Swiftsure 2009 Edition

Hey Team,

Thanks for the weekend.

As with all Swiftsures, there was some good and less good.

I choose to remember...
- Friday socializing; re-acquainted with sailing buddies, and new
- Sun, sun, sun
- A great start, outpointing and great boat speed throughout
- Great fun through Race Rocks, banging the shoreline with Atalanta doing the same right on our tail (and we thought we had balls weaving through the rocks on shore!)
- Racing with division one boats to and up the US side (with some of our fellow brothers and sisters who got sewered there too by the 20 degree wind shift)
- Sailboats in and out of the fog
- Sailing under the stars
- Phosphorescence
- A beautiful sunrise, followed shortly by the Orca pod near Race Rocks (1st to sight)
- and kelp! (We picked up more kelp on this run than the last 2 sailing seasons combined including Van Isle 360)

Thanks!
Norm Eldridge