Rick is writing a story right now and will put it on our home page along with results very soon. Hard to type because his fingers are still frozen. No pictures, because he was on the race committee boat.

Anyway, Jack, Henry did not get to sail even one race on Rick's Taipan because the mainsail ripped all the way across the sail from luff to leach -- in the middle of a panel, not on a seam. He says he thinks it happened during a jibe. He didn't even realize it had happened until another sailor suggested that Henry check his sail trim. Whoops! It wasn't the Goodall sail that comes with the boat. He did get to use the Hooter, though, and he said it worked like a charm, unfurled and furled really easy and the boat was very controllable with it.