J22 Worlds–Gold Bashing: A great day of racing Thursday with decent winds and 3 tough races. Team Wetass started the day in 57th, and finished the day in 57th. We had one pretty good race, finishing 26th out 64, but had a penalty added to our score (13 places) as a result of being over the start line early in the previous race. D’oh. Racing was intense, with lots of testosterone fueled rage at every mark, where dozens of boats would converge at the same time and start yelling at each other. We mostly stayed out of trouble, but were fouled by a Canadian boat at one mark. Amazingly, the guy did his penalty turns and then apologized to me about 10 times after the race (and stuck around as a witness in case someone protested me after I was forced into another boat in order to avoid driving my bow through his rudder). There’s a reason Canadians have a reputation for being decent to a fault. Today we’re out to get some great starts (which have been few and far between), even if it means risking being over early. One good thing about being near the bottom of the heap is that there’s nowhere to go but up, really, so it’s easy to take risks…



Team Wetass (Bow A8) At Speed: “Heh-heh. I finally figured out a way to beat all those motherf*ckers who’ve been kicking our asses all week…”

(Photo: Paul Parks)