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JimB517
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Initially Posted - 12/24/2009 : 14:22:29

Happy Holidays everyone!

Just sharing a couple of plans and some great news!

On January 1 Indiscipline will be doing the San Diego Yacht Club's New Year's Day race. I'll be sailing down New Year's eve. I'll be sure to take the camera and update you winter-bound sailors with some great race photos. Here's the link so you can follow along:

http://www.sdyc.org/raceinfo/races10/newyears/index.htm

Last year I was 17th out of 17 in class so there is no where to go but up!

Great News!

I may have a ride for the 2010 Long Beach to Cabo race. You may remember I was delivery crew last year on a Coronado 32 sport boat.

This year the ride is an Andrews 68. I've been invited to deliver her down from Long Beach to San Diego on Jan. 9. Hopefully that will go well and they'll sign me on for the season. Can't wait - although I am a little worried about the physical strength required to crew on such a large boat. Probably I'll offer to do the return delivery, too. I want to get a Baja Bash under my belt. You know what they say

Boats break downwind, crew breaks upwind.

January is going to be a busy month I have an offshore race or delivery every weekend!

Indiscipline 1978 FK SR #398

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 12/24/2009 : 14:51:44

Jim, sounds like a good start to the new year. Racing on the Andrews will be an entirely new experience if you haven't crewed on anything that large. The largest boat I've raced on was a Swan 46, and that was a lesson in scale. The same skipper owned the J-92 I crewed on all the time, and he was very careful to point out to the whole crew things like where on the J-92 you might be tempted to sheet in by muscle power alone, there was no such thing on the Swan, everything was done with winches, I'd imagine much the same, on just a larger scale again. Good luck on your New Year's day race (we'll be making a giant prime rib for my family that day), and as you said, you can only go up from your previous posting.

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 12/24/2009 : 15:03:37

The largest boat I ever raced was an Erickson 38 for a year. I did ocean and bay races, mostly mast, pit, trimming, and some foredeck.

Lots to learn going up to 70 feet.

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