What a race, everything from no wind to light wind to bunches of wind! And, of course, the weather channel missed the direction again.
We finished at 2:10 pm, in the back of the first pack o` boats. I saw the R33 and the RC's flying hulls in the light pressure, very cool.
After the start the wind was light but steady and we had excellent boat speed, we were passing boats (except for Terry Green, he was kicking are butt)one after the next. When the wind died, we went to hoist the hooter and the halyard let go....? Now what? The wind filled in a little so we decided to ignore the problem for the time being. Tom was thinking he could shimmy up the mast, I told him he was F,, ing nuts. we sailed on in the light air and tryed to stay focused on the H21 in front of us, we had to try to beat him, we owed him time.
Now it gets fun. The wind died. Two lobster pots passed us! We decided to flip the boat to get the halyard back up to the top. The water felt pretty good as I slipped into the bay and the boat slowly came over. This is the first time I have ever capsized in NO WIND! We got it all rigged again and righted the boat with no problems at all.
Now we hoist the hooter and even in the light wind we started moving very nicely. The wind never clocked around as predicted, as a matter of fact it went back to ESE and stayed light and steady, we flew the hooter all the way past the Arsnickers until the angle got lost and the wind started to build beyond Hooterville. After that we had a cat fight with Herendeen, he eventually got us as we got over powered in Barnes Sound. (Nice work Mark, we had your a** in the light stuff)and that is all I have to say about that.

Pics of the flip procedure to come.

Eric Arbogast and Tom Wilson
ARC 21
Breakin' Wind IV
CABB
MYC
NAMSA