first Pac Cup 08 Shirt

first Pac Cup 08 Shirt
Originally uploaded by Dean_In_SF

Sunday was the first Pacific Cup preparation seminar. I was under the mistaken impression that this seminar would count toward the Safety at Sea training required for the race. As it turns out, it was just a preparation seminar, mainly targeted on cruisers with little or no ocean racing experience. And I had to sit indoors all though a beautiful day.
So, I shopped. They were selling the first editions of next year's raceware. I bought the crew pale day-glo yellow polos in a sweat wicking fabric.

I did get some questions answered. I'll construct the ground for my SSB simplest-first, tying together the toe-rails and keel bolts with some copper foil and see how that works before I do anything fancier.
We're going to try to sail in the Spinnaker Cup to Monterey next Memorial Day Weekend and we will need to have a "systems" day or weekend when we can practice going aloft, using the radios, and deploying our emergency rudder.