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JimB517
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Initially Posted - 07/29/2009 : 13:39:31

Big race this weekend! Wish us well. I have 2 spinnakers, a borrowed asym, and I've really lightened the boat. Photos and narrative will be provided sometime AFTER my vacation (I have the race Saturday and leave Sunday to land cruise up the coast to San Francisco).

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JohnP
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Response Posted - 07/29/2009 : 14:00:37

Do us proud, Jim!

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 07/29/2009 : 15:44:54

I will be racing PHRF 120 and higher and I know a race preped Cat 36 and a Cat 30 are racing so I have my work cut out. Light winds and fairly calm seas are forecast and those favor the Cat 25.

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piseas
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Response Posted - 07/30/2009 : 01:56:22

Jim, kick butt. Enjoy our beautiful coast.
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windsong
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Response Posted - 07/30/2009 : 13:21:31

Wow, GREAT trip! I look forward to the post-trip posts.
Fair winds!

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 07/30/2009 : 15:31:43

Sock it to 'em Jim!
May you have good C25 conditions all the way.

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 08/02/2009 : 08:41:36

Up at 7 AM we left Mission Bay at 7:45 and motored 10 miles to the start line in San Diego. Well there were about 10 boats in our class and 30 boats overall. The results are not up but I'm sure we were the dead last in. Usually, it is a spinnaker run to the island, and you bring the apparant wind forward, which is why we were carrying the asym. After a bad start about 2 minutes late, yesterday we found about 4 knots of wind directly on the nose. The fleet was tacking and tacking to make the island. We rounded about 3:30 in the company of 5 other boats - most the leaders were an hour or more ahead and well on their way back under spin. The air was so light and the seas so choppy everyone sailed away from us on the back side of the island.

After rounding we went up spin in a huge hole and bobbed all over the ocean on the lee side of the island. After sailing out the wind went to 11 knots nearly directly from San Diego. We could not hold the spin and found ourselves sailing for Ensenada (due south instead of due north). So we went back up jib and sailed back in. We finished at 6:30 - 7 hours to sail the 30.5 miles. It was not a day that favored us - directly upwind to the island in light air and close reach back in medium air.

We motored back to Mission Bay, in by 8:30 for a 13 hour day on the water.

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Response Posted - 08/02/2009 : 19:11:28

Jim, a bad day on the water is better than almost anything else!

You gave it your best!

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aeckhart
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Response Posted - 08/03/2009 : 10:50:23

Jim,

I had a similar experience crewing a Tarten 10 around the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior (near Duluth Minnisota) a few years ago. We started poorly but worked our way to four boats from the lead. When we reached the outer islands, the owner decided to show his "mistress" the rock fomations (which are fantastic)up close. We had an on-shore breeze which lifted over the islands obout a 1/4 mile seaward from the island. We bounced around for two hours until the slosh pushed us back to windward so we could finally move. Soon after that the skipper bailed out of the race after he tore the spinnaker. Very frustrating for the "string pullers". I'm sure the skipper got some satisfaction out of the "affair".

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 08/09/2009 : 17:34:18

We;;, I'm home from my 1000 mile round trip, 7 day, trip with a pop up tent trailer. It was very much like taking the boat but without getting wet. We saw everything - winds in excess of 30 knots, rain, and mostly hot, dry days.

Glad to see we did not place last in the race.

Lots of unpacking to do, I will catch up later.

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