– Last Sail for 2020 Season – |
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This Friday 23 October the plan is to do the Twenty Hundred Club Around Aquidneck Island Challenge, or deliver the boat to Borden Light Marina. Everyone will meet at the boat at 9am Friday. Weather permitting this will be a spinnaker run heading South under the Newport Bridge, reach across Brenton Reef, reach up the Sakonnet, stop in Tiverton basin on a mooring for lunch, then continue around the top of the island and sail down the bay under spinnaker. If the weather doesn’t support circumnavigation, we’ll take Vento Solare up the bay to Borden Light Marina. There will be rum and hot cider available after sail.
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Should we complete the circumnavigation, we’ll take sails off the boat at the Navy Marina and I’ll motor up the bay to Borden Light Marina on Saturday.
Recent Comments
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.
A quick note about the finish recorded as 20:45:56 on the JYC website for the Tuesday race on 8 August. Roland noticed that the recorded time did not correspond to the finish order where we were behind Samba and in front of Grimace. I corresponded with the race committee and the finish time recorded on their scoring sheet is 20:24:56. The finish time will be updated on the JYC website and the results updated. I will send the results when the update is made.