Jump starting the off-shore season
on Wednesday April 12, 2006 09:27AM
Three boats went out again after lunch for a wet and windier ride. Sunday's forecast was for improving conditions after noon, with the temperature moving out of the 40's and winds dropping from small craft warning levels to the high teens. Six boats with regular crew and 14 crew candidates, 5 of whom were repeaters from Saturday, went out after an early lunch with the objective of sailing in Fishing Bay. Oracle had a boom bail failure and returned early for repairs while the other 5 boats enjoyed a great sailing day. There was no shortage of help in preparing lunch with Alex and Donna Alvis volunteering for clean-up duty
Thanks for making this event a great first outing for over 40 sailors go primarily to the skippers, most of whom had put their boats in the water only days before. The owners of Chilcoot, Corryvreckan, Elancer, LaMaga, Nereid, Oracle, Schiehallion and Trilogy along with the members who were involved in recruiting the 23 crew candidates deserve special thanks.
There will be one more training session this coming Saturday, April 15 and all we need for another successful day are more candidates; please register on-line so we can provide enough lunches. Regardless of what it says on the web site about Jere Dennison itching to be Social Chair for a third consecutive day, Art and Lloyd Backstrom will be doing the honors and thereby completing half of their 2006 duty.