Saturday at the Chesapeake Bay Laser Masters Championship started out with the wind too light for sailing. So what did we do with 45 Laser Masters sailors while waiting for the wind to fill?
PADDLE BOARD RACES!
Lucky for us the wind filled a short time later and we got to go racing! Regatta Results | Sailing Video
What a year 2013 was! I always seemed to be able to take some amazing pictures when I wasn’t expecting to – including some great ones on just an iPhone. Here are my favorites from 2013:
Mad Hatter during the Moonlight Race at Fishing Bay Yacht Club 6/23/2013
Dogwood Dell Fireworks with the Carrilon. 7/4/2013
Sunset Laser Sail 7/26/2013
Richmond Skyline at Night 12/15/2013
Smith Point Light House during the Smith Point Race at FBYC 8/25/2013
Sunset panoramic of ECU’s football stadium during the FAU game 9/6/2013
Snow covered roof tops at Snowshoe 2/9/2013
Laser practice 4/7/2013
Orange Coffee Pot Regatta in Surf City New Jersey 6/2/2013
Jaimie and Chris Wedding 10/16/2013
A few shots of the Richmond skyline all lit up this evening.
Not too long ago I stumbled on 54 more photos from the 2013 Chesapeake Bay Laser Masters Championship that never made it off my camera. I’ve now added them to the gallery starting here.
I had seen pictures of Richmond from this vantage point for years and never knew how to get there. So today, despite the 33-degree weather and winds, I made my way to the Manchester Flood Wall and checked out the awesome vantage point of the city. Had it not been so cold, I probably would have explored a little more. I will definitely be back in warmer weather.
Here’s this weeks tailgate: just me.
How is that I drive the farthest and get here first?
Stephanie was here and with her being due in a couple weeks and not keen to be going up and down a ton of steps, we were able to swap our seats for something with a few less steps – front row.
This week the Capital One Mascot Challenge PeeDee the Pirate is up against Sparty and the question was asked: If PeeDee had a superpower, what would it be? Our friend Curtis Thieman googled photos of ECU tailgates and came up with one that was the screen image from our ODU Tailgate video. Sure enough the Capital One Mascot Challenge is featuring it on their facebook page.
Me using PeeDee’s super power (invisibility) at an ECU Tailgate. Ah, the things I do as a fan. #ECU #CapitalOnePeeDee pic.twitter.com/IB5BZEAhVn
— Curtis Thieman (@CurtisThieman) November 12, 2013
ECU played Tulsa on Saturday. Despite a few electrical problems with the RV, we still had a fun time. Here are a few photos:
Saturday was the final day of racing for the offshore boats at Fishing Bay Yacht Club followed by an oyster roast. The race was a pursuit style race where the slower boats start first and the times are calculated so everyone should finish about the same time. I was aboard Wavelength and for once it was great having boats of all sizes all around us for most of the race. We ended up finishing 9th in the 17-boat fleet while sailing in winds that started around 8 knots and built to as much as 23 knots during the 1 1/2 hour race. On top of that we were short-handed with only 6 on board and flew the spinnaker.
After racing we enjoyed oysters! RESULTS | PHOTOS
