The plan was to take some of Mandy’s old friends out for a cruise to see if they enjoyed the whole sailing thing. We all met at th club and proceeded to go sailing.  It was Mandy, her old friends and their two boys, their cousins from out of town, and their two kidos…and me.  We had 10 on the boat…I was not sure that many could fit.

Wind was great going out and we cruised the lake just flying the main.  We then headed back and noticed that the wind was a bit light, so we put up the 100.  It got us moving…then the wind really died.  We took down the 100 and put up the 155.

Then the wind really died.  We were just sitting there…I am not sure what happened, all day the wind was coming from the north and then all of a sudden the wind started to come in from the south.  And I mean it started to BLOW! Took down the Genny…and tried to make it back to the club with the main.  And if I had my choice we would have reefed that too!  I mean it was blowing…

Appearently the club memebers could see what was happening  and were taking bets on whether we could make it back safely.  WE DID…got the boat tied up and waited for what was to be a KILLER storm that was coming through.

Mandy’s friends escaped to the safety of their cars and headed home.  The regular crew (Dwight, Jamie, Mandy, and Sheryl) decided to wait out the storm to help me put back the boat.  Richy Rich, his new GF Lyn, and her mother were there too.  We all headed into the club and found out that the race had been postponed.

I was not giving up though.  Afterall, it is TEXAS!  Wait 20 minutes and the weather will change!  So it took a little over 20 minutes, but the storm went away…we headed to the boat to drink all the booze we had brought.

I think we were over compensating since the last couple of weeks we stated to run a bit short at the end of the night.  I think there was about 4 or 5 cases of beer…thats a lot of beer for what was to be a 3 hour cruise…even for 8 people!

Mark (barking fish) also joined us at the boat, and we had Yummy Chicken salad that Mandy made while drinking the beer!  All of a sudden we looked up and the sky was Sunny!  Let’s GO people…we rigged the boat and went out for our booze cruise and race…the race committe canceled the race, but we still had our BC…

We even picked up Shannon from Chandliers…Mark brought in the boat to the dock, and she jumped right in…we didn’t even stop! Wooooohoooooooooo….

We proceeded to lose the new pee bucket Sheryl had bought…that’s two in two weeks…

As we headed home, the wind died and we didn’t get back to RCYC till 1 in the morning.  Left the boat in the water…and headed home.  I had been at the club since 3 in the afternoon.  I was DONE!

Ok…Dwight and I took pics and they are now up at the new Picasa Album for the boat…the address is http://pics.MySpeedster.INFO

The Skipper