Wednesday Night Series 2 - 2, July 17, 2024

Results Race ( 2 - 2 )

Hey y'all sorry for the delay on scores this week! I unfortunately had a lot of late nights at work this week and have let some of my non work tasks slip.

It was a crazy week in a lot more than just me being busy. We've had plenty of heavy thunderstorms this week (fun fact, my building at work was struck by lightning on monday, kinda wild), some big assasination attempt, and a global IT outage.

I'll try not to bore you with the news too much, because that's part of why we all come to Wednesday nights. We want to unplug from the chaos of the world. It's becoming increasingly difficult to unplug lately. I think a lot of people are taking notice of that following the IT issues many experienced this week. Sailing, however, is very analog. Some of y'all may have some fancy autopilot on board or some electronic compasses, but if the electronics were fried, we could all still sail. In fact, we could still sail in races. A whiteboard and some flags is all we need to pull off a race. 

Heck we proved it this week. The storms caused increased traffic this wednesday with traffic lights being out, and people trying to drive in reduced visibility. We didn't shove off the dock until after 7:00. But as we approached we could see the flags going up and down and recognized our sequence. We started right at the boat as soon as we got there and read the course on our way across the line. No VHF on, no watch running, but we figured it out with the old school flags, and sailed off into a beautiful breeze, completely unplugged from the world as we know it, but blissfully in connection with our surroundings via the purely mechanical systems of a sailboat. Very literally a solid mechanical connection with nature. No dependency on electronics, just some ropes and a wooden stick we call a tiller.

Somehow Wednesday nights deliver sanity in the chaos every week. Some higher power allows us to sail every week. Call it divine intervention, the wind gods watching out for you, or just Dana and Daniel doing wind dances, whatever it is it works. Wednesday is often the magic day. The skies parted this week to give us just enough time to enjoy a full-length course in a beautiful westerly breeze. And we all got to enjoy a wonderful night of sailing free from the chaos of the world and the binds of technology. Boy am I thankful for it, because the rest of my week was unfortunately very plugged in. 

This week we thank RC led by Brent McKenzie and Ryan Jones for allowing us to unplug! 

There should be dinner next week, but we still need volunteers to help us out for a lot of the series 2 dinners. Please reach out to any of the officers if you are interested in helping! All costs are fully reimbursed by the fleet.

As always let me know if there are any corrections!

Thank you, 
Kyle
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