PTP, you are right, it's a lot of time, money and effort just to drive down there. A bunch of sailors came all the way from upstate NY too.

Saturday was -in my opinion- perfect. Not too hot, not too cold, I wore shorts and a T-shirt, the air was about 79f and the water about 75? Plenty of wind for two up sailing. Without a crew, probably too much to be out as a Uni, but I know the guys who did Zandvoort will dispute that.

I'm just glad I failed miserably at my diet or Andi and I would have been too light. We did "carbo-load" on plenty of Pizza and beer Friday night (Thanks Pete!) in anticipation of a blow on Saturday. The nice part was the wind and water were both warm on Saturday because we flipped 3 times, once going upwind, twice downwind, and Andi slid off the back of the boat once bearing off at B mark when the boat took off turning downwind. It sure can go!

But on Saturday night, a cool front came through (snow in B-ham) and the temps dropped to abut 67 but the wind came way up, big gusts too, and shifted to the NW, so the bay side was going to be much rougher than it had been on Saturday, and with all the separated sailors we had on Saturday, I think the RC did the right thing to cancel on Sunday. You would have needed at least 5 more crash boats to keep up with all the capsizes. Nice day for a Wave though. (35 mph winds).

Andi made it home OK, I checked to see if he got on his 5pm flight. I didn't sleep at all Sunday night because with that big wind the storm shutters were banging on the wall outside the window by my head, so at 0300 I got up and turned on the Weather Channel, at 0400 I woke Andi and at 04:15 we hit the road for Palm Beach. He missed the 0700 flight but made the 08:25 to ATL. I got home at about 10 am and took a nap!

It was great to see all you guys/wives in one place at one time, and not just on the water. I think we should rent a house every regatta. Thanks to Terry and Diane for doing all the hard work to make that happen, and thanks Diane for all the great food and cleaning up the mess we made.