Monday, May 7, 2007

Vallejo Come Back Day

Heather sleeping on the job
Ireland doing a fabulous recovery
Hanging on for dear life. Elise is very fast, it's quite hard to stay on board.
Stylish two-finger driving.
Well-deserved dinner
This is supposed to be a sea lion even though it looks like a larvae
Nat was NOT sleeping. She was looking closely at the spinnaker trim
Italy
Closely followed by Ireland and a bunch of unknown countries.
Matching lifejackets. Elise is a classy boat. Notice that Italy is BEHIND the French boat. hehe. A World Cup remake :)
Kate: "you missed a spot"
Line up for a cat walk
Finish Line. Well Done Astra!!
Red seems to be in fashion. This is true competition.
We made a little detour via the French Riviera. Kate demonstrating her new motto "I am just here for my looks"
Heather driving. May I suggest to lift up this cap? You might see better.
False advertising. This is NOT ice-tea
Note that Elise is well ahead of the rest of the pack. We really should have registered for the race...
An army of spinnaker royally deployed on San Pablo Bay
Worse than barium
Kate asked once looking at the TackTik: "is this our speed?" - the dial showed "208". Unfortunately we were not yet supersonic Elise; flying at over 200 knots. Trying hard though. Both Kate and Nat are focused on the shape of the spinnaker.
David and Goliath

2 comments:

EVK4 said...

"is that our speed"...absolutely great line. We saw the downwind ride home while driving over the bridge, my wife kept commenting on how pretty it was, I kept saying, what the heck happened to the wind, this isn't right.

At least it wasn't upwind both ways.

Nathalie Criou Racing said...

sorry, catching up on a lot of comments :)