We got back to the boat Saturday Morning to find a fine collection of sticks and bark, shit, fish guts, and other nice things on the Bimini. It still wasn’t as bad as it could have been. We will definitely need more bird tape.
The plan was to head to Cara Cove around 4 to do a star raft up and pot luck dinner. We expected about 10 boats, which turned out to be correct. It was by far the best shaped star raft up yet.
It was achieved and broken up without incident or property damage thanks to the Fleet Captain and Fleet Captain (retired).
We made chicken legs on the grill, which I distributed first in the dinghy and then later I put them on a floating cushion and swam around with them, which frankly was a lot easier.
I also achieved yet another dram of ice of sailing using an umbrella on the paddle board. I’m told it looked very fast but it was dead downwind and didn’t really feel too fast.
The midges were exceedingly bad, coating the stack pack, the hull, the interior of the dodger, etc. They apparently thrive in low oxygen/polluted water. Nevertheless the swimming was still very fine.
We eventually hauled anchor and put the jib up for a slow leisurely down wind run back to the club. We put up extra bird tape this time and Hobo is very sparkly on her mooring.
