The Summer racing season is upon us and I've enjoyed and learned a lot from the experience on Tesa this year. The Vallejo race involved a number of challenging factors, such as closely following a course boundary, extracting performance from light air days, covering and avoiding cover from tacking competitors, and a great deal of spinnaker practice. While I didn't partake in the Saturday night festivities at the Vallejo Yacht club, I did get to see a number of "big" boats such as the always interesting Legalus, Bodacious, Oncore, a number of Melges "rocketship-esque" boats and some new (to me) classes that I'd not seen before. Once skippers and crew freed themselves from the confines of their own side rails and came ashore, the party was on. Our hosts were jovial and welcoming and very organized this year with new docks and plenty of space for the 60-80 boats that I saw on display.
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| Great Vallejo Race: Image Courtesy of Sandy W. |
Before Vallejo, we had a great Lightship race where it was windy as usual on the way back through the gate.
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| Lightship Race. Courtesy of h2oshots.com (in case you missed the h2o-mark) |
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