I found Ronnie Young working on the A Dock when I arrived at OSYC Thursday evening, then unpacked, worked on the interior of “Barco Viejo” till about 10:30 and slept aboard on Thursday night, hoping I could get an early start on Friday morning. The forecast was plenty of wind for Friday and Saturday. Getting an early start on Friday did not work because it was cold in the cabin and under the covers was warm. I sailed out about 0930 heading to the power lines up Island Creek. It was 8-10Kts wind and by 11:15 I was back at OSYC, It was off to Reedy Creek with the GPS turned on so I could find the turnaround mark. No problems finding it and then back to OSYC. It was time to get serious because it was the afternoon already and I wanted to get in a long distance run yet. I sailed up toward Crooked Creek, heaving too for lunch, then later while passing Goat Island, finding water on the floor of the boat. I bailed about 3 Gal of water out of the bilge, looked for the source of the leak but was unsuccessful and sailed on. Arriving at Crooked Creek, I found another couple of gallons in the bilge and looked again for the source of the water. It turned out to be the above the waterline thru-hull for the sink drain. As long as I was not heeled over on a port tack, I was ok. It had a plug in it when I looked at hose coming off the thur-hull at the boat’s initial launching and I did not worry about but looking at the plug remnants I found the plug was actually a dirt-dobber nest. Sailing back to OSYC was done on a starboard or almost straight up. I arrived OSYC at 5:15PM finding Ronnie Young again working on the A Dock. I looked for stick I could whittle for a plug, dug out my Marine Sealant and after shaping the plug, I pounded it in to the drain hose covered with sealant. It is in for good. I will put a hose clamp on it next time I get back to the boat. Saturday morning arrived with little wind. I sailed again to Island Creek power lines but this time I took me 3.5 hours. After arriving back at OSYC, headed up the lake followed by the racers who were going to sail to Hauck’s Reef and back. I had a 10 minute head start, sailing with a 150% jib and a full main. The wind was blowing like stink now and by the time I passed Airport Island. I pulled into a small cove, pulled down the 150% and put up a very old 110% jib. I had sailed with it the day before in pretty strong winds and had forgotten the hanks were just laced on with some cotton string and that I only wanted to try it out to see if I liked it. I liked it and put it up. The fleet was starting to catch up but with the shorter 110, I started to pull away again. I was nearing Hauck’s Reef, when, the cotton string lacing on the jib hanks started popping. Like a zipper, I pretty soon had only one jib hank still hanging on and I was headed for some quiet water to pull this jib down and to put up my 100% working jib. The interior of my boat was filling up with unfolded jibs. With the 100 jib up I came out with the race leaders having caught up with me. I sailed upwind again past Hauck’s Reef and then around the corner and up the river stopping to heave too for some late lunch and then sailing all the way to Oconee Springs Park, arriving at the park at 5:10. Turning around, I expected to have a head wind and I did. It was slow going and I arrived at the Crooked Creek Marina about sundown and of course that was the time for the wind to fade to a whisper too. I grabbed a flash light and a quick supper and continued on, hoping to make Goat Island before the wind died completely. I started to pass Goat Island about 9PM when I remembered I had a big nylon drifter aboard from “Linda Jean”. I put it up and with it filled, I pressed on. The wind picked up a little as I passed Sinclair Marina, and I was on a beam reach most of the rest of the way to OSYC. I arrived at OSYC at 11:55PM, and tried to make my old 6Hp Johnson run quiet so I would not wake Howard when I motored into the slip. I had sailed straight for almost 15 hours. The next morning I was up early to try to get in another full day of sailing. Howard was surprised to see me when he got up in the morning. He did not hear me come in. Leaving the dock by 0900, I headed again up Island Creek. This time the wind was not strong and it took more than 4 hours to make the trip up and back. Arriving back at OSYC I decided to call it a day and pack up. > > > > > > Scores 15 Oct 06 for Bob Horan > > > > 12 Oct Slept on board at dock 5 > > > > 13 Oct Island Creek Power Lines 80 > > Put boat in irons for 30Sec 10 > > Reedy Creek marker 40 > > Heave Too 20 > > Crooked Creek Marina 100 > > Cushion Overboard 15 > > > > 14 Oct Island Creek Power Lines 80 > > Heave Too 20 > > Oconee Springs Park 250 > > > > 15 Oct Island Creek Power Lines 80 > >