s/v Music Update, Sunday, July 20

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Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 10:30 PM
Today's update is coming from John Denny.

We had another great day today starting with Lesley getting top honors with a speed of 15.6 k just before our watch at 10pm last night, the bar is set another notch higher. Wind was up for a while during the night which made for interesting driving, sailing deep with larger cross seas lots of rolling with a temptation to over steer. Another boat was sighted just before dawn which kept us all on high alert through the morning, at the 9am role call we determined it was "TIKI BLUE" a boat in a faster div. Roll call also determined we were still in the running for first with "MUSIC" being the southern most boat, we feel this will be to our advantage due to what we hope to be better breeze and the ability to heat it up and sail faster. We spent the day sailing fast,playing bad ukelele,fishing (with no luck yet), doing laundry and having showers. We are now all clean and fluffy with the boat looking like "Hop Sings" laundrymat with all our nickies adding 1500 sq ft to our down wind sail area,it added at least 1 kn to our speed . Salmon patties (in lieu of fresh tuna) for dinner has now fortified us for gybing practice later this evening.