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Tamarind Tree and Round the County
IMG_1331 Originally uploaded by ekraay. On Friday I had a delicious dinner date at the Tamarind Tree, a Vietnamese restaurant. You can see Kei here clutching her champagne cocktail that she nurses while we wait an hour for our table. She just got paid and took me out to dinner for 7 courses of beef.…
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Tachyon Weblog
So, the post below became my first entry in the Team Tachyon sailing log. I’m thinking that one will be filled with details about practices, how we did, and sailing links. I’m not sure how I’ll do maintaining two blogs, but we’ll see.
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Practice makes perfect
I went to sailing practice last night on Tachyon, Shaun’s newer Farr 40. We headed North from Shilshole Marina in the Puget Sound. It was a beautiful clear night, with consistent breeze at 10 knots. We headed upwind for an hour, while they inspected the new rig. Then we pointed back for Shilshole, while the…
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Bow down
Tonight’s Wednesday night race was a complete disaster. Two marks we rounded had a problem with the chute not going up properly. At least three things I did were incorrect. I put the spinaker sheet through the forestay and the jib on one rounding. I didn’t connect the main to the boom properly. That resulted…
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Skull and Spring Sail
We were lucky to get a beautiful windy day in April to go on a pleasure cruise. {gallery [SpringSail] } You’ll also notice a picture of a skull. Does anyone know what this is (or was)?
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Wear your life preserver.
Scott Peck dies in sailing accident.