Vento Solare Crew,
I am following the lead from Brooke who sent a note to the URSA crew. She has transitioned to an environmentally friendly policy associated with beverages on the boat. This is a great idea and we will do the same on Vento Solare.
We will have re-usable drink cups on the boat for our dark’n stormy, wine and related beverages. We will use up what we have on the boat now and not replenish any single use plastic. This means a little extra clean up, but well worth not adding to the glut of plastic waste.
As a reminder, I will not be carrying small single use water bottles on board again, once the existing bottles on the boat are finished. Please remember to bring your own water bottles. I will always have large water containers to fill your bottles.
Also, I am still trying to keep glass beer bottles off the boat. The exception is the refillable growlers since they are recycled. Many great local breweries are selling their tasty beer in cans!
If you have any other suggestions to help us be environmentally friendly, please let me know!
Thanks and think Green!
Bill Kneller
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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.