Opera House Cup Regatta

8/19/07 – I got up early this morning and took Jaya to the pier in anticipation of our early departure to Nantucket to race in the Opera House Cup, a big regatta for classic boats. I walked over to Max’s house and helped him figure out exactly what the wind and tides would be doing for the entire afternoon. Everyone was busy preparing for the race and we finally got going about an hour later than we had planned. We all got aboard Jaya and motored to Nantucket and hurriedly prepared Glide for the race and cast off. We got out to the harbor and tested out a few sail configurations but the race was postponed for about an hour due to the light wind. It finally got started and we witnessed a very dramatic collision between two large wooden boats on the starting line. We came in around the middle of the pack, which wasn’t too bad for a crew who hasn’t been on the boat in nearly a year. We moored Glide and took Jaya back to Cape Cod after a dinner in Nantucket. As we were coming in to the harbor, Max made a detour and we all went to Baxter’s to meet Vicky and some more of his guests. We stayed for a few minutes and then went back to Hyannis Port.