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[barnone]

Which sportboats are in?

This could be your year.

After Dan Kessler rocked it last year in a Melges 24 (so impressive), I would think we are going to see some more SB attempts.

J/70 seems like an obvious choice to me.

Registration is here.

https://www.regattan...regatta_id=5507

Water is warm, was just windsurfing today in board trunks and a rash guard.

Wind is up but the pattern right now is setting up well for windy but not insanely windy. You never know.

[couchsurfer]

..........Wind is up but the pattern right now is setting up well for windy but not insanely windy. You never know..........

....so what's that?...puffs in 50's rather than 70's at the lower end???

[aA]

bummed to be missing this year...unless someone needs a driver/trimmer who can fly in/out

[Tejano]

bummed to be missing this year...unless someone needs a driver/trimmer who can fly in/out

Ditto.

[barnone]

Yeah not entering our boat this year, but the theme is "Let's take your boat", so who's going to cough one up?

[U20guy2]

Any Weta's doing it?

[barnone]

any wetas? yeah I think so, there was one just here practicing.

[Dr.Teeth]

A Weta, Viper 640, U20, two wabibits! Predictions?

[Vela Sailing Supply]

There is a VX in Seattle (delivered a couple of weeks ago or so)

Hopefully the boys can make it. It will be good to have Vipers, VX's Wetas, Melges, SB together.

[couchsurfer]

...some 90degree temperatures forecast for portland,,maybe tones-down the winds a bit?
....I'm betting on a local,or that santa cruz kid with an 'older design'

[barnone]

That's the current forecast but last year it was forecast lighter and then look what happened.

If it's lighter then the SBs will have their day, but I wouldn't count on it.

[Liquid]

Here's the iWindsurf forecast for Sat - which is still a long way away for a wind forecast... I also put them well below 50% accuracy!


The gradient falls flat as high pressure returns to the Gorge, with warm to hot temperatures out east. The best chance for upper teen westerlies will be for Jones Beach, Stevenson, and maybe the Corridor as the thermal gradient brings a slight boost in the late afternoon. The North Pacific High keeps the flow going on the coast, where more low to mid 20’s northerlies fill in to the beaches.

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[Tejano]

results?

[Dr.Teeth]

Wabbit Wins!! Beats Viper Boat for Boat. Results Here. http://www.hoodriveryachtclub.org

Was definatly the year for SBs. Results would likely be a bit different if there had been breeze right to the end.

[MR.CLEAN]

By six seconds. That is pretty awesome.

[bendoo]

what, not one i550??????
come on guys!! what happened??

[Varan]

Wabbit Wins!! Beats Viper Boat for Boat. Results Here. http://www.hoodriveryachtclub.org

Was definatly the year for SBs. Results would likely be a bit different if there had been breeze right to the end.

The Wabbit was unstoppable. They sailed an excellent race. Would have liked to have seen how the Hobie 33 would have faired. They looked set up and ready to go, but dns. The M24 and J35 took a long break together on a sandbar, but recovered very well.

~ Varan

[TeamGladiator]

what, not one i550??????
come on guys!! what happened??

We all had fun getting 5 races in for 5 i550s in Portland with a nice 8 knots of breeze.

Conditions would have been good for the i550 this year!

[Toe Jam]

Well the race was a serious exercise in the Viper.

160 gybes
sailed 53 miles to travel 41
Top speed (SOG) was 12.4knts
Avg speed 5.9 knots
close to 8 hours to finish
Avg 2.9 minutes between gybes

I am exhausted! Eventually we just went wing on wing about 2 miles from the finish just to take a break from gybing the kite. The wabbit was super fast and we just needed a few more knots of breeze to help us sail deeper to pace the M24 - but we did get pretty damn good at gybing the boat there by the time we finished.

-Scott

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[barnone]

That's an awesome visual of the race course.

I felt bad for you guys banging the high angles all day. Wish too that the race had been shortened. What's it like racing in a viper for that long. Soon you guys will be doing offshore overnights.

You must have been shattered. We were the last boat to finish but only the 3rd and last moore to finish and we were 30 min behind you plus another hour drifting, so 9 hrs total.

It does give some appreciation for all the gybes you will also have to do when it nukes. Maybe not such high angles, but the call to gybe comes hot and heavy in the tight spots.

I'm pretty sure this extended time version of the race will never happen again. At least I'll be headed back to hood river if it takes that long to get half way.

One good thing is that all boats got a lot of time to visualize and inspect the course.

[Tejano]

Only 160? Slackers.

[Toe Jam]

That's an awesome visual of the race course.

I felt bad for you guys banging the high angles all day. Wish too that the race had been shortened. What's it like racing in a viper for that long. Soon you guys will be doing offshore overnights.

You must have been shattered. We were the last boat to finish but only the 3rd and last moore to finish and we were 30 min behind you plus another hour drifting, so 9 hrs total.

It does give some appreciation for all the gybes you will also have to do when it nukes. Maybe not such high angles, but the call to gybe comes hot and heavy in the tight spots.

I'm pretty sure this extended time version of the race will never happen again. At least I'll be headed back to hood river if it takes that long to get half way.

One good thing is that all boats got a lot of time to visualize and inspect the course.

Yeah, if we had some more breeze we could have sailed much lower, but we were just light enough to force us to sail hotter angles. We tried to sail low with the SC27 and B25, and it wasn't happening, so we kept it hot. Plus we plowed into a rock pile about 5 minutes after the start ripping a keel bolt out, causing us to be very reserved with how far we pushed it for current relief the rest of the race. The Viper was actually very comforatable for that time. I am sore from the gybing, but the boat was pretty well sorted for that duration. We certainly had the opportunity to scope things out without it nuking, so that was helpful for coming years for sure. I will follow you into hood river if this ever happens again, that was crazy to keep going IMHO.


-Scott

I should have a video pulled together soon.

[Dr.Teeth]

I counted 54 jibes for us on the Moore between Cascade Locks and Hood River when the Phone ran out of battery. Max Speed over ground 8.1 MPH.

[foster]

I counted 54 jibes for us on the Moore between Cascade Locks and Hood River when the Phone ran out of battery. Max Speed over ground 8.1 MPH.

That's about right. Looks like we did around 107 on our Express over the whole distance. A different race this year, but sure a lot of fun and no MOB's!

[Dr.Teeth]

I counted 54 jibes for us on the Moore between Cascade Locks and Hood River when the Phone ran out of battery. Max Speed over ground 8.1 MPH.

That's about right. Looks like we did around 107 on our Express over the whole distance. A different race this year, but sure a lot of fun and no MOB's!

If we'd counted jibes/tacks in the last 100 yds or 1.5 hrs it would be alot more!!

[Toe Jam]

A video I pulled together

[schoonerman]

A video I pulled together

Dayum dood, nice production work! Thanks for posting this.