Bryan Calk was in from Kuwait on leave.  He wanted to get out on the water…there was a race on the lake, so we went to BayView to race the Wed Night Series…Bryan, Dwight, and I sailed her to the north side of the lake and picked up Peter at the dock.  We were a bit light on crew, but we handled it.

Start was right on, we tacked out of the nasty air and headed for the middle of the lake…We decided to tack back and that is when things did not go well…A little overwrap and we practically pulled the Jib Sheet Cleat off the deck….DOH!!!  We couldn’t trim, we couldn’t release, we spent a good 3 minutes trying to get the sheet out of the cleat.  Thank our lucky stars we were going fast and were on starboard tack.

We cleared the foul and headed toward the Mark.  At the mark, imagine what my face looked like when the SWALE (the boat I normally crew on) is at the mark before us.  OverKill (the other Olson30), S-Cape, Geranimo, and Hotsy are right there too…I guess we had not lost as much time as I thought.

Rounded the mark and we took off…got behind S-Cape and Stayed there for the rest of the race.  We finished as the trhird boat, but ended up 6th after the corrections.  BAH!  Much props to SWALE…nice third kids.

Had a BBQ at the dock with the rest of the sailors, and decided to head back to RCYC…as soon as people heard we were having a late night cruise, there was a frenzy for getting coolers on the boat.  We left RCYC with three, and got back with seven I think.  There were also 7 coolers…

By the way, if you ever have a starboard bow light out….cut a 7up or sprite plastic bottle bottom off and duct tape it to a flashlight.

Dwight took the night pics…

The Skipper