This is the blue chipper gata here in P. Wauke, Wisconsin.
This is it. This is our 49th year. We've been doing this for a long time. We're honored this
year at Jimmy Spithill, who's big role in for a treatment. I would I would expect that the
commissioner guests will be surprised about the caliber of a bunch of sailors on these you know
flat bottom boats. No doubt about it. Very tough competition and we're really proud to be here
with the best of the best this weekend.
Yeah, there seems to be like it's like other classes I've seen where there's a gold
fleet and a silver fleet and the in the gold fleet is the Melgers and then the rest of us in
the silver fleet. I am putting on a display. A lot of fun. It was amazing racing. Great wind,
a little hour control sometimes, but it's really fun. Well, I remember going downwind and we got
up to 22 knots, which is really fun. We were flying. It was awesome. I called for a little more
of Vang and it was the wrong cause, it turns out. But we were like, well, let's just keep sailing
till something really bad happens. And we were able to kind of we were going pretty well with
no Vang. I was really proud of our team to hang in there and pull a second out of that race.
Because we actually passed a couple boats, you know, some boats passed us and we actually passed,
I think, Augie and Vincent on the, I don't know, somewhere we did. I don't even remember where,
but it was close on that last.
No, no, I personally don't ever want to do the bar walk. I've heard about the bar walk, never
experienced it, but the bar walk is a tradition that both with the most points gets to engage in
and they get to show off their wares as they parade down the bar. No, this is, this is more
like golf. You want, you want lower scores. I've not heard that, but I think Tommy'd be up for
that. He's used to walking on bars. Unfortunately, you know, we've walked the bar more times than,
than probably a few other crews, but we will not do the bar walk.
What's the bar walk? Well, we're in. Oh, it's just sort of like, you know, just yelling at,
just having the time of my life and like, how good's this, you know, to be launching around
this lake. Now I'm used to sort of sailing the, the cut in the coast and the salt water and you
forget about how much sailing happens, you know, like inland America on these great lakes and how
good a style is I hear these boys on borrowed boat. Number two, we broke mine again. Right. Well,
Derek, long, long broke Derek's. Yes. You guys all broke yours. Yeah. And now you got, we're going
to break this one. Right on. We'll get like boys. Thanks.
It looked like it was actually quite, it was like a, a, like a graveyard down there. There was
about five boats that were tipped over. Did you guys catch that when you went by at about 20 knots?
Yeah. We had to watch out for them. We had to watch out for them. Yeah, a little on focusing
on stuff. Teamwork. Don't do anything stupid. No wall or over. So fast. So fast. Good job, you guys.
This club has so many volunteers and they put together just an incredible program every year,
their kindness and generosity outdoes the previous year in our experience. So
combine that with the best fleet of East cows in the country and you've got a real event on your
hands. There's a lot of people out here. We're close to the border. I got to thank all of you
guys, even though I had to take my way in or set up my folks for a few months.
Oh, Jimmy said, well, let me get back to you. And Peter Eisler said, well, you,
you've got to do this mystery guest thing. Just a pretty simple one line.
You know, you, you got to do the other thing. You got to basically insult them and then they
understand. And you know, the Australians are also noted for their swimming ability.
Do you have any idea of what your peers in our sport will think of you and your courage if you
don't ever compete in the blue chip? If you think coming back from eight to one down in the A.C.
was a supreme challenge, winning the blue chip as a mystery guest makes that look like a kindergarten
playpen event. You know, it was interesting. I was talking to the guys on my boat and I was
saying, geez, that, uh, that young Harry's got some talent. That guy can sail and they said,
oh, no, that's nothing. Yeah, you should seem ski. He's a way better skier. So I guess the message
I'll say is, Harry, please stick the sking, mate. I'll tell you what, mate, I'm going to be out of
a job. I'm not that great a skier. I don't now get why there's so many damn good sailors from
lakes after this. But I really want to thank the guys I'm sailing with. Lisa, my man, Buckaroo.
I still don't know your real name. I guess it's Buckaroo, but Jimmy Campbell, who, man,
the guy's become like a brother to me. He's really just, he's just done anything for me.
It's, um, mate, it's going to be really hard to go back to married life, actually, after.
I'd actually like to give a shout out to my principal for London this Friday.
Um, and to Jimmy, if you ever need to co-skipper on the caverns, I'm here.
Have you guys ever had a blue chip mystery guess that on one day has not only flipped an
A-scow, but then went out and backed it up by flipping an A-scow? Even beat none?
Records are meant to be broken. Let's see someone top that.
