INVERNESS YACHT CLUB

WE WON! GOT A GIN FIZZ FIRST!

Where else could you leap out of the boat at the dock, run up the gang plank, down the pier, clamber on the stairs into the Club house, stand at the bar, barely look over the top and yell out that you want a gin fizz so's win the race?
'What? A gin fizz to win the race? You're not even old enough for a gin fizz!'
'It's for my mom!'
'No. An' mine's for my dad. Whoever gets a gin fizz first will win the race!'
'Well, okay. Here's one for you, and here's one for you.'
'Thanks! Bye!'
Where else can two kids, Lindsey and Toby, gin fizz in hand, tear out of the bar, down the stairs and run the length of the dock to Ashley Tobin and Jim Watters, deliver the goods, thus concluding what it takes to win the Hair of the Dog (non-race) Race?
Where else could a (non race) race go from south to north windward mark from the time the boats cast off--less than two minutes--so the start necessitated a course change to accommodate a close hauled port rabbit starter boat?
Where else could the racers decide among themselves that they would determine to shorten the non race race course to a convenient mark, at least one of them not complete the rounding, declare spinnakers illegal, skull and rock with all hands participating, dig every paddle and oar into the glassy bay in a mad dash to the dock?
If that's not enough, the first (adult) to sip a gin fizz would be the clincher?
Lindsey: 'We won! Ha, ha. First to sip a gin fizz.'
How was it out there?
Toby: 'Well, it was fun. It was fun to sit on the very front of the boat.'
Lindsey: 'Bow.'
Toby: 'Okay. Bow and let my feet hang over.'
Lindsey: 'It was fun to make the boat rock back and forth.'
Toby: 'I liked standing on top of the boat.'
So, what's it like to be the winner?
Lindsey: 'Toby said he was going to get back at me. Put a gin fizz on my head.'
He wouldn't do that, would he?
Lindsey: 'He couldn't catch me.'

Thus, another exciting (non race) race at our ever so idiosyncratic yacht club, with team Lassetter, team Cardwell, Toby, Lindsey, Ashley, Jim of the Wattersclan, their friends Constance Young and Ken Richards participating.
And, no-show sailors: where were you with all this fun to be had? Like, it wasn't even windy…