Journal Entry for April 12, 2008

By Tom C.

You missed an exciting day on Saturday. We had wind. It wasn't actually that strong, but it was very gusty. I mean, very gusty. We only had 5 Butterflys on the line, along with 3 Lasers and Sunfish for the second race. It was quite exciting. That damned north wind.Of the 5 Butterflyers, 3 went over. Gary, Miles and I all went for a swim. They were just plain knock down gusts. We all handled a lot of close calls, but 3 of us couldn't handle the last one.

Bowman, and her husband Jim, did the race duty and did a great job of getting all of us out of the water and back into our boats. They did a great job under serious conditions.You may also want to know that we used our committee boat, and it started like it should. It was very reluctant several times, but it did start.

Remember, this weekend is the March of Dimes walk and we will start at noon. I will have more on this later.