17 Perry Rd
Newport, RI 02841
USA
2:45pm – Eric meet Allie, John Thurston & Lauren at Newport YC to drive them on base.
Andrew – what is your plan? Your availability is listed as maybe.
3:00pm – Meet at Navy Marina (those without Navy Base access meet at Newport Nautical and we’ll coordinate a ride in the gate).
3:30pm – Underway from Navy Marina on Vento Solare
5:30pm – Arrive Newport YC – those attending Frostbite Potluck go to Newport YC club house. We’ll get a ride for others back to Newport Nautical/Navy Base. After potluck, Cindy can give folks a ride to Navy Base to retrieve cars.
Frostbite Potluck Attendees:
Plan is to do the potluck at the club, then do stuff in Newport. We’ll head back to the boat whenever, and those (up to 5) who desire may sleep on Vento Solare at Newport YC. I will have the heater onboard and will have the coffee pot for the morning. Once everyone is awake and had showers, we can sail back to the Navy Marina Sunday morning.
Bill & Eric plan to sleep on Vento Solare Saturday night after the post potluck festivities. Anyone else is welcome to.
Be at Navy Marina Slip A49 - Sat May 5th @ 3:00PM EDT
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A great day to be out sailing for the 2024 maiden voyage. We helped Blue Skies pushed off the dock at 1100, then were soon underway. We put up the main and unfurled the jib on a reach as soon as we were clear of Borden Light Marina. SOG was 9+ knots for a portion of the trip. We arrived at the Navy Marina at 1320 - pretty good time!
The delivery crew: Scott, Burch, Jack, Steve & Bill
A great weekend on Block Island with Kathy, Claire & Bill. Great race results and appetizer contest results. We were fortunate to have the blender and the heater on the boat. After a nice weekend on Block Island we had a fast ride back with everyone taking time on the helm.
A few pictures from our family sail on Grandpa's birthday weekend. Unfortunately hurricane Ophelia changed our plans for a weekend on Block Island. We did a Friday evening sail in Newport, grabbed a mooring for cocktails and dinner, then went back to our slip at the Navy marina. We stayed on the boat Friday night and went to the YMCA for Isla's soccer which was moved to the indoor gym.
Underway on Vento Solare with Grandpa, Kai, Daddy & Isla
Enjoying appetizers in Newport Harbor before sunset.
Family dinner on Vento Solare while on the mooring.
Kai's note to Grandpa for his birthday weekend.
A great weekend of racing with everybody with Vento Solare finishing 2nd place overall. Crew work was fantastic all three days. Starting from the bow with Roland, mast with Will, pit with Andrew, trimming with Sarah & Mary, and main / tactics with Trevor (Jeff Roy for Around the Island on Friday). We saw the full spectrum of wind from 5 to 22 kts over 3 days.
Congrats to Divided Sky who put up all first place finishes. The rest of the class including J/109 URSA, J/99 Upbeat, Sunfast 3300 Avalon and Express 37 COUCOU all provided the challenge as fierce competitors.