Frigid digit…

 Boat show weekend so I got there early to get a parking place at the club.

Rigged up -- registered--- sailed out to the starting line…40 something boats going with us…

I had Andrew McKechnie and Paul Maher on Saturday ……….and Andrew and Tim Olson on Sunday.

It got windy on the way out, so we put our foulies on…

1^st race….W/L…5 legs…Winds 15-18 MPH…puffs a little higher…fairly wavy…we guessed left….we guessed wrong…good speed…middle of the fleet...dropped more on the 5^th leg...lots of 15-20 degree shifts…with occasional 5-10 knot holes…

 2^nd race …same a little puffier…middle of the fleet again….when sailing dead downwind, a big lifter puff with a big wave just rolled us to weather before we could  correct…Paul got to the board 1^st….we saw Nabeel had gone over on the same wind/wave combo about 50 yards away…we were slow getting up then found we had bent a spreader …

3rd race…missing some mast blocks and a bent spreader got us to the weather mark almost last…so we retired, fearing the spreader would collapse and break the mast…

Went in, got a real warm shower, pulled the stick down and straightened the spreader, put the stick back up and had a few beers and ate a real good dinner.  Andrew and Paul went home, John Butler and Diane offered me a spot in Diane's new condo so I borrowed a sleeping bag …I was out by 9pm…

 Sunday…Tim is on with Andrew…we sail out to the line….much better…12-15 MPH.…beautiful!

4^th race…I pick the wrong side again…finish about 30^th…decent speed…Jody Swanson was back with us for a long time…then started picking the shifts well and finished 4^th….wow…!!!

5^th race…finally got a little smarter…finish about 15^th..Our best by far…

 Jody was 1^st…Allen Terhune was 2^nd….

 We probably tried to sail up the middle too much and tacked too much…looks like the leaders generally picked a side and stayed out of the middle…

We had decent speed and very good crew work all weekend…I just did a poor job figuring out which side was favored…

 Lots of fun….great sailing…