Fritz, it was alot of fun when we finally were able to run with you guys. Hope we have a lot more of that in the old Div 9 series. BTW, I saw you guys monday morning in Florence as I was pulling into work, you must have drove all night like we did. We got in at 2am, made for a long day after racing and swimming!
Thanks to my able crew, we were able to survive the puffs up until the last down wind leg, on the last day, in the last race(go figure) It was blowing the dogs off the chain when we rounded A mark, and we dumped everything but still buried the leeward hull to the point of no return. We had 3 other buries but popped back out of them. The boat runs well with the spin up, but jib reaching on the NACRA F18 is a handful.
All in fun though, and it was certainly a good time. Rick And Mary did an excellent job, and thanks to Chip for taking us back to our boat. When it flipped, it basically sailed away from us, way too far to swim, and was moving with only the tramp in the air at at least 5 knots.

The Blade looks to be an awesome boat, and Matt and Gina are super nice people, should be a good dealer for this boat.

See you next year!

Dave Mosley
yeah that was me upside down!