This will likely be my last post for a while. Tomorrow morning - 11 am - the Baja Ha Ha begins! I can hardly believe, after all this time, that this is really happening! Today was the skipper's meeting and then the Kick-off Party complete with Halloween costumes. It was a great time and we got 2nd in our division ("Unique"!). We were dressed up as navigational buoys and won a new tether for our efforts. I'll attach a photo of the group.
Yesterday George & Sue & Steve came over and supervised as we did a dry run (at the dock) with the brand new spinnaker and it was pretty "interesting". As it turned out, we discovered that neither of the halyards we thought would work for it would. Another trip to Downwind Marine and a couple hundred dollars later and George went up the mast to run an external halyard and now we're really ready to see if we can fly that chute without a major disaster. It is really quite beautiful (royal blue, turquoise and white) and we have high hopes that we can hoist it and fly it without incident.
We are all excited about the upcoming adventure. I'll post again when I get to a cyber cafe.
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