I flunked out of sailing last Sunday (car reliability issues and low wind forecast).

(Cars used to just have mechanical problems, but the new fashion is to have “software problems”!! Funny the first time, but the novelty wears off !!)

Anyway, GH kindly called last night to tell me all about Sunday sailing. Each time I looked at the club webcam it looked very glassy, but GH reported that coffee-and-marblehead chatter lasted till 11am then, as if by magic, 8-10mph of breeze arrived!! The main club racing (a youth 29er event) was already abandoned for the day so Andrew G and his DF95, plus a handful of Marblehead sailors had 475 acres of water to themselves!! They got an hour and a half of fine races in, then the breeze went home in time for lunch!!

There was some great racing innovation going on, boat swapping, 2 boat calibration and all that. Honestly … sounds great and so sorry I had to miss it !!