This past weekend was the annual Windjammers Frostbite Race, although there was no frost and very little bite.
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Woody Allen said that 80 percent of success is showing up. Only 8 percent of our boats made it that far.
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We took the week of Labor Day off to go sailing. Weather and various life events conspired to keep us from embarking on any grand sailing adventures, but we still spent a lot of time on the water.
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I’m not sure that the sun was up when we left the house. There are very few things that will get me out of bed early enough to see that electric blue pre-dawn sky, but sailing is one of them, and we were racing in the Jet Star Regatta.
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After several weather-related delays, our club finally had the last race of the Summer Solstice Regatta.
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The racing will continue until morale improves.
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While third place may still get you a podium at the Olympics or pay out on a bet to show at the racetrack, I was not satisfied with coming in 3rd of 5 boats in the first race of the Windjammers’ Summer Solstice Regatta.
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Friday marked the start of the Windjammers’ new Summer Solstice Race Series.
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The first impact didn’t seem that bad, but when the jib backwinded and pushed us off a wave into the other boat, the whole rig shuddered.
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I arrived at the marina ten minutes before the captains’ meeting for Saturday’s Windjammer race, unsure if the foreshadowing was indicating that things were going unusually well or just that the world was out of order. Our Race Committee had incorporated our race into the Summer Sailstice, which is an annual celebration of sailing on the weekend closest to the summer solstice.
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