Sailing Weekend for Chuck

This was a very busy weekend for me- tiring, but lots of fun too. The plan of the week(end) was to attend a regatta at Willow Bank Yacht Club, in Cazenovia, NY. This is a Flying Dutchman regatta that I have been attending for many, many years now. It usually gets between 9 and 14 regional boats, and is quite competitive and fun.

This year was a bit different, however, as several of the boats were attending the FD Worlds in Spain. Add a few more absences and we had 5 boats. This sounds low, but of these 4 are usually within striking range of ourselves - in the end we change places, but Kevin (my crew) and I usually finish ahead of them in the end. And, luckily for us, this pattern continued this year - we won the regatta with scores of 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - (2) for a perfect score after throwout.

After that we packed up the boat and drove back to Canandiagua lake on Sunday. The wind there was surprisingly nice and not too strong (for a change - this has been the year of the "very windy" instead of the year of the pig, it seems). Gwendolyn and I went out for a wonderful evening sail - truly the best sail of the year. Finally the sun started getting lower in the sky, and we then retired to dinner on the club porch. A very nice day indeed!