hanging with Disco and the driver. Every day, we had sandwiches delivered to the boat and loaded up with a case of water and a case of beer. One of my crew, Ryan, plays the trumpet and always had it with him, both on the boat and at parties. So by the end of the week, everyone knew our group. This would have been a great vacation even if we had never raced, but the racing made it spectacular. We had a good division, with lots of local boats, and sailed in mostly a steady 10- to 15-knot east-southeast wind. I think all of the years of running this race has made the race committee very good at what they do. The courses were well laid out, and the start and finish lines were near perfect. I also believe racing is more fun when you do well--and we ended up second in our division. One of the miracles of this trip was that, altogether, 11 of us went away on vacation for nine days, and we came home still liking each other! The vacation was great, the racing was great, and right now I am just looking forward to racing in the second annual Antigua Barbuda Hamptons Challenge this August. I understand the winner of our division, Sir Hugh Bailey, has threatened to bring his boat up here to race us again at the Challenge. That would be fun! They were a nice group ... and we’d crush them here on our home turf!
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