Week Off

The Melges Nationals was a crazy regatta, Lake St. Clair did it best to throw large shifts and big holes our way. After the first day we were sitting in 27th and were able to claw our way back to 8th by the end of the regatta. We won the Corinthian division but I wished that we could have come out a little better during the first day. Then we could have been a threat to get on the real podium. We got some cool gear from Brian Hutchinson of Hutchinson sports for the Melges which I am excited to use.

The club was crazy last week because a young lady drowned on sat night, with all the police and reporters it was not a fun place to be so I tried to stay away.






On Friday I flew down to Charleston Sc, for Liz and Mike's wedding which I had to stand up in. At the rehearsal dinner I found a moth hanging up in the restaurant, it must be a sign!



I don't think I have had more fun at a wedding. Though I have never been to a wedding where I got to go kite boarding all day Saturday with friends Karl and Seth. 25knots side off shore breeze, big beach and spectators. It was awesome, I am still very sore.



Flew home Friday to find perfect mothing conditions on the river and worked on my tacks. A couple of people have asked about the "dog bones" that I am using to connect the cunningham to the sail and mast. These are great no longer have to untie anything. Evenutally I will splice up some continuous control lines that run a little better than the stock items. New parts should come in this week: dagger board, front horizontal, gantry and stainless spare parts kit. Christmas in October! When Bear shows up again we will have two working moths(been sharing one). He is getting better and though there is no video evidence yet, I have seen him pull a foiling gybe. We are definitely getting a lot of use out of our boats we have now gone through three main sheets in between the two of us.





Oh well back to work and getting ready for the Melges Fall Championship on Lake Geneva, home of Melges boats. Sailing there is awesome with huge shifts and flat water gonna be a good weekend if I can only make it through the week :)