Georgetown Cruisers' Regatta
Ambler Isle
V and S
Sat 5 Mar 2011 02:15
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Big day for registering for the myriad of events offered
at Regatta. The beach was lined with many dinghies and the registration
lines looped around the beach. Some events sounded fun, but all were too
busy. Imagine a dinghy parade with 300 dinghies? We can watch
that from our bow most days. We went just to visit and get
a schedule of things we might want to spectate. One was the coconut
event. Motorless dinghies paddle around with flip-flops trying to scoop up
as many coconuts as possible from the water. Crew members toss
buckets of water into the dinghies of competitors. That we wanted to
see. Lee from Windstar 4 nabbed me to ask which of the Chris
Parker weather seminars I wanted to attend. We were not planning to attend
the seminars, but signed up anyway. Chris was there. Amazingly, he
reached far back into his memory to 2003. He remembered we were anchored
next to him at Sand Dollar Beach in a big motor yacht. The sun glistened
off the windows. Wow. 18 entries for the 2012 Regatta tee shirt
design were posted on the wall and we were to vote our favorite. Most were
hand drawn, a few were computer generated. We voted and were
rewarded with tickets for various door prizes. On our way back we stopped
at the catamaran Serenity to drop off the look bucket. They were
thrilled. Then we took a lazy cruise through the harbour.
We stopped at a boat from Townsend, TN, a town near us in TN.
Turns out he was really from Florida, just put on TN to save taxes. I was
oddly pleased to hear this: the boat, which will remain unnamed, was
probably the worst in the entire bay. Next we stopped at Slow Dancin
to return their DVD. Since Rusty and Joy were leaving tomorrow, Valt
invited them over to say goodbye this evening. After we ate our lunch, I
prepared a homemade salsa to serve with tortilla chips for our snack with
them.
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