Week 1 recap- 2020/2021Hello Frostbiters,Welcome to our first recap of the season. Each Tuesday I’ll be sending a recap of the previous week’s events, as well as some insight into what was and wasn’t working for people out on the course. We will also use this space to have some of our fleet members share their thoughts on the day, …
This year’s Valentine’s Day Regatta was anything but warm and loving. The trickiest wind we’ve had all season caused numerous headaches and frustrations out on the race course. Despite wildly shifting winds, and multiple delays for lots and lots of traffic, we still managed to get in five hard earned races. Heading into the day, we knew that winds were …
Two words: Big. Breeze. That’s what our fleet was faced with last Saturday. The wind was indeed honking with 20 knots sustained out of the NW. The gusts were consistently hitting 32 and 33, putting us right on the edge of a go/no go situation. The decision was made all the harder due to there being no other sailboats on …
There were a number of challenges our fleet was faced with on Saturday. The first and foremost being the temperature. It was cold. It was very very cold. Predictions on the day were for temperatures to be at or above freezing, but it was never warmer than 20 degrees. A pretty solid cloud cover meant that we couldn’t see the …
Week 6 was indeed a soggy day on the race course. The day started off with a little fog and no breeze. The forecast was for winds out of the East at 5 knots, but we weren’t really seeing anything above 2. We decided to postpone for 30 minutes and wait for the wind to fill in. By 12pm we …
The first three weeks of our season featured some of the best weather we’ve had for Frostbiting in recent memory. Week 4 this past Saturday was no exception. We were again fortunate to have sunny skies, steady breeze and some excellent racing. On Friday night we received about an inch of snow mixed with some freezing rain and as a …
We had another exemplary day this past Saturday for our second week of Frostbiting. Fifteen boats joined us on the line for what turned out to be six very exciting races. Heading into the weekend the forecast was giving us a few reasons for concern, chiefly that we were expecting winds up to thirty knots out of the northeast. That kind of weather …
Week 1 is in the books! Congrats and thanks so much to everyone who came out for our kickoff to the Courageous Frostbite 2019-20 season. It was so great to see faces both new and returning From the looks of it we have a great season in store for us, and I’m excited to keep going. For those of you …
On March 9th we had 15 boats join us for another great week of frostbite racing. The forecast was not very promising for the day. The NWS was calling for NW winds at 5 knots, becoming NE at some point, also at 5 knots. At 11am the breeze was, at best, patchy. There were pockets of wind scattered about the harbor, but …
It’s going to take more than a snowstorm and an LNG tanker to keep our boats off the water. Despite half a foot of snow and some limited visibility, we had sixteen boats join us for five races on a snowy day on Boston Harbor. The forecast was calling for anywhere from 1-6 inches of snow. It was hit or …
