Paul Presents Stepheys With First Place Prize Puppy

Sailing on Greg and Mary's Cal 25 "Cresta Blanca", the Stepheys helped guide the boat and its crew of sexygenarians through a flawless nautical demonstration of precision swearing, cursing, screaming and pants wetting excitation. Young King Nims served as the official on-board infraction observer and confirms that no rules were followed or broken. "We don't need no STEEN KING RULES," said Nims, "We need to PEE." (No pee stops were made during the hour and a half, five mile race.)

Q-tips Are Awarded The BOC Jacket For "Best Cinematography"

An excellent application of "Let's Let the Stepheys Win" tactics by the rest of the field helped to assure the desired outcome as "Querida Tu" wallowed to a very distant second place finish, followed by "Pleiades" humbly claiming the third place prize and "Cindy Slept Here" nailing down a solid fourth place finish around noon the following day.

Hans Raises An Outrigger In Respect As The Cresta Blanca Crew Takes Advantage Of A Puff Of Gusto To Propel Them Sideways Toward The Finish Line

Official race videos were shot and narrated by the lovely Q-tip, Mcgrane Mary @ Yahoo Dot Com. Great job Mary!

(See videos HERE but be warned... thar be plenty of LOUD explicit sailor expressions in these here movies. Don't let your parents view these.)

Click "Read More" to see more photos.

Story and Illustrations by SB Stuart

Saturday AM Olive, with Tina Lanman and Sal, got on the lake and so did Cindy Slept Here. Pleiades was already on the water, having weathered the Great Frightday Night Thunderstorms. So did the dry land campers. Several piñons and junipers in the Cochiti Lake campground were covered with drying sporting materials of various sizes and shapes. Tina said the lady at the C store told her that it had started raining at 8:00 and stopped at 3:00.

Saturday was the oddest-ever summer day on the lake, particularly a 4th of July weekend day. It must have been the TV weather forecasters. There were virtually no boats, swimmers, windsurfers, picnickers--anyone-- there.

Needed Storm Jib

Olive had a quiet sail for a while, enough to have lunch, with the big importunate clouds towering over the Jemez and others crowding up from behind the dam. Then there was the wind. It was bound to come and it did pretty quickly. I anyway had lowered the motor earlier, and when we were suddenly laid over in a squall, twice before we let go the sheets, it started after only about three pulls, and we could get up into the wind and motor upwind like a maniac while Tina got the sails down.

The pop-top and the Bimini were responsible for a good bit of the mischief, and are in time-out until I forget why.

It took Tina about 15 minutes to unwind the jib sheets. The sail was the original 1977 Catalina jib which I had resurrected from the shed as being tamer but it still put up a good fight.

On the HQ I said I had been planning to get a little jib, a storm trysail, a storm jib, a hanky, just some little thing for balance. And lo! there was the jib of my dreams, right in Brant's boat! unused because he has roller reefing!

On Independence Day the lovely little jib and the only-single-reefed main sailed us around sweetly in fresh winds.

Olive's gas tank and hose are going to Albuquerque for rehabilitation as being suspected of some malfunction or weakness, which decided me to curtail our stay at the lake. Before venturing away from the BOCWHQ I asked my fellow sailors to keep an eye on us in case we needed help getting to and on the trailer and a little tear almost comes to my eye (actually, one just did) when I remember looking over to starboard and seeing our friends sailing along on a parallel course out there.

The Albuquerque Journal reports that there could be heavy traffic on NM roads 16 and 22 to Cochiti Lake on Sunday, July 11, 2010 due to the running of the Cochiti Lake Triathlon.

The Triathlon takes place at Cochiti Lake from 7 AM till Noon this Sunday, July 11, 2010.

For more information and details about this event you can visit newmexicosportsonline.com
by clicking the picture above.

A race course map is available HERE

The annual BOC Memorial Day Weekend Extravaganza Pot-Luck BBQ and Race was held at the BOC World Headquarters on Sunday, May 30, 2010. The Corps of Engineers had the foreclosed ramp open by Thursday so even the early birds were able to launch when they arrived on Friday.

The BOC Headquarters is in great shape after the winter. No water in the bilge, cochitiman brought two new bottles of propane, prez ed brought out the paddle boat, the decks got a good swabbing, the BBQ grill was set up, the solar panel is charging batteries perfectly, the water system is hooked up and working, the whole ship is spic and span and the porta-potty needs to be emptied. It's perfect!

The secret to winning races is knowing all the angles.

Weekend weather was dee-lite-full for sailing, racing and cooking on the HQ. Mucho gusto was felt with good friends, warm daze, cold beverages and hot dogs (wearing sunglasses).

We did finally get around to starting a race at 2:20 pm Sunday.  A three minute video was made at the finish line. You can watch the results by clicking HERE

And Prez Ed has posted a link to his photos from the weekend on the BOC Messageboard HERE