Met a major milestone yesterday by sending the application off for our biggest race in 2011. If you don't enter, you can't race, and I am excited to get to work on being more competitive next year so that we can be in the hunt in Nanaimo. We made great progress in the back half of 2010, but there is lots of hard work to do. Sail inventory to build, training, seamanship courses, life rafts to certify, and logistics and planning required. And sailing. Lots of it.
Speaking of logistics, last night after climbing Eli and I designed a rack system to build over the 4x4 pick-up we will use to tow the trailer with all of our stuff. We decided that a pick-up + trailer would be more flexible and greater load carrying capacity than the RV we had lined up. After that, we sketched (on bar napkins) a few modular table systems to hold the appetizers and snacks that will await the boat at the end of each leg. All aluminum, custom fabbed of course. Still working on a kegalator for the tailgate, but I think Eli has a plan for this too. He has been practicing with the welder, and he sure seems handy after a few beers!
No comments:
Post a Comment