BUTTERFLY NATIONALS - DAY 1
at 6.20.2009
Shifty, shifty, shifty. Makes White Rock look quite stable. We've had everything from decent wind to no wind to rain. We raced two races in the morning and stopped for lunch and went back out for the third race in mostly rain. I'm bouncing around visiting different parts of the fleet, front, middle, back. At lunch I was solid mid fleet and had a horrible third race but caught a few personal puffs on the last leg and finished decently. I'm probably still mid-fleetish or slightly better.
Doug had two firsts before lunch and then went to the car to get something and came back all banged up and bleeding and asking for some first aid. I thought for a minute that someone took him out back and beat the snot out of him. Nope! Evil little curb took him down. So he sailed the third race not feeling so great and trying to figure out if it was possible to tack one-handed. It's not. After falling behind and looking like he was in danger of breaking his winning streak, he got an inside lift on the last leg and finished the day with another first.
Forecast says more wind tomorrow so we'll see how it goes.
Doug had two firsts before lunch and then went to the car to get something and came back all banged up and bleeding and asking for some first aid. I thought for a minute that someone took him out back and beat the snot out of him. Nope! Evil little curb took him down. So he sailed the third race not feeling so great and trying to figure out if it was possible to tack one-handed. It's not. After falling behind and looking like he was in danger of breaking his winning streak, he got an inside lift on the last leg and finished the day with another first.
Forecast says more wind tomorrow so we'll see how it goes.
