Messing About In Sailboats

Messing About Under New Onwership (The Boat That Is)

Late last year, we sold Messing About, now called Genesis to our friend and clubmate, Eli Blumenthal. He's having a blast with her as you can see below. The shot below are of Eli sailing Genesis last Sunday with son Steven and friend Rebecca. In the second shot, the other S2 is the bigger model sailed by another clubmate, Bob Wardlow. Read more →

Good Omen?

A nice coincidence happened yesterday afternoon. My sailing buddy, Eli took this shot of a rainbow over Staten island at around 4 pm. It popped up on Facebook. He shot this from the dock at RYC. The boat in the distance with the blue main-cover, is our new boat, Poetry, which had literally just been delivered to the mooring about 20 minutes before. It was the first time we saw the boat at her new home. We are hoping it's a good omen! Read more →

RYC Fall Regatta

If you are in the NY/NJ area, come join in the fun. It's always a nice regatta. Entry here. Read more →

Red Grant Day 1 - A Great Day At The Club

Yesterday was the first day of Raritan Yacht Club's big annual regatta, the Red Grant. There were over 70 boats competing in 4 PHRF classes, 2 one-designs (J24 and Soverels) and a cruiser's race. I was racing on Knot Again in non-spinnaker PHRF. The weather forecast was not great. No wind early and not much later with a storm blasting through at 11. There was a postponement at 9 am and the crews of the 70+ boats hung out in RYC's club and bar area, shooting the breeze, eating late breakfasts, telling stories, plotting their race strategies. I manned our race-wear booth, selling a fine array of T-Shirts and Golf Shirts. The postponement dragged on but that was good for business and I sold at least half the inventory. At 10:30, the bar was opened and members pitched in with the bar staff to get Bloody Mary's flowing. The skipper... Read more →

Civilized Sunday and Mad Monday

This weekend was a stunning weekend of sailing and a weekend of big contrasts. On Sunday, the missus and I joined 12 other boats on the annual shakedown cruise from Raritan Yacht Club to Keyport Yacht Club. The club has an active group of cruisers who will cruise all over the Northeast through till Haul-out Day. My friends Tim and Ed run the cruisers and do a great job of organizing a nice series of cruises during the Spring, Summer and early Fall. Through the Winter they put on dinners and seminars. This first cruise is a simple 5 mile cruise Southeast across Raritan Bay where we have reciprocals with KYC. In Keyport we had lunch with one of the skippers I race with, Howard and his bride Skippy along with Ed and Susan who are the previous owners of Messing About fka Tiger Lilly. After a civilized lunch, Alice... Read more →