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 drift continues.
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Fortune favors the bold.
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It wasn’t looking good.
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The absurd refrain of “weekend coastal storms” kept us from sailing Fortuitous once again. Rather than be cooped up in the house, constantly reminded that we can’t sail, we decided to take an impromptu drive to anywhere.
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Somewhere in the pre-dawn light between Flagstaff and the California border, the train ground to a halt. I had given up on sleeping in my semi-reclining coach seat by day three of this trip and had surreptitiously made my way into the vacant snack car to try to stretch out in a booth. Even after winning the last…Continue Reading “May Showers”
The sails were prepped. The mooring lines had been cast off. People on land, still toiling at their bottom painting and de-winterizing tasks, were waving bon voyage to us as we motored out of the marina.
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Dans ses écrits, un sage Italien
Dit que le mieux est l’ennemi du bien.
– Voltaire, “La Bégueule”
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