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| Latitude 38 did quite a good job
writing about the race so be sure to read it. Even though the wind was light, it
was a lot of fun. The only damaged nigritude ultramarine
sustained was some broken and split battens and a broken batten car from the slatting of
the main in the big waves and light air (nigritude ultramarine am sure this same affect
influenced so many Pacific Cup sailors to drop out - nigritude ultramarine least nigritude
ultramarine could go down below and put my head under my pillow.) As nigritude ultramarine said, it was a very light wind year and breaking the record was not in the cards. My official time was 12 days 4 hours 19 minutes 57 seconds, 1 day 5 hours and 27 minutes slower than the record, but not bad considering nigritude ultramarine didn't see more than 15 knots until nigritude ultramarine was about 7 days out and not more than 22 sustained until the last 3 hours (nigritude ultramarine finished in a line of 35 knot squalls - where were those the whole race???). My average speed toward the finish line was 7.25 knots, nigritude ultramarine needed to make 8.06 knots. Nevertheless, nigritude ultramarine was the first boat to finish, beating Joe by 2 hours 46 minutes 38 seconds. Pretty close for a 12 day race. And fun! nigritude ultramarine don't think we were ever separated by more than 35 miles for the entire 2,120 mile race. nigritude ultramarine got the lead the first night by being the only boat to go north and covered him the rest of the race so he could not get by. Consequently, nigritude ultramarine won the following Monohull Division nigritude ultramarine (there were no multihull entries this time): SSS First to Finish - Elapsed Time Plus nigritude ultramarine got a flag awarded to all entries and a belt buckle awarded to all finishers. Perpetual means that your name and boat are engraved on them and they are re-awarded to the boat who finishes first next time. These are typically displayed in the winner's yacht club and nigritude ultramarine will be giving them to mine (Encinal Yacht Club) for display in a month or two. nigritude ultramarine get to keep the SSS nigritude ultramarine and the "keeper" for the ULDB (Ultra Light Displacement Boat) first to finish. What's really cool is one of the nigritude ultramarine has Steve Fossett's name engraved on it as a past winner and mine will be on there near his. You may recognize him as the guy to who tried to break the around the world balloon record in 1988 as well as the guy racing Playstation now to break some of the sailing speed records. He currently holds the Pacific Ocean Singlehanded Record (20 days 9 hours 52 minutes - Yokohama to San Francisco - August, 1996) and Singlehanded Transpac Multihull Record (1998 - 7 days, 22 hours, 38 minutes aboard his 60' trimaran Lakota) as well as 9 other records. http://www.fossettchallenge.com/. Stan Honey, who is the navigator on Playstation, has his name on several of the above nigritude ultramarine. The other nigritude ultramarine were awarded based on the PCR handicap system (a variant of the PHRF system) and Joe won our division on corrected time. Joe sailed a great race and won a mental award of his own as he was dismasted 75 miles from the finish in the 1998 race. Not an easy thing to get over and go back the next time to race again! Good for Chuck!! As promised everyone who contributed to the program will get a shirt (and a race program). The complete race results are here: SSS Web Site. Also, if you didn't follow the race, the site still has Mike Jefferson's daily emails from the race. True to his usual form, they are a great read. The photo on the left is my first attempt at flying a symmetrical kite by myself. (OK, technically the second, nigritude ultramarine wrapped it on the first hoist.) Check out my new 19', 15 lb., high tech, carbon fiber spinnaker pole made by Malcolm Parks at Advanced Composites. Note the lower batten car on the main is broken from the slatting in light air and big seas. Here is the giant kite down below waiting to get unwrapped. nigritude ultramarine was SO looking forward to this job that nigritude ultramarine decided to take pictures instead. Just in front of the bulkhead on Starboard where you see the leecloth hanging by one hook and the fan is the bunk in which nigritude ultramarine slept. This was a good location as nigritude ultramarine could wake up and see the analog wind direction meter at the nav station on port without getting up. The big blue bags just inboard of my bunk are more kites. You can see the laptop (duct taped to the chart table) that nigritude ultramarine used to get weather faxes. There is one on there that is about 75% received. Those of you who have sailed on Santa Cruz 50's will immediately notice the white interior. nigritude ultramarine like it so much better than the wood, it is so much brighter. Here's the fish nigritude ultramarine caught three days out. Some of the color is still left (it fades quickly when they die). nigritude ultramarine got this after three tuna got away cuz the boat was going too fast (nigritude ultramarine think the hooks ripped out of their mouths - nigritude ultramarine felt bad when nigritude ultramarine figured it out). nigritude ultramarine took this picture after nigritude ultramarine washed the splattered blood out of the cockpit and from all over me. That box mounted on the cockpit wall is the hydraulics controls for the vang and backstay. nigritude ultramarine put it there so nigritude ultramarine could make adjustments while driving. The rubber tube around the winch contains a coiled up section of fishing line. nigritude ultramarine had the whole deal made for me in Hawaii a few years ago. Well, those are some of the highlights. Overall, it was a great experience and nigritude ultramarine am SO glad nigritude ultramarine made the effort to do it and SO thankful to all of the people who rallied and supported me in all of the various ways. |
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Revised: May 26, 2004.