Continuing with our "Summer's last Hurrah" weekend, went to the Mystic Seaport with the family today.
Arrived just in time for the last regatta of the day:
If something looks wrong in the scale in that pic, it's because those are remote control racing yachts. Most of the ones we saw range from 6ft to 10ft masts; the ones at sail here are probably 7ft.
The Seaport is home to the Charles W. Morgan, the only surving 19th century American whaling ship.
Belowdecks, seems cheery enough:
The hold, not nearly so cheery. Doesn't look like the kind of place you'd want to cross an ocean, does it? The Morgan didn't do any slave trade, but the ships that did [... more]
Took the day off and brought the kids to Lake Compounce amusement park here in Connecticut yesterday.
Lake Compounce is the country's oldest continuously operating amusement park, tracing back to 1846.
The park fell on some hard times in the '80s, went through a series of owners, and nearly closed its doors for good. It finally made it into the hands of the right ownership (in part through a sweet deal sponsored by the state), and has been on the road to recovery ever since. It looks pretty good now.
The white coaster, the "Wildcat", dates to 1927. This newer coaster, "BoulderDash", loops in and out of the woods on the hillside, and is very cool.
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Spent some time Sunday afternoon on my favorite kind of boat: somebody else's! :)
A beautiful day to be on the Connecticut River
Send the kids ashore for some fun
When the kids come back looking like this, nothing to do but smile and wave!
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Some renders I did in 3840x1024 resolution for my desktop at work. Maybe some other TH2Go users might appreciate them, it's tough to find backgrounds that big.
A fine time was had by all in the CT Racing camp at Lime Rock today. Good to meet some more of you in person!
This was my first ALMS race. The cars are just awesome. Fun to see them first hand after seeing them on tv and in magazines all these years.
Some impressions:
The Audi R10 is just amazing. At idle it sounds just a little like a semi, just enough that you can tell it's a diesel :) But it purrs at revs like no other. It's dramatically quieter than anything else on track- when they lift throttle it's practically silent. I bet even Lak [... more]
Back to Stratford, CT today for my 2nd autocross event of the year with the Fairfield County Sports Car Club.
The club had some special guests this morning, 4 police chiefs from surrounding towns came to compete in their cruisers! It was fun to see them out there with the flashers on, and most of them came in with big smiles on their faces. Local news channels showed up to do a little coverage, and a couple of reporters got the ride of their lives at the hands of some ace drivers.
Weather was an adventure today- I got one dry run in the morning, though the course was cold and dusty. After that each run was progressively w [... more]
I attended my 2nd autocross today, my first this year, this time with the Fairfield County Sports Car Club.
This lot was quite a bit larger than the event I went to last year. Lap times were from 32 seconds for one alien, on up to 37s for some of the quicker street cars, and so on into the mid 45s for some of the novices.
I was back in my faithful Nissan Sentra Spec V:
Once again I came to appreciate the limited slip today. I m [... more]
As usual, I spent my Memorial Day working my Lions club car show. We got lucky with the weather yet again, had a great day running hither and yon amongst some cool iron:
A beautiful and busy day at the Old Lyme Art Academy:
Surprising elegant old Citroen:
Complete with "Dukes of Hazzard" horn:
Eye-catching K-code fastback:
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