Live Race Reports - 100th Race To Mackinac

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Hi guys, thanks for the great coverage! I was definitely checking this thread constantly to see what was going on & am looking forward to future reports :)

 
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Thanks CLEAN, L Z, and others for keeping it going despite the usual unavoidable glitches. I knew I should have rummaged that Cone for hidden refreshments.

 
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Not to be redundant, but thank's to everyone who worked so f'in hard to bring this level of coverage, lends itself to the community that exists within SA. Not that i did any hard work, i just sat on my arse and hit refresh every 4 minutes :lol:

 
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Thanks for the coverage everyone. Clean, you are a class act. I'd like to meet you one of these days. LZ, sorry for your computer woes. Screw those hackers. I'm in Harbor Springs for some fun for a few days now. It's fun to read about the Mac after the fact.

I was on Blitz in Section 5 this year. We had a decent race, but got sucked into the Michigan shore Sunday night and it was ugly. We kept hoping to catch up to Bounder, but it never happened. I have to say that the start was total crap. We were called over early with Bounder and others. I was on the bow and could swear that we were not over early. In fact, I thought that we were late to the line. It's odd that so many boats were being called over early. The start instructions were pretty clear about the line. Ah well, it's impossible to argue with the race committee. What sucked was that it took forever to get back over the line.

Overall, it was a decent race, lots of different weather and no way to know what was coming next. The finish sucked since it was pouring rain and a bunch of other guys from the boat and I wanted to get away to drive home. We ended up catching the midnight Shepler's ferry and driving home Monday night. I was just happy to not have to sleep on a wet boat again. Drove all night, slept four hours and turned around, picked up the family, and headed back up to Harbor Springs. This is what July is all about. I love it!!! I'm looking forward to next year already.

I was on Blitz for the BYC Mac and after the win in that race we were hoping for another win, but it didn't happen. I guess it's SailorRose's fault since she bailed on us for the Chi Mac. :)

 
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Squerb said:
I was on Blitz in Section 5 this year. We had a decent race, but got sucked into the Michigan shore Sunday night and it was ugly. We kept hoping to catch up to Bounder, but it never happened. I have to say that the start was total crap. We were called over early with Bounder and others. I was on the bow and could swear that we were not over early. In fact, I thought that we were late to the line. It's odd that so many boats were being called over early. The start instructions were pretty clear about the line. Ah well, it's impossible to argue with the race committee. What sucked was that it took forever to get back over the line.
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We were surprised too (Liberty, also section 5). I have never seen a race with so many over early recalls. Our bowman swore we were not over early. In that hobby horse chop without any wind it took forever to get back to the line. Then the race committee called " all sections clear". I think they just wanted to get the start area cleared up before it got to be a train wreck.

 
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More Cowbell2 said:
We were surprised too (Liberty, also section 5). I have never seen a race with so many over early recalls. Our bowman swore we were not over early. In that hobby horse chop without any wind it took forever to get back to the line. Then the race committee called " all sections clear". I think they just wanted to get the start area cleared up before it got to be a train wreck.
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Wow, we never heard the "all sections clear" call. That sucks. We ended up going round the port end of the line and back into the cluster fuck of no air starts behind us. The over early calls gave us someone to rip on all race. I think the spotter was behind the double orange flags on the committee boat. Maybe our kite was over the line.

 
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Squerb said:
I was on Blitz for the BYC Mac and after the win in that race we were hoping for another win, but it didn't happen. I guess it's SailorRose's fault since she bailed on us for the Chi Mac. :)
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You damn lurker and now you're posting?! :p

Yes, blame it on me! But honestly, after spending a week on a boat (not just this boat, but any boat), I truly couldn't have endured even a couple more days. While I love the sport, I'm beginning to see how Slow Ed's perspective makes sense - "A proper yachtsman ties his boat up to the dock each night and sleeps in a dry bed that isn't moving."

Either way, I missed you guys terribly and wish I had been there despite my utter exhaustion.

 
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Fantastic job guys, I really appreciate your efforts. It's been great to be able to follow this race from out here in CT. You guys worked hard to make it all happen for people like me.

Thanks and best wishes,

Bruce

 
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cleans...good seeing you two again and getting a bit of a chance to rip it up with y'all. I hope Mers legs have the feeling back in them after billy squashed her when you two were sleeping. I know Kathleen was thinking we needed more rooms, but i think we could have stuffed more people into that room of ours. anyway lets chat about things after your event this weekend...good job brotherman.

rev out

 
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cleans...good seeing you two again and getting a bit of a chance to rip it up with y'all. I hope Mers legs have the feeling back in them after billy squashed her when you two were sleeping. I know Kathleen was thinking we needed more rooms, but i think we could have stuffed more people into that room of ours. anyway lets chat about things after your event this weekend...good job brotherman.
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Thanks bro - and thanks for being part of it. Next year we need a 50' power cat for our HQ. We'll shadow the fleet, do interviews on the rail, and sneak up on boats in the middle of the night until we're ten feet from them, and say "BOO!"

 
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Just walked in...home...mmmm...oh perchance to sleep...

Thanks Mr. Clean and Mer for this thread.

There were a few more of you I would have loved to have come across there and some of you to meet in person.

A delight to meet more SAers at Bev's shindig.

(More details in the Chicago ongoing thread at some point.)

A correction to your post from me though, Mr. Clean: I was not on Mojo; I was on CanCan Deux.

And only Tsunami Mike got displaced to CanCan from the injured, and unrace-able Tsunami.

A quick note about the race:

I wish I had a third hand to whip out my l'il camera and snapped one of Badger-the-ferry blasting its horn as its bow came out of the fog 50 metres or so from us.

Scary moment number??

The fog!

I do have some cool shots and can post tomorrow.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........

 
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great thread on the coverage. Thanks Kathleen, Clean andd Mer !

I was on the J-120 Perseverance. The fog at night with commercial trafic was crazy scarry. It was eyes and ears pealed all night for any sign of any other boat.

We chased Carinthia all the way up the lake and rounded the can at the reef bow to stern with them. Their stern our bow. They got away sailing deeper downwind and leveraged that seperation when the wind went east for the finish.

The party(ies) on the Island were a blast and we hung around for an extra day. Got home just in time for Wednesday night Ensign beer cans.

We leave from Marquette tonight to be in Harbor Springs tomorrow morning.

I don't think we have had too much fun yet but we are really close.

Ayes

 
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MR.CLEAN said:
Thanks bro - and thanks for being part of it. Next year we need a 50' power cat for our HQ. We'll shadow the fleet, do interviews on the rail, and sneak up on boats in the middle of the night until we're ten feet from them, and say "BOO!"
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Hey guys- great seeing y'all this weekend! hopefully see ya soon for J24 Nats- you know I've got a place for you to stay.

If it's as foggy next year it will be easy to sneak up and scare the shit out of boats with a load blast of the horn!!

good times-

weasel out-

 
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Ayes said:
great thread on the coverage. Thanks Kathleen, Clean andd Mer !
I was on the J-120 Perseverance. The fog at night with commercial trafic was crazy scarry. It was eyes and ears pealed all night for any sign of any other boat.

We chased Carinthia all the way up the lake and rounded the can at the reef bow to stern with them. Their stern our bow. They got away sailing deeper downwind and leveraged that seperation when the wind went east for the finish.

The party(ies) on the Island were a blast and we hung around for an extra day. Got home just in time for Wednesday night Ensign beer cans.

We leave from Marquette tonight to be in Harbor Springs tomorrow morning.

I don't think we have had too much fun yet but we are really close.

Ayes
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You were so close to our stern we talked about getting out the rubber gloves. Come to think of it, I am sure Dr. Rob had a pair.

 
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