I get home from a long day of no Internet access, check the SA home page for exciting coverage of some of the great battles happening out on the water and what do I find? Nothing but more MUMM, Melges, IRC, and J/Boat crap. Gee, if I want to find out what is going on in PHRF, which obviously SA doesn't consider front page material, I have to go the Premiere site.

What is it, Clean? You too good to talk about PHFR anymore? Don't want to admit that you've slept with the ugly stepsister? There are six divisions of them in Key West, and they only get a passing glance, and even that is one of disdain.

I've got friends I am watching all over the division 4 classes and they aren't worthy of front page discussions or inquiries because they don't spend a lot of money or you're your dick?

Look at PHRF 3. What happened to NKE electronics? They were kicking it with bullet after bullet, and all of a sudden they've got a 2 and a 3? Did they lose crew or break something? Drink too much? Or did Primal Scream and Man O War go our and tune together and get their boatspeed on? Hell, Man of War is a J/boat, you seem to like those, so how 'bout it?

Check out PHRF 4. AS-IF is another bullet boat, but whenever there's a 5 legger the new Esse, an SA advertiser, seems to have the edge. Did you even look at these results, much less wonder why? Pipe Dream, which I know is a beautiful boat, is shockingly consistent at 2nd place- doesn't this interest you at all?

And what about Rhumb Punch in PHRF 5? The Chesapeake sailors are hanging on your every word, and you can't talk to any of the SA'ers on board for the inside line on why these guys are absolutely dominating this class, normally so full of blood and sweat?

How about PHRF 6? Jazzy J is a Michigan boat and you can't even mention your kickin' ass hometown boys on the front page? No wonder they call you a tool. Farmington Hills too classy a neighborhood for you? Island Flyer, an S27.9 is another boat kicking ass, and they're Midwesterners too. Yeesh, looking at where so much of the fleet hails from, THESE are the guys that need some SA love for making the trip and leaving their loved ones home to shovel snow and freeze their asses off alone.

So, if you want to kick some butt on the last day, even though there's only one race, try kissing the PHRF class for once. We don't have the big budgets, the pretty looks, or the dick-sucking power, but they are out there and you are not, and neither are the thousands watching from their computers back home.

Bitter and Cold.

01/19/07