Thursday Evening Practice: Awesome 505 Conditions

Our scheduled Thursday afternoon/evening practice session had breeze for a change!

Richard Born drove J's boat with J on the wire, while Amie Boothe drove Ali's Rondar with Ali on the wire.
Thomas Pt. reports 16-19 knots while we were out! Thursday's is J Boat race night. Amie and went by their racing area twice wire running. The second after they had finished and were just starting their sail in. One team we blasted by was cheering us on.

6987 was raked to 3' 7". 8776 was also raked a lot, rammed down most of the way, with the CB (HA3-540) only very slightly raised from vertical. 8776 used the flattening reef, I don't thnk 6987 did.

We could have had more boats! Mike Coe was there hoping to sail (Amie and I had teamed up earlier when I had not heard from Mike), but we could not get him anyone to sail with.

What a fun evening of sailing! No capsizes, maybe one near miss. J's spinnaker halyard pulled a piece of diagonal bulkhead out, so they had to sail in under jib and main only.

You should have been there....

Ali