Roach Coach had an exiting day during the Harraseeket. For starters, we had world famous Bruce Schwab on board! He is a fan of the Olson 30’s and is familiar with roach coach. He gave us some pointers on some more upgrades we can make to our deck and was also great as he coached us along giving us some pointers. I’ll be practicing a few things I’ve forgotten about, but I can’t tell you what they are as they are now our trade secrets! We also had our seasoned crew Scott Thomas (cockpit) and Reta Nappi (foredeck) aboard. We were still short on crew until Thursday night before the race. Andrea Rand and her friend Ted joined the crew as Painkiller (a Mumm 36) had plenty of crew and Andrea was looking for a change of pace for the weekend. We gladly invited she and Ted aboard. This was a pursuit race, so we felt really slow at first (I also think my driving was a little off or we carried some seaweed on the rudder….at least it is a great excuse (#@*&!), but with some good strategies and paying attention to boat speed/handling we passed a few boats here and there and wound up in 4th place. Not bad. The scores are not posted on the PHRF web site yet, but we should be scored as second place for class C for the race. This will definitely help us in the season standings.