DriverEd

Forecast for Sunday has been bumped up a notch from what I am seeing, 25 NE offshore with crazy washing machine waves.

There is a shoal draft down in Florida that was badly damaged and partially sunk, it was my boat.  Boat was totaled by insurance and some nut job partially repaired it and had it listed for a while.  I liked the boat enough that when mine was destroyed by a hurricane I bought another.  Binnacle change over was #155. 

now if it could just prognosticate what tomorrow will be like . . .

We are chartering a U20. Never been to the right coast before, except Floida. Any tips? What's the weather like in April?

Mostly 70-75 and sunny.  Seabreeze starts around 11 AM and builds to 12-18 knots, sometimes more.  There are almost zero calm days in the spring; in fact since we started covering CRW in depth in 2006, not a single day has been lost to a lack of breeze; two days have been lost because of too much; one was sailable by some boats (25 sustained) and one was not (gusts to 54).

If a front comes through, expect fresh-to-frightening breeze and as low as 55 degrees of temperature.

Although the last day on the ocean course last year was a strong contender for calling racing.

I would much rather have someone who is smart and can learn than some person who steps on the boat and thinks they know it all.  You can train someone a position pretty quickly if they are receptive, but it is hell getting someone to unlearn bad habits.  The showing up with beer and on time part is also key.