| March 6: More
lion than lamb today. The wind was from the south with gusts that must have
touches nearly 20 knots and again we used the sailboat Dragonfly as our
weather mark. It was a miracle we did not have more capsizals. As it was,
Gordon broke his rudder in the first race, Colin got taken out for the third
with a broken tiller, and Mark Winslow was taken out of the drink after a
capsize in the fourth. With his wickedly sadistic sense of humor, Hans sent
us around Cornelius Island in race five. You might think that the island
would shield us, but no ... Despite the heavy wind there were 17 racers, but
the most that finished any race was fourteen in race three. |