Determination. Stamina. Perseverance. Sweat.
That can be a winning formula for running a marathon. Or sometimes for winning a 5-mile sailboat race.
Perseverance and sweat, anyway – and a little bit of luck – all helped the team on Doug Stryker’s J/30 TOTALed MAYHEM stick it out to win the 19-boat, non-spinnaker division in this year’s Boatyard Bar & Grill Regatta to Benefit CRAB.
“Yeah, we survived four hours of drifting in the sun,” Stryker said. “When the wind’s that light, there’s a lot of luck involved.”
Over the years, the popular annual fundraising race in support of Chesapeake Region Accessible Boating (CRAB) has weathered a full range of wind conditions – from a sidelong blow due to a hurricane to dead calm, and pretty much everything in between.