Chili Anyone?

• Every January the RMHYC has a chili cook-off. Approximately 175 people attended the 2008 cook-off. To my surprise it was a man's cook-off, all along I thought that only SHYC was chauvinistic. There were 29 chefs. The categories were hot, medium, mild and unusual. Each chef had a hat with his vessel name on it. The club supplied the libations, salad, condiments, cheese, onion, sour cream and desserts. There were 5 judges, 2 professional chefs and 3 club members. To keep it honest, the pots were marked a,b,c, so no individual names appeared. You'll never guess who won 1st place for unusual...Mike did. What made it unusual was elbow macaroni and sausage meat. The entire evening was fun.
• At home the people at the yacht club were often called the boat people. Down here in the Bahamas the people who live in homes and belong to the yacht club are called dirt people.
• I also learned the difference between a Cay and an Island. An island has fresh water. A cay has to have water brought in.