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Recent content by AlanH

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    Still Singlehanding

    I don't do SSS stuff any more, but I'm still singlehanding. I'm extremely busy with school, so I haven't been over to see Alpha for a couple of months....MONTHS. Crazy! I have had a repair spinnaker pole ring sitting in my car since the end of September. Friday was such a gorgeous day that...
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    2002 Singlehanded Transpac Video - finally on YouTube

    I've had this on VHS tape sitting in my study for 20 years. Seeing as I'm now retired and re-vamping the layout of that room, it was high time to finally digitize the stuff I have stored so I can lose the flippin VHS tapes!. OK, here it is, up on YouTube...
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    SHTP memorabilia for free

    I have one of the Jim DeWitt SHTP posters from 1994 that needs to go. I have two of them, this one is simply framed in a poster frame, nothing fancy. I believe that's Dan Newlands "Pegasus"....his 38 footer, that's pictured (not his Olson 30 by the same name...) Frank Dinsmore had the...
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    New Boat 4 Sled

    OK, collective mind...help me out here. There's a boat for $200 bucks out in Fresno. Here are two photos of it. Back in 1938, the Nunes Brothers designed the Mercury, which I'm sure we're all familiar with. I basically learned to sail on a family friends plywood Mercury out of Stillwater...
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    Old Farallones race SSS sweatshirts

    I have two old SSS Singlehanded Farallones sweatshirts from 2005 and 2008. if you were around back then, you can have 'em. I hate to throw them out, they're obviously not new but they're in great condition. They're XXL but they're way too short-waisted for me, now and they look ridiculous on...
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    Self tailing winches - free to any regular SSS'er

    I was given these for my last boat and never got around to mounting them. Good luck finding spare parts, but they turn and go clicky-click now, with a disassembly and cleaning I'm sure they'll be lovely. Free, but you have to get in your car/truck/bicycle and come over here and get them. No, I...
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    Emergency rudder / Monitor / E-RUD

    It's worth considering that drogues work by slowing the boat down. A LOT. I was on board Surprise! when Bob J tested drogues at the 2020 self-steering seminar. Bob is a good sailor, he's got a nice boat, he'd thought everything through and the results were, shall we way, less than hoped. I...
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    Happy holidays

    We're in Morro Bay for the annual Foote family post-Christmas get-together. We spent yesterday morning hiking along the beach/bluffs at Montana del Oro state park. and playing KelpHorn on the beach... which is where you cut a hole at the end of the bulb of a piece of bull kelp, then cut off...
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    Piper Blog

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    Piper Blog

    Views of the barber hauler system. The structure under the deck is probably way overkill, but I had all the materials so the whole thing cost me $30 for the two Ronstan - through-deck fittings. I mean, I can adjust the barberhauler with my bare hands in any wind I'v e come across so far. The...
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    Piper Blog

    I was out for a nice sunday afternoon sail and came across BlackJack and his handsome Dame, Lively Lady, out for a solo spin on a pretty, but chilly day.
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    Piper Blog

    Alpha is signed up for the IYC's midwinters on the Estuary. I had to miss the first one....symphony tickets...but will be out for the rest of them. I ran into an interesting problem. The spinnaker pole car on the mast... Is 1.) So old that I don't think anybody makes track/cars like that...
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    Ben Mewes Memorial Flotilla

    Lucie on board "Unwind" . . Flowers on the water... Jackie did a nice job representing the SSS, speaking at the gathering at the RYC. I was particularly happy to hear Pat Broderick speak briefly about how Ben was present and supportive when Lucie was so terribly sick with liver...
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    Ben Mewes Memorial Flotilla

    Green Buffalo Envolee and Selket The waves stayed down for the memorial, but piped up to a nice 17 knots for the sail back to Richmond.
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    Ben Mewes Memorial Flotilla

    Some photos of the flotilla... Joe Balderrama, bending the bow pulpit on TAZ! TAZ! crew enjoying the sail, but a little somber, remembering Ben. The fleet gathers 'round the boat Lucie is on...
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