January at The Sailors Place

The Sailors Place web site has had many changes over the last few months. This month (January, 2007) three new Screen Savers and 36 new individual racing dinghy photos have been added. Also, because there will be many new photos coming this year as I take pictures of more regattas, I split off the Screen Savers from the individual boat photos and set up a navigation button to a Screen Savers page.

The outboard motor for my inflatable dinghy needs some repair work so I was forced to use my 30 foot sailboat as the platform for my picture taking. For the first session this month (second race of the Small Boat Midwinter Regatta) I single handed the boat while taking pictures and found that it worked quite well. The second session was taking pictures of the Little Daddy Regatta and I had 4 people with me from the Santa Cruz group. I really enjoyed having them aboard for the day as it made the time go a lot faster and it was fun to have people with me who had a stake in the races we were watching. The photo at the start of these comments is of the son (and his crew) of two of the people that were on the Viking Lady.
The weather this month has been excellent for taking pictures. The Midwinters on the first Sunday of this month was absolutely clear and had to be one of the greatest days for taking pictures that could have been scheduled. The Little Daddy Regatta started out in the morning a little dark, with a lot of haze and a light overcast but by early afternoon it was clear and sunny and even a little warm.

Check The Sailors Place often as I will be posting new pictures and Screen Savers on a regular basis from now on.