My boats name is "La Baignoire" Bathtub in french. I like to race, my club used be mainly dinghy's, snipes, day sailors,fly scouts, etc. actually had three or four different fleets. As the members aged,they moved to cruisers. Catalina and Hunter 21 up to 25. Since we normally don't have enough dinghy's to race as a separate race, we throw all the boats together.
What is really fun is to beat the cruisers, which are normally faster. During one particular race, I was trailing the fleet, on a downwind leg which is normally where I make up places. The lead boat was made up of a friend and his teenage daughter and son, normally the boat and crew are pretty hard to beat. At the mark I was probably 10 boat lengths behind the lead boat, so we pulled up the center board, went wing to wing and did everything we would think up to trim up, whisker pole, you name it, and catch the fleet. We caught a wind before anybody else, and went flying past the whole fleet. As we went flying past the first place boat all I heard was "come on dad, we can't let that bathtub beat us". At that point my daughter who was crewing with me and taking French in school said " I have a name for the boat". It is really kind of fun especially as the story has spread throughout the club. And yes "La Baignoire" still beats the faster cruisers, most of the time.
Kent
