Boats and Beaches World Tour: Sailing Report -- WFORC

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Sailing Report -- WFORC

Spent Friday and Saturday sailing on Tom Stokes' boat Free Spirit in the Western Florida Ocean Racing Circuit at Pensacola, Florida. Saturday night, after five total races over two days, we were in a solid 4th place out of six boats in our class. The courses were Windward-Leeward with about 1.5 mile legs and twice around. I was the bowman and the bottom line is that was a lot of work for a big, heavy boat on such short courses. But it was a good time and great experience.

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