What are the races like?
At about 12:00 on Sunday the boat ramp at the far end of the harbor starts to fill up with families arriving and rigging their Sea Shells and Sabots. The boats, most of which are stored right next to the boat ramp in our “condos,” are wheeled over to the ramp, rigged, and carried or rolled into the water. Experienced skippers sail around from the launch ramp to the beach, but new skippers can always find someone to help them “bring the boat around.” On a good day we’ll get 30 or more boats out there – a marvelous sight to see that many boats getting rigged all at once! By 1:00 all skippers have all sailed around and signed in for the day, and the mast meeting begins — a few announcements, things to watch out for, “Did anybody find a blue sweatshirt on the beach last week,” that sort of thing. Then the race course for the first race is laid out, and the countdown to the first race starts with a toot on an air horn. “A” skippers start first, followed 3 minutes later by the “B” skippers,
