Previous:  T200 2008 Launch and Day 1

Day 2:

Nice sailing day, about the 15 knots we expected in the morning.  Only one exciting bit, we were sailing along, like this, in fact:

when I, knucklehead that I am, knocked the bilge pump overboard.  It seemed to float, so we dropped the jib and shunted around to look for it.  No good, we either missed it or it sank.  So we shunted again and went on, and as a bonus we got to see the CS20 and Caprice again:

We also saw one of the little blue sail PDRacers and Kellan's inflatable tri that day:

And John Wright's lug sailed PDR:

And had a tiny bit of excitement with a barge:

and passed a tug rather close by:

Day two appears to have been a good day for videos.  Not too much wind, I think, it was rather busy feeling the first day out.  The rest of the day was good, easy fast sailing, and Chris Tomsett gave us a tow in to PIYC, which allowed us to again avoid the short shunting up the channel thing.

Camp 2: 

Camp 2 was the PIYC, they let us all park at their guest pier and come in to take showers, which were much appreciated.  PIYC is here:

We left the boat on the beach opposite the club:

and went in to take a shower, then hung around on the patios drinking beers and cokes and watching people sail or motor or get towed in.  John W in the lugsailed puddleduck had a fine entry, tacking up the channel most adroitly and coming about each time about a foot from the wall or the mud bank.  Very impressive.  After we finished playing dock committee we were happy to take a local PIYC member up on his offer to shuttle us to Snoopy's, a local seafood place, for a nice dinner.  Snoopy's is a tourist spot and as such prone to looking-down-upon, but I had a nice grilled sea bass, I thought it was a very good dinner.  One of the puddleduck guys had sailed there instead of trying to beat into the club and had, I think, met his wife there for dinner.  We saw his boat tied up at the dock.

Next: T200 2008 Day 3