Tradewinds day 1

Amazing sailing conditions of 10-12 with some gusts to around 15 and completely flat water! The F18s got 4 races in... the top 5 is John Tomko, Alex/Nigel, Mike/Tripp, us, and Chris Titcomb/Sam Adleman that means New England boats in 3 out of the top 5! It is really competitive though, in the last race of the day we were in 4th with a big lead over the next boat and small mistakes within our final minute of the race let a few boats sneak in and push us all the way to 7th.. that's all it takes.

We sailed hard for a 2nd place finish, but it appears they might throw the first race out as timing was off at the start. We are hoping they don't but will admit that the timing was way off... I hit my watch at 1 minute and the start was still 20-30 seconds late.

Forecast today is calling for 20-30... should be a fun day!

More info and up to the minute results can be found at Catsailor.com on the open forum.

FL bound again!

It's been 20-30 degrees everywhere along the eastern seaboard but as we get on our plane tomorrow it will be 18 and it will 48 in FL. By the time we arrive it should be around 65... sounds better right? The forecast is calling for progressively warmer temperatures over the course of the week maybe even reaching 80 this weekend! We are just hoping we can get some good sailing in, maybe a little drinking, and catch a nice tan.

We're arriving in Lauderdale around 10:30 where we will pick up the burban (thanks to the Sonneklars for donating a parking spot in their driveway for the last month!) and head south to Islamorada in the FL Keys. Our boats have been enjoying their vacation in Key Largo (thank you to the Shorts for storage!) but it's now time to put them to work!
Wednesday and Thursday we will be taking part in a training clinic put on by Robbie Daniels. Friday- Sunday we will be racing in the annual Tradewinds Regatta, a giant catamaran regatta which we treat as our Midwinters. We're expecting 15-20 extremely talented F18s... we will be putting Robbie's advice to good use to hopefully stay near the top of this fleet!
Stay tuned for details and results and hopefully some more video from our FLIP camera.
More details can be found at http://www.catsailor.com/