Shilsholed

Temps in the 40’s, pretty windy (25?), gray skies, occasional rain.

Looks like they either had a very, very short J-24 race or called it due to weather. It’s the J-24 North American Nationals this week with the top 4 boats going to Buenos Aires, Argentina for the World Championships.

Andy and I were on his Thunderbird, a light, 70’s racer. Plans were to go head-to-head with Casey on his Thunderbird and tune against each other to prep for the five week Ballard Cup series starting on Monday. The idea being that whoever is in the lead doesn’t tweak anything until the other boat passes, the trailing boat always trying to tune their boat to pass the other.

That was the plan… Casey didn’t have crew, making the two boats pretty badly matched. The weather was pretty crazy and cold. I’m not sure Andy learned much about tuning. I learned more about his boat though – so it was good for me. Casey did a pretty kick ass job single handing.

Didn’t hit the showers until 10:30pm… long, but fun.

-ben
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