The first time I sailed there, I hated it. The next time, I was more open to the idea that the shifts and holes are as much fun as they are challenging...Now I love kicking off the season there because you have to take it as a casual fun time and you just can't take it that seriously!

Poor Mike and Dave were dominating the 4rd race and in a two lap race. At the second A-mark rounding, they had a lead almost one entire leg long. I was rounding c-mark tightly contested for 2nd with Olie/Joanna on an F16 and Jack and Becky Wise on an F18. As I rounded, I looked up the course and saw Mike and Dave parked with the spinnaker drooping about 100 yards from A-mark. I proceeded to work up the shoreline up the right side of the course - trapezing at times. After I rounded A-mark, now in the lead, and got about 50 yards away from it heading downwind, I pass Mike and Dave who had just gotten some breeze again and got their boat going. Mike says; "No lead is a safe lead on Pee Dee!".