Recovery time...

I need today to recover from the weekend.  Sailing was interesting.  The wind was blowing 20 mph both Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon.  Survival sailing, as Captain Dave has termed it before.  Saturday we were without Cindy, so it was just Dave, Taka, and I.  It was the last Big Island race.  We had the small headsail up.  The big problem was that it was gusting 30+ mph.  On the backside of the island we hit a lull.  Things were okay until just before the finish line when we were hit by a huge gust.  We buried the rail for the rest of the race.  It has been a while since Taka and I have sailed in that kind of wind.

Sunday was no better, except for the fact that we had Clark with us.  This time we put on the old mainsail and reefed it.  Also most of the race we didn't have a headsail up.  Too much wind.  Makes it not fun to sail.  If we were racing competitively then I think that I would view the situation differently, but because winning isn't our top priority, well days like that aren't much fun.

After the race Taka did barbeque up some beer brats.  They were delicious.  Perfect.  Dean did teach Taka something new.  Dean and Taka split a brat.  Dean took his half and dipped it, bun and all, into the pot of beer and onions that Taka had initially cooked the brats in.  Taka tried it, and then gave me a chunk without telling me what he had done.  It was very tasty.  It has now been dubbed Wisconsin au jus.