Sea Lift boats at rest
end of race sideshow
incoming
hand me my noise-cancelling phones, please
Got a ride on Glenn L's Columbia 30/2 BOXCAR because their bowman was on vacy. Fun boat. It absolutely smokes in light air, and we took the gun and saved enough time to take the bullet. It amazes me how well this boat goes in light air. And these guys are good too, having owned (at least since I first met them up at HdG) a J24, a Melges 24, an Antrim 27, a Beneteau 10R and now the Columbia.
One thing about sailing out of Marine Max on Clinton Street in the harbor - it's right next to a heliport that services all measure of whirly birds, from Shock Trama to WBAL TV to the BCP. They zip in for refueling, the truck whips into position and ten minutes later (max) they are gone. Gasoline Alley at The Speedway at Nazareth got nothin' on this heliport!
But it is slightly disconcerting...the mess of rotarty wing craft operating next to a marina with 60 foot metal poles sticking up and moving in and out of the location...whose idea was that?