Bermuda 1-2
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Rail Meat
Super Anarchist
So no promises, but I will try to do an SA On The Watter Anarchy for this race.
The ttime before the start of something like this is always interesting. The boats are provisioned, gear stowed and strapped down, electronics on and courses plugged into the computer. Every thing you do you cross your fingers that you do not geet a last minute gremlin. All the months of planning and prep are done, and here we sit 45 minutes before the first warning gun.
For the first time skippers the experience is compounded by what is unknown. Even for those of us who havedone this before, this morning is game day, with game day jitters. Butterflys in the stomach.... but the mind is starting to focus on the next hours.
Weather wise, an interestting front that is stalled over newport, with a low to cross the rhumb line over the nextt 24 hours. Easterlies, building thiss evening and then clocking tonight as we go through the center of the low. The wind direction and speed could make the stream interesting, in a lumpy sort of way.
Well, I am off. Time to get this circus started
The ttime before the start of something like this is always interesting. The boats are provisioned, gear stowed and strapped down, electronics on and courses plugged into the computer. Every thing you do you cross your fingers that you do not geet a last minute gremlin. All the months of planning and prep are done, and here we sit 45 minutes before the first warning gun.
For the first time skippers the experience is compounded by what is unknown. Even for those of us who havedone this before, this morning is game day, with game day jitters. Butterflys in the stomach.... but the mind is starting to focus on the next hours.
Weather wise, an interestting front that is stalled over newport, with a low to cross the rhumb line over the nextt 24 hours. Easterlies, building thiss evening and then clocking tonight as we go through the center of the low. The wind direction and speed could make the stream interesting, in a lumpy sort of way.
Well, I am off. Time to get this circus started
kokopelli
Anarchist
just got a phone call from Sam who watched the start from Castle Hill. All the boats are of and out of the bay. Wafi will start later tonight after some further "refinements". Personaly I think Drew just does not like to get wet...
Weather truly looks like crap with pouring rain and increasing NE wind with the approach of the low. By tomorrow PM everyone should be through the center or along the western edge of the low in clearing skies. Until then better hunker down and keep your eyes open in the shipping lanes. They are not going to be fun in 0 vis and driving rain which obscures most radar...
Weather truly looks like crap with pouring rain and increasing NE wind with the approach of the low. By tomorrow PM everyone should be through the center or along the western edge of the low in clearing skies. Until then better hunker down and keep your eyes open in the shipping lanes. They are not going to be fun in 0 vis and driving rain which obscures most radar...
Wookie Racing
Member
iBoat has Cutlass WAY ahead right now
Wookie Racing
Member
Oops - corrected by iBoat ... still in front though
Rail Meat
Super Anarchist
7 hours down, and 58 miles or so made good down the rhumb line. Wind is blowing 18 to 22 from about 80 degees. Boat is in good shape, as am I. At this rate I will be over the continental shelf before midnight, which will substantially reduce the number of fishing boats. Nothing wrong with that.
So the start went OK. 5 boats in class 5, 4 of which are Class 40's and 1 open 40. Blowing maybe 12 to 14 from the east with a bit of flood current. Coming out Narraganset it is a near reach, perfect for a code sail. Problem is,once you hit the mark at Bretton Point you come east 20 degrees or so, which puts you hard on the wind. Worth the energy and potential for a mistake that comes with a sail change?
Cutlass and Kamoae thught so, and it helped them jump out to a quarter mile lead or so off the line.
Things evened out at the mark, where you point it to 162 degrees and hope the wind favors you for the next 625 mile to North East Breaker. Kamoae dropped out of sight as he put in a few miles of reaching, while the rest of us hardened up on to or near the rhumb line. At one point we had Cutlass, Toothface and Wild eyes in a straight line, with about a quarter mile of separation between each and then I was about 1/3 of a mile to the east. I stuck east, and those guys footed off a bit until they ggradualy disapeared to the west in what is about 3 miles of visability.
The wind continued to build, and I now have a full load of water in both tanks, 2 reefs in the main and swapped from Jib to staysail. I did some running while I was reef in and while I was setting up the stay sail, and as a result I have a cross track error of about 2.7 miles. Probably cost me some time on Cutlas, and wild eyes has to be doing OK with an upwind race.
I am probably a tiny bit under canvassed right now, but the winds are suppposed to go from their current 18 to 22 up to something that looks like 25 to 30 which should last a portion of the night. This is the low that is crossing our track, and we are catching the north side of it right now. Hard to say, but the faster boats may plow right through into the center of the low (with some crap variable winds) and then into the south westerlies on the south side of it. This game is about keeping the boat on her feet, knowing that every thing takes three times as long as it should, and that you really don't want to get caught with your pants down. Reef early, reef often.
The boat is moving through some lumpy seas, kicked up by the low. I am not looking forward to the stream...it could see some biggish water. Lucky for us, it is a fairly narrow crossing this time. The wind is moaning in the rigging and the occassional greenie climbs up over the rail and rolls across the boat. The clear ski goggles are coming in handy, but I am definitely wet. Or damp, perhaps.It is going to be a cold night, so the dry stuff is going on soon.
Had a 'Kind' bar, which are fantastic.... highly recommend them if you can find them (Amazon if they are not in your local stores). Nuts and fruit, good stuff and less of that starchy carbo thing you get with some of the other performance bars. I did not have time for lunch, so that is holding me over until the freeze dried dinner.
OK, back to business.
So the start went OK. 5 boats in class 5, 4 of which are Class 40's and 1 open 40. Blowing maybe 12 to 14 from the east with a bit of flood current. Coming out Narraganset it is a near reach, perfect for a code sail. Problem is,once you hit the mark at Bretton Point you come east 20 degrees or so, which puts you hard on the wind. Worth the energy and potential for a mistake that comes with a sail change?
Cutlass and Kamoae thught so, and it helped them jump out to a quarter mile lead or so off the line.
Things evened out at the mark, where you point it to 162 degrees and hope the wind favors you for the next 625 mile to North East Breaker. Kamoae dropped out of sight as he put in a few miles of reaching, while the rest of us hardened up on to or near the rhumb line. At one point we had Cutlass, Toothface and Wild eyes in a straight line, with about a quarter mile of separation between each and then I was about 1/3 of a mile to the east. I stuck east, and those guys footed off a bit until they ggradualy disapeared to the west in what is about 3 miles of visability.
The wind continued to build, and I now have a full load of water in both tanks, 2 reefs in the main and swapped from Jib to staysail. I did some running while I was reef in and while I was setting up the stay sail, and as a result I have a cross track error of about 2.7 miles. Probably cost me some time on Cutlas, and wild eyes has to be doing OK with an upwind race.
I am probably a tiny bit under canvassed right now, but the winds are suppposed to go from their current 18 to 22 up to something that looks like 25 to 30 which should last a portion of the night. This is the low that is crossing our track, and we are catching the north side of it right now. Hard to say, but the faster boats may plow right through into the center of the low (with some crap variable winds) and then into the south westerlies on the south side of it. This game is about keeping the boat on her feet, knowing that every thing takes three times as long as it should, and that you really don't want to get caught with your pants down. Reef early, reef often.
The boat is moving through some lumpy seas, kicked up by the low. I am not looking forward to the stream...it could see some biggish water. Lucky for us, it is a fairly narrow crossing this time. The wind is moaning in the rigging and the occassional greenie climbs up over the rail and rolls across the boat. The clear ski goggles are coming in handy, but I am definitely wet. Or damp, perhaps.It is going to be a cold night, so the dry stuff is going on soon.
Had a 'Kind' bar, which are fantastic.... highly recommend them if you can find them (Amazon if they are not in your local stores). Nuts and fruit, good stuff and less of that starchy carbo thing you get with some of the other performance bars. I did not have time for lunch, so that is holding me over until the freeze dried dinner.
OK, back to business.
Sol Rosenberg
Girthy Member
Go the RM!
redboat
Super Anarchist
I'll second that emotion.
Thanks for the reports RM. Great stuff.
Be fast and safe.
redboat
Super Anarchist
Catamount
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Catamount
Super Anarchist
Although he's based in Annapolis now, Dirigo is named after the Maine state motto...
From B1-2 Webpage
5 June 2130 ... Carbon Neutral was dismasted this evening. Jay Sharkey is fine and the boat is fine minus the boom and mast. Curlew is on station until the sea state gets calm enough for Jay to motor back. A very eventful first day.
That really sucks for Sharkey, but at least he's safe... and close enough to get back in without too much trouble I hope. Maybe he can rig up the bowsprit as a jury mast.
Looking at the map times, seems like it happened between 7-8pm...
Hope WAFI can get out on the course soon.
Looking at the map times, seems like it happened between 7-8pm...
Hope WAFI can get out on the course soon.
kokopelli
Anarchist
Man, I feel sorry for Sharkey! I wonder if it is the same spreader issue on the new carbon rig that made Duncan turn around at the start of the '07 1-2. Other than Sharkey's shakedowns this spring, the boat has been layed up for most of the time.
That is terrible news for Jay.
Did anyone note his position when he lost the rig?
Was he really pushing the boat hard?
Does anyone know what happened to Christian Fittipaldi & the M65?
When did he withdraw?
What was the problem?
asumpton
Member
Anyone know what sort of 6.5 "Frogger" is?
Rail Meat
Super Anarchist
An interesting evening. Checking out the i boat tracker around 9 pm, it looked like Cutlass was to the west, with about a 7 or 8 mile lead. Wild Eyes was about 4 miles aft, also to the west. Toothface was maybe 8 miles back and also west. And Kamoae was west. Way, way west.
The big news last night was the loss of Carbon Neutral's rig. Sharkey put out a distress call around 1830 with his rig in the water, still attached to the boat. He was right in the middle of the low at that point, with high winds and very low visability. He was at 40 46.3 n and 071 03.5 w at the time, but was drifting once the rig hit the water. After a couple of hours of cutting the rig away, multiple boat relays, discussoins with Sea Tow and keeping the USCG informed, Jay decided to hunker down, and see if he could get a jury rig made out of his spin pole, or power once the wave state died down. This was after Sea Tow said the only way they would make the 40 some odd mile trip to him is if he would sign the boat over as salvage. Kudos to Curlew and Williwaw who diverted to assist, and Eko and Aggressive for their relays.
Meanwhile, back in the race the weather got a bit flukey as we punched our way into the center of the low. Sometimes as low as 4 and sometimes as high as 14. Mostly east, but we had swings off 30 degrees in either direction. Not a restful night. Right now it is about 3 knots. The instruments say SW, but the boat thinks otherwise as the apparent wind rolls around from boat motion in the swell. I am getting maybe .7 knots of VMG.
Off to check out the position reports and eat some oatmeal.
The big news last night was the loss of Carbon Neutral's rig. Sharkey put out a distress call around 1830 with his rig in the water, still attached to the boat. He was right in the middle of the low at that point, with high winds and very low visability. He was at 40 46.3 n and 071 03.5 w at the time, but was drifting once the rig hit the water. After a couple of hours of cutting the rig away, multiple boat relays, discussoins with Sea Tow and keeping the USCG informed, Jay decided to hunker down, and see if he could get a jury rig made out of his spin pole, or power once the wave state died down. This was after Sea Tow said the only way they would make the 40 some odd mile trip to him is if he would sign the boat over as salvage. Kudos to Curlew and Williwaw who diverted to assist, and Eko and Aggressive for their relays.
Meanwhile, back in the race the weather got a bit flukey as we punched our way into the center of the low. Sometimes as low as 4 and sometimes as high as 14. Mostly east, but we had swings off 30 degrees in either direction. Not a restful night. Right now it is about 3 knots. The instruments say SW, but the boat thinks otherwise as the apparent wind rolls around from boat motion in the swell. I am getting maybe .7 knots of VMG.
Off to check out the position reports and eat some oatmeal.
