Catalina sailing/BCYC

Greetings all,

Last Tuesday evening we stopped by the Boca Ciega Yacht Club for a little bit. There were some folks getting the Catalina’s ready to go out into the bay.

The boats are stored on trailers and need to be hoisted into the channel. The task takes several people to accomplish, but is fairly easy to do. The boats are easily readied and out into the bay they go.

Dropping a couple of red buoys quickly sets up a race course. There is no official judges standing by, just some of the club folks having a great time, most of them anyhow.

There always has to be someone vying for special attention in every event I suppose… this one being not much different.

I don’t want to mention any names so Bill and Belinda shall be hereafter referred to as: The Swimmers.

Have you ever been preparing to do something and there is this nagging little voice that get’s you to thinking, ‘I shouldn’t be doing this, I should just go home?’

When you try 3 or 4 times to push away from the dock in a little sailboat and the wind just keeps pushing you back against the dock… and all the other boats just glide away easily~ there is that little voice.

So the ‘Swimmers’ finally push off of the dock and get the little boat heading into the bay. We (Sheree and I) reposition ourselves to take some photos of the ‘race’.

We see why that little nagging voice should not be ignored in one of the videos below. For us Floridian’s it’s no big deal, when the water is in the 80′s. The water is only in the 60′s which is absolutely frigid for most of us. Bill, Belinda, and son, (I mean the Swimmers) are all recently from N.Y. so I would surmise that this was not as cold as I am imagining. (see the last YouTube video)

I shall have to wait for the full story. Until then, enjoy the videos.

Ahoy,

Larry

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Tags: BCYC • Boca Ciega • Gulfport Florida