Saturday, March 15. The wind was up, sails went up and sometimes boats rounded up. We didn’t get good starts and our short-handed hands were constantly full, but what a great day! During a jibe in the last race, a main sheet block broke off the boom, which meant Hardy had to undo the end knot and re-thread the main sheet through the block attached to the traveler (after removing the block that had been attached to the boom--it had fallen and was acting as a lock on the mainsheet.) He tied off the mainsheet using the reefing line self-tailing winch. The UV protection on the genoa also started to come apart at the horizontal stitches. It wasn’t pretty, but we finished the race.

With only two of us on the boat, I didn’t have time during or between races to take any pics. It turns out Trey Harlow photographed a number of boats from the RC runabout, including mine, and Jason Rziha posted them online. Thanks, guys. Back in the slip, we repaired the block but decided it would be better to not sail on Sunday and risk making the necessary genoa repairs more expensive. With that decision made, it was time, in the grand tradition of sailing, for cocktails. Mike and Maryellen Ferring joined us. (It should be noted that in Mike’s photo, Hardy had not already imbibed so much that he was otherwise inexplicably driving the boat in the slip. He had just made another repair to the hardware that holds the tiller extender in place.)