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Foxy's Cat Fight is on. Racing Date is Saturday October 27. Masquerade Ball w/prizes, great sailing w/races organized by Loyal WEYC. Foxy will have music and dancing fri and sat. w/great BBQ Sat. Ferry from west end to Jost on sat, returns 11:00 p,m, There will be classes for Catamarans and there will be a class for Monohulls as well as Trimarans. Let's start the saiing/racing season off at Foxy's. Touch base w/Susan or Tom on their Facebook page as well to confirm times and activities.....
Let the games begin !!!!!!..............jollylou

Great news.. we will be there and rounding up extra maniacs!!

Looking forward to it!

We will be there as of the 18th!
Should be fun.

Kevin

As of today, it looks like a go for me, too!

Haha went to post this but Lou beat me to punch. Really looking forward to a great race and fun party!! I We will post up info at FOXYSBVI on facebook and our new website at www.foxysbvi.com

Susan..Chris and the Prof.Glen will be staying with us pre and probably post race..you know where to find us!!

Malcom - sounds good. let's make plans to pre game!!

Just how crowded does the harbor get? We won't be racing and probably can't get there until early afternoon. Costumes optional or does everyone have one? Any thoughts on the day (and night) are appreciated!

Two years ago it appeared the mooring balls were all taken by Friday evening prior to race day. There were ~22 boats in the race, and I think all the race competitors left their dinghies locked to a mooring ball during the race.

At the very least there should be room to anchor in the outer harbour, or you could taxi over from Little Harbour.

Anyone know how the entries are looking at this point?

We'll be on Cuvée (FP Saba 50). Launching her from Puerto del Rey, Puerto Rico on Sunday prior to the race, then visit Culebra and St John and arrive JVD by Friday morning. Will be joined by my nearly 94 yr old Dad who is a retired Norwegian sea captain that sailed in their merchant fleet throughout most of WWII. Hoping we can defend our 2016 win.

wow!!! That is amazing, would love to hear his stories!!!! Those Norwegians are sturdy My great grandfather sailed around the world on a square rigger at the turn of the century starting at just 14 years old, he lived into his 90's as well , sadly he passed away when I was only 2 so I never got to speak with him Please post pics!!

on a shirt note, if anyone wants crew shirts for the race let me know asap!!!

Laura does a great job with shirts. I'm one very happy customer, highly recommend. (This is an unpaid, unsolicited endorsement)


Rob

I second the recommendation for Laura's shirts!

Haven’t seen much boat discussion - who else is racing?

Thank you Rob and Wes!!! ...and so wish I could make it this year, certainly one of the best events ever!!!

Hi, Annapolis will be represented DYC Bahia. Looking forward to a great time, and remembering our late friend Sail Dawg...

Anyone heard from Martin?

We also have bought Laura's shirts- none finer! Awesome graphics and top quality material.

Wishing everyone safe travels, could someone please post pics of our stern during the race????

Best-

JAM
Annapolis, Md

Forecast for next Friday and Saturday is only 4 kts of wind!

Tradition....always zero wind for Cat Fight!

It's improved to 12-15, but who knows. The first race is usually good and then the wind dies in the afternoon.

Well that’s much better than 4!

Chris Curran and Glenn Ashmore are en route, as we speak, to stay at CRC before we all head to JVD for the 'Fight..hoping for some wind!

Have a grand time my friends!

Manpot, Please take care of Glenn, he will be routing us down from GA in our new boat in a few weeks.

And a fantastic job he does - from experience

Wishing we would have had 4 kts of wind yesterday. For much of the race it was 1-2 kts. You had to search out small pockets of 4-6 kt 'gusts'.

Only 6 of 16 boats completed race 1 (race 2 obviously cancelled).
It took us about 6 hrs to complete the ~7.2nm triangular course!!! As we approached Sandy Cay we were actually drifting backwards.

Here are the catamaran class winners:
<40' -- Spellbound
40' - <45' -- Sail Pending
45' - <50' -- Cuvée
50'+ -- Catatonic

I was aboard "Wavelength" with Andy and his brothers..we had a great time but barely made it to the marker buoy when we decided to quit. At that point boats were almost drifting into each other. It was a shame as we had a pretty decent , enthusiastic, turnout, but everyone seemed to have a really good time which is all that counts. Talking to Chris Curran today who was on the race committee we discussed whether, maybe, they should have told everyone to round the buoy to port and head back and not head for Sandy Cay. As said..great times, great folks, big thanks to all who put time and effort into this again..Of course Dirk on the new " Cataonic" won his class..congrats buddy..