The pictures of today’s sailing belay the true scene at the pond frightful wicked evil vicious wind pelted down the cole valley to vent itself on us trying to sail our plastic fantastic s 95s on the usually idealistic puddle duck winery duck pond Nine hardy skippers fought through the howling winds constantly trying to maintain headway only to be held at bay by ever increasing suicidal hurricane gusts intent on ripping sails from the masts and feathers from ducks only through expert seamanship by the now seasoned skippers did we escape this torrent of destruction to show that we of the pond are worthy to sail on her waters After this days sailing I for one am ready to cross the Atlantic in a canoe so much going on tacking an more tacking gentle bumps bigger gentle bumps an a few missed buoys girls were forced by the conditions an a new record for the fountain pinkie 27 pete did developed a clever devious plan an that was to hold up near the fountain an wait for better conditions it worked so he did it again some thought he had got caught but no ” in a private conversation ” he told me about his clever audacious plan but we shall see no more devious clever plans from the wonder kid for a few weeks he’s off to Hawaii or was it bruny island na the other one have fun kid fantastic sailing through adversity all the skippers did a rip snorter of a job an had fun doing it