Links to weather and area racing fleets (ABOVE).
(left)
The Naval Academy's "Hornet" looks for something, anything, in Saturday's
PHRF AO second race. The race was later abandoned (TLE).
Slogging around the buoys in early September...Annapolis Race Week.
I'm thinking of approaching the organizers of ARW next year and offering to stay away for a certain contribution, payable in Euro's, to an unnumbered Swiss bank account.
In three years I've done 5 out of a possible 9 days racing at the regatta and all five of those days have been lite air crap-shoots. This year, I did a Saturday in the J/35 fleet and we had 6 kn dying to 2-4 at the finish, race 1, and then a whole lot of watching crab pot floats sail by us in the second race. Of course, I couldn't make Day 2 & 3 and they turned out to be wonderful, in the 12 to 20 kn range.
Look, I have some boats lined up, to race on all three days next year, 2005.
So pay me.
(left)
Sjambok tries to create a little VMG as the breeze disappears in race 2. Sizeable
contributions to keep me away next year will make scenes such as this ugly PHRF
A1 start (see the crappy 2 kn Drift-Fest, below) a thing of the past!
HEY
SAILOR!....sell that PHRF bucket.
a ride in the most popular One D keelboat class...about time, eh? CLICK
SCREWPILE
STUFF:
- 15 reasons to take your boat to Solomons in 2005.(soon)
- Evelyn 32-2 racing at the 'Pile (CLICK)
photo courtesy of Spinsheet
(photos: G.F. Cerrone)
SAIL FOR SIGHT WAS JULY 10th! (click here...link to BCYA Sail for Sight results)
Hot
Air and Jet Exhaust
Just downstream from Our Nation's Capitol...what's it like to race a sailboat down there?
BOATS FOR SALE (most are local boats)
J/22 WORLDS (results..) & VIEW VIDEOS OF THE J/22 RACING AT TUCKER THOMPSONS site
Okay,
it's over...but it was spectacular. Thanks much to the folks at AYC and Sailing
World. FINAL
RESULTS
a take on John Rousmaniere's book, Sleek. What's so attractive about a 115 year old displacement hull with a billiard table in the saloon, anyway?
Slightly weird or mildly intriquing stuff from a couple, two, three decades on the Bay (okay, more than that, but let's not go into it)
canoe off St. Michaels 1997 or so
You
bought a new ride over the winter, only it has some god-awful name from the
previous owner. Something like "Passion Fruit" or "My Beloved."
You've gotta get that off there and you need to do it right. Here's
how....
We're finally in the water...after a time-consuming bulkhead job
PUMPED UP! (disturbing trends from another league)
you can whine
all you want about PHRF...just not here
confessions
of a spacey tactician
that's not a
blue/green "N"...or...why some folks bail from the
"Empire"
With the exception of the J/120's in PHRF 5, no other boat dominated a class at Key West the way Evelyn 32-2's did. Coming up, a compilation of E 32-2 scores from larger 2004 regattas.
SLICK
RIDES...
(CLICK ON IMAGE)
Pictured at left, Paul Cronin's "Bongo: a'Sportboat for One'"
photo: Onne Van del Wal
WHAT'S GOING ON ABOVE THE BRIDGE? some 2004 events: not much left...
- Harbor Cup is on October 23rd
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