Weird European Regatta Party Traditions

The Europeans seem to have, let me say, somewhat different apres-sailboat racing traditions.

Here we have the Dutch jump up and down, wave around their hands, in a marginally choreographed dance, done to a trumpet piece. Video taken sometime during the Dutch weeklong "Sneekweek", which is a drinking festival with brief intervals of sailboat racing.

Music for Fridays; The Cornhole Song

This week, instead of being perennially late with "Music for Fridays", I'm early. What's up with that?

Tomorrow, I'm off to the Classic Moth Midwinters. The fact that I put the Classic Moth away after the Nationals in September, only to uncover her for this regatta, will mean much flailing around and gnashing of teeth on Boca Ciega Bay. But, not too worry. At the Classic Moth Regattas, there is much more than sailboat racing and that means playing the official Classic Moth apres-racing land sport....... Cornhole.

Cornhole is like portable horseshoes. Played with bean bags, the object is to sink them in a hole cut in a plywood base. Mothboat teams form up, dissemble, and reconmbine as the games keep rolling along till dinner. No one keeps track because most of us can get hot for a game and then stink it up the next.

So today, saluting the Classic Moth land sport, we feature Rhett and Link "The Cornhole Song".