3-18 St Pete
High pressure is camped on us so we have 3 knots or less out of the SE. not a good thing. The RC postponed ashore for 4 hours. I did some blogging reports and got up to date but my #$%! Road runner would not send. We were also postponed indefinitely all afternoon. Washed the boat, argued with the laptop dysfunctional email. Visited the rum party on the main dock SPYC marina and hung out with the NC group: Richard, Mickey, Jack Sawyer, Doug & Katy Sherwood, Rick Essman, John Pelosi and Toby Wells. First time in memory of not getting on the water to sail at St Pete.
Mickey & Richard provided the before dinner hospitality suite in their room complete with hors d’oeuvres borrowed from the Hampton Inn lobby.
Rick is from St Pete, provided great local knowledge for our group, and lead us to a good restaurant a few blocks away for dinner.
We all hope for wind tomorrow.
3-19 St Pete
We are still without wind, 3 knots or less out of the SE. Not a good thing. The RC postponed ashore for 4 hours again this morning. So the NC group and our guide Rick hit the road for Fort Desoto beach. Most of us took a swim, the water is a bit chilly even down here, but it was beautifully clear water. Did some beach walking, not as may shells as Masonboro.
Returned to St Pete and hour before this AP ended to visit the Saturday Street Fair / Market just a few blocks from SPYC. Great food, music, arts & crafts, loads of friendly dogs and people. Happens every Saturday between October & May . We highly recommend it.
Sailing is still stalled due to light wind. The NC group decides to go out anyway for a little light air practice, and we had a pretty good sail with about 10 other boats also out on the water. The RC and the rest of the 57 boat fleet arrived around 3pm and the light wind died. So we waited as the late day breeze finally filled in for one short race. We finished 28th Richard 29th, so we drive 13 hours, spend a bunch of $, sail in a 57 boat fleet and we could still spit on each other as we finish. So…… it must be some sort of CYC magnetic force at work?
The warning signal tomorrow has been moved up an hour to 9 am to attempt more races before the start time limit on a final day of regatta, so we have a really early morning ahead of us. Tomorrow will go on well into Monday early morning as we pack up the boat after racing and drive through to Wilmington non-stop.
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