Tuesday 6/23/2026 Time

[Sam Carter]

Arete: 1:10:26

Those who choose to skip did so wisely...breeze was NNW, gusting from 10 to 18kts. Completely unsettled. Many park-ups and then full sends. To make matters more interesting, the tide was super low..you could walk 20ft out from the club and not be waist high. Course was north start, rhode, parish, rhode, parish, rhode, home. Connie and I foolishly followed Pat into the course-favored shady side part of the river, south of R6/G5....yep, we found the oyster bar, and yes, we had daggerboards up a fair bit. I sent Mary flying around the forestay, boat pivoted on leeward board. Fortunately she made the complete trip, could scramble aboard to leeward, then we could swap places so I could brute muscle the daggerboard back up. We get going again and find the other part of the oyster bar on the way to G5...this time rudders popped, so maybe 2' of water there. Completely foolish, as we could have stayed in the channel like Expletive and Bovine did. 

[Vladimir Eremeev]

Atomic Bumblebee 1:19:15 sailed 2-up with schrs Nacra F17 sloop 1.058.

We were watching in amusement the flight of Valkyrie, I mean, Mary,  until we heard a loud crunch under our boat too. Then we tried to dislodge daggerboards, barely avoiding crush with Arete with all the other heart pumping activities followed.

I would call it fun, however I don’t think that everyone would agree :) 

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On Jun 24, 2026, at 9:02 AM, Sam Carter <samc...@gmail.com> wrote:

Arete: 1:10:26

Those who choose to skip did so wisely...breeze was NNW, gusting from 10 to 18kts. Completely unsettled. Many park-ups and then full sends. To make matters more interesting, the tide was super low..you could walk 20ft out from the club and not be waist high. Course was north start, rhode, parish, rhode, parish, rhode, home. Connie and I foolishly followed Pat into the course-favored shady side part of the river, south of R6/G5....yep, we found the oyster bar, and yes, we had daggerboards up a fair bit. I sent Mary flying around the forestay, boat pivoted on leeward board. Fortunately she made the complete trip, could scramble aboard to leeward, then we could swap places so I could brute muscle the daggerboard back up. We get going again and find the other part of the oyster bar on the way to G5...this time rudders popped, so maybe 2' of water there. Completely foolish, as we could have stayed in the channel like Expletive and Bovine did. 

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[Leith Speiden]

Sky: DNF

Challenging night. Capsized around Parish Creek resulting in my bolt rope on the main to partially separate from the mast chute. Once righted my dagger boards got stuck in mud not allowing me to tack and caught between two piers. Eventually with help from the pier owner, I was able to limp my way back to the club. 

Best Regards,

Leith

On Jun 24, 2026, at 9:34 AM, Vladimir Eremeev <vladimir...@gmail.com> wrote:

Atomic Bumblebee 1:19:15 sailed 2-up with schrs Nacra F17 sloop 1.058.

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[gordon pease]

Bovine 1:11:35

Lots of shifty gusts and a choppy wave state out on the course.  Fun night overall.

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[Sam Carter]

Copying over for Keith:  DASH 1:09:07 What started out as a miserable day, setting up the boat in the rain, turned out to be a great sailing evening.

[John Geiger]

The Expletive: 1:10:12.  

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