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What I Saw

Don't know when Andy will be back, but this photo is from Jim Q:

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Last I heard, Jim was aboard Perplexity w John delivering it back to Sydney.

This from Jim:
John is leaving Perplexity in Sydney for maybe two months b4 heading north. John off Cape Raoul... nearing Tasman Island.
 
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Going back to Wisconsin for a week visit, I have made a connection to go iceboating again. In the meantime, in a thread about how to determine ice thickness, this was posted. Something we don't think about out here: Hard Water.

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I found this one, but not the calendar for 2026

2025 Race Schedule​

  • Race: Three Bridge Fiasco -- January 25, 2025
  • Race: Corinthian -- February 22, 2025
  • Race: Round the Rocks -- March 29, 2025
  • Race: Sort of Singlehanded North Bay -- April 26, 2025
  • POSTPONED Race: Singlehanded Farallones -- May 17, 2025
  • Race: Singlehanded Farallones (rescheduled) -- May 31, 2025
  • POSTPONED: SHTP - Singlehanded TransPacific Yacht Race (Sunday Start due to weather) -- June 22, 2025
  • Race: SHTP - Singlehanded TransPacific Yacht Race (Sunday Start due to weather) -- June 22, 2025 - July 13, 2025
  • Race: YRA/SSS Drake's Bay (Day 1) -- August 16, 2025
  • Race: YRA/SSS Drake's Bay (Day 2) -- August 17, 2025
  • Race: Half Moon Bay -- September 13, 2025
  • Race: Vallejo Day 1 - Singlehanded -- October 4, 2025
  • Race: Vallejo Day 2 - Doublehanded -- October 5, 2025
 
Steve Saul did the SHTP a few years back on a gorgeous boat. He and his wife Val Saul still show up for SSS events, especially the starts of the Long Pac and SHTPs. Val has written a book and has not asked that I publicize it. But here it is, and there will be a book signing event in Corte Madera if anyone is interested.

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Here is the info:

Hi Jacque,
Ages ago you and I spoke at an SSS event though I can't remember which one. We talked about our book publishing journeys. Well, believe it or not, my mystery, The Badass Widows is coming out in less than 3 weeks! It's available now to preorder at Bookshop.org, Barnes and Noble and of course the evil Amazon. Better yet, come to one of my book events at Book Passage Corte Madera. I'd love to see a familiar face in the audience.
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  1. Book Launch at Book Passage 1 p.m. Saturday, March 7th. I'll be in conversation with Mary Alice Stephens, author of Uncorked.
  2. Book Talk for Left Coast Writers, at Book Passage at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 14th. in conversation with Linda Watanabe McFerrin.
Wish I could say that I will sail over, but alas, I don't think there is access to the water to Corte Madera.
 
Sam and his Dragonsong in the Corinthian. Would've done VERY well had he not been in one of the last fleets to start, in a multi-postponed race facing a growing and BIG ebb.

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Sam won't complain. He just wants to go out, be on the water in the sunshiney day. Call me a complainer (and I am that) but why are singlehanders treated so badly in this "singlehanded sailing club"?
 
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Sam and his Dragonsong in the Corinthian. Would've done VERY well had he not been in one of the last fleets to start, in a multi-postponed race facing a growing and BIG ebb.

Sam won't complain. He just wants to go out, be on the water in the sunshiney day. Call me a complainer (and I am that) but why are singlehanders treated so badly in this "singlehanded sailing club"?
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I agree that the singlehanders should benefit from more time sailing in any SSS event, particularly for the slower boats. That might be a point of discussion at the Round the Rocks meeting this evening. However, that had no impact on why I quit the Corinthian. I made a couple of unforced errors near the Bob Klein mark that resulted in my decision to quit. I was disappointed, but only by my own mistakes. Those mistakes were two firsts for me. One, getting a solid kite wrap on the headstay because of a poorly executed jibe. Two, stepping back into a foredeck hatch that I had just opened. The hatch-trick took me out physically and mentally. I've always paid close attention to open hatches and still can't figure out how I let that happen. Especially because I was the one that had just opened the damned thing.
Sam
 
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