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| <\/td>\n | May 5 – Veterans of our sport always seem to have a core of friends they have been sailing with forever. Such programs develop lifetime friendships that keep coming back to reunite the team with each other, the wind, the sea, the sun and sailing. Such is the case with John McArthur and his Smiles team.The balance of a lifetime of sailing together was challenged for team Smiles preceding the Annapolis Nood Regatta. All began smoothly, as it always had\u2026the tow to Annapolis, stepping, launching, etc. Early Thursday afternoon, we delivered Smiles to Eastport. Our good friend and past J\/30 North American Champ, Dorsey Owings, needed help delivering his Mumm 30. Smiles\u2019 veteran crewmember, Russell Duleavey, jumped aboard Dorsey’s Seabiscuit to help with the delivery. Later that evening, the teams gathered for dinner at a local Annapolis restaurant, Russell was not feeling well\u2026something serious was happening! We called 911 and Russell was taken to a local hospital. Russell was having a heart attack and the prognosis was not good. The Smiles crew stayed with Russell at the hospital forgoing the first day of racing. After about 24 hours, the doctor felt Russell would pull through. The Smiles crew decided to sail Saturday if Russell’s condition was still improving. Luckily there was rain but not wind Friday so we had not missed a race!Things were not easy on the water Saturday without Russell. After a lengthy delay racing started at about 3:00 pm. The first race Smiles was OCS and fought her way back to second. For the second race, Smiles fouled a boat on the starting line and came back to forth after doing circles in a dying breeze.Sunday was a great day! Smiles lead at every mark in the first race in a strong northwest breeze. The second race, the air was light and spotty. Smiles picked her way to the lead at the last up wind mark and won the second race. Larry Christy’s Big Kahuna won the regatta over Smiles by two points. At the half way point of the last race Smile’s had five boat between Big Kahuna. Enough to win the regatta, but Kahuna fought back to finish second!The very best part occurred as we were loading Smiles on the trailer, we were called by the hospital and told that Russell (1st crewmember back from the bow), our friend and crewmember was awake and wanted to see all of us. WOW! We got a better prize than any pickle dish, the promise to sail again with our friend. — John McArthur, Skipper Final Results<\/a> \n<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \n Photos provided by photoboat.com<\/p>\n May 5 – Veterans of our sport always seem to have a core of friends they have been sailing with forever. Such programs develop lifetime friendships that keep coming back to reunite the team with each other, the wind, the sea, the sun and sailing. Such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-list","category-regatta","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |