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Mid-Season Update

We continue to enjoy a really good, consistent season!  I wish I could say the same for the weather!  hahaha.  Anyway, since my last update we’ve had a few more JYC summer series races, which were all pretty good and we continue to hone our speed and performance.  We did the Twenty Hundred Club’s Around …

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Early Season Update

Hey all!  We’ve had a nice start to the racing season.  We picked up right where we left off last year in terms of speed and point, continuing a trend that has us generally faster and higher than our peer competitors.  This is really a victory across the team as everyone has a hand in …

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JYC Spring #1

A little belated here but a quick thanks for a fun race Tuesday night! It couldn’t decide whether it wanted to be 25 knots of breeze or 8, settled on 12 and was terrific pressure all race.  Because of a very consistent forecast of winds in the mid-twenties, and our first night of racing I …

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Updated Plan

Happy Mother’s Day everyone!  We’ve had an unusual start to spring for Spirit.  As they say in the military, “No plan survives first contact with the enemy”.  True for us for sure.  By now we should have had a couple of sails at least.  : (  However, we are on a good track.  We managed …

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Grrr, missing Practice #2!

Well, sometimes things move at their own pace.  This is one of those times.  We actually got a ton of stuff done this weekend.  By Sunday the mast was fully assembled and ready to step.  Some additional work was done on the boat (cleaning, winch maintenance, other smaller tasks).  She’s in really good shape.  However, …

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Going to miss Practice #1 slated for this Tuesday : (

Yup, we had a good run at it, but this Tuesday’s practice has everything ready but a boat!  Hahaha!  Spirit remains at Wickford.  They are taking great care of us and after retrieving Spirit from Waterline on Tuesday, she was ready for launch Thursday and launched on Friday.  Thanks to Deb for helping to burnish …

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Approaching Launch for 2021

Hi everyone.  We are getting very close to launch and it now appears that this coming week will be busy.  Today Spirit remains at Waterline.  She is having some final touchup to her keel but not the full blown race bottom job that we were expecting.  This is a disappointment, but we’ll work around it …

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2021 Crew Meeting Live and Virtual Together!

Hey everyone! I’m excited to announce that we will be doing a combined live and virtual crew meeting.  April 8th, 6:30pm at Troy and Robyn’s new place in Common Fence Point!  63 Attleboro Ave, Portsmouth RI Thank you Troy and Robyn! Alternatively, join us here:  As in past years we’ll look briefly at 2020, run …

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The 2019 Racing Season Is Coming

Hey all, Happy Winter Solstice (almost)!  Now that the days are getting longer we can start thinking about racing again.  ; ) In the next few weeks I will populate our race calendar and open up the process for folks to select their races.  Grab as many as you want.  I will then rebalance where …

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May 29th Cancel

Guys, really sorry about having to cancel next Tuesday due to work-related travel.  I don’t think this is a surprise to anyone, but it was painful hitting the cancel button.  I’m quite confident it will be gorgeous (what are the odds of the cancels in a row — seems doubtful) . . .  Next race …

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