The Call of R2AK: 2023 Edition

[Talchotali]

What a change a two hour nap can make!

Looks like we've repatriated half of the race back in the good ol' USA.

Monohulls narrowing the gap.

Mojo bad tracker?

Where is Bonesaw going? The great outlier, or home?

 

[Varan]

How about those Idaho boys. Go Dogsmile!! Jon's Dogsmile Adventures is a really cool nonprofit helping people recover from past stresses. I encourage y'all read up on them. All really good people.

 

[Irrational 14]

Tres Equis 880 broke its rudder cassette. Limping to Bellingham.

Saw that on Bills FB... that blows! New and expensive boat to start breaking up so quickly.

 

[Talchotali]

Dogsmile is now in the open strait.

We Brake For Whales briefly holding second.

Ruf Duck and Pestou cut inside (maybe Mojo too - tracker issues)

It's 3 to 2 monohulls to 'marans in the top 5 positions, 5 to 5 in the top 10.

Ruf Duck seems to be the only boat with AIS capabilities

It's 5 o'clock, time to relocate to the bar...

 

[sleddog]

Dogsmile is now in the open strait.

We Break for Whales briefly holding second.

Ruf Duck and Pestou cut inside (maybe Mojo too - tracker issues)

It's 3 to 2 monohulls to 'marans in the top 5 positions, 5 to 5 in the top 10.

Ruf Duck seems to be the only boat with AIS capabilities

It's 5 o'clock, time to relocate to the bar...


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Brake4Whales also has AIS. Tri's going through Active Pass will likely pick up double digit miles on those going east around East Pt. on Saturna. Tracker standings not based in reality as it appears to be using distance from Victoria? Course to Discovery Passage is NW up the Salish Sea. MOJO tracker back working, and it's a 3 boat race as the tris enter the Salish Sea (Straits of Georgia.)

 

[Sidecar]

Will be interesting to see when and where Pestou takes his first pit stop……

 

[sleddog]

Flood current flows south to north out Active Pass into Salish Sea. The 3 tris are about to catch that elevator. HRRR is the probably the best model for forecasting winds on Windy. It's gonna be a long night for Eric on PESTOU as its 22 miles to Silva Bay on Gabriola.

 

[silent bob]

Saw that on Bills FB... that blows! New and expensive boat to start breaking up so quickly.

Patched up, and back on the road! I’ve known Billy since he had hair!

 

[Ravenswing]

The sun goes down on Day1 with Ian Farrier's 30-35 year old designs 1-2-3. Intriguing to wonder if we don't have enough regular-folks' boat innovation going on, or the old Fboats are just ubiquitous and tougher/better than other choices?

 

[munt]

If Mr. Farrier would have built his boats with the same complete disregard for quality as the new 880 those first 3 trimarans probably would never have existed.

 

[can-UK]

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Patched up, and back on the road! I’ve known Billy since he had hair!

It's a long race.. I'm not sure it'll hold.. they're almost 300nm from Bella Bella.. They're going to have to take it easy if they want the case to last the race.

 

[Talchotali]

Twelve hours in. Sundown was 3 hours ago, dawn 5 hours away. Darkness mystifies, light explains.

At 12:00AM:

pos	Race #	Team name	Boat Name	Boat Make and Model	nm
1st	33​	Mojo	Mojo Eskorin	F25C	518.2​
2nd	27​	Ruf Duck	Ruf Duck	Farrier F9R	519.4​
3rd	32​	Pestou	Geneva	Corsair F-24 MKII	522.9​
4th	26​	We Brake For Whales	Gray Wolf	Custom Lyman Morse 40	529.9​
5th	12​	budgie smugglers	Lightfoot	Shaw 34	529.9​
6th	5​	Dogsmile Adventures	Mahana	1996 Corsair F27 trimaran	532.7​
7th	1​	Tres Equis	Team America: Tres Equis	Corsair 880 Sport	534.8​
8th	34​	Dacron & Denim	Fighting Trousers	DASH 34	536.5​
9th	23​	UnSalted Nuts	Sabrosa	2006 Henderson	539.2​
10th	8​	Unfinished Business	Elusive	Jboats J/29 FROB	541.3​
11th	31​	TriMorons	Christina Rose	1990 Corsair F27	541.5​
12th	2​	Wave Forager	Lost Heron	Lost Heron 2022 by Ken Deem	543.4​
13th	19​	Mike & Marty's Big Day Out	Rocinante	Corsair 24 mk 2	544​
14th	21​	Ship of Fools	Hessian	C&C 35 Mk II	545.3​
15th	35​	SeaSmoke	SeaSmoke	Epic 18 X sea kayka	546​
16th	25​	Monkey Fist	Wildfire	Olson 30	546.8​
17th	17​	Buckeye	Don't Know	Hobie 33	547.5​
18th	13​	of One	Varis	Puuvenepiste Savo 575	551.2​
19th	9​	Madame Oaracle Prairie Porch Pirates	Sloop du Jour	Laser 28	551.3​
20th	15​	Supernautiloid	Gita	Jeanneau Sunrise 34	551.8​
21st	4​	Bonesaw	Jahmbo	Stiletto 27	556.1​
22nd	18​	Hornblower	Zephyr	Angus Rowcruiser Sail MODIFIED	556.5​
23rd	20​	Solveig	Solveig	Custom faering	556.5​
24th	7​	Bella Bella & Beyond	Stellar S18S	Stellar S18S Exp	556.5​
25th	3​	Zen Again Dog	Minnie	Seaward Quest X3	557.3​
26th	30​	Sporting Chance	Sporting Chance	NDK Explorer HV	581.3​
27th	37​	SUP N IRISH	ONE SUP UNLIMITED	ONE SUP Unlimited	581.3​
28th	39​	Toybox Express	Toybox Express	Hobie Tandem Island 2019	581.3​
29th	29​	Lillian's Vacation	Patty B	Chesapeake Light Craft Expedition Wherry	601.8​

Tomorrows another day...

 

[SeaGul]

Tres Equis 880 broke its rudder cassette. Limping to Bellingham.

they seems to move rather good at the moment....10,8 vmg at 12.39AM...
The leader 3 are slowing down and the big mono is going well too ... we be a bunch at Campell...

 

[shebeen]

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Patched up, and back on the road! I’ve known Billy since he had hair!

i assume there's a crack there somewhere.

New boat, seems like rather benign conditions to cause such a breakage?

With the amount of logs/debris on the course, I'd expect the fast trimarans to have backup plans for steering. this is of course a bit early for emergency options.

 

[shebeen]

Pestou is SOLO!!!

not sure this is the right boat to be shorthanded on for this course, but seems to know what he's doing!

I do adventure racing, and maprogress is one of the better tracking platforms out there. (In fact they are mostly all good these days). There seems to be a glitch between only some trackers updating and the interface. I highly doubt it is the platform, but more likely people with spot trackers down below in the cabin. When we race we have to have them on our shoulderstrap facing the sky.

short on content for day1/first afternoon, but it's dark there now.

 

[SeaGul]

would think the Stiletto 27 Bonehaw was a fast boat - but they choose the long way round Orcas Island...that left then almost 40nm behind the leader at the moment....friday 1.18 AM

 

[shebeen]

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Patched up, and back on the road! I’ve known Billy since he had hair!

http://hardestyracing.com/ ok he's got some proper skilz (but either hasn't won anything since 2015 or updated his website)

i like him already

My favorite boat is a Hobie 16 >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News

In Harken's Spring 2022 newsletter, they asked some prominent sailors to share their favorite boat. For Riley Gibbs, it was the Naples Sabot. For Jonathan

www.sailingscuttlebutt.com

 

[SeaGul]

The Smuggler cat go behind Lasqeth Island - maybe some venturi-effect there?

The wind will fill in from the south and probably give a very tight field into the Campell - interesting... with wind from behind -theres no big advantages for the multis.

 

[bozemansurfer]

Have to say there must be some excellent sailors on Team We Break for Whales to get that much separation from a fairly fast group of monos. Great to see everyone go inside.

 

[shebeen]

Have to say there must be some excellent sailors on Team We Break for Whales to get that much separation from a fairly fast group of monos. Great to see everyone go inside.

much better inside isn't it, although one or two out now would be interesting to follow.

is there an indication on what the conditions will be like at seymour narrows yet for the quick guys?