race committee weekend

This weekend DPT was asked to be on the race committee for this weekend's Junior Olypmic sailing regatta. Ages ranged from 12-17 (or so). So he asked if his darling wife could join, to which of course they replied "of course!". So whilst DPT was in charge of managing the scoring software and posting the results of each race online, I was in charge of tweeting every possible occurrence during the regatta. To do this, I was equipped with a walkie-talkie to listen in on race committe dialogue, and different people were texting me on my cell phone so I could be kept abreast on the different fleets (there were 3 total). Here is a random sample of 3 days worth of tweets:

"First radials about to round the leeward mark"

"Top 5 radials coming in: 7692, 6844, 616, 7246, 9288"

"Race 10 underway on the opti course. 8-10 knots. One lap around the dirt track"

"After a 40-minute postponement, the opti course has started race 9. Wind at start was 5 knots building to 10 by first mark"

"Breaking news: sea lions are also out, and barking at the race committee boats"

"The dolphins are out! Setting up the race course, 6-7 knots, clear skies, beautiful day!

It wasn't a lie about today being a beautiful day- see for yourself:

The best views of Santa Barbara are from the ocean, hands down. (BTW that is one of many race committee boats).

Here we are being goons:

Unfortunately we didn't get any (quality) pictures of the sea lions, the dolphin shows or the jelly fish floating by. One jellyfish in particular was bright white, with dark blue lines running down it- was absolutely gorgeous in the light blue water of the ocean. The aforementioned 'dolphin show' consisted of many baby dolphins jumping in and out of the water, even doing flips~! Was totally cool to be looking at. The haze prevented us from having a very clear picture of the channel islands, but nonetheless we did take a pictures of the things we could see clearly....

The boats all coming out... And here is 1 of the fleets lined up for race...

It was a lovely weekend.

Over and out.