Rainy Day Danny

This morning started out well since I got to watch South Africa defeat Australia in Rugby, and are now on the verge of winning the Tri-Nations tournament. We had rain and no wind this morning, Danny starting to rear his ugly head.

We awoke to news that Danny was a week tropical storm soon to be downgraded to a tropical depression. Good news, although we will still get much rain and heavy winds tonight. The morning was gray, with not much wind, and soon started to rain, not many people went sailing, as most racers spent a few minutes getting wet while turning their boats upside down with the dollies on top. Since there was not much breeze and rain, I decided in the early afternoon to put my boat upside down as instructed. Quite interesting seeing all these Lasers upside down with dollies on top.

We were also told at the club that the opening ceremony and dinner had been postponed until Tuesday night. This was due to predicted torrential rainfall at the time of the opening ceremony. Not much reason to hang around the club then, so I returned to Halifax to "hunker down" for the coming tropical depression. Right now we are getting surges of rainfall and wind, but nothing terrible. It is supposed to get quite windy and very rainy tonight into Sunday morning. Supposedly by noon tomorrow it should be through, with sunshine and 15 knot breezes behind. We shall see, but it sounds wonderful. Will head to the club as if there is to be the regular 1 p.m. start for the first race (civilized isn't it?). I imagine if the storm looks like it is close to blowing over they will hold us ashore until it does and then send us out to race. Perhaps an hour or two delay. Hopefully we will get in our scheduled two races tomorrow.

Hopefully my next post will be after we get some races in tomorrow. Now I am going to take it easy and get mentally prepared for tomorrow.