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This has been the most anticipated regatta I have ever been a part of.  Back in 2005 I was the event chairman of the Chesapeake Bay Laser Masters Championship for the first time.  I got put in charge then because I was the most active fleet member at the time who couldn’t sail it yet. It would be 12 more years before I finally aged into being able to sail and something we’ve been discussing ever since.  I got a taste of masters sailing earlier this year when I went to Florida Masters Week and I can’t wait to finally be able to participate in an event I have put so much effort into over the past nearly 20 years I’ve been a member at FBYC.

Jon getting registrations into the scoring system

The last two days have been a whirlwind of pulling all the details together.  Being the 13th edition of this event I’ve chaired – the script for it is pretty well established, but it is a bit of a 48 hour mad dash to get all of the food, trophies, souvenirs, and other gear plus my own sailing equipment loaded, transported and readied at the club for the weekend.

some went for a sail friday afternoon

Throughout the day sailors began to arrive and some went for a sail in the mid-teens wind and light misty rain.  Later we piled a bunch of folks into the van and all went into town for dinner.

High high tide

I also got to check out Rob’s new setup.  He now has a sprinter van loosely modeled after my setup – so now there’s two laser sprint vans on the circuit.

Rob's Sprinter

Each year one of the preparations is to make a breakfast casserole that can be easily heated up and served for breakfast.  I make 4 of these a couple days before the regatta and keep them refrigerated.  Here’s the recipe I’ve been using:

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 role breakfast sausage
  • 1/3-1/2 bag cubed potatoes
  • 3-4 slices of bacon
  • 18 eggs
  • 13×9 pan
  • 2 cups of cheddar cheese
  • preheat oven to 325
  • Brown breakfast sausage
  • Cook strips of bacon, once cool – crumble into small bits
  • Cook cook cubed potatoes
  • eggs into a large mixing bowl and mix
  • Add potatoes, salt, pepper, mix
  • Add sausage, bacon, mix
  • Add all but 1/8 of the cheese, mix
  • Pour mixture into a pam-sprayed tin
  • Bake 45 minutes
  • Add remaining cheese over the top, bake another 6 minutes, let cool.
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Been a few years since I posted my football tailgate playlist and quite a few updates have been made.  Here’s our current ECU Football Tailgate Playlist:

Song Artist Album
A Pirate Looks at Forty Jimmy Buffett Songs You Know By Heart [1990]
Achy Breaky Heart Billy Ray Cyrus 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Billy Ray Cyrus
Acting Our Age Cale Dodds People Watching – EP
All I Do Is Win (feat. T-Pain, Ludacris, Snoop Dogg & Rick Ross) DJ Khaled All I Do Is Win (feat. T-Pain, Ludacris, Snoop Dogg & Rick Ross) – Single
All Right Now Free 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Free
All Star Smash Mouth Astro Lounge
All Summer Long (Vocal Version) Hit Masters All Summer Long – Single
Any Way You Want It Journey Journey: Greatest Hits
Back In Black AC/dB AC/DC Tribute: Best of Back In Black – EP
Bad Moon Rising Creedence Clearwater Revival
Blow Your Mind Ohana Bam Blow Your Mind – Single
Body Like a Back Road Sam Hunt Body Like a Back Road – Single
Celebration Kool & The Gang Funk Essentials: Celebration – The Best of Kool & the Gang 1979-1987
Centerfield John Fogerty Centerfield
Chicken Fried Zac Brown Band The Foundation (Deluxe Version)
Closing Time Semisonic Feeling Strangely Fine
Club Can’t Handle Me (feat. David Guetta) [From “Step Up 3D”] Flo Rida Club Can’t Handle Me – Single
Comin’ to Your City Big & Rich Comin’ to Your City – Single
Cotton Eye Joe Rednex Sex & Violins
Cruise (Remix) [feat. Nelly] Florida Georgia Line Cruise (Remix) [feat. Nelly] – Single
Cut To The Feeling Carly Rae Jepsen Cut To The Feeling – Single
Danger Zone Kenny Loggins Top Gun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Special Expanded Edition]
Do Something Crazy (feat. Cook Classics) Outasight Do Something Crazy (feat. Cook Classics) – Single
Don’t Stop Believin’ Journey Journey: Greatest Hits
Don’t Stop the Party (feat. TJR) Pitbull Global Warming (Deluxe Version)
Drink In My Hand Eric Church Chief
Drinkin’ Town With a Football Problem Billy Currington Summer Forever
East Carolina University Victory 1999 ECU Marching Pirates
ECU Alma Mater
ECU BONEYARD The Findells
Eye of the Tiger Survivor Survivor: Greatest Hits
Free Fallin’ Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits
Friends In Low Places Country Heroes The Complete Tribute to Garth Brooks
GDFR (feat. Sage the Gemini & Lookas) Flo Rida My House
Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams) Daft Punk Random Access Memories
Gettin’ Down in a Pirate Town Jesse Rice The Pirate Sessions
Glory Days Bruce Springsteen Born In the U.S.A.
Gonna Fly Now (Theme from “Rocky”) Bill Conti Rocky Balboa: The Best of Rocky (Remastered)
Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) C+C Music Factory C+C Music Factory: Super Hits
Good Feeling Flo Rida Wild Ones (Deluxe Version)
Good Time Owl City Good Time – Single
Happy (From “Despicable Me 2”) Pharrell Williams G I R L
Heart of a Champion Nelly Sweat
Hells Bells AC/dB AC/DC Tribute: Best of Back In Black – EP
He’s a Pirate Klaus Badelt Pirates of the Caribbean (Original Soundtrack)
Hip Hop Hooray Naughty By Nature Greatest Hits: Naughty’s Nicest
I get knocked down Smash Mouth
I Gotta Feeling Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies)
I Love Rock ‘N Roll Joan Jett & The Blackhearts I Love Rock ‘N Roll (Remastered)
I’m the One (feat. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper & Lil Wayne) DJ Khaled Grateful
It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere Alan Jackson/Jimmy Buffett Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
Jock Jams – Ya’ll Ready For Th Jock Jams –
Jump Van Halen The Best of Van Halen, Vol. 1
Legends Are Made Sam Tinnesz Legends Are Made – Single
Let’s Go Trick Daddy Let’s Go – Single
Let’s Groove Earth, Wind & Fire Earth, Wind & Fire: Greatest Hits
Livin’ On a Prayer Bon Jovi Cross Road
Margaritaville Jimmy Buffett Songs You Know By Heart [1990]
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye Steam 45’s On CD – Volume III (’66-‘
Nothin’ But a Good Time Poison Nothing But a Good Time (Remastered) – Single
Now or Never Outasight Now or Never – Single
Parking Lot Party Lee Brice Hard 2 Love
Party Rock Anthem (feat. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock) LMFAO Sorry for Party Rocking (Deluxe Version)
Pirate Fanfare and E.C. Victory East Carolina University Marching Pirates 2001 and 2002 ECU Marching Pirates
Pirate Flag Kenny Chesney Life On a Rock
Pour Some Sugar on Me Def Leppard Hysteria
Purple & Gold (East Carolina University) Udon Cheek
Purple Haze Jimi Hendrix Experience The Ultimate Experience
Red Solo Cup Toby Keith Clancy’s Tavern (Deluxe Edition)
Right Now Van Halen The Best of Both Worlds
Rock and Roll All Nite KISS Dressed to Kill (Remastered)
Rock And Roll, Part 2 Gary Glitter The Hey Song (The Greatest Hits)
Shake It Up The Cars The Cars: Complete Greatest Hits
Shut Up and Dance WALK THE MOON TALKING IS HARD
Sirius The Alan Parsons Project Eye In the Sky
Some Nights Fun. Some Nights
Something Just Like This The Chainsmokers & Coldplay Memories…Do Not Open
Start Me Up The Rolling Stones Jump Back – The Best of the Rolling Stones ’71-’93 (Remastered)
Summer of ’69 Bryan Adams So Far so Good
Sweet Caroline Neil Diamond 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Neil Diamond
Sweet Child o’ Mine Guns N’ Roses Greatest Hits (U.S. Version)
Sweet Home Alabama Lynyrd Skynyrd 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Lynyrd Skynyrd
Take Me Home Tonight Eddie Money The Best of Eddie Money
The Boys of Summer The Ataris So Long, Astoria
This Is How We Roll (feat. Luke Bryan) Florida Georgia Line Here’s To the Good Times…This Is How We Roll (Deluxe Version)
This Is Our House Bon Jovi This Is Our House – Single
Thunderstruck Thunderstruck Thunderstruck
Toes Zac Brown Band The Foundation (Deluxe Version)
Tonight Is the Night Outasight Tonight Is the Night – Single
Turn Up The Heavy Hurt & the Merciless
Two Tickets to Paradise Eddie Money The Best of Eddie Money
U Can’t Touch This MC Hammer Greatest Hits
We Are The Champions Queen Greatest Hits
Welcome to the Jungle Guns N’ Roses Greatest Hits (U.S. Version)
Whoomp! There It Is Tag Team Whoomp! There It Is
You Give Love a Bad Name Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet
You Really Got Me Van Halen The Best of Both Worlds
You Shook Me All Night Long AC/dB Greatest Hits of AC/DC Tribute – EP
Young Forever High Valley Dear Life
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With the Strange Bird Snipe restored it was time to take it for a sail.  Jess, Laurie and I rigged it and went for the first sale on what turned into a gorgeous Monday of Labor Day Weekend. Even better – she floats! We took turns sailing while figuring out how everything is rigged and what still needs some work.

PICTURES

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It was great to be back in Greenville for another season of ECU Football tailgating with the White Tiger crew.  We had a great time tailgating all afternoon and catching up since last season.  The game was another story – we lost – but it was still good to be back and see everyone.

PICTURES

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9/1 Stingray Light Distance Race - Mad Hatter

The Stingray Light Distance Race kicks off Labor Day weekend with a distance race as part of the Stingray Point Regatta at Fishing Bay Yacht Club. I was sailing on Mad Hatter for the day and we knew the weather was going to deteriorate as the remnants of Hurricane Harvey moved into the area bringing light rain and cooler temperatures.

The course started near Stingray Point and sent us straight out into the bay.  The ENE wind made it a beat out.  We rounded a mark and came back towards Stove Point on a reach under genoa and main.  Goin’ was the closest competitor to us and we mostly were able to hold even and stay ahead until we started reaching more and they were able to plane.  Despite the drizzle it was fun being out and sailing.

RESULTS

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