Racing
<Speed, Distance & Time Table 1 Knot = 6076 feet / hour Boat Speed Feet/Sec Sec/boatlength At 4 knots, Mist will need approximately 6 seconds to cover 1 boat length distance(rounded to 40 feet). 5 seconds if at 5 knots, 4 seconsd at 6 knots. Understanding that, will help guage the starting line to position the boat accordingly. So in light air where the speed is 1-2 knots, we need nearly...
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Cruising
“ …I come now, at this late juncture of my life, to this sudden realization: I have no destination, no real destination, in the literal sense. The destination, the place toward which my life is tending, is the journey itself and not the final stopping place. How I get there is more important than whether I arrive, although I will arrive, and what I must try to remember, now more than ever, is...
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Handicap Chart for 2010 BBS – IRC Division D
This is the handicap chart for the IRC Division D… At the end of a 3 hour race, we have to be 6:10 ahead of the slowest boat. We give Tupelo about 2:30 to finish at the end of 3 hours…
The Great Vallejo Race, May 1, 2010
The Great Vallejo Race aboard TakeOff
May 1, 2010 – Based on Julie’s request, Joan rounded up a pick up crew consisting of Trevor (Bowman), Caxton (mast), Julie (pit), Calvin & Keith (jib and spinnaker trim), and Shannon, Joan and I (alternating on main sheet and helm). We met at the Alameda Marina at 0900 sharp and loaded up her Laser 28 with coolers filled with her famous bloody mary’s and margarita and half a dozen bottles of wine and champagne. Add to this liquid cargo, and add the bags of food she had provisioned, you’d think we were provisioning for a trip to Hawaii, not Vallejo. We started the motor and headed out the Oakland estuary with bloody mary’s on one hand and spring rolls on the other for breakfast. We arrived at the starting area near the Berkeley circle about an hour before the race and hoisted the sails to get the crew settled and get used to the light wind conditions.
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