A Celebration for Randy!

Sometimes a picture says it all............

 Yesterday took us out of Annapolis for the day and over to Cape May, NJ.  We rented a car and headed over to Lewes, DE to catch the ferry to NJ.  It is a nice boat ride and we elected to keep the car in the parking lot and ride, walk around town to the celebration.

Heading out of DE

And into the Cape May ferry terminal

Our destination

As many of you know Randy passed to the other side of the walk on June 6th after a battle with melanoma.  Not a man to do anything conventional, he always was thinking about an alternative way of doing something in what ever he was working on.  Our paths crossed many times over the years and Randy, Janet and their daughters, Faith & Grace (to us they were "First & Goal) became some of best friends.  More times than not they were ahead of us on the race course but it never mattered when we hit the beach for a cold one.

One of the craziest times Anne, BobO & Randy had was the cross country trip to Santa Cruz for the Hobie Nationals.  He thought they were going to starve him as whenever they pulled into a gas stop Anne & Bob just wanted to drive again.  That was until he yelled...."Dudes......how about some food!!"

The girls have grown up......

Still "First & Goal to us!

We saw a lot of old friends that we sailed with for many years during our time on the Hobie 16 circuit.

Jen, Faith & Rob 

Becky, Gwyn, Jen & Andrew

Randy always had one of largest and coolest watches during the Hobie days.  To cut some of the tension of everyone yelling at one another at the start we would always try to find Randy & Janet to ask them a question.  Randy would then hold up the big watch and we say "thank you!!"  The next time we are on a race course starting line I know we'll have one question we'll yell to whoever is next to us......."Randolf, how much time!??"