June 13… Day one of practice. Manny lets us all sleep in and we convene at the club at 10:30am. After a quick little spin back out to our already favorite café, the Cag….BLAH BLAH, we hurry back to the club to meet Kristopher, Manny and Dane. Not much action at the club. Mostly some locals and a locked up McLaughlin trailer. After some searching about we get the trailer unlocked, 6 boats unloaded. The lessons are already getting dolled out by the coach as the 6 kids are working as 6 individuals and anything but team like. Lots of squabbling over who gets which boat, how to put dollies together, etc. We’re also realizing it’s pretty warm. Somehow they get it together, we find the coach boat, everyone has lunch and the team’s on the water by 1pm. Christopher Williford comes in early having torn his mast collar out of the boat. He flipped during a drill, but had neglected to tie the mast in… oops. Nevertheless, looked like great sailing 11-13 knots. The report when the kids hit the beach at the end of the day:
- “Best place I’ve ever sailed.” “
- “OMG! 15 knots, wet and warm! It’s awesome here.”
- “We saw a man-o-war, well a baby one.”
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