All photos from Sandy Askew
Best day sailing in Annapolis, ever for me. Great boat in the Farr 400, Team Premier. Great crew with a bunch of locals, Dave Askew, owner of Flying Jenny 7, Ian Gordon and Emerson Smith from the Farr office, Matt Beck, our insurance man, Ted Haarland from Annapolis Rigging, Mike Beasley from Beasley Marine and one one transplant, Chris Hosking from Newport. They all gave a hand for the cause of racing well and raising money for cancer research.
The main goal here is to raise money. We set about it sending mails out to the wild marine people and industry. The reaction was very positive. In Fact, Team Premier was the top fund raiser of the regatta, the big win. A big thank you to all that did donate. It is not too late to donate your share at http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/deesmithFarr400/lcr.
The racing was fun. There were 3 races, all in a 10-20 knot Northwester, very shifty and puffy. We had two good starts but one over the line early, but we did win each race against 2 Farr 40's and Stray Dog, GP 42. The boat went really well upwind and down.
We sailed under PHRF and won each race by many minutes. The races were all about 4.7 miles long, so there was a lot of action.
This week it is off to Newport to sail Flying Jenny 7 in the Annual Regatta.
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