I was tactician of Peregrine, J-120, in the American Yacht Club's Spring Series, in April / May 2006. We had a lot of fun. Lots of sunny weather, light to moderate breeze, and beer on the lawn of the yacht club every afternoon.

This blog in chronolocal order, start at the bottom and work up. The blog covers two weekends of racing, and I've included a bit of narrative.

The photos are posted at reduced resolution. I retain all rights to them but usually share the originals freely for non-commercial use.

Division=Div 5

	Sail	Boat	Skipper	IRC	Club	Type	Total	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6
1	47	BYE BYE BLUES	Monro,Bob/Kathy	1.0000	STAMFORD	J/120	7	1	2	1	3*	2	1
2	25487	PEREGRINE	Lawrence/Coughlin	1.0000	SEAW	J/120	10	2	6*	4	1	1	2
3	51601	AVRA	Petrides,George	1.0000	AMERICAN	J/120	11	5*	1	2	2	3	3
4	50298	BLUE MINGO	Wilson,Andrew	1.0000	AMERICAN	J/120	21	6	7*	3	4	4	4
5	51102	SOULMATE	Healey,Joseph	1.0000	OFF SOUND	J/120	29	7	4	5	8*DNF	5	8 DNF
6	51255	DRAGON	Balloch,Hugh	1.0000	NOROTON	J/120	31	4	3	8*DNS	8 DNC	8 DNC	8 DNC
7	25559	EAGLE	Levy,Steven	1.0000	YRALIS	J/120	32	3	5	8*DNS	8 DNC	8 DNC	8 DNC

I engineered another lame start to our last race ... we tacked away early and at least we got clean air. Our fantastic trimmers (Roger & Paul) gave us speed, we escaped from our competition, extended, and got to the windward mark second (behind leader Bye Bye Blues). We kept away from the boats chasing us, stayed clean, sailed conservatively, and finishe the race (and series) in second place. THANK you, teammates! :) :)

In the first race on Sunday we managed a clean start, we stayed in phase with the wind, our trimmers provided plenty of boat speed, and we won the race. Hooray! That left us tied with second assuming we both tossed one bad score. Pressure was on...