2018 – Charleston Race Week (Flying Tiger)

Well, what a few days these have been. And who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. The format is excellent with practice practice practice and then some racing. The good news yesterday was that we were in second place after sailing four 6 leg brutal races. The bad news is that there were 3 boats tied for first 😳 But we are all getting better in our roles. Joe is driving better all the time and seems…

Day one of North U’s OD program behind us and we are still alive. The Flying Tiger boats are fun and fast… not as fast as TL but still good. The challenge of the day was crew placement… in our upside down universe we had Joe driving and Sean and Kent doing foredeck and jib with Rory in the middle on main. Chad, our coach, just shook his head in disbelief. Lots of starts, gybes, hoists and douses and a…