It's race week in Dallas and the boats are indeed flying.
These guys are really serious!

Dorothy counted 49 starters - we made it 50 sail out on the lake.

We went out this evening "crusing" (on topic!) inside the race course -
just to watch.

With the skys a bit overcast, all the sails really stood out brightly.
Beautiful sight to see. But I unfortunately left my camera at home.
Maybe tomorrow.

Wind was about 18 to 20 so we were running reefed main and working jib.

With the tiller lashed down (ok, Tamed) Spirit steered herself on both
a beam reach and close hauled!

Downwind with the jib poled to windward, she waddled like a drunken
hippo, swinging farther than I was comfortable with.
She'd come back to base course - eventually - maybe?

But reaching was super sweet!

We just sat there with big grins looking at each other in amazement.

Happy boat,

Richard

cavelamb himself wrote:

It's race week in Dallas and the boats are indeed flying.
These guys are really serious!

Dorothy counted 49 starters - we made it 50 sail out on the lake.

We went out this evening "crusing" (on topic!) inside the race course -
just to watch.

With the skys a bit overcast, all the sails really stood out brightly.
Beautiful sight to see. But I unfortunately left my camera at home.
Maybe tomorrow.

Wind was about 18 to 20 so we were running reefed main and working jib.

With the tiller lashed down (ok, Tamed) Spirit steered herself on both
a beam reach and close hauled!

Downwind with the jib poled to windward, she waddled like a drunken
hippo, swinging farther than I was comfortable with.
She'd come back to base course - eventually - maybe?

But reaching was super sweet!

We just sat there with big grins looking at each other in amazement.

Happy boat,

Richard

Hey, Richard, what boats and what lake? White Rock?

DT

dt wrote:
cavelamb himself wrote:

It's race week in Dallas and the boats are indeed flying.
These guys are really serious!

Dorothy counted 49 starters - we made it 50 sail out on the lake.

We went out this evening "crusing" (on topic!) inside the race course -
just to watch.

With the skys a bit overcast, all the sails really stood out brightly.
Beautiful sight to see. But I unfortunately left my camera at home.
Maybe tomorrow.

Wind was about 18 to 20 so we were running reefed main and working jib.

With the tiller lashed down (ok, Tamed) Spirit steered herself on both
a beam reach and close hauled!

Downwind with the jib poled to windward, she waddled like a drunken
hippo, swinging farther than I was comfortable with.
She'd come back to base course - eventually - maybe?

But reaching was super sweet!

We just sat there with big grins looking at each other in amazement.

Happy boat,

Richard


Hey, Richard, what boats and what lake? White Rock?

DT

Ray Hubbard in Rowlett - east of Dallas.

All the gory details at:
http://www.dallasraceweek.com/

I don't know all the boats.
Some of them I've never seen before!
We counted 49 yesterday - 41 this evening.

But the level od performance makes me glad I didn't put up my
hunderd bucks for entry.

You would not believe how fast some of these guys are!@&*(^

Couldn't get any really fabulous pics at this distance
but a couple are posted at:
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb/race.htm

Richard