Friday afternoon sail with Mom & Dad

Sept 19

Beautiful afternoon. Winds NE 7-10 but chilly.  Dressed for winter, similar to our Mother's Day sail! 

Great sail into Boston Harbor.  Quiet and peaceful out in the harbor.  A wonderful way to start the weekend! 

Great Chase Race

Sept 6 

Cloudy calm morning... hours before Tropical Storm Hannah arrives.  Out to VIVA on Hull YC whaler- VIP style -Thanks Brooke! 

Course B- Long 1.0 Heading 245 First gun at 12:15- start 28.47 min after first gun. Breeze fills in SSE. Sun peeked through and it became hot! 

No spinnaker (cruising class) with some new crew.  

Shamrock barreling down on VIVA as we approach the finish line.  They passed us and beat us by 13 seconds. 

VIVA got 2nd place in B fleet out of 21 boats to Big Bird who stayed out front and never looked back.  9th place overall out of 94 boats. 

Excellent party as usually! Hull YC won the Great Chase YC trophy! 

Flashlight series

Race #1 - Aug 6

Course #17 twice around- Jack joins us for his first race.  Successful spinnaker runs.  2nd place

Race #2 - Aug 13

Course #17 - light light winds.  Drift across line.  Drift for an hour and only get about 100 yards from RC.  DNF (prepared VIVA at dock for P-Town trip)

Race #3 - Aug 20

Winds 12-15.  At start, strong gusts, Jon had no steerage causing us to go above the line.  Had to spin around to cross the line.  Caught up to entire fleet.  VIVA feathered up very nicely.  2nd place

Race #4 - Aug 27

Orhan's last race of the summer. Floater- Race postponed then cancelled

Race #5 - Sept 3 

Didn't race- Would have been Mike's last race of the summer. Sorry Mike!