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DaveR
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Initially Posted - 01/10/2011 : 09:20:19

Saturday Jan. 8th Carol and I drove the 60 miles south to Satellite Beach, FL to Tom & Jean Curran's. Tom invited us to crew on Island Time's first race of the year. 65 degrees, 5 to 11mph winds out of the west, sounded perfect! We met at their house, went to the yacht club for the captain's meeting and saw Bill who had come up with Tom and [url="http://waveless.smugmug.com/Boats/Sailing/112010/11-20-101511/1099053244_dPAbV-M.jpg"]sailed with us[/url] in November. All the while we were noticing the wind was a bit more than expected and then I heard they had revised their forecast for higher winds.
Well the winds were high enough (10 to 20?) that we decided to reef. Remember that ole "reef early" suggestion? We didn't take it. So a few minutes before the flag we reefed but were last off the line because of it. But no biggie, we're just there for fun. Even though Tom's got a pretty large reef point and we only had the furler out to storm jib size we had the rail in the water at least 6 or 7 times. It looked a lot like the pics most of you have seen of Frank Hopper's Kansas lake when the winds are up and boats are at 45 degrees. WAY fun, never had Bamboo heeled that far. Had one collision (not us), damage looked minimal. There were 3 Catalinas, a couple O'days and several other boats, maybe 11 total? A couple dropped out early due to the winds and waves. We ended up passing 2 boats for 6th I think. I've never raced before and this was Really, really fun stuff.

Thanks Tom and Jean

If YOU haven't before I'd suggest it

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Here's a few pics of us on the downwind leg to the finish line;

Jean and Tom on the left, Carol on the right

And this is the #1 Catalina hull produced in 1976 I believe, boats name is Confetti. (kinda like meeting royalty

)

And ole Confetti smoked the field and crossed the line first! Here's the original owner and winning Captain.

Dave Robbins
PO to*Bamboo*
'89 SR/WK #5877
Daytona Bch., FL

http://bambooc25.weebly.com/

Edited by - DaveR on 01/11/2011 07:43:12

Tomas Kruska
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Response Posted - 01/10/2011 : 11:08:50

Wow... Her Majesty #1

still looking great and in a good shape.... I wonder if Catalina Yachts resp. Frank Butler want to buy it back

Also wonder how the plywood core looks like....

Dont you want to make some more photos of her?

Edited by - Tomas Kruska on 01/10/2011 11:10:44

PCP777
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Response Posted - 01/10/2011 : 13:34:25

Cool, yeah racing IS a blast.

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TCurran
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Response Posted - 01/10/2011 : 17:21:35

Dave,
Glad you and Carol came down and had fun...looking forward to Feb 12th, hope you two can make it. Yes, sailing in Jan in shorts...life in FL is great.
tom

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Response Posted - 01/10/2011 : 18:28:12

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by TCurran
 ...Yes, sailing in Jan in shorts...life in FL is great.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">We're getting ready for another foot of snow to cover the ice on the river and then get blown off by 30-40 mph winds tomorrow night and Wed... I'll have a fire in the fireplace. There's something about a snowstorm that refreshes my soul.

Edited by - Stinkpotter on 01/10/2011 18:28:43

DaveR
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Response Posted - 01/11/2011 : 07:25:28

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> There's something about a snowstorm that refreshes my soul. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

There's something about sailing in January that refreshes my soul

But a nice fire on a cold night is pretty awesome too

[url="http://waveless.smugmug.com/Sailing/Racing/1811-racing/15399502_2Zw5s#1152581598_vC3tQ"]Here's the rest of the pics from Saturday[/url]

Tom, I'm just about positive we'll make it. As a matter of fact Carol is scheming about sailing Bamboo down the day before. Don't know if that'll happen but ................

Edited by - DaveR on 01/11/2011 07:32:30

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Response Posted - 03/07/2011 : 07:45:31

Hi Dave!

Thanks to some kind help from Paul Alcock (Thanks again Paul!) I can now log back on to my account on the Catalina forum! Hopefully now that I am retired I can be active with stuff other than work!!

Thanks to you too for the great pictures and kind words! Glad you were able to come down and sail with everyone! Looking forward to seeing you for the futture races!

We only got Confetti launched in Florida waters last Thanksgiving, and its a great area to sail in, and the folks at the Manatee Cove Marina are fun to sail and race with!

Cheers!!

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DaveR
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Response Posted - 03/07/2011 : 15:08:52

Hey Chuck, great to hear from you. I'll be headed back your way to eat some pancakes and race with Tom again next week-end. Oh, and check out the tread,, "Another 15 to 20 day" on this same racing forum for the Feb 12 race & pics. Seems some guys on this forum would love to see the #1 hull at the Catalina 25 Nationals.

Edited by - DaveR on 03/07/2011 15:14:39

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Response Posted - 03/08/2011 : 09:05:30

Boy, the expression on Jean's and Carol's faces does not look like they enjoyed all that wind as much as the skipper. Reminds me of my wife before she decided not to sail in anything more than a wisper of a breeze. I now sail alone for the most part.

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