun and we stayed way too late and somehow got back safely to the anchored Signal boat at about midnight..
Morning, devoid of hangover but still very foggy, in more than one sense, we made it back to PSA without incident. Running AIS and iNavX on the phone meant a LOT of screen time. Luckily, even with the ILA strike being resolved, we had very little heavy metal traffic transversing our two trips across the channels ("East" and "Craighill")
Fun weekend!