After a busy, stressful day at work, traffic was TERRIBLE coming from Pickering, didn't get to the boat until 6pm. John came with his son Eric. I think he is 10, and was soo excited to come out. I forgot my GPS in the car, but it was too late to head back to get it.
Winds were forcast at 8 knots with gust to 14 from the SE. It had been like this all day, so there would be some lumpy waves out there. Full main and genoa; boat powered up nicely.
I got John on the helm, something I want him to do more often. At the start line, Eric had to go pee, BUT, Still Time does not have a head, so he had to go overboard. He didn't want to pee near all the boats, so we went away from the fleet. By the we got back to the start line, we had missed our start, and were starting with the bigger boats.
We had a great race, however, after the first leg, Eric was not feeling to well in the lumpy seas, and fed the fish. Poor guy, hope we didn't scare him away from sailing. We came in last in our fleet, not too far behind the next boat. There were still three boats behind us from the bigger fleet.
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We got stuck getting into our slip, had to gun the motor while John heeled the boat over. Going to have move to another slip this weekend.
No GPS, so no track
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