cool or horrifying?

[Editor]

We're not sure. What do you think?

 

[racingnews]

We're not sure. What do you think?

Irresponsible.  Like children doing Jackass stunts.  Good luck with that.  Show some respect for the sport.  No trophy for idiots.

 

[Ishmael]

I used to wash the windows all the time, until I realized it wasn't particularly fast.

 

[typefaster]

Looks like fun.

Fast downwind is always great, until you realize you have to go back upwind.

 

[Dense505crew]

I am surprised that they were not sitting further to the back of the bus while going downwind.

 

[driverdog]

Very impressed by them not needing to sit in the back of the boat downwind.  With that much wind the boat handled quite well, I am a chicken shit and would not have had a kite up.  But then I have had my boat doing 16 knots with a double reef and #4 chicken shit jib up.

 

[jerseyguy]

Just a bit overcanvassed

 

[βhyde]

Let he who is without a spinnaker wrap throw the first stone.

 

[Alcatraz5768]

Both. 

 

[Raz'r]

I might consider pinning in the washboard, and tethers. But I'm old and have kids. Coming home alive is desirable.

 

[42 South]

Did they even use their tethers? The guy on the leeward side was a man overboard candidate....

 

[the_abandoned_brane]

Both. 

This. We all did dumb shit with boats 

 

[longy]

They took lessons from Tom Scott.  Nevertheless, kudos for continuing to race under marginal conditions. 90% of socal boats would have retired rather than race back upwind.

 

[swangtang]

Looks like they could have used some more meat on the rail

 

[LB 15]

Irresponsible.  Like children doing Jackass stunts.  Good luck with that.  Show some respect for the sport.  No trophy for idiots.

But there are for know-all, dick smoking windbags. Here is yours.

 

[Gouvernail]

Looks like a bunch of sailors enjoying their toy.  It also seems the toy is forgiving mistakes that would end their   fun on most boats. 

I would have enjoyed riding along 

 

[pasta514]

Looks like fun. How often do you get to go out in conditions like that?

 

[$&@]

Can't think of a single thing about J92's that isn't cool.

Now, if it was J29's we were talking about, I'd say that bathtub cockpit was kind of terrifying...

 

[joku]

Did they even use their tethers? The guy on the leeward side was a man overboard candidate....

I might consider pinning in the washboard, and tethers. But I'm old and have kids. Coming home alive is desirable.

We didn't use tethers. We discussed using those before and after the sailing. See for example this post. I would prefer being on the water waiting to be picked up over being dragged next to the boat going 15kts (and closer to 10kts even when broaching a bit). It is really difficult to tether in a way you definitely stay inside the boat, except for cockpit. Guy (gal in fact) who was on the water twice had drysuit on, as did two others as well.

Fast downwind is always great, until you realize you have to go back upwind.

We went upwind first (for the most part, there was some beating after downwind leg)

Just a bit overcanvassed

Smallest sails we had (except probably could have used storm jib instead of smallest #3, but then again beating with storm jib in big waves is not working very well).