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How was it out there??  I need stories!!  I am sure results will be up soon. Missing racing is one thing but missing the party is a lot harder to handle!!!  Just as boats were finishing I was going under the knife to clean out he infection in my leg. Everything good here should be home fri or sat!!!!  Whoops got to go textin with two hands is messing up my blood pressure machine!!!!

I Think that would be a great idea to bring it back.  I remember racing in this event in 1987 on Rowdy. I think Mike Tyer raced on a j29 and won even though he was 35 in 1987!!!!  We used to loan out psyched for the event and had a blast. Usually keep the same crew and just bring in a Jr to skipper it


Kevin

Bee where are you at.  I am in St johns in Nassau bay with whY they believe is a staph infection in my leg.  If you are her maybe we can get together for happy hour!!!  My injury had nothing to do with sat night but did have to go to er later that evening.  I had to miss the party so I didn't get to here all the carnage reports.   So everyone keep posting stories about SAt night this gets real boring quick


Kevin

You can have the drums re-knarled (not sure if that is a word or not)!!  Jim Davis did this on the J-35 a few years back.  May go thru jib sheets quicker than you are used to, but thats what keeps the local economy going!!!  There is also companies that will re-chrome them and they will look like new.  There used to be an ad in the old Mariners Log, you might look in the back of Telltales in the classified section and see if there ad is there.

I emailed Jay last night and he was in the hospital but in good spirits, at least it sounded that way according to his email.  They were tuning up pre race and a boat sped across the bow of the boat they were tuning with and broad sided them from the port side.  The rib went from the port to stbd side right at the traveler and the prop got stuck in the cockpit.  They believe the boat is totaled.  According to SA, it was the General Manager of the yacht club that was driving the boat.  This morning Steve Lemay posted that Jay is out of the hospital.  Jay did say that the rest of the crew was fine, which includes JT.  I believe he is the only other person from the Galveston Bay area that was on board.

Congrats to Doug Shaffer and crew on Gambler!!!  Great come from behind win.  Great to see Texas doing well in out of town events!!!

Looks like Otra Vez is having a great day.  They have two bullets after there 6th yesterday in the around the island race.  Currently in 2nd overall.  Here is the link to the results.

http://www.yachtscoring.com/event_results_cumulative.cfm?eID=230

We finished the regatta in second overall.  Today was light again and we finished with a 3,2 which was 5 points out of first and 9 points in front of third.  Overall a very good regatta and pretty happy with the results since this was the first time we had sailed together as a crew. 

Heading home now, covered about 200 miles tonight with 900 to go tomorrow dragging the empty trailer, urggggghh!!!!!!!!

Kevin

Drinking buddies?   I was home early last night see what time I posted!!!!  Now tonight I found my drinking buddies, thanks Roger and Sarah!!!!  Yesterday was even my birthday and I made it home early, not so much tonight though!!!  Not jinxing tomorrows racing like I did apparantly last night so we are going to be aggressive and see how the chips fall!!!!

Fliies still suck, have fun on Mackinac bring the flyswatter!!!

Kevin

BTW:  Of all people Jim Powers accusing ME of finding drinking buddies?!?!?!?!?!?!  Hello Pot, Kettle here!!!!!!

It was a great day on the water for us.  Long way to go but good start.  The day started off with nasty storms and the RC sent us out anyways after a 2.5 hr postponement they got us off on what they called a 1.2 mile course, I say it was more like a sunfish wed night leg!!!!  When you get out front early a short race course is good though!!!!  We won the pin end both starts and got early leads and great upwind boatspeed kept us out front.  Not too shifty which was good not knowing if there was any local knowledge out there.  We won the first race by about a minute or so.  The second race started a bit lighter and again started at the pin had to work to cross the fleet as a righty was coming.  Crossed the second place boat by 1/2 boatlength got to the right and got the shift and lead at first mark by a good margin.  The righty cause it to be a parade downwind and no change of course made the second upwind almost  a fetch.  We covered the second place boat and as they tacked to go further right we continued and ultimately laid the mark increasing our lead.  Quick gybe at the weather mark and tight carry to finish line we won the second race by almost 1/2 leg. 

It was definitely a day where luck was on our side.  We had great boatspeed and great starts but also caught some good shifts.  Still tight racing and a long way to go.  We will see what tomorrow brings but suppose to be warmer and moderate breeze.  I am not sure when the last time I was freezing cold and burning hot on the same day on the race course but it happened today!!!!!  Probably a 25 degree temperature change throughout the day and these damn flies suck up here!!!!! 

Hopefully more good news to report tomorrow!!  (and hopefully not reporting so early on the computer, my drinking buddies have wimped out!!!)

Kevin

For those that care and also for those that dont care, Surprise is racing this weekend in Chicago at the NOOD Regatta.  I left Houston with it on Sunday and after 3 flat tires finally made it to Chicago on Monday afternoon.  Al Goethe, from Hamburg, will be driving the boat with crew from Hamburg and Surprise along with myself.  Hopefully we will do respectable, I believe there are around 12 109's racing.  Weather here has been on the cool side, yesterday bringing the boat to the Harbor it was very chilly, sure beats the 100+ degree weather down there right now. 

Good luck to the two J-122's in Block Island next week!!

Kevin Hayes