Cabrillo Ocean Series Race 3

This is probably the best sailing movie I've made yet:

On top of San Diego

On top of San Diego

CFPeved

The test was a bitch. Truthfully, I'm not sure I passed. There we're just too many things coming at me that I was not sure about.

Whatever the case, my fate is in the hands of something called the "modified Angoff method" of scoring.

Life goes on.

Enjoy a recent movie I made of a local hike:

Incommunicado

Not that I was doing a lot of posting anyway, but I’m going to drop off the grid starting this weekend and going into next week in the days leading up to the CFP exam.

I already told work I was taking the entire next week off. I want to leave the March 20th exam thinking, “Nailed it!” I’ve been studying like crazy since December but I just want a little insurance.

I've also told the hubby I would be sitting at my desk studying every day by 6:30AM or I will buy him a lavish dinner at San Diego’s famous Marine Room Restaurant. No downside for him, but a $250 dinner bill to me if I don’t wake my ass up and get busy before dawn.

Cabrillo Ocean Regatta - Race 3

Well it took 9 hours 35 minutes and 32 seconds, but we finished first in the 44.25 miles Cabrillo Ocean Race - the third in the four race series. It was a hell of a ride in which we only used the spinnaker for the LAST 3 MILES. Amazing!

Here was our GPS path:



One more race to go. If we do well we win the entire series. Go Team!!

CFP - Take Deux

Fifteen days till I take the CFP exam… again. This time I’m much more prepared and focused. I’m taking the week off before the test for a full scale review. I’ve been getting home at 5PM almost every night and studying till 9ish. Thankfully my boyfriend has been understanding knowing this is the single most important test of my life… at least until I make my way over to the CFA Level I.

This weekend I’m taking some time out for another extended sailing race down into Mexico. The weather is starting to look bad so I’m excited about the prospects of actual heavy winds and rough seas. Fear not, my friends, there will be about 30 boats in the fleet and we’ll never be more than 20 miles from the shore.

Heineken Regatta Remembered

A year ago this week I and several friends competed in the Heineken Regatta. We were supposed to go again this year, but once the economy started to dive everyone pulled out. Yesterday we had a party to remember the event. Here is the movie I made for the team: