I requested depths around the course markers and the committee were unable
to provide them.

That's crazy. A few times I've run aground because the marks were in
shallow water... what a PITA. Another club likes to put marks up in
coves where the wind is light & squirrelly, "to make it challenging."

... I immediately stripped one of my female crew of her red bra
and flew it off the backstay. I was rewarded by a sudden alteration of my
PHRF rating to 150!! The *******s!

Maybe they thought you're boat would be very much faster with the
additional sail area...


Funny thing was that about 2 minutes after I found out I won I ended up in
an argument with another Captain regarding what he thought was a violation
of racing rules because the girls on my boat distracted the guys on his
Niagara 35 by working the foredeck topless.


And he was complaining?


OzOne wrote:
Heh heh, many years ago in a very tight race, a crew of mine threw a
shackle pin iinto the sail of a nearby competitor.
It dropped into the cockpit and the subsequent distraction as they
tried to figure out where it came from allowed us to sneak ahead.
Alls fair in Love and War



Old hat. We had this done to us at a big keelboat (PHRF) regatta...
actually it was one of those ring pin retainers... It tumbled into the
cockpit off the leach of the mainsail, where I knew it couldn't possibly
have come off our rig (plus, I had taped all ours a few days before)...
so I looked over to the grinning crew in the boat on our windward hip,
held it up and said, "Thanks. Do you all want this back after the race?"
The grins faded and none of them said a word.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King