Super Mac

[Burnsy]

Longer is better? Well that's what she said...

Anyone going 490 straight through?

This brought up the topic of what's the longest P-P reasonably possible round here, which should be Chicago - Buffalo. As it turns out one of the GLSS guys Bill Tucker has given it a trial run (singlehanded & nonstop no less) with writeups here:

http://www.solosailor.org/pdfs/chibuf06-pt1.pdf

http://www.solosailor.org/pdfs/chibuf06pt2.pdf

 

[Mr. Squirrel]

Come on Burnsy. Sign up the Heap Wave for the Super Mac!!! I am trying to figure out if a 34 foot IOR boat could transit 500 miles in time to make the PH-Mac Start lol

MS

 

[garyedelman]

Did so very easily years ago on a Peterson 34.

Burnsy shouldn't have a problem.

 

[barleymalt]

All condition dependent, but making the PH Mac should not be a problem. Getting the boat organized, anything repaired and provisioned for the Cove Is course PH Mac might.

 

[fetzer24]

Come on Burnsy. Sign up the Heap Wave for the Super Mac!!! I am trying to figure out if a 34 foot IOR boat could transit 500 miles in time to make the PH-Mac Start lol
MS

We used to do it every other year back in the day.....

You didn't have to reprovision the boat because you just brought enough shit for two weeks in the first place. Things were a little different back then.

 

[ZiggyAndRolo]

The Heap Wave is seriously considering the 490 mile trek. Since we are doing Chi-Mac Doublehanded, that ought to make for an interesting week.

Provisioning for Cove Island?? Isn't that what the crew is for??

Last minute repairs in time for Cove?? Thats what the Shife is for!!!

 

[barleymalt]

The Heap Wave is seriously considering the 490 mile trek. Since we are doing Chi-Mac Doublehanded, that ought to make for an interesting week.
Provisioning for Cove Island?? Isn't that what the crew is for??

Last minute repairs in time for Cove?? Thats what the Shife is for!!!

I didn't say there wasn't a solution, just that it would have to be done. Shife does his best work on pre-race Friday night in PH, he just doesn't remember it. Ghetto Macgyverism at it's finest. Yee haw.

As for extended provisioning, I remember pulling cans of stew or whatever out of the bilge, usually they had lost their labels, and no one had any idea what the hell they were anymore. Of course when the boats weighed three times as much, saving weight wasn't really an issue.

 

[ZiggyAndRolo]

Think they'll give us an extra rating credit for doing the entire thing DH???

Cans of stew will definitely be the way to go. After the long delivery to Chicago, working a couple days, and grabbin a train back to Chicago for the start - theres no way in hell we'll have time for home cooked goodies.

 

[FastrSailr]

I must be really living under a rock. Here's the freep article.

I did the 2000 one from PH-Chicago by way of the Southampton buoy. Never thought that farking island would look so good when you sailing by it on 25 on the nose. Great ride down through Greys Reef and the Manitou passage, though...

My dad did one back in the 70s on a Pearson 30. He said he could remember pulling jugs of OJ out of the cabin that had fermented sitting next to a dark green hull, and when they tossed them overboard they exploded like depth charges.

 

[BigWaveDave]

I propose a race between The Heap and The Beaver for pink slips.

It'll be just like 'Grease'.

 

[big chicken]

Provisioning for Cove Island?? Isn't that what the crew is for??

Hey, how hard can it be to throw a few suitcases and handles onto the boat anyway?

 

[Burnsy]

I propose a race between The Heap and The Beaver for pink slips.
It'll be just like 'Grease'.

:lol:

"I'm sorely tempted to accept that offer!" - Davy Jones

 

[FastrSailr]

I propose a race between The Heap and The Beaver for pink slips.
It'll be just like 'Grease'.

:lol:

"I'm sorely tempted to accept that offer!" - Davy Jones

How about I just give you the boat? That way, I'm a winner no matter what B)

 

[FINS]

Well we had a crew drink fest last night and decided to take the M32 in the Chicago Mac again. Next step since we are really nuts is to go all the way around, I wonder how much booze it would take us to do that?

Man we are nuts!!!!

 

[BigWaveDave]

Well we had a crew drink fest last night and decided to take the M32 in the Chicago Mac again. Next step since we are really nuts is to go all the way around, I wonder how much booze it would take us to do that?
Man we are nuts!!!!

I recommend you take more than the two required buckets.

 

[FINS]

Dave I hope you are thinking the TWO buckets of rum!!!

That would be the only thing buckets would ever be used for on that boat.

 

[Burnsy]

Well we had a crew drink fest last night and decided to take the M32 in the Chicago Mac again. Next step since we are really nuts is to go all the way around, I wonder how much booze it would take us to do that?
Man we are nuts!!!!

Come awwwwn.... you know you want to. Opportunity may never happen again. Misery loves company.

 

[fetzer24]

The Peerless is in....

 

[Robin]

The last Chicago to Sarnia race was the year of what I still call the Fast Mack. 1987 the year that Piper broke the record. Because all of the big boats that were signed up to do the Sarnia (Piper included) had smashed the record and pulled out to party at the Island we ended up being one of the few boats to finish the Sarnia in the IOR fleet in Toscana (then a Peterson 43). The wind directions had changed in such a way that when we set our all purpose .75 triradial at the start of the Chicago to Mackinac we carried the entire Mack and another 75 to 100 miles beyound the Island. Bloopers and staysails up and down many times--of course. We were being chased by Carrera (a NM41) which was the only other boat we could see. As we crossed the mouth of Saginaw Bay in very light air we heard weather reports of heavy squals accross northern Michigan. We watched Carrera (about 5 miles behind north and west of us) disappear in a nasty looking cloud and decided to be cautious. Took the kite down. Were making a bare headed change to a three made of kevlar (remember that 87 was still early in the age of kevlar), got it two thirds of the way up when we got hit with a 60 knot gust. The 3 just blew up. There was not even enough left to get the halyard down. There we were with full main (fortunately running with the breeze) doing 14-15 (may sound slow but you have to have lived on one of those lead farms to know how frightening it was to go that fast on a 43 that weighed 20plus thousand) pushing water and a rooster tail. Bow wave was 2 to 3 feet higher than the deck and was back at the shrouds.

My partner in the 43 was Vic Peterson who was driving at the time yelled at me--asking if we should put up the blast reacher (genoa not kite) and I suggested that he shut up and drive.

GOOD TIMES.

Robin