Bruce Stavron

We looked for dolphin and then headed down to anchor at Emerald for the afternoon. We had a lot of wave and wake surge which made conditions a bit rough. We pulled anchor at around 4:30 and headed back to Newport to anchor out for the fireworks to start. I dropped the dinghy and motored back to Sail time docks to meet my second party for the night. We took Rev Do out for a 3 hour cruise around the harbor and watch fireworks and different points around the basin. Dropped Rev and the group back on the dock @ 10pm, jumped back in the dinghy and headed back out to pick up Nepenthe and her Party. Picked up the anchor and was back on the dock around 11:00pm

Smooth ocean, 3 to 4ft following seas. Partly cloudy morning with sunny sky’s from noon on. A really nice day on the water.

We had 10kt winds with gusts up to 18kt. We had two broaches one in each of the two races for the day. We broached as we jibbed the Spinnaker at the end of both downwind legs. We were able to recover quickly both times but lost a lot of time and speed to the other boats. We were the only ones flying spinnaker in each race.