All Blog Posts Tagged 'sailboat' (4)

We came in 6th (out of 7 boats) in the Choptank Heritage Skipjack Race, but it was a beautiful day to sail and we had a great time.  We beat the Hilda Willing, the other boat to come up from the Tangier Sound, so we have bragging rights on being the fastest boat in Deal Island Harbor.

The Skipjack Ida May won second place in the 52nd Annual Deal Island Skipjack Race.  We were the first boat across the starting line and the first boat around the first buoy.  Coming back down the Tangier Sound, the perennial winner, Rebecca Ruark, hauled us down and passed us.  We held off the Somerset to take 2nd.  Considering that we were always in the rear of the pack in previous Labor Days, we were very happy with today's outcome.  Our success was not a surprise to us.  We had a good…

The Ida May is ready for the Deal Island Skipjack Race.  We have brand new sails and, essentially, a brand new boat, so we're hoping to place this year.

We got new sails for the Ida May today.  They arrived in the mail in two large packages:  main and jib.  We blew our jib sail out at the Deal Island Labor Day Skipjack Races 2012 and had to borrow Stony Whitelock's jib for the Cambridge Race.  We think with a new set of sails that the Ida May will sail better than she ever has before.