Sailing and Working on Wings

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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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Superbowl Tamale Party

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Making Tamales
(From Left: Janet, Judy, Deborah, Phyllis, Elinore)

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Janet

Deborah and Dan

Carol and Lynne

Tamales in the Pot

Conversation
(From Left: Paul, John, Fred, Carol)

Bringing out the Platter

Dinner is Ready

Dan and Lynne

Watching the Game
Fred & Judy surrounded by friends

Game time

Sailing Into La Cruz

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Sailing Into La Cruz

August Activites

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Judy and Her New Pillow

Judy recovered several of our tatty pillows. I like the pattern and color of this one.

Start my Day with Starbucks

We drove to the dam over the River Amica

Judy gets out for a Look-See

Some guys with customized VW's played in the River

Blue VW on Dam

Workout Girls

Next day we went to the gym and saw these girls lounging on the couch. Must have been too early for them.

Nice Park in San Pancho

San Pancho (also known as San Francisco) is a nice place for lunch, although our favorite BBQ place was closed.

Tree

Judy & Lynn

After lunch Judy and Lynn, with Margaritas to go, head for the car.

Chrysler 300M Special

Rain in the Marina

We've had a lot of rain this year, and I actually love this type of weather; it must remind me of some cruising destinations I loved.

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Bloodhound

This photo of the William Fife II designed 1870 Racing Cutter, Bloodhound, was on the wall on a restaurant in Ao Chalong, Thailand, in 2009 and it has been in my mind for all those years since. Now I am working on a design for a replica. I'll share with you it soon.