Bermudasissie Lesson / Report:
1) Divine whether to breakdown and stow sail, or leave rigged and balanced on stearn. Looking back was fool to think I could paddle the neuse and harlowe with it just balanced on stern, would have saved 2 hours on start if just would have paddled with it broken down.. Never know when wind is going to blow, so guess you never know until its over.
14) Find someone in WT that paddles and find out what are the best gloves to paddle with from Oriential to New Port River.2) When beating upwind in strong current tack up on short tacks behind sunken ships on west side of Beaufort Bridge... bear off before striking submerged portions.
3) Never think you've still got wind, and have PAST UNDER AND THRU the Beafort Bridge and are AHEAD of GARFISH, only bad things will happen if you entertain such silly thoughts.
12) Never (accomplished) listen to other tribers who say don't camp, get back out there and keep paddling when there is no wind, you hate paddling and conditions the coming day a nuclear nonsailable.
32) Take the time to talk to normal folks that come up and are curious and ask you questions, even when you just wanna get back to what your doin...
4) Never camp at a park at CKPT1 if you want to sleep.. all night all sorts of commotion, drunks and pirates. Scarier and more nerve racking than racoons, bears or crocagators. At one point there was some hoodlum at about 2am bragging to some drunk girl about how far he could throw a Kayak off the the pier, and I wondered if I was going to have to do battle and tazer him with my Epirb to keep my board on the grass, then about 4am came in a homeless guy that was complainin that some fucker in a tent, was fkin hoistin a fukin tent and taking up every fkin bench in the fkin park, (and I didnt have a single thing on any of the benches)
7) Alway camp where the crystal ball says that a beautiful, charming and kind Gal is going come the next morning at 6am with a home cooked breakfast, coffee, juice and banana and wonderful conversation to make you forget for even just a little while what a LOSER you are for not even making it past CHKPT 1
18) Learn how to number paragraphs accurately.
2) SOS the last time I spoke to you, you said you waz startin Wednesday night???
Some photos and videos: (hope to seeing other's too!)
https://photos.app.goo.gl/7jouSuvqiGkbRQh88