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Corinthian 2014
- Thread starter Philpott
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Sailing canoe "Kūʻaupaʻa"
Sail back to Berkeley? Luxury! Try Alameda! When I was young, we did 20 nm deliveries every day upwind both ways!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
There are 128 boats signed up for tomorrow's SSS Corinthian Race. Radio check-ins will begin by 10:00. During the Starting Sequence the Race Committee will not be taking check-ins. If you're late, please check in after you've started.
Abandoning the Race: If you drop out, you must call the Race Committee on Channel 71 or the SSS phone # which is 866.724.5777. Since we're having check-ins, the Race Committee can't go home until all boats that checked in are accounted for. The race Deadline is 6:00. If all boats are not accounted for after 6:000, we will begin calling emergency contact numbers to find out where you are.
The Race Committee will be in contact with Vessel Traffic during the race and will re-broadcast information from them, but since it's likely to rain please keep a lookout for shipping. Visibility will be impaired by rain.
Pat Broderick, PRO
Abandoning the Race: If you drop out, you must call the Race Committee on Channel 71 or the SSS phone # which is 866.724.5777. Since we're having check-ins, the Race Committee can't go home until all boats that checked in are accounted for. The race Deadline is 6:00. If all boats are not accounted for after 6:000, we will begin calling emergency contact numbers to find out where you are.
The Race Committee will be in contact with Vessel Traffic during the race and will re-broadcast information from them, but since it's likely to rain please keep a lookout for shipping. Visibility will be impaired by rain.
Pat Broderick, PRO
Daydreamer
SAILOR
Here's a couple of early morning photos. Before and after the start, and your race committee hard at work.
Philpott
Cal 2-27 Dura Mater
Corinthian 2014
It’s the morning of the 2014 Corinthian race. As per the weather forecast, it’s raining in Oakland. What are the chances that the race will be called off? Postponed? Rescheduled? None. This is springtime racing on the San Francisco bay. At least there is wind. So I haul everything out to the car and drive to the Berkeley marina. It’s still raining in Berkeley. Feeling virtuous I motor out through the rain. Water from the flaked mainsail pours over me as I raise it on the way across the Olympic Circle. Feeling surly, I think to myself, I’ll bet not many sailors will participate. People will look outside their windows and say to themselves, “Oh, it’s raining. I’ll just stay here where it’s warm and dry.” And, still surly, I think: What kind of club schedules sailboat races on rainy days? Jeez! First the Three Bridge Fiasco is scheduled on a day with no wind, and now this.
As I approach Angel Island I realize how cold and wet I am already, before I have even reached the start. I begin to appreciate the concept of The Dodger. Ah. I understand now why people like dodgers. Dodgers are the flood insurance of sailing. Nobody thinks they need one until they Need One. The ubiquitous phrase of sailboat owners everywhere: “I Need That.”
As I pass Southampton Shoal I listen to skipper after skipper check in on the radio. I think to myself: What. Is. The matter with these people? I start to feel sorry for myself because I am really very wet and cold already. In fact, I’m soaked through my new Women’s Third Reef Bib, advertised as 100% waterproof, 100% windproof and breathable. Ha! I’m annoyed now. I set the tiller pilot, go below and change out of both soaked layers underneath. Dry clothes make me feel better and I’ve stopped shaking. But as I enter Raccoon Straits I realize that it’s raining in Tiburon, too. Huh! Rain in Oakland, rain in Berkeley and rain here, too? Go figure. This has me totally flummoxed. It’s raining and this entire side of the bay is full of wet boats with soaked people aboard. Who Are these people?
From the fleet list on Jibeset, I recall that a good number of them are the same people who sailed the Three Bridge Fiasco in January. The names are the same as those many good sports who stayed out late trying to finish that race. And what did they learn from that experience? They all learned that two normal people, under uniquely advantageous conditions, could finish that heartbreaker of a race, in the dark, with only ten minutes to spare, becoming infamous. Dark and Stormy proved that tenacity counts in these long races. On Saturday Corinthian participants, soaked to the core, arrived prepared to exhibit more of that tenacity. In the rain. All day long.
It’s the morning of the 2014 Corinthian race. As per the weather forecast, it’s raining in Oakland. What are the chances that the race will be called off? Postponed? Rescheduled? None. This is springtime racing on the San Francisco bay. At least there is wind. So I haul everything out to the car and drive to the Berkeley marina. It’s still raining in Berkeley. Feeling virtuous I motor out through the rain. Water from the flaked mainsail pours over me as I raise it on the way across the Olympic Circle. Feeling surly, I think to myself, I’ll bet not many sailors will participate. People will look outside their windows and say to themselves, “Oh, it’s raining. I’ll just stay here where it’s warm and dry.” And, still surly, I think: What kind of club schedules sailboat races on rainy days? Jeez! First the Three Bridge Fiasco is scheduled on a day with no wind, and now this.
As I approach Angel Island I realize how cold and wet I am already, before I have even reached the start. I begin to appreciate the concept of The Dodger. Ah. I understand now why people like dodgers. Dodgers are the flood insurance of sailing. Nobody thinks they need one until they Need One. The ubiquitous phrase of sailboat owners everywhere: “I Need That.”
As I pass Southampton Shoal I listen to skipper after skipper check in on the radio. I think to myself: What. Is. The matter with these people? I start to feel sorry for myself because I am really very wet and cold already. In fact, I’m soaked through my new Women’s Third Reef Bib, advertised as 100% waterproof, 100% windproof and breathable. Ha! I’m annoyed now. I set the tiller pilot, go below and change out of both soaked layers underneath. Dry clothes make me feel better and I’ve stopped shaking. But as I enter Raccoon Straits I realize that it’s raining in Tiburon, too. Huh! Rain in Oakland, rain in Berkeley and rain here, too? Go figure. This has me totally flummoxed. It’s raining and this entire side of the bay is full of wet boats with soaked people aboard. Who Are these people?
From the fleet list on Jibeset, I recall that a good number of them are the same people who sailed the Three Bridge Fiasco in January. The names are the same as those many good sports who stayed out late trying to finish that race. And what did they learn from that experience? They all learned that two normal people, under uniquely advantageous conditions, could finish that heartbreaker of a race, in the dark, with only ten minutes to spare, becoming infamous. Dark and Stormy proved that tenacity counts in these long races. On Saturday Corinthian participants, soaked to the core, arrived prepared to exhibit more of that tenacity. In the rain. All day long.
