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DAVID C. BEACH's avatar

Excellent 😊

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My wife and I were in that 2014 EC, our first, sailing a then-new Hobie TI. The first several nights featured no moon at all. After that breezy Saturday kickoff, it settled to very light wind and we had to put in 18-hour days to make any real mileage. I remember those little wrinkles of light coming off the wavelets, and after many hours they started to build themselves into what looked like perfect brick walls in front and alongside of us. Very strange sailing right through brick walls. Then the storm blew through on Thursday, and very windy to the finish. We slopped our way through Whitewater Bay in the dark, shivering from the rain, and I remember seeing a little marina to the left and thinking we should stop so we could sleep on the docks. (When we got home, I looked on Google Earth - no marina there or anywhere nearby.) By the time we finally finished (in 6 days, 19 hours), we were both in near-total delirium. But we came back the next year, proving once again there's no accounting for a lack of good sense.

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