I keep thinking I will have time to sit down and get caught up with the blog but another day goes by and I still have not posted pictures that need to be shared. The Banderas Bay Blast is over, the Chili Cook Off winner has been decided and Rog has had a run over to an emergancy room doctor. He unexpectedly sat on a bee or wasp on the final leg of the race that has left him with a very painful welt about 4 inches across on the back of his leg!!! By this morning it became very obvious that he needed stronger meds before this got completely out of hand. After a shot and oral meds he is still not getting any relief but I have time to do a blog. No beach for us this afternoon.
We had a fabulous third leg of the Blast that started in Punta Mita with the spinnaker flying. Andy Barrow offered to crew for us and you know Di was more than willing to have another pair of hands with help with the spinnaker. We were running deep in 19 knts of wind pursuing Circ and barely ahead of the Catalina 42 Destiny. We followed Circe to the radio towers where we had to jibe over to starboard to run back and try to lay the finish line at Paradise Village. The wind started to lift us and it was a real challenge to keep the spinnaker flying so close to the wind. At the finish the water was getting very shallow, down to 14 feet, and another boat named Pico was right on our stern trying to drive us up. Maybe a little more exciting than Di bargained for and certain more for Rog once he got stung in the but!!
At the awards party we were extremly surprised to find that Di's Dream had pulled it out and finished first by just five seconds over Circ who is an incredably fast boat. Di's Dream was in a real dog fight for all three days and now needs to be rewarded with a good scrub and polish. She will come back out of the marina latter this week when we go over to Yalapa.
For more information on the Banderas Bay Blast go to this site
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