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tiger beetle
N/M 45 Tiger Beetle
The additional pieces I was told:
The skipper was certain that space aliens were tracking his boat and were coming to get him - the boat was the problem as it could be tracked, he had to get away. To avoid abduction he took his EPIRB with him into the liferaft and abandoned the boat. Shortly thereafter the US Navy arrived and recovered him.
At least he took the EPIRB with him and used the liferaft - otherwise things might have turned out quite differently.
- rob/beetle
If you want some brief sailing excitment this afternoon, check out the start of Class E of the Pacific Cup. These are five 70 footers and one mis-matched 40 footer, the big bucks programs. At least 2 of the boats will have $1,000/day pro crews.
How are they gonna fit 6 boats on the St. Francis YC start line, barely long enough for two? Tune in at 2:30 pm, PDT) for the 2:40 warning signal, and 2:45 pm start. http://12.201.135.206/Race Deck/siteproxy.html
Forecast is for 18-22 knots at the start. These biggees, especially the tender PROSPECTOR, RUNAWAY, RAGE, and PYEWACKET, are gonna be way tipped.
Here's the tiller-steered, 70 foot Tom Wylie designed RAGE.
We haven't seen such excitement at a Pac Cup start since '96 when Lat-38's Max Ebb and crew of the Swan 47 TACONY PALMYRA accidentally got their recently stowed fenders fouled in the lazarette and ground them into the steering cables. This caused TACONY PALMYRA to lose steering and unable to tack as they crossed the St.FYC start line. The result was TACONY PALMYRA starboard tacking the St.Fancy bar, luckily stopping by going aground before sticking the bow pulpit through the plate glass window.
Speaking of fouled steering, SSS stalwart GREEN BUFFALO, with skipper Jim and his two sons aboard, found BUFF's steering cables inoperative on the Windy Reach Tuesday. No problem for Jim. He just put their Cal-40 on her reliable auto-pilot, disconnected the steering cables, and made repairs.
GREEN BUFFALO, one of the Pac Cup starters launched on Monday, is currently well north of Great Circle, and lies First Overall in Pacific Cup standings. Can Jim make his northern course stick? There's a big area of light winds directly ahead. How's he gonna get around that?
Someone from the Monday group is gonna win the Pacific Cup. The Wednesday and Thursday starters have been suffering light southerly winds from a weak and dissipating (1014 mb.) cut-off Low 200 miles west of San Francisco. Today's Class E will also be slowed by light west winds tonight and Saturday. Beating to Hawaii on port tack? You betcha.
Here's the Pac Cup Tracker, delayed 6 hours.
https://pacificcup.org/tracking.html
Although currently out of prizes, here is your Friday the 13th sailing trivia. What Class E 70 foot maxi in today's Pacific Cup start group once tipped over and crushed the owner's new Porsche? Was it PYEWACKET, RAGE, WESTERLY, PROSPECTOR, or RUNAWAY?
How are they gonna fit 6 boats on the St. Francis YC start line, barely long enough for two? Tune in at 2:30 pm, PDT) for the 2:40 warning signal, and 2:45 pm start. http://12.201.135.206/Race Deck/siteproxy.html
Forecast is for 18-22 knots at the start. These biggees, especially the tender PROSPECTOR, RUNAWAY, RAGE, and PYEWACKET, are gonna be way tipped.
Here's the tiller-steered, 70 foot Tom Wylie designed RAGE.
We haven't seen such excitement at a Pac Cup start since '96 when Lat-38's Max Ebb and crew of the Swan 47 TACONY PALMYRA accidentally got their recently stowed fenders fouled in the lazarette and ground them into the steering cables. This caused TACONY PALMYRA to lose steering and unable to tack as they crossed the St.FYC start line. The result was TACONY PALMYRA starboard tacking the St.Fancy bar, luckily stopping by going aground before sticking the bow pulpit through the plate glass window.
Speaking of fouled steering, SSS stalwart GREEN BUFFALO, with skipper Jim and his two sons aboard, found BUFF's steering cables inoperative on the Windy Reach Tuesday. No problem for Jim. He just put their Cal-40 on her reliable auto-pilot, disconnected the steering cables, and made repairs.
GREEN BUFFALO, one of the Pac Cup starters launched on Monday, is currently well north of Great Circle, and lies First Overall in Pacific Cup standings. Can Jim make his northern course stick? There's a big area of light winds directly ahead. How's he gonna get around that?
Someone from the Monday group is gonna win the Pacific Cup. The Wednesday and Thursday starters have been suffering light southerly winds from a weak and dissipating (1014 mb.) cut-off Low 200 miles west of San Francisco. Today's Class E will also be slowed by light west winds tonight and Saturday. Beating to Hawaii on port tack? You betcha.
Here's the Pac Cup Tracker, delayed 6 hours.
https://pacificcup.org/tracking.html
Although currently out of prizes, here is your Friday the 13th sailing trivia. What Class E 70 foot maxi in today's Pacific Cup start group once tipped over and crushed the owner's new Porsche? Was it PYEWACKET, RAGE, WESTERLY, PROSPECTOR, or RUNAWAY?
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BobJ
Alerion 38 "Surprise!"
One of the top-ten finishers in the inaugural Race to Alaska was Team Mau, racing a 17' Nacra beach cat. You might recall that much of that year's fleet spent several days pinned down by 30 knot winds in Johnstone Strait. I figured that to have still finished, Team Mau's skipper must be a special kind of over-the-top extreme sailing dude. So I was surprised when Phil Wampold's name popped up on our owners' forum a few months ago, wanting to purchase a relatively sedate J/92. I pointed him to a good example for sale in Southern California and the next thing I knew, he was sailing it up the coast to the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, his home port. I'd offered to let him borrow Rags' trailer for the trip but he was fine with sailing it up the coast.
Soon after, Phil bought a couple used sails from me and started racing the boat, then mentioned that he planned to enter the 2018 Pacific Cup.
After a wild sail down the coast and through gale alley, Phil and three crew arrived at Richmond Yacht Club a couple weeks ago. Last weekend we took the two 92's out for a "sparring" session:
Soon after, Phil bought a couple used sails from me and started racing the boat, then mentioned that he planned to enter the 2018 Pacific Cup.
After a wild sail down the coast and through gale alley, Phil and three crew arrived at Richmond Yacht Club a couple weeks ago. Last weekend we took the two 92's out for a "sparring" session:
Philpott
Cal 2-27 Dura Mater
Very cool, Bob! Keeping those sails in the family! And there is Ragtime! with her perfectly trimmed sails, looking beautiful on the wild and wooley San Francisco Bay. Hanalei Bay was so calm by comparison!
Last evening's proximity of Venus to the lower left tip of a 12% una moon was a highlite in the western sky after sunset. The distance between the two sky dancers was less than a finger's width at arm's length..
I awoke to find the sky had something else in it. One of WILDFLOWER's two masthead, water-activated PFD's had inflated, despite the absence of rain for weeks. Both units live in a protective acrylic canvas bag that is intended to burst open along its Velcro seam when submerged.
I think I need to investigate a 4.5 pound Russell Brown "Blimpy" for my 22 foot cat...Inside the fiberglas shell is a Davis radar reflector.
I awoke to find the sky had something else in it. One of WILDFLOWER's two masthead, water-activated PFD's had inflated, despite the absence of rain for weeks. Both units live in a protective acrylic canvas bag that is intended to burst open along its Velcro seam when submerged.
I think I need to investigate a 4.5 pound Russell Brown "Blimpy" for my 22 foot cat...Inside the fiberglas shell is a Davis radar reflector.
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Philpott
Cal 2-27 Dura Mater
OMG That is a lovely item, is it not? Nothing in a Cartier window is as beautifully made or displayed.
Jacqueline, qui est Cartier?
I used to sail with IOR yacht designer Dick Carter on his RED ROOSTER. But Dick was a Yankee from Nahant, 15 miles north of Boston, and the windows in his design office were for telescopes in a six story cement tower.
No, that's not it. You must mean Jacques Cartier, the famed Breton sailor, explorer, and cartographer who made 3 voyages (1534, 1535-36, 1541-42) to the Newe World, and named and claimed Canada for the French, thinking he had reached China?
FYI: I believe Dick Carter is coming out with his autobiography in the near future. One of our Forum's correspondents, red roo, helped edit Dick Carter's story and restore historical photos.
As for Carter's windows, his yacht design office in the six story tower in Nahant was once used for WWII Boston Harbor defenses and as a spotting tower for testing the new fangled radar being fine tuned by Raytheon in the main house adjoining the Tower.
Nearby to the "Tower" was a gun battery at Nahant's East Point. The gun battery was only test fired once, as its concussions broke many windows of local Nahant residences.
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Philpott
Cal 2-27 Dura Mater
Yes, of course that Carter. Thank you for catching my misspelling, Clever Boy.
If we didn't know better, we would be hard pressed to guess this smiling group of sailors just soloed from San Francisco to Kauai in the 2018 Singlehanded Transpacific Race.
Thanks to Patty Meanley for sharing this photo which lets us put faces with boat names. L to R:
Bill Meanley (DOLFIN); John Woodworth (OWL); Mike Cunningham (kneeling) (JACQUELINE); David Clark (PASSAGES); Carlianne Johnson (kneeling) KYNNTANA; Lee Johnson (MORNING STAR); Chris Case (FUGU); Philippe Jamotte (DOUBLE EXPRESSO); Don Martin (CRINAN II); John Simpson (CRAZY RHYTHM); Greg Ashby (NIGHTMARE); Charley Casey (RIFF RIDER); John Colby (IRIS); Tom Boussie (JOUJOU); Shad Lemke (DARK HORSE); Not Pictured - Cliff Shaw RAINBOW.
The beautiful and historic trophies are front and center. We are so fortunate to have them as their plaques have special names, dates, and history. At one point this year our hard working Commodore David fended off a legal "cease and desist" challenge to the Singlehanded Transpac from another race that wanted the trophy plaques and bronze belt buckles sent to them to be melted down. Congratulations, David Herrigel, from all of us for all you have given to sailors of the SSS and SHTP.
Thanks to Patty Meanley for sharing this photo which lets us put faces with boat names. L to R:
Bill Meanley (DOLFIN); John Woodworth (OWL); Mike Cunningham (kneeling) (JACQUELINE); David Clark (PASSAGES); Carlianne Johnson (kneeling) KYNNTANA; Lee Johnson (MORNING STAR); Chris Case (FUGU); Philippe Jamotte (DOUBLE EXPRESSO); Don Martin (CRINAN II); John Simpson (CRAZY RHYTHM); Greg Ashby (NIGHTMARE); Charley Casey (RIFF RIDER); John Colby (IRIS); Tom Boussie (JOUJOU); Shad Lemke (DARK HORSE); Not Pictured - Cliff Shaw RAINBOW.
The beautiful and historic trophies are front and center. We are so fortunate to have them as their plaques have special names, dates, and history. At one point this year our hard working Commodore David fended off a legal "cease and desist" challenge to the Singlehanded Transpac from another race that wanted the trophy plaques and bronze belt buckles sent to them to be melted down. Congratulations, David Herrigel, from all of us for all you have given to sailors of the SSS and SHTP.
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The Smokester
Member
sleddog said:
Brings to mind: "... pry them from my cold, dead fingers."
We don't need no stinkin' GPS. What looks below like a patch of unmown clover in the yard at Capitola Boat Club is actually a hotbed of celestial navigation.
Though not visible in the photo, CBC's clover patch is filled with bees, as many as 35-50 on a sunny morning. Not a place to step barefoot!
As was first proven 80 odd years ago using painted bees, bees navigate with 5 eyes (2 big, 3 small) that compute the bearing of the sun. When a foraging bee returns to the hive, she performs a figure eight "waggle dance" consisting of a short run ending in opposing half circles that returns her to the beginning point of her run. The direction of her run, the "waggle," indicates the bearing of the food source with respect to the sun.
An observing sister bee remembers the angle between the sun. When she flies out of the hive, the sister bee takes a quick sun sight using her polarized sensitive eyes that allow navigation even on cloudy days, and buzzes away on a "beeline," at the same angle as her mates waggle dance. In addition, the longer the waggle, the further the food source. 1 sec of waggle equals approximately 1 km of distance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7ijI-g4jHg
Next time you are enjoying a p-nut butter, sliced banana, and honey sandwich in the cockpit, you can thank a bee's ability to celestial navigate.
Though not visible in the photo, CBC's clover patch is filled with bees, as many as 35-50 on a sunny morning. Not a place to step barefoot!
As was first proven 80 odd years ago using painted bees, bees navigate with 5 eyes (2 big, 3 small) that compute the bearing of the sun. When a foraging bee returns to the hive, she performs a figure eight "waggle dance" consisting of a short run ending in opposing half circles that returns her to the beginning point of her run. The direction of her run, the "waggle," indicates the bearing of the food source with respect to the sun.
An observing sister bee remembers the angle between the sun. When she flies out of the hive, the sister bee takes a quick sun sight using her polarized sensitive eyes that allow navigation even on cloudy days, and buzzes away on a "beeline," at the same angle as her mates waggle dance. In addition, the longer the waggle, the further the food source. 1 sec of waggle equals approximately 1 km of distance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7ijI-g4jHg
Next time you are enjoying a p-nut butter, sliced banana, and honey sandwich in the cockpit, you can thank a bee's ability to celestial navigate.
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Right On.
Scotsman William Fife was one of the most famous yacht designers and builders of the late 19th and 20th centuries. His designs, more than 600, were built in Fairlie, Scotland, and were known for their beauty, speed, and unmatched construction. Included in Fife's portfolio were two SHAMROCK's for tea magnate Sir Thomas Lipton's America's Cup challenges.
When you see a Fife design, you are seeing a masterpiece. They are unmistakable.
So I'm walking the waterfront, and there was a most lovely 70 foot cutter named CLOVER. I was sure it was a Fife and struck up conversation with CLOVER's captain, commenting on the beautiful name. He confirmed Wm. Fife as the designer/builder and told a fun story of the origin of the name.
It seems the wealthy English owner was not well liked in the Fife shipyard where CLOVER was built. When it came time for the yacht's name to be carved in her beautiful wood transom and embossed with gold leaf, the shipyard workers rebelled when the owner's chosen name "C-Lover" was revealed.
With Fife's approving wink of an eye, the name carver "accidentally " misread the work order and forgot the hyphen as he carved into the solid oak transom. The owner and his consort appeared several days later for the launching, and as the champagne bottle broke on the bow, CLOVER she became.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHHbYf5ZVCw
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Good friends were recently close-hauled sailing their S&S 34 MOLLY B off Santa Cruz in afternoon westerly of 20 knots when the upper shroud parted and the mast broke. Fortunately, no one hurt, and after retrieving rigging and sails, they were able to motor home with the bottom section of the mast still vertical, but bent double.
MOLLY B, #3 of the SPIRIT class, was built by Hank Easom and Derek Baylis in 1970-71. MOLLY B, with her narrow beam and long waterline, was at one time one of the stoutest and fastest small boats sailing SF Bay, and provided a great training platform for the Baylis kids, Trevor, Will, and Liz. Derek Baylis was a fine engineer (Barient winches, Monterey Bay Aquarium) and seaman, and MOLLY B's Famet aluminum mast had oversize standing rigging.
But salt water, metal fatigue, electrolysis, even a possible lightning strike, eventually do in the stoutest of rigs. When MOLLY B's broken mast was removed by crane, all sorts of issues were discovered. Hidden holes and cracks in the mast at the deck partners, swages with cracks, and a fork swage fitting that had completely failed.
47 years old, MOLLY B's mast and rigging had exceeded it's lifespan. The owners had liability, but no hull or rigging insurance. Their current thinking is what they saved in insurance over 35 years will be able to buy a new rig....
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Tomorrow will be a survey and sea trial of an immaculately and meticulously maintained 38 footer here at Santa Cruz Harbor. Despite the boat's pedigree and maintenance, the owners were vexed by a continual engine vibration. Alignment, engine mounts, and various manner of expensive remedies were attempted.
Who would have guessed a worn and asymmetrical zinc anode mounted mid-shaft can create unbalance in a propeller shaft? Lesson learned for those with propeller shafts: make sure the boatyard, or person responsible, mounts the new prop shaft zinc 1-3" in front of the Cutless bearing of the strut rather than mid-shaft.
MOLLY B, #3 of the SPIRIT class, was built by Hank Easom and Derek Baylis in 1970-71. MOLLY B, with her narrow beam and long waterline, was at one time one of the stoutest and fastest small boats sailing SF Bay, and provided a great training platform for the Baylis kids, Trevor, Will, and Liz. Derek Baylis was a fine engineer (Barient winches, Monterey Bay Aquarium) and seaman, and MOLLY B's Famet aluminum mast had oversize standing rigging.
But salt water, metal fatigue, electrolysis, even a possible lightning strike, eventually do in the stoutest of rigs. When MOLLY B's broken mast was removed by crane, all sorts of issues were discovered. Hidden holes and cracks in the mast at the deck partners, swages with cracks, and a fork swage fitting that had completely failed.
47 years old, MOLLY B's mast and rigging had exceeded it's lifespan. The owners had liability, but no hull or rigging insurance. Their current thinking is what they saved in insurance over 35 years will be able to buy a new rig....
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Tomorrow will be a survey and sea trial of an immaculately and meticulously maintained 38 footer here at Santa Cruz Harbor. Despite the boat's pedigree and maintenance, the owners were vexed by a continual engine vibration. Alignment, engine mounts, and various manner of expensive remedies were attempted.
Who would have guessed a worn and asymmetrical zinc anode mounted mid-shaft can create unbalance in a propeller shaft? Lesson learned for those with propeller shafts: make sure the boatyard, or person responsible, mounts the new prop shaft zinc 1-3" in front of the Cutless bearing of the strut rather than mid-shaft.
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Howard Spruit
Member
I read the words "lightning Strike" relative to Molly B's mast.
Those words lead me to believe the mystery is solved:>}
Those words lead me to believe the mystery is solved:>}
There is no record of a lightning strike on MOLLY B during her life span that I'm aware of. I was speaking in general terms about lightning strikes on masts, as I have seen stainless rigging components compromised by lightning, not noticed until months later. The reason MOLLY B's upper shroud fork terminal failed looks like a combination of age, corrosion, and likely stress fatigue, as that original fork was attached to a tang at the spreader tip (i.e "discontinuous" upper shroud.)
I don't care how taut the rigging is on any boat, lee side standing rigging is going to sway as the vessel sails over waves, eventually creating fatigue somewhere near the terminals/tangs whether using wire rope or rod.