Justin's Sailing week!

On the opening Sunday of the racing week, I got to go out on the T.S. Prudent. I was "crew" to help John spot the boats that might be bearing down on us...turns out this tri-marran was actually as fast as our boat. I was a little slow letting John know he was coming and at 24 knots, we were barely able to pull away in time to not get schwacked! Quite a Rush!

Just a nice picture of three ships pretty close together after clearing the buoy...

Me with a lot of boats coming downwind. They have their spinakers out and are heading to the boy we are sitting at. It was great to watch them race around the buoy. As it turns out, most captains don't like to give an inch. We didn't see any wrecks on Sunday, but on Monday when John went out they saw a good one that broke the spinaker pole and everything...pretty cool!


On Wednesday my boss, Col Gruber, Lt Col Narum and 3 others came down to see the Air Station and get a feel for some of the future capabilities. I firmly believe that if I hadn't showed them around the island, I would have failed as a host. Here we are at Jolly Harbor Beach.

Col Gruber and I at the Moravian church overlooking Carlisle Bay...a pretty amazing view.

As it was still sail week, we made it up to the Wednesday night party at Shirley Heights. We pulled in just in time to miss sunset, but we had enough light to get a good view of English Harbor and the areas around.

I foolishly thought we were done after Shirley Heights, but Sheryl had not seen St Johns yet, so we headed in for a glass of wine at C&C Wine Bar. As you can see, I had many Diet Cokes that day...everyone was a little freaked out by the driving down here, and would have been more freaked out if I had been drinking! :)

Saturday morning we headed off with Jimmy again for a nice hike up Monk's Hill...(Will, Patti Gordon, Jimmy Gordon, Patti Gibbs, Bill LaMay (new station manager), and me in my new sexy sleeveless shirt...Thanks baby!)

And a picture closer to the top. It is amazing to see the architecture of buildings built 200+ years ago...still standing!