- IMG 2392
wig arrangement - IMG 2395
Final touches... - IMG 2396
Guests begin to arrive. - IMG 2398
Global warming--get it? (You would if the damn globe were in the shot.) - IMG 2399
Jessica Rabbit, core of the earth, cat, biker chick - IMG 2400
More people arrive. - IMG 2402
My Space lays down the law. - IMG 2404
contest for best GSPP-related costumes - IMG 2405
the first-years are clearly in the grip of stats - IMG 2406
That's right, he's a confidence interval. - IMG 2407
Jessica and drowning swimmer (his lifeguard is AWOL) - IMG 2408
good shot of Roger - IMG 2409
Group costume contest: Vote for Pedo? - IMG 2410
I can't tell you how sad I am that the minishorts on that gym teacher didn't make it in the shot. - IMG_2165
Pre-dawn on the day of departure. The boat (a Catalina 350, which means it's 35 feet long) waits at the slip in Houston for her noble crew. - IMG_2166
The last picture you'll see of the whole boat... from here on out we're on it. - IMG_2171
Motoring out of Houston through a channel. - IMG_2176
Dawn on the first day (before the start of the race). - IMG_2178
From left to right: Sam (the skipper), Mike (the... uh... other skipper), Doug. - IMG_2180
Dolphins surf on the wakes of huge tankers, purely for pleasure. - IMG_2183
There were about 200 boats in the race... this is the line of boats in the channel behind us leaving Houston and heading to Galveston and the starting line. - IMG_2196
The starting area. Normally a hectic time full of tacks and jockeying for position, the lack of wind made it pretty tame. - IMG_2199
The start! No wind at all. Notice doug holding out the jib hoping for some kind of action. - IMG_2201
In the boredom that was the race start, I caught this boat whose name I thought Leslie would appreciate. - IMG_2212
Sunset on the first day, after several hours of racing. Still no wind (notice the glassy surface of the water). - IMG_2217
Another sunset shot with a boat (not ours). - IMG_2225
Sunrise on day 2. Notice the surface of the water: we have wind! At about 9pm the night before the wind slowly picked up and we had a good 6-7 hours at near-top-speed for the boat (7 knots, which is a bit more than 7 mph). - IMG_2235
A noticeably happier if scruffier crew. - IMG_2236
Noble captain at the helm. - IMG_2238
As the wind dies late in the morning on the second day, we bust out the "whisker pole," a pole to hold out the jib (sail at the front of the boat) perpendicular to the boat and allow us to sail with the light wind at our backs.