June 6 TESOD
4 505 sailors showed up at SSA to go sailing last night: J Bergquist & Amie Boothe were on hand to practice for the first day of the upcoming summer series. Jimmie Cockerill (sp?) managed to shanghai someone named Ivan off the SSA porch to sail Cardiac Arrest with him. Ivan turned out to be quite an accomplished sailor, hailing from Bulgaria, who described the experience of driving a 5o5 as
'zis boot feelz zo ALIVE! zhe iz juust zo ALIVE!'
This was a description of driving Cardiac Arrest. I wonder what he would have thought about driving a nice boat?
But I digress. We were in the water by 6:15, with a northerly at about 5 knots and J/Amie immediately headed out past the TESOD race course and spider to get some practice and tuning time, let Amie find where to land her butt after a tack and what to do with the tiller extension. After we got some wits, and about the time we were mid-span on the Bay Bridge, sailing in a 10-12 kt easterly, a huge rainbow came out, which we took as an omen and decided to pull the kite up and practice going downwind. After a couple of errant gybes where Amie managed to find new and interesting places to put the tiller extension, we developed a system and the breeze built to allow wire running. Unfortunately, we then broke the topping lift sheave and got a very low pole, but that didn't stop us from coming screaming into the harbor, nailing a few more gybes and taking the kite down just in time to enjoy one TESOD race so we'd get counted for participating.
After our race, we all did a bit more practice, then headed in to enjoy the Angry Chef's salad with white wine, followed by a beautiful sunset and beers at Davis's with the Vanguard 15 crowd. All in all it was a great night with decent breeze, good 5o5 practice, two epic rainbows, a nice sunset, and lots of hanging out with friends.
We'll do it all again next week. First start is at 6 PM. Don't be late.
'zis boot feelz zo ALIVE! zhe iz juust zo ALIVE!'
This was a description of driving Cardiac Arrest. I wonder what he would have thought about driving a nice boat?
But I digress. We were in the water by 6:15, with a northerly at about 5 knots and J/Amie immediately headed out past the TESOD race course and spider to get some practice and tuning time, let Amie find where to land her butt after a tack and what to do with the tiller extension. After we got some wits, and about the time we were mid-span on the Bay Bridge, sailing in a 10-12 kt easterly, a huge rainbow came out, which we took as an omen and decided to pull the kite up and practice going downwind. After a couple of errant gybes where Amie managed to find new and interesting places to put the tiller extension, we developed a system and the breeze built to allow wire running. Unfortunately, we then broke the topping lift sheave and got a very low pole, but that didn't stop us from coming screaming into the harbor, nailing a few more gybes and taking the kite down just in time to enjoy one TESOD race so we'd get counted for participating.
After our race, we all did a bit more practice, then headed in to enjoy the Angry Chef's salad with white wine, followed by a beautiful sunset and beers at Davis's with the Vanguard 15 crowd. All in all it was a great night with decent breeze, good 5o5 practice, two epic rainbows, a nice sunset, and lots of hanging out with friends.
We'll do it all again next week. First start is at 6 PM. Don't be late.
posted by J Bergquist at 5:18 AM
2 Comments:
Wow,
Guess the era of political correctness is over... now we're talking about Amie's butt, Hungarian pronunciation, and the implication that Cardiac Arrest is not a nice boat.
I didn't say anything about Amie's butt...
Ivan is from Bulgaria, not Hungary - according to my report.
I won't say any more about Cardiac Arrest.
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