Speedster's Blog » Trick Monkey (Melges 24) http://www.olson30.com An Olson 30 Sailing Out of Rush Creek Yacht Club at Lake Ray Hubbard, Heath, Texas, USA. Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:05:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Dallas Race Week, Race 4 http://www.olson30.com/?p=268 http://www.olson30.com/?p=268#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:39:58 +0000 The Skipper http://www.myspeedster.info/?p=268 noWind

Canceled due to no wind.  BAH!

Although when I did get to the boat, I did notice that the boat was infested with ants and monkeys….The ants came from the docks, the little bastards had climbed across the dock lines.  They are all over the boat.  And they are fast little suckers.

monkeys

The monkeys might have come from Trick Monkey as retaliation for the little Olson/Melges love tap the night before…

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Well, we couldn’t do any worst than yesterday, right?

Actually we didn’t.  Skiles was on the boat taking care of the helm while I just ran around trying to do everything that needed to be done.

Somehow he hit Trick Monkey before the start.  Now this is the Second Melges 24 we have hit this year…I am starting to call Speedster The BigBadMelges Eater…

Due to the accident, we started about a minute late.  But let me tell you, what a difference the helmsman makes.  He had us catching up as soon as we crossed the start line.  We rounded the course and finished the race barely one boat length behind Swale…

We did much better as a team…we got a 14th. Not great, but not as bad as the night before.

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