Nothing Beats Sailing With Friends
On Sunday we clambered about an IC-24 for the inaugural ABI Regatta in St Thomas. It was a fun race featuring a run down the South side of St Thomas followed by a couple windward-leeward courses off the beach at Frenchman’s Bay. We were the envy of the fleet in our matching HIHO suntek jerseys. Our winning speed also turned heads! The fleet comprised 10 identical IC-24 sailboats manned by teams of friends and families. We were sailing with friends against our friends- what could be better. A group of kids from the clubs junior sailing program beat us to the first mark but we sailed a great downwind run to lead at the buoy off Green Cay. We succumbed to course misinterpretation on the dogleg reach to the next buoy of the beach and slipped to 4th but managed to get back to 3rd by the downwind finish. We aced the first windward-leeward course and settled for a 4th in the next which put us in end overall. By Noon we were anchoring off the beach and swimming ashore to ABI beach bar for drinks, lunch and a casual awards ceremony.
