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First week of Friday Night Racing

We set out from Leschi at about 5:40pm on Friday. Aboard were Bill and Lorie, myself and Carrie, and our friend Weston. The weather was very nice and warm, but almost no wind.

We motored until past the 520 bridge and close to Hunt’s Point before raising sails, while we waited for the wind to build. Sandwiches and beers were deployed. Still no wind, so we motored again to get down to the start line.

I wanted to get to the waterfront in Kirkland early since it was our first time at this race. Other boats starting showing up and before long there were 15 or so milling about waiting for some breeze. We saw some of our fellow J24 sailors from the Tuesday night series on Gator and Atom Ant.

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We’re officially registered for the Anthony’s/SYC Kirkland Friday Night Series. This signals our first expanion beyond the hard limitation of only one racing night per week!

I updated the schedule on the blog to note the most recent confirmations that I received from everyone. Link to the Friday Night Schedule

So our crew situation looks like:

Nate’s in for every week.
Carrie and I are only confirmed for the first week so far. But plan to lock down several other weeks as well.
Bill and Lorie are in for 4 weeks.
Peter and Suzanna are in for 2 weeks.

So out of 11 weeks of racing, we’ve got the boat scheduled to race 5 so far. Not bad. I’ll add some more weeks for me and Carrie soon.

You can see the other boats who are registered here

My expectations for Friday nights are:

- To have fun
- Don’t hit any other boats
- Get more friends and family out racing with us
- Prove Bill wrong that it is possible to BBQ hot dogs on the pushpit-mounted grill while underway in a race

Full report after the kickoff this Friday.