Big Daddy weekend

I believe global warming is truely a reality, this weekend the temperatures got up to 80 in the Bay area. I spent the weekend on the water with 3 races on Saturday and a wonderful pursuit race on Sunday. The currents in the bay were as interesting as ever. As usual the wind it not fill in until after noon, but the sun shone and the waves were excellent. There was not much time between races and we were 3rd overall. We probably could have got a second place as we were doing very well on the last race, but due to a building flood we have a collision which resulted in a 720 and any chances of a 3rd place. Sunday was excellent on the water, due to the spring forward time change, the wind filled in later and the race was crazy with approx 100 boats drifting across the start line. We decided that the pin end was quieter, motored out turned around and motored to the start, shutting off the engine at 4 mins and floated to the start line abeit a bit early, be with enough slowing down we crossed the line on time and drifted out in front of the fleet. The wind filled in around Alcatraz and then died entering the racoon straits. We came 11th out of approx 100 boats, of which only 39 finished, so not a bad result. The winner was Double Trouble who picked up an elevator and shot ahead of the fleet never to be caught.

New Job and skiing trip

Hello,
It has been a while since my last blog. I have been busy. Started a new job on Monday with a local bay area software company called Autodesk. I work in their Manufacturing consulting group specializing in Data Management. The first week has been busy getting setup in all the internal systems.

I have also been trying to ghost an image of the new Thinkpad T60p laptop, so I can support multiple hard drives, as more than likely I will face many different VPN clients at customer sites.

Last week I spend 5 days skiing in whistler. As always the two mountains kicked my butt and assumingly the older I get, the less risks I'm taking ie no high speed descends down the Dave Murray run !!! well just a little slower than usual.

This weekend is the Big Daddy regatta out of Pt Richmond which is my first time. Hopefully the weather will be good, as it is beautiful today. Jenn and I are racing on Mistral.

Look out for some pixs from the Whistler trip.

ciao