The close match

04/16/2010

There was a boat exactly like our boat, sailed by Daddy's friend, Linda. It was a close match. One time we got a good start, but we almost collided with Tom. All our training really payed off because we gained a few boat lengths on Linda each time we rounded a mark. I took some videos of the starts while we were in sequence five minutes before the race. The weather was perfect again: around 10 knots of wind and sunny.

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04/16/2010 | Mama

How exciting to finally race boats that are the same without the need for corrected time!! It's a good thing that you guys practiced rounded the marks. Every second counts. Hope you're having fun. Love, Mama and Danny

The first race day

04/15/2010

The race committee fit in two race today. We had lunch at Lincoln park between races, with all the other racers. We thought that the other exact copy of our boat didn't make it, but she did, and she beat us in the second race. My favorite part was in the first race when we flew the spinnaker and sailed into the narrow bay. A spinnaker is a big sail for downwind. Our spinnaker is yellow and blue.

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04/15/2010 | Laurie

Wow! What a busy day to have two races. You must be exhausted. Lincoln Park is a beautiful place to have lunch. I hope that you got to play on the playground. It must have been nice to have a break between races on the land. Good luck today. Lots of love, Mama and Danny

The catch of the lizard

04/13/2010

I caught a lizard today. I found it on a palm tree. It was a small black lizard that can move realy fast, and it had mysterious flanges on it's sides.

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04/14/2010 | Laurie

Cool, Pete! It looks very comfortable on you. I hope that it doesn't decide to move in with us!

04/14/2010 | Your class

Hi Pete! We wonder how you caught the lizard. What kind of lizard do you think it is?

04/14/2010 | henry

Mysterious lizards have no trouble walking over you.

The exciting sail

04/13/2010

The wind was perfect, not to strong not to light. We went up and down the bay more than eight times. We saw other trimarans also practicing. Daddy would not let us head in until we did a perfect leeward mark rounding. That is where you take the spinnaker down and head back upwind. My jobs were outhaul, and helping Ben get the spinnaker down and sitting on it to stop it blowing away.

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04/13/2010 | Laurie

You look like a professional sailor in the picture, Pete. It sounds like you guys are working very hard, but having a lot of fun. I'm glad that the crew finally got the job done up to Daddy's standards. Good luck in the races tomorrow. We'll be thinking about you!! Love, Mom and Danny

04/14/2010 | Your Class

Pete -
We are curious, what is a spinnaker?
We also wish you great luck in the race today! We can't wait to hear all about it. Kick their bottoms! :) Mrs. Civiletto added, kick their anchors!
-Your Class

04/15/2010 | Peter

You can also talk to Mrs. Dennis for questions like that.

The relaxing day

04/12/2010

We went sailing with our crew, Keith and Ben, and Julia came too. The wind started off pretty light, but then it picked up to around 14 knots. We sailed windward-leewards, and we put the spinnaker up six times, and practiced rounding marks. When we got home I ate a whole entire pizza. Dad and I went swimming in the swimming pool and we did races. I beat daddy every single time (on corrected time!)

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Pete's blog

04/11/2010

After a week of relaxing, fishing and catching all kinds of things that live in the sea, we are now switching to race mode. Peter is taking over blog duty:

We had a great sail to our condo. I liked that we didn't heel too much, and we put up the spinnaker. We had a nice reach to the condo. And there we went for a swim in the pool.

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04/12/2010 | Lulie

Pete! check YOU out using all the sailing lingo! I barely understood any of that...although I think I know what a spinnaker is. Did I spell it right?

04/12/2010 | Laurie

Wow! It's great that you get to stay in a condo with a pool. How awesome! Miss you! Love, Mom

The catch of the turtle

04/08/2010

I caught a brand new turtle that was only like one month old. When I first saw the title I thought it was a plastic toy turtle. But when I caught him he was moving and tried to swim though the net. He had cool designs on his shell and he was very little. His name is Turtle. After daddy took some pictures we let him go.

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04/09/2010 | Mema

Hi Guys, Love the turtle!!Hope you are having a great time. The weather is freezing here a highof 42. Hope it's warm there and please bring some of the warmth home with you. Love, Mema

04/09/2010 | Aunt Katie

WOW! The turtle is soooocute! Hope you are having fun!

Crabs

04/05/2010

Yesterday morning I caught some hermit crabs at the beach. I put them in a bucket and we took them sailing. I think the crabs enjoyed sailing. Later we went to the airport and met Mama and Peter. And then we had dinner and I had crab legs, steamed and dipped in butter.

This morning we sailed to the beach where I caught the crabs, and then we let them go. We fed them squid, which we got for bait.

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