The breeze was already in when we got down to the Nassau Yacht Club today. We sailed out for a noon start and had two windy triangle windward leeward courses taking about an hour a piece. In the second race the breeze increased steadily from 17 to 22 knots and took a rig and made some chaos along the way. We tried to close the door on a barging Richard Clark and Tyler Bjorn but when he rounded up inside between us and the mark we did our best to avoid a raft-up. Their flailing boom nicked me in the head as we went past. It took me a few minutes to figure out that my blue hat had turned dark with blood, luckily I lost it in a wave on the next run, but it kept my shirt from getting all red. Later on next leg run we were in the process of gybing in plenty of breeze when all of a sudden we see Tyler reaching across the course straight for us but this time without Richard. We rounded up quickly to avoid the boat and barely missed Richard swimming after his boat. We took an 8th and a 9th on the day with plenty of room for improvement in the Knowles series which is rumored to finish tomorrow before starting the Western Hemispheres. When we got back to the dock the bleeding had all but stopped, and after a poll of the sailors we decided my cut was 50/50 for stitches. I went off to the clinic to have the pro take a look. We’d love to call it “no blood, no foul” but considering there was both blood and a foul, I guess we know who’s buying the first round.
And, so the final results for the day: 9, 8, 1 stitch in my dome (luckily they didn’t have to shave my head!)
