Recent Sails

Just wanted to update since it has been a few since the last post. I've been sailing on Cool Change Thursday Nights for the DIYC Race Series. We have done well in all the races, coming in 1st place each week. As a team we are definitely sailing well and with no major mistakes costing valuable time. I have been real light on the duties, only trimming the Spinnaker on our downwind runs. Although I'd like to be more involved with Jib or Main trimming, my weight is more valuable it seems on the rail.

Speaking of weight, I am down about 40 pounds and hitting the scales now around the 235 mark. I have been active since maybe February or March, doing between 1 - 1 1/2 hours of cardio 5 days a week. I started doing some weight training last week and dealing with the aches and pains of that. I'm not lifting any heavy weights and making myself do just enough to get 15-20 reps out of each set. Ideal situation is to be down to about 215-220 and tone from the weights by my 40th birthday, which is 5 months away. I'm not looking for any size or bulk, too old for that shit, just tone and fit looking plus in better cardio health.

I met with Jessie yesterday and we caught up with the guy who installed the instruments on her boat. We got the engine started up and took it out for a sail. Things seem to be going better with her boat and this new boat specialist is going to do some more work that is going to make it even better. The sail was awesome with 15 knots of breeze and building to 20 knots because of a pending storm cell sucking up some air in the distance. The boat sailed well and we made it to the dock just in time to avoid any showers.

On the near future agenda is the continued Thursday night races, any weekend sailing and getting ready for the Labor Day race at DIYC. I need to update some pictures as well and make it a point to bring the camera out more often. It appears that Rocket, the J35 sailboat is about ready to start doing Thursday's Races soon and I might need to make a decision on whether to continue to do Thursdays on Cool Change or switch to Rocket if the opportunity is available, have more sailing duties on the latter. Previously on Rocket I trimmed Jib and did Spinnaker. Let's see how the wind blows.