[Public-List] Chesapeake Sailors

[Gordon Laco]

Thanks - 

The regatta is over - we placed third.  JILL was very fast but as I wrote
earlier, tough to keep in the groove.  I got better as time went on but alas
we were third to NANTORIA who was first, and PURPLE HAZE who was second.

We're on short final preps for SURPRISE's truck ride to Toronto....

Gord 
Surprise 426


On 15/06/14 10:58 AM, "Lawrence Morris" <morris.lc at verizon.net> wrote:

> Booms a little lower on 5.5!  That means us old men have to bend down a little
> more.
> 
> Good Luck today. 
> 
> 
> 
> Larry 
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On Jun 15, 2014, at 9:33 AM, Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello gang
>> 
>> I'm about to start Day Three of the 5.5 Meter Class regatta our club is
>> hosting. There's a 5.5 named "Purple Haze" from Maryland who says he knows
>> some of you A30 people on the Chesapeake  Small world.
>> 
>> I'm skippering Jill, a quite lovely 5.5 literally hours out of a huge refit
>> that ended her decades of internment ashore.  She's 'holy crap' fast... But
>> tough to keep in the groove.   We broke spreaders one both the previous days
>> of racing... DNF'd across the board.  Winds have been 20-25+ and these are
>> very powerful boats.
>> 
>> Yesterday I was felled by the boom when I let her gybe while adjusting her
>> backstay..silly boy!  . CT scan showed my brains no more scrambled than
>> usual...good thing I'm thick headed.
>> 
>> So, rig repaired, me with a headache, crew still game, we're going out to do
>> battle again.  If I can only keep Jill going and in the right direction, we
>> could do well 
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