Mumm 30 Worlds Eh, Toronto style

Here are my after thoughts and story on the Mumm 30 worlds at RCYC.
Most are truths and some names have been changed to protect the guilty.

The Mumm 30 worlds were a great time and fun had by all. RCYC (on an island across from downtown Toronto, the views were sweet and awesome at night) made sure that all the sailors were taken care of and we didn't even have to wear our whites on the ferry or jacket and ties in the club. RCYC relaxed it all for us and are probably still explaining to the members what the hell happened last week.

On the racing -- we "it" had a bad, bad regatta, I could go thru all the various things and blah, blah, blah, you all have heard it before, so I won't bore you with any of it. Long story short, we had our moments of good and bad.

Foreign Affair (Aussies, they have a far 40 also) won the event on the last day (started it 13 points down in 5 or 6) with Steadfast (local), Tramp, Team Shark Kahn, and Team Bold rounding out the top 5. 6 boats had a REAL chance to win it on the last day and PHA proved this coming from that far out. Sailing all week was up and down with no real hard set way to tackle a race.

Onto the better stuff, weird things that happened or might have been over heard or wish that we heard at the event.

Best thing that involved a cruising boat on the race course - Last race of the week, gun goes off and off everybody goes. Near the port end about 1/2 mile up the course, a smallish cruiser is also sailing upwind dead nuts in the way. The yelling starts and this guy (by himself) starts the deer in the headlights thing, going up and down and everywhere but out the way. This must have went on for about 4 mins. With the crews yelling getting fever pitched and probably wondering what the Canadian words for "Go that way, not that way" were since he didn't understand all the yelling and arm waving.

Big props for the Coast Guard sending a boat and being over early on the black flag start. That got them in early for the banquet night and got a big jump on everybody's women back at RCYC. Nice move, even if not planned that way.

Big props for Shark Kahn walking away with a kiss from some 470 Olympic CAD chick and 2 bottles of booze (I am not sure the legality of any of that, don't think anybody was jailed) for winning a race the first day.

Words heard by a bystander (a girl) about SA - "I just don't like SA, because of the language. I don't mind it (saying it), I just don't like to see those words in print."

Words heard in the owners meeting when SA was brought up about something or other (poop brought SA up I think), said by somebody in an organization that starts with a F and ends with a R - "We don't feel that we have the time or need to put the effort to chase down every
post in SA about us."

Words heard in the sail measurement by some judges - 1. Checking out the SA logo on the main - "SA, nice site, go there all the time." 2. Checking out the SA logo - just shook his head and mumbled something under the breath.

Words heard from the Pres. of the Mumm 30 class while we were lawn bowling on the clean trimmed (better than most stripper chicks) lawn of RCYC waiting for wind to race - "I got a nice pic of you SA guys (wearing the SA dryshirts) lawn bowling. I will send it to you, make sure they get it up on SA." (There were plenty of ball jokes heard on that day)

Words heard on the radio after 4 general recalls on Thursday, after RC told us he was going to the Black flag - "Don't blame the sailors if the RC can't set a proper line" (ouch, but true)

Words heard on a starboard boat when we were coming at them on port - " Starboard, oops, it's the SA boys, let 'em cross."

Words heard on a spectator boat filled with some nice chicks - "Eh, why don't you guys join us over here, we are about to film a girls gone wild film and need some guys to help pull up our shirts."

Words heard from Poop's crew when being doused when lower lifeline broke - "you mother fucblubbbbb, blub, blubbbbbb"

Words heard from somebody on another boat at a dinner - "Chris Larson said he doesn't want anything bad said about him on SA." (Here's something Chris, you need to get a new blush, the one you use leaves you looking a little white when you sail)

Words heard all week - "What is the capital of Thailand? ....... Bangkok" (while getting hit in the cock, that one can hurt)

Words heard by the Can. water cops plenty of times by crews in their tenders going from and to RCYC - "I didn't know there was a 9 kmh speed limit?" Our team's best line to the cops - "We were just following Team Pegasus's protector, they were going mock 30 and they have 3 rules guys on their boat, so we thought it must have been OK."

The SA logo and shirts made many a conversation on and off the water. Many a thumbs up or a good word from anybody who say the SA and few sneers also. When asked what SA was like, we told them to go check it out, you will portably stay for awhile and be hooked like the rest of us.

Thanks goes to the Editor for coming up so quick with the "sponsorship stuff". We felt it was a very quick and cheap way for SA to get some water time and wouldn't have done it for anybody else this way.
Do we feel that there is a SA curse? Hell yeah, that's our story and we are sticking to it.
Whatever it takes.

jsmin

p.'s. All was true except the girls gone wild thing, damn it.