J22 World Championships: 130 boats, 4 days of sailing on the Chesapeake Bay off Annapolis, check your ego at the door. I’m sailing my boat with two friends (Team Wetass) in this massive sailing skills check, so postings may a bit sporadic this week (depending on how good the parties are). After two days of round robin sailing the fleet will be split into a Gold (Championship) fleet and a Silver (Loser, I mean consolation) fleet. Our goal is to try and sneak into the Gold fleet somehow. You can follow the regatta here. And if you want to send Team Wetass, or any other competitors, a suitably obnoxious, possibly even humorous, message, click here…

2003 Worlds, Italy: “Damn it, Ray. I told you we shouldn’t be carrying 12 cases of beer…”
(Photo: Stefano Grasso)