Michael Kuhn (left), Mike Momjian, Sail Instructor (Center) and myself. Interesting tidbit about Mike Momjian is that he never wore the same cap twice to a sail lesson, which makes me wonder how many caps he has.
Interesting tidbit about the three of us is that we are all in the technical information services industry where Michael (Accenture) and Mike (IBM) are more in the technical design and implementation side and I (BTI) am on the sales side. All three of us are declared as "techies" from Michael's wife Karen. However, these three techies with all our gadgets during our workday escape and go back in time to get mentally recharged and relaxed on a 50 year old plus boat where the only electrical item on the boat is a solar panel to charge the running lights for night time sailing. Everything else on the boat is original from its design in the 1940's and its manual right down to the hand powered bilge pump. Cell phones and Blackberry's were stowed under deck along with a hand held weather radio.
This adherence to the original specifications allows it to be qualified in the "one class" races which occur on Lake Michigan throughout the summer. A one class race is many of the same identical boats racing against each other where only the crew's skill and luck will be the deciding factor of winning the race.
There is a large national following for this small old racing boat and Chicago will be home in August 2004 to the National Regatta of Rhodes 19 one class boats.