One of the things we were going to do is have a Puddle Duck race.
When I first got there, I took my pdracer out for a short spin to see how it would handle the big waves and heavy air.
(These pictures are of Tim Cowden sailing later on in the day)
I headed out and she was doing great.
Really chugging thru the water and trying to ride her own bow wave.
I got out past the point and went over one little wave, came down and then headed up a bigger wave ....
... and sliding down that wave the bow dug in, and kept going !!
The boat continued going down untill the entire boat was submerged.
I leaned way back and a combination of that and the drop off of my speed allowed the hull to resurface.
Coming back up I then carried a full cockpit of water.
Since my cockpit isn't that big anymore, it wasn't that big of a deal, I was still able to sail around just fine, although a little bit more sluggish.
I headed back to the beach, heeling a bit to dump out the water.
Talked it over with Chuck, and since his boat had a much larger cockpit area and wouldn't recover from a swamp like mine, and no other pdracers showed up, we decided to cancel the race.
Later while Tim was sailing around he did the same, diving the boat and earning his submariner dolphins. Didn't capsize though, just carried a little water with him.
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