It’s October. I should have mowed my lawn a month ago, and now there are so many leaves jammed down into the gnarled thatch that I don’t know if I should mow it, blow it, or just walk away. I had to let it go one more week though, because the wind was up and there was racing going on.
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As the rival sailing clubs prepared for this year’s Tall Oaks-Windjammers Challenge Cup Race, the main concern for everyone was the weather.
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We weren’t even looking forward to racing.
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Fortuitous began her 2015 racing campaign on Saturday. As with all racing, there were high points and low points.
Continue Reading "The Gamut"
This weekend was the Windjammers’ annual Frostbite Race. Our participation was brief.
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This weekend marked the 25th running of the Tall Oaks-Windjammers Challenge Cup Race, and Fortuitous sailed under the flag of the Windjammers Sailing Club.
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It was a wild, wet ride, but we sailed fast.
Continue Reading "Blood on the Vang"I’ve been crewing on other people’s race boats for years, but for the first time, I got to take the helm and run my own race: time to find out if I’d learned anything.
Continue Reading "The Skipper’s Burden"
In addition to sailing Fortuitous all I can, I also crew on a couple race boats. There was a big race this weekend with the Windjammers and we just finished up the season with East End, so I thought I might do a quick racing year in review.
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The leaves are changing, it's getting chilly out there, and we're rapidly running out of sailing days. All we can do is try to maximize our remaining weekends.