Moving on in March

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HAUL OUT

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Wings Gets Hauled out

Pressure Wash

I've been wating to get the bent shaft replaced or straitned, and decided it was time to do it. The Old Prop Shaft

Adrian does most of my boat work

\ \ Job Done

One surprise was when I went to drive my care back from the boAt yard, no Keys. I lost them. I also copuld not find Judy's spare set. So I hired the guys at the key shop and they made me a new set.

Boat bottom finished, new prop shaft, and car keys (two sets). I'm Happy

 BANDERAS BAY REGATTA 

I've been sailing the Bandaeras Bay Regatta since 2015. This will be the tenth year. Alays good, always competitive. I have a good team, but we all miss Judy. 

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Going Sailing

Bare foot saiing

Rhonda Navigates

Crew Shot

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Rounding the Mark

During the Regatta Wings was involved in a serious collision with another boat. Approaching the windward mark on starboard but not able to make the mark, the other boat tacked to port right in front of Wings, despite several hails of "Starboard". With only seconds to act, I tried to duck to avoid the collision, but the other boat then tried to tack back, making the collision inevitable. In a protest meeting chaired by an international judge Wings was totally exonerated. Video shot by a race committee mark boat 

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Wings' mangled bow

DaMAge

Wings' table at the party

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SETTING OFF TO THE SEA OF CORTEZ 

There were lots of work to be done to fix Wings and change Wings' mode from race boat to cruiser, but we got it done with plenty of help from Wings' crew: Terry, Richard, David, Anna, Tim, and Rene

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Star Link, in preparation for the Sea of Cortez

Greg and Gloria come to see us off

Jim and Deb on BrainWaves sailed to Baja with us. Great fun

Fred and Rene

Rene

Sailing in the Sea of Cortez

We fixed lots of stuff underway, including rebuilding the watermaker

Rene in Colors

Rene

Anchored in La Paz

BBR and After

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Waiting for the racing to begin

Good upwind speed

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First at Top Mark

Setting the light air kite

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Two Boats Draw Near

Contact! Disqualification Olas!
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Sailing in the swells

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Half a leg ahead

In this photo the boat with the yellow spinnaker, Sirocco, is in second place behind Wings. They have yet to round the leeward mark while Wings is already half way up the beat. The other boats are further back.

Busy After-guard
John (holding the "brick") is setting our course for the next mark, Richard (tan ball cap) is tracking the boat to weather of us, calling the tactical situation, Judy is leading the sheet for a spinnaker, (in case we set one), and Pete is trimming the jib, keeping us going during all of this. Fred is steering,

Great Sailing in Banderas Bay

We spend a lot of time dogging Olas Lindas

In this shot, in another race, we are quite close to Olas Lindas and in the handicapping they owe us about 6 minutes in this race, so we're actually ahead. All we have to do is hang in there, which we did. Unfortunately Sirocco had gotten by and were far ahead. If we'd pushed a little harder we could have beaten them too, but we hadn't considered them a threat and we failed to cover.

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Happy Crew

Sailing Home

The racing is over and we are happy as we sail home. It is the end of the season and it's been a good year.

John steers, Richard and Pete

Judy

Dennis

Richard

Lynne

Rod

Glenn

Fred

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Final sailing day

This Wednesday, March 13, is our final scheduled sailing day. There isn't really a race but we just wanted to go out. After this any sailing we do is just plain fun; most of the crew won't be here. But on this day we had a blast and ended it up with a Hamburger BBQ back at the dock

I'm not sure who was steering, I was on the rail.

Spinnaker up, and we're moving.

Here we see nearly 10 knots of boat speed

After a jibe

Fred Steering

Cindy was along, she enjoyed the ride.

Don, the forward hand

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Friends and neighbors join us for the BBQ

Hamburger Party

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Fred Cooks

Kelly Munches

Rod waves

Cindy

Fred & Elinore



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