Southern Circuit, St. Pete, Saturday
Friday night spent some quality time in the St. Pete YC bar
with dark & stormy and mojito. St.Pete’s bar is hard to beat, a great watering hole after a long day on the water. The cold I picked up in Georgia is still going strong; my rough cough has a very anti social affect.
Saturday AM, the RC says we are looking at a day similar to Friday, hopefully without the long wait. Left the harbor in 10Kt. wind and after 2 general recalls we got a race
going in about 6 kt. We are getting good starts but cannot hold our line and are forced to tack. Very frustrated with our ability to point. Weather legs are 1 mile minimum,54 boats are racing. The fleet normally either works the right or left side going up the beat, the center is avoided by
most. Light air has limited the regatta to 2 races in two days. Our scores so far, 43 & 44.
Jack and I re-tuned the boat after racing today, sacrificed a chicken on the transom, burned some
incense and did a few tribal dances in the parking lot. The traditional Lightning Class banquet
dinner at SPYC is tonight. The winter championship at SPYC started in 1948 so this is the 65th. Becky and I enlisted the help of a bunch of lightning sailors at the Tiki bar on the lightning trivia quiz competition questionnaire and won for being close but not 100%. The help got no credit so we are now in hiding.
Hoping for better boat speed and pointing tomorrow.
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