Gearing up * photo du jour

[Daydreamer]

Just after the skippers meeting.

 

[Daydreamer]

Getting ready to cast off!!
Finishing those last minute preparations.

 

[Philpott]

I tried to post a photo, Jackie, but I'm just not very techy. It downloaded sideways and then wouldn't display so I just had to bail on it. Hope this isn't a requirement for getting to the starting line.

Bill
s/v Dolfin

“Euphoria at the finish line, even though it took yet another squall to blow me across.”

 

[Lanikai]

This is more of a Gearing Down, so that I may find my way to the starting line in, say, 2022. Packing books for storage prior to moving aboard. Clearly a cruiser's library, with some singlehanding and SSS books and at least one copy of "Sail Trim". Many are from the great annual SF public library sale at Fort Mason.
Of note is "Party of One", which a former non-sailing co-worker and fellow introvert gave to me before I took off for an east coast + Bahamas cruise years ago (singlehanded, as if it needs to be said). Good reading for the SHTP'er having doubts 1000nm from land.

 

[Gamayun]

With a huge dollop of Michael Jefferson (Mouton Noir) assistance and know-how, I just got the SSB and MMPT controller installed. Still a work in progress with trim to be reinstalled. That window above all the electronics and my battery bank is kinda freaking me out now. Solar panel going up later this week.

 

[Philpott]

With a huge dollop of Michael Jefferson (Mouton Noir) assistance and know-how, I just got the SSB and MMPT controller installed. Still a work in progress with trim to be reinstalled. That window above all the electronics and my battery bank is kinda freaking me out now. Solar panel going up later this week. View attachment 3231

BEEEOOOOTIFUL!!!! coming Saturday?

 

[Philpott]

Photo by Jay Bietz. Must be a professional and friend, because that's an awesome shot at the start of the 2016 race.

 

[Philpott]

And while they wait for you, your loved ones can go on a muddy hike. This is Kauai mud that never washes out of your favorite pink tshirt. Be prepared!

 

[Philpott]

Crinan II w Don Martin at the helm. "Oh hell! There's a Wylie in my Fleet?!!" (anonymous but very very real quote)

 

[Gamayun]

Here's my SSB, solar MPPT controller, arch and solar panels. Working on the E-Rud next. I think that's the last of the biggies. I've even turned down work for June, which I can ill afford right now. It's really soon, isn't it? The next few months are going to fly by!

 

[Gamayun]

Crinan II w Don Martin at the helm. "Oh hell! There's a Wylie in my Fleet?!!" (anonymous but very very real quote)

OMG, this sounds like something I said numerous times last year, usually in the plural and the F-word though!!

 

[Philpott]

2016. At the Skippers' meeting Corinthian Yacht Club, just before the Luncheon, the day before the Race

 

[BobJ]

OMG, this sounds like something I said numerous times last year, usually in the plural and the F-word though!!

It's not Wylies generally but WylieCat 30's specifically. But they need love too. I've found they're beatable but you need a spinnaker. You aren't going to beat them upwind or reaching in breeze.

 

[Philpott]

Steve Hodges on Frolic at the start of the 2014 Race. Who took this photo? Dunno. Maybe Jonathan Gutoff? Would love to give credit, cuz it's a doozy.

 

[jamottep]

Steve Hodges on Frolic at the start of the 2014 Race. Who took this photo? Dunno. Maybe Jonathan Gutoff? Would love to give credit, cuz it's a doozy.

Great picture! On the topic of picture I don't have one of Double Espresso under way. Would anyone try to shoot one during the Round The Rocks?

 

[Wylieguy]

It's not Wylies generally but WylieCat 30's specifically. But they need love too. I've found they're beatable but you need a spinnaker. You aren't going to beat them upwind or reaching in breeze.

Actually you do need a chute to compete against Wyliecats. Since the boat was designed without a spinnaker, the PHRF Committee requires us to sail in spinnaker divisions (like all one design boats whose class association does not use chutes). So, almost all of the time we're sailing against boats with spinnakers.

Sometimes in special circumstances (the Sausalito YC's Champion of Champion Race - sailed without chutes since half the "Champions" come from non-spinnaker divisions) the RC adds an 18 second handicap. Some smaller YC's do the same for lightly enrolled beer can races if there's only one Wyliecat entered in the series.

 

[BobJ]

18 seconds is in the ballpark. The WC30 weighs the same as my boat and has more of that weight in the keel bulb, same LOA and LWL, same upwind sail area (with the square top) - I sail even with them hour after hour upwind or on a reach. It comes down to distance sailed downwind. The WC30 can sail straight to the mark (sometimes by the lee) while I'm sailing faster but at hotter angles and gybing a lot. My boat rates 105, so 126-132 for the WC30 is a gift. A member of the NorCal PHRF committee suggested I appeal the WC30 rating based on the above, but I know all you guys...

Now back to your regularly-scheduled SHTP photos.

 

[Philpott]

The Geek. Don't know who this is? Ask about it and someone will tell you.

 

[Wylieguy]

You want nylon, we got nylon!

 

[mike cunningham]

2016. At the Skippers' meeting Corinthian Yacht Club, just before the Luncheon, the day before the Race

I remember the meeting. I was looking around the room wondering if everyone was thinking what I was thinking... "Man are we really going to do this?"

You want to know how dedicated I am? I am checking the SSS forum from a camper van parked in a grove of Eucalyptus 20 miles from Hobart, Tasmania. Yea, buglighter for sure.