Team Seacats

The fat lady has sung and the 2007 Performance Nationals are officially over. Final results and exhaustive numerical particulars will be posted here.

The top five finishers are:

Alex Shafer and Nigel Pitt
Wick Smith and Jake Kohl
Kirk Newkirk and Glenn Homes
Mark Smith and Bert Rice, Jr.
Trey Brown and Chuck Harnden

The Carolinas and FL representing solid, I must say. Fourth place was to go to Brian Lambert but his team withdrew from the event. Congratulations to everyone that showed up for this great week of sailing. I’m going to play in the Gulf for a bit, look for some cool shells, etc., until it gets too terribly cold and then I’m going to post some supersize shout outs and a list of people I love and exactly why they’re so great. Will you be on my list? What I meantersay is that, even though the competition’s over, I hope you’ll come back to read that.

Also, I’m sure that Jake will do an event wrap up from a racer’s perspective as soon as the boat is broken down, the awards are given out, we get settled in back home tomorrow, etc. It is his birthday, after all, so he may kick back with a little rum drink (or four) this evening.

There’s always something interesting happening on the Team Seacats web site. We’re not only active during big races. Jake has other projects, including construction of a one meter RC sailboat and wild sailing related videos he somehow finds online. Hell, he’s even posted photos of a crazy looking caterpillar (Saddleback?) that stung the hee haw out of him while he was mowing grass around a tree. It was waaaay too cute to kill, but not cute enough to let him use the birch tree that I planted as his grocery store, either. He will be re-located to another area soon!

Until later, Take it Easy, as the Eagles would say. (That’s it, girl. Take a theme and then drive it into the ground.)