Regatta time in Georgetown Exumas

It's been a few days since our last posting from Georgetown. While in GT, we had the fun of enjoying the Bahamas Junior Championship Regatta. All I can say is...organized chaos...lol. Everyone has such a fun time....kids, parents, race committee, spectators..that it's a wonder that they get off any races at all. Now any of you that have been involved in running sailboat races know that at best it's always a challenge to get off a bunch of good races to make up a regatta.  Well down here the word fun takes on a whole new meaning and when you add this to the mix....well you get organized chaos...

E class boats with the rules being 12' long, mast of 22' and boom of 8'....as long as those three things are met, anything else goes so there is a bit of difference...not much between the boats.

Also Sunfish one design. Well you can't mess with rules too much on these boats...

Skippers meeting

I think these guys were the ones to beat. There boat also looked slightly different but clearly within the rules.

The story behind this very entertaining picture. The officer on the bow of the E boat started out on his own police boat with a passenger.... Unknown if the passenger knew how to drive the boat. As the police boat slowly left the dock, he got his prop tangled in one of the E boats at anchor. To free the mess, he ended up crawling very carefully off his own boat and on to a very shaky bobbing 12' springboard. Now the guy on the powerboat was apparently not a boater at heart so here is the policeman on the bow of the sailboat patiently trying to direct his passenger back to him without A...not messing up the police boat, B ....not crunching the sailboat and C....not falling in the water which in front of the entire spectator group would not have been acceptable at all. True to form all did work out well and as you can see the officer did not loose his dignity or pride...