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BobJ said:
Off Pigeon Pt.
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It looks like I'll be in the ballpark for their position at 2222 hrs - the last AIS ping showed them 12.3 nm due west of San Gregorio at 2200, sailing 175T at 10.6 knots.

Twelve hours earlier (at 2:22 p.m.) they were celebrating outside Danny's office. 'Zia was amped for the trip. I surveyed the provisions in their dock cart - looked suitable. The cold front hit right after they headed out and I thought it was going to snow at RYC.
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BobJ said:
It looks like I'll be in the ballpark for their position at 2222 hrs - the last AIS ping showed them 12.3 nm due west of San Gregorio at 2200, sailing 175T at 10.6 knots.

Twelve hours earlier (at 2:22 p.m.) they were celebrating outside Danny's office. 'Zia was amped for the trip. I surveyed the provisions in their dock cart - looked suitable. The cold front hit right after they headed out and I thought it was going to snow at RYC.
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Syn texted 2222 posit last evening as 37-16N x 122-33W which plots as 12 nm NW of Pigeon Pt. Due to distance, their AIS currently intermittent, with nothing in last 3 hours.

34 degrees here at CBC at 0600 this Wed. Big Sur range got snow flurries yesterday. No precip here.
 
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Temp at Studio 1027 0600, Weds 2/23 is 0 degrees F. About a foot of snow storm to date here of cold real powder. Tabby Cat says it's too cold to sail, she went down below in the cabin to make hot chocolate. SDK
 
skatzman said:
Temp at Studio 1027 0600, Weds 2/23 is 0 degrees F. About a foot of snow storm to date here of cold real powder. Tabby Cat says it's too cold to sail, she went down below in the cabin to make hot chocolate. SDK
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Brrrr. Zero degrees? Tabby Cat is a smart kitty. At 0715, ENVOLEE looks to be ~ 30 miles west of Pt. Sur, headed inshore on port jibe. AIS reports them out of coastal range, and I don't subscribe to AIS satellite positions.
 
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Brrrr. Zero degrees? Tabby Cat is a smart kitty. At 0715, ENVOLEE looks to be ~ 30 miles west of Pt. Sur, headed inshore on port jibe. AIS reports them out of coastal range, and I don't subscribe to AIS satellite positions.
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Tabitha, aka Tabby, has plotted ENVOLEE 24 miles abeam Cape San Martin at 1345 Wed. Synthia has checked in "life is good! Full main and symmetrical spinny in NW wind 15-20, gusting 25. Trucking directly at Pt. Conception averaging SOG 8-10 with surfs to 15."

Tabby is definitely in the hunt for the Macapuno. Tabby estimates 155 nm to go to Santa Barbara at 1400 hours today,, Wed. At 8 knots, that's 19-20 hours, meeow. Wildcard may be veering and decreasing wind past Pt. Conception in early morning. Can or will they motor last 30 miles?

Ants = 9:21 pm Wed. Feb.23 must average 22 knots to finish line
Jackie = 10 pm today, Wed. Feb. 23 must average 20 knots to finish line
SK and cat= 8:09 a.m. Thurs, Feb.24 must average 8.6 knots to finish line
sleddog = 10:46 a.m. Thurs, Feb.24 must average 7.4 knots to finish line
Dazzler = 3:59 pm Thurs. Feb.24 must average 6 knots to finish line
BobJ = 5:51 pm, Thurs, Feb. 24 must average 5.5 knots to finish line
 
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At 8:15 pm, Wed. evening, 2/23/22, AIS shows ENVOLEE 10 miles abeam Pt. Buchon, just south of Morro Bay and west of port San Luis. The lights of Diablo Canyon nuke should be very bright over their port side.
Their current speed is varying between 8-10 knots. I suspect the wind is going soft, or will be soon, this close to shore. Wind ahead at Pt. Arguello is currently 9 knots and 4 knots at Pt. Conception. Clear weather
They have 100 miles to Santa Barbara. At 7 knots that's 14-15 hours. Thus far, from yesterday's RYC start, ENVOLEE and crew have averaged 7.1 knots
It is expected to get to freezing in the CBC neighborhood late tonight. And a balmy 38 in Santa Barbara.

Update: At 6 am today, Thursday, ENVOLEE is abeam Pt. Conception, making 8.6 knots, and has 41 miles to go.
Update At 7:30 a.m. "Motoring into the sunrise, plenty of fuel to motor last 40 miles." (Wind is calm at nearby weather buoy.)
Update At 11:15 a.m. AIS has ENVOLEE motoring about 5.5 to 6 knots, 14 miles from dirt. Looks to be
a horse race between sleddog and Dazzler for the Macapuno witjh pomegranate arils. If they finish before 1:22:30 pm, sleddog keeps the Macapuno in his fridge. After that, Dazzler wins.
 
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In an unlikely coincidence, Synthia reported ENVOLEE tied up this afternoon at Santa Barbara at 1.20 p.m. This finish time meant sleddog and Dazzler had an exact dead heat, a tie.

ENVOLEE's time on course was 45 hours, 06 minutes for an average speed of 6.7 knots for 300 miles. Only damage was a spinnaker overboard in "a major roundup kerfuffle," that resulted in bits of nylon salvaged. Hopefully the spinnaker in pieces can be repaired in time for the PV Race.

Departure for San Diego will be Friday at first light. 170 nm at 6 knots = 29 hours or 11 a.m. on Saturday.

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Congratulations to our winners in this competition and to Synthia & Co. for not falling off the boat the whole way down. I imagine the air was very cold offshore for Envolee and friends.

Which reminds me that the Corinthian Race is this Saturday and it is sure gonna be cold out there on the bay! I'll be wearing long underwear, wool sweaters, hat and socks. Since I was only 15.5 hours off I think I should get some ice cream, too.
 
I've been blessed recently to be in the vicinity of some very fine schooner models. Mini-MAGIC, built by Craig and Vicky, is a working model. And looks magnificent whether on the water or hanging from her ceiling slings.

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WANDERBIRD, the Tompkins schooner, looked equally spectacular at Commodore's 90th Birthday, appropriately at Spaulding's Boatyard, where Commodore spent many hours under tutelage of Myron. The model of WANDERBIRD was built by Paul Reck, age 93, over a three year period.

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Happy to report, after her disastrous collision and sinking on the Elbe River near Hamburg, the 'BIRD has been totally taken apart with every piece numbered and labeled, and the hull shipped to Denmark for reconstruction. She should be back sailing in the near future.

When the Tompkins owned WANDERBIRD, she had a wheel. Unfortunately, the new owners in Germany converted to her original tiller. It was a grave navigational miscalculation, as well as 5 people pushing the tiller the wrong way, that was likely the primary cause of the collision. https://youtu.be/aXrTvVh4NOs
 
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What a lovely model of the 'Bird! My hat is doffed to Paul Reck for the exquisite workmanship.

Skip, did you take any other photos of the model?
 
Racing a 110 on Tomales Bay out of Inverness Yacht Club was a new experience on all accounts and our learning curve was near vertical. Our boat, #695, SMART SHOES, was kindly loaned by her owner, who was pre-occupied elsewhere. At some point, the boat had been rerigged with the smallest diameter, high tech line available, 20 control lines in all, making nothing easy to adjust as they all ran along and over the floorboards, subject to being stood upon.

The first 3 races, held in NW winds 8-15 knots, were nothing to write home about as we learned about local winds coming out of the canyons, giving 30 degree lifts and puffs to boats just a length to windward. Finally we got the fourth start right, and with two local hotshot boats ahead and to leeward, we carried starboard tack towards the fast approaching beach.

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Then our speed really got good, but only because the two veterans to leeward, who should have known better, ran aground . I threw the tiller over, but too late, we were stuck too. So we practiced hiking to leeward and sailed free after a minute or so in the mud.

Due to not being able to launch until half way to high tide, after noon, our practice time afloat had been limited. The first mark of the first race was also our first spinnaker hoist, only to discover both end jaws of the spinnaker pole were frozen closed. No problem, on the downwind legs I steered with my left hand on the tiller and right arm extended as a human spinnaker pole as we free-flew the spinny. I did say this was a steep learning curve?

All in all, a fun day in beautiful surroundings with a fun crowd.
 
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As we all know, misunderstandings when sailing with crew, is one reason we like to sail solo. I well remember coaching a women's SC-27 team. At the leeward mark of the big race, one crew disappeared below at the critical moment of rounding. When asked in a post -race briefing what happened, the missing crew told us her skipper said to "heat it up," and she went below to light the stove and heat up lunch.

Yesterday, after answering numerous redundant medical questions both over the phone, on multi-page forms, and in person, I showed up at the surgery center for an upper endoscopy to scope my esophagitis when a not dissimilar misunderstanding occurred.

As I was changing out of street clothes into a gown, on the other side of the curtain, out of the blue, the attendant
nurse asked, "when did you last have solitude?" Having grown weary of so many questions, part of my addled brain flashed on the early morning quiet and low tide beauty I'd recently enjoyed at Tomales Bay. But I wasn't sure why I should share that movie in an operating prep room. To be clear, I replied back through the curtain, "what did you ask?" Again, the nurse clearly, to my ears, said, "when did you last have solitude?"

Hmmm...Just to be triple sure, I said in a slow and authoritative tone likely heard by all in the room, "why do you want to know about my solitude?" There was silence and snickering outside the curtain, when Nina, the very nice nurse said, "No, no." "Not solitude." "Solid food.!"
 
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The night sky at Pt.Reyes can be extraordinary. Dark enough to see the Milky Way setting in the West in this wonderful composite photo by Dan Zafra.

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Sirius, brightest star in the Heavens is prominent in constellation Canis Major below the starry arc toward the left. Orion's yellowish Betelgeuse, Aldebaran in Taurus, and the blue tinted Pleiades star cluster also can be found between the Milky Way and northwestern horizon near the center of the scene.
 
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