(Sorry for posting on the installment plan; seems to be a new restriction.)
I may be slow, but I'm ahead of YOU!! :D
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Ha! Leaving a competitor in my wake!
Well, almost a wake!
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Totally gratuitous token perve shot for my readers.
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OK, maybe one more.
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The SECOND boat over the starting line, got over an hour into the race and celebrated with his third beer.
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I figured I would be over the starting line in about 2½ hours after the start.
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When the boat bobbed back and forth, I would get these puffs of wind coming through the cockpit drain.
Hmmm . . . . wonder what the RRS would say if someone jammed a 10 foot piece of PVC in the drain hole, topped with a right angle fitting blowing those puffs onto the main sail?
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A Race Committee boat came over to chat for a while and making sure I was OK.
Said: "Hey! It only LOOKS like I'm totally out of control!! This is just how I SAIL!!"
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Part 5 coming.
Charles Brennan