Butch had Catnip out on Charlotte Harbor for some pre-race tuning yesterday, and was caught on video by committee boat skipper Tom Scott.

For the benefit of catboat jib trimmers who don’t want to go to all the trouble of sailing a Sun Cat down Shell Creek to Punta Gorda, we decided to do the trip and take some pictures and video. I strapped my video camera tripod to the boom gallows to capture the fun, and took [...]

We decided to do a trial run of the proposed adventure race from our ramp on Shell Creek down to Laishley Park in Punta Gorda, and launched our Sun Cat on the high tide today. It will spend the night at our neighbor’s dock, then tomorrow we will sail it down the creek, making an [...]