New Tuesday Night Adventure

On Tuesday nights at PYC, kids in the sailing program, and their parents, can race in 420s. AJ and I had been planning to do this all summer but this week was the first opportunity we had. It was a super night. Weather wise we had 15 knots of SW, enough to really get the 420s moving.

AJ had planned to helm, but because of the wind strength he decided I should do the driving. Probably the right call because even the more experienced parent-child teams had the dads driving. We ran 5 or 6 races with 7 boats -- 4 parent-child teams and 3 junior teams. We got better in every race and with a bit of luck won the last one and finished 2nd for the night among the parent child teams.

The best part of the night was listening to AJ during the race. "C'mon Dad get up on the starting line, you're going to be late". Dad, I think we're on the layline. Time to tack." I realized that he really has absorbed quite a lot from his sailing camp.

Here's us in 3298 leading the pack around the weather mark in the last race.


On the Flying Circus front, we finished our first half Wednesday series in 5th after two mid-fleet weeks in a row. After two weeks of the second Wednesday series we're in 5th again. We had a lousy first week but a good night last night with a 2 - 5 out of 14 boats. For the weekends series and for the overall season we're in 4th. Results are here.

One day race on Saturday this weekend and we're expecting 7 or 8 boats to participate. Will update . . .