Thursday, March 28, 2013

J80 casual race

Fun evening on the soon to be renamed J80 "5200 Love Explosion." Gusty winds ranging from around 16 to near 30 at times.  Since no other J80s were out, we went without the chute. Still great fun.



Sunday, March 24, 2013

The other side of spring sailing

Here in Texas we get to start our sailing season quite a bit earlier than the rest of the country. Sounds great, right? But sometimes I sense that all the nice days early the year are just a way of luring onto the water on days like this. The forecast was for light winds from the southeast, but once we got out on the lake, the wind shifted around suddenly to the north. And with it came the hail...


Thursday, March 14, 2013

Beer Can Racing

Nothing says springtime like Wednesday evening beercan races!

Our inaugural event of the season featured 8 boats on a two-and-a-half mile course. Format is reverse-start pursuit race (slower boats start first).

Here is a video summary: