How to get a slow start to the season....

1) Spend 14.52 hours per day at work from the end of February until the end of May.
2) Don't come down the the club to work on the boat at all.
3) Have the crew rescue your bacon by coming down to pull the cover and the framework off, so that the boat can be moved off the club grounds before the deadline
4) Take on a major repair (bulkhead delamination) with no time to work on it.
5) Make a huge mess spreading dust all through the boat
6) Assemble the mast on the hottest and most humid day in recent memory.

And when that's all done... enter a 24 mile race as the shakedown cruise!!!!