I received an email today from Cap’t Billy asking me to sign on as a “guest editor.” On the surface that sounds like an easy enough thing to do, but I have to tell you I’m just little bit intimidated. I happen to think Cap’t Billy is doing a fine job as blogmeister and he has been quite entertaining. Definitely a hard act to follow!
A brief explanation concerning the “Barefoot Skier” title. I took a bit of a tumble on the way back from Narrow Escape’s test start run to Catalina. One of the previously mentioned spinouts caught me by surprise and I found myself “skiing” from the lifelines. Even though the crew was quite busy trying to recover from the spinout, Chuggy still found time to latch on to the back of my life vest. It wasn’t long before I was able to clamor back on deck and the only comment I heard was, “Good hanging on, Ben.” That’s when you know you are sailing with real sailors!
So I was quite happy to read about the new "Evil Designed Spinnaker Quick Release Mechanism" (EDSQRM for short). Apparently, no one on the crew wants to compete for my Barefoot Skier title. It’s a good thing, too. I can get pretty competitive and I would have to come up with a way to defend my title. Not to mention towing a crew member has to be bad for boat speed. Now I just need more details about the EDSQRM so I can put it to use on my boat.
Here’s hoping that the crew stays focused, keeps sailing fast, and doesn’t waste any time water skiing!
California Ben
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