Wii Not Fit Dodgeball
A few highlights from our first Dodgeball game of the season.
Tag: video
Posts containing various videos I’ve produced.
Are you Ready for January 10, 2013?
And for some more inspiration, watch this.
31st Chesapeake Bay Laser Masters Championship
Last weekend was the 31st Chesapeake Bay Laser Masters Championship at Fishing Bay Yacht Club. We had a great fleet of 45 boats come to sail. I was the event chairman and I also got to be out on the water during racing to take some pictures. Here are a few of the best:
All in all it was a great regatta. I couldn’t have done it without the help of our race committee and all of the Laser Fleet members who helped out. And it was nice to have all of the masters sailors I see so often on the regatta circuit come sail with us in Deltaville.
2012 District 12 Championship
Friday
Arrived at the Columbia Sailing Club this evening and ready to sail the District 12 Championship tomorrow!
Saturday
We had a great first day of the District 12 Championship at Columbia Sailing Club in Columbia South Carolina. We sailed 5 races that at some point in each of the races we had 4 knots and 10 knots. In the lighter winds I did well on the first upwind leg most races and worked hard to hold onto my spot on the downwinds. I put up a 3-2-8-1-2 and am currently 2 points out of first behind John Potter from Beaufort SC. Tomorrow will be another light air day and hopefully I can keep up the top 3 finishes to have a shot at the title.
Provisional Results (the winner in race 3 will be RET and everyone moves up one)
Sunday
The forecast for the last day of the Laser District 12 Championship was for light air and as we were sailing out to the race course we had great wind – 10-12 knots. By our 10am start it had dropped at bit and it continued to go down from there. Today was a basically a two-boat race. Unless I put up two DFLs it would have been hard not to get 2nd place. Once a drop would be factored in, I was effectively 1 point behind John Potter, so it would come down to today’s races as to who won the regatta.
In our first race today I had a crummy start – I just about won the boat, but had no boat speed at the start. John was to leeward of me and was a boat length and a half ahead when I crossed the line. I took a big duck and headed out right while he sailed to the left. Wanting to consolidate I came back to the middle having made up some ground, but John tacked on me and forced me back to the right. On the middle right of the course I had better pressure and got in front of John, but the boats who went left did much better than us putting me around 6th and John several boats behind me by the time we rounded.
Downwind John caught up a few boats and on the 2nd upwind I stuck to the middle of the course while John went to the left. When we got to the top 3rd of the course a 50-degree righty came in and I laid the mark while John out to the left still had to tack to fetch it. At the mark there was one boat between us and downwind I worked to pass one boat on the way to the finish. With two boats between us that put me 1 point ahead of John.
After the race we sat on the course for half an hour with no prospect of wind and the race committee abandoned racing for the rest of the day and I won the District 12 Championship Regatta. Not only was John great competition this weekend, but so were sailors such as Rob Bowden who would have beat both John and I had he not been OCS twice. All in all it was a fun regatta and I got to visit a an awesome club who put on a great and I got meet a lot of new District 12 sailors.
All but the last photo courtesy of Joe Reyes
2012 FBYC Laser Fall Regatta
We did 7 races today in light wind for the Laser Fall Regatta at Fishing Bay Yacht Club. I generally kept the boat moving and didn’t dig too far into any holes and maintained mostly top half finishes to end up 3rd overall.
2012 Road Trip to ECU @ South Carolina
JG, Preston, Chris and I took the RV down to Columbia SC to see East Carolina play South Carolina. We arrived Friday night and got an awesome tailgate spot with several other ECU RVs very close to the stadium. Friday night we grilled some steaks, set everything up, and relaxed watching football on TV. Saturday we tailgated, went to the game, tailgated some more and went out for drinks. We might not have won the game, but we certainly won the tailgate and had a great time doing it.
Ted Cremer’s 366 Sunrises, Sunsets (or other shots of the day)
This June while I was in Sayville for the Laser District 8 Championship I got to go watch a sunset with Ted Cremer. Ted is doing a photo project where he takes a picture of every sunrise and every sunset this year. We went out on the water from Sayville Yacht Club and here’s some video of our trip and Ted’s photography this year:
View more of his photos on his Facebook page or on his website http://tedcremer.com
2012 Oyster Shell Triathlon
Memorial Day Weekend after sailing the Down The Bay Race on Sunday morning I watched and took some video of the Oyster Shell Triathlon. Last year I did the race with a GoPro camera on my head. So after combining the footage from both years, here’s the video:
Photos from 2012 can be viewed here.