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Uh, She's a Blue Rib-bon boat.
Having watched all three evenings of "Big Blue Live," the photograpy was spectacular. But it wasn't really "live," it was dark out after all. Photography was edited from clips taken that week, and months earlier, much of it not even in Monterey Bay.
The disappointment was the "Chamber of Commerce" and 10 year old level of narration by the hosts, who seemed to have had too much coffee as they gushed on and on, even while underwater. And yes, everyone gets it the sea otters are cute. But enough already, OK?
Full attention was focused last evening at the Race2Alaska (R2AK) gathering at Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. Cheers and rousing applause were given all 16 finishing crews, including a standing ovation for the winning team of the 25' trimaran ELSIE PIDDOCK with SSS's own Al Hughes, skipper.
Loudest cheers were reserved for solo paddler Mike Higgins, who finished this year's R2AK in his 17' kayak. An exemplary display of grit. http://www.pressdemocrat.com/sports/4236499-181/benefield-sonoma-county-kayaker-completes
Half a dozen R2AK boats were on display outside the Northwest Maritime Center while R2AK principal organizers Jake Beattie and Daniel Evans held the crowd's rapt attention as they announced the dates and rules for the next R2AK. The 2016 start date will be June 23, 2016, and surprise, surprise, there will be no change in the race rules, I.E, essentially no rules except no motors and no support. Hypothermia and grizzly bear encounters remain a possibility.
Besides the $10,000 winner take all for first-boat-to-finish in Ketchikan, the second place team will again receive a set of steak knives. Additionally, the first boat under 20' to finish wins $1,000.
There is a lot of enthusiasm for the R2AK and its principle of encouraging low cost boats, and innovative rigs. http://r2ak.com/
Loudest cheers were reserved for solo paddler Mike Higgins, who finished this year's R2AK in his 17' kayak. An exemplary display of grit. http://www.pressdemocrat.com/sports/4236499-181/benefield-sonoma-county-kayaker-completes
Half a dozen R2AK boats were on display outside the Northwest Maritime Center while R2AK principal organizers Jake Beattie and Daniel Evans held the crowd's rapt attention as they announced the dates and rules for the next R2AK. The 2016 start date will be June 23, 2016, and surprise, surprise, there will be no change in the race rules, I.E, essentially no rules except no motors and no support. Hypothermia and grizzly bear encounters remain a possibility.
Besides the $10,000 winner take all for first-boat-to-finish in Ketchikan, the second place team will again receive a set of steak knives. Additionally, the first boat under 20' to finish wins $1,000.
There is a lot of enthusiasm for the R2AK and its principle of encouraging low cost boats, and innovative rigs. http://r2ak.com/
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Those of us of a certain pre-video game age remember with some nostalgia the Burma Shave signs of old on country roads. They were usually 4-5 rhyming signs, spaced a quarter of a mile apart, with red print on white background, followed by a 6th punchline sign featuring Burma Shave shaving cream.
As kids rolling around in the backseat of the family station wagon, we loved these distractive and suggestive Burma Shave signs almost as much as spotting colorful out-of-state license plates or using "pull the rope" hand signals, getting truck drivers to blow their airhorns
"Does your husband / Misbehave / Grunt and grumble / Rant and rave / Shoot the brute some / Burma-Shave"
Past / Schoolhouses / Take it slow / Let the little / Shavers grow / Burma-Shave
or a parody on Longfellow's Paul Revere's Ride:
Hardly a driver / Is now alive / Who passed / On hills / At 75 / Burma-Shave
Burma Shave signs disappeared in 1963 as freeways increased traffic speed, lawyers suggested reading small roadsigns was unsafe, and technicolor monstrosities begin to litter the landscape.
No freeways here on the backroads of Oregon as we wind our way home from the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival.
And the signs aren't billboard size either, more reminiscent of Burma Shave:
Beer/ Booze/ Bullets/ Bait/ Stop in Santiam.
Tomorrow to Crater Lake to see the Phantom Ship.
As kids rolling around in the backseat of the family station wagon, we loved these distractive and suggestive Burma Shave signs almost as much as spotting colorful out-of-state license plates or using "pull the rope" hand signals, getting truck drivers to blow their airhorns
"Does your husband / Misbehave / Grunt and grumble / Rant and rave / Shoot the brute some / Burma-Shave"
Past / Schoolhouses / Take it slow / Let the little / Shavers grow / Burma-Shave
or a parody on Longfellow's Paul Revere's Ride:
Hardly a driver / Is now alive / Who passed / On hills / At 75 / Burma-Shave
Burma Shave signs disappeared in 1963 as freeways increased traffic speed, lawyers suggested reading small roadsigns was unsafe, and technicolor monstrosities begin to litter the landscape.
No freeways here on the backroads of Oregon as we wind our way home from the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival.
And the signs aren't billboard size either, more reminiscent of Burma Shave:
Beer/ Booze/ Bullets/ Bait/ Stop in Santiam.
Tomorrow to Crater Lake to see the Phantom Ship.
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Modern sprit rigged boats carrying asymmetrical spinnakers, like OUTSIDER, rarely round down to leeward. Leeward round downs usually happen to symmetrical spinnakers when the spinnaker pole is squared aft in big breeze.
A leeward round down results when the helmsman gets too far by the lee, and the spinnaker overpowers the rudder and pulls the boat over to windward. This undesirable maneuver can happen in an instant, as the below video shows.
Two unpleasant things are likely to happen as the boat spins to leeward and the mast goes horizontal: The first is the spinnaker pole goes into the water, often breaking the pole. The second is the main boom jibes at a high rate of speed, potentially causing serious injury to the rig and/or crew.
A third thing can happen when the pole goes in the water. The compression of the pole sideways onto the mast may break the mast.
Last, on a leeward round down, crew can be thrown over the side. WILDFLOWER once rescued three crew from a Moore 24 who had been pitched overboard and left behind by their boat during a leeward round down.
We are fortunate to have a 5 minute video of a Farr 40 in the recent San Francisco to Santa Cruz Windjammers Race. At 3:38 the Farr does a round down in a 35 knot puff while planing at 18 knots. The boom goes vertical, then jibes as the boat is thrown on its beam ends.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0R-zXyxEWb6Y25OTmthWmNQNmM/view?pli=1
A short while earlier the driver had called for spinnaker down. But the crew was frozen in place, and nothing happened. Then as the boat began its round down, the driver called for the afterguy to be eased. But that didn't happen either. The starboard side trimmer was busy holding on for dear life. Had the afterguy been quickly eased a few feet, before control was lost, the situation might have been saved. But things were happening very quickly.
Farr 40's carry smaller fractional spinnakers as well as masthead. This may have been a situation where the masthead spinnaker could have been switched for a fractional several minutes earlier, as the breeze began to increase into the 30's.
An "outgrabber" is one of Stan Honey's favorite things and pulls the spinnaker sheet outwards and stabilizes the spinnaker while spreading its foot. On the Farr 40, and other boats, an outgrabber can be simply rigged using a clew reef line from the boom end and snatch block.
Congrats to the crew of the SSS OUTSIDER for keeping the front end aimed downhill and winning this challenging race down the Coast. And then coming back 24 hours later, 80 miles away, to compete in the Jazz Cup.
A leeward round down results when the helmsman gets too far by the lee, and the spinnaker overpowers the rudder and pulls the boat over to windward. This undesirable maneuver can happen in an instant, as the below video shows.
Two unpleasant things are likely to happen as the boat spins to leeward and the mast goes horizontal: The first is the spinnaker pole goes into the water, often breaking the pole. The second is the main boom jibes at a high rate of speed, potentially causing serious injury to the rig and/or crew.
A third thing can happen when the pole goes in the water. The compression of the pole sideways onto the mast may break the mast.
Last, on a leeward round down, crew can be thrown over the side. WILDFLOWER once rescued three crew from a Moore 24 who had been pitched overboard and left behind by their boat during a leeward round down.
We are fortunate to have a 5 minute video of a Farr 40 in the recent San Francisco to Santa Cruz Windjammers Race. At 3:38 the Farr does a round down in a 35 knot puff while planing at 18 knots. The boom goes vertical, then jibes as the boat is thrown on its beam ends.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0R-zXyxEWb6Y25OTmthWmNQNmM/view?pli=1
A short while earlier the driver had called for spinnaker down. But the crew was frozen in place, and nothing happened. Then as the boat began its round down, the driver called for the afterguy to be eased. But that didn't happen either. The starboard side trimmer was busy holding on for dear life. Had the afterguy been quickly eased a few feet, before control was lost, the situation might have been saved. But things were happening very quickly.
Farr 40's carry smaller fractional spinnakers as well as masthead. This may have been a situation where the masthead spinnaker could have been switched for a fractional several minutes earlier, as the breeze began to increase into the 30's.
An "outgrabber" is one of Stan Honey's favorite things and pulls the spinnaker sheet outwards and stabilizes the spinnaker while spreading its foot. On the Farr 40, and other boats, an outgrabber can be simply rigged using a clew reef line from the boom end and snatch block.
Congrats to the crew of the SSS OUTSIDER for keeping the front end aimed downhill and winning this challenging race down the Coast. And then coming back 24 hours later, 80 miles away, to compete in the Jazz Cup.
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In the Farr 40 video, when the skipper asked for sail trim and no one moved, then asked to douse the shoot and no one moved I was reminded why I have chosen a boat that can be easily single handed, and why I get real uncomfortable when sailing with inexperienced people on larger boats.
It also might have helped the Farr 40, if the helmsman had chosen to keep the boat 10 degrees higher. But, I guess that would have forced the, do nothing, crew into a jibe later in the day.
It also might have helped the Farr 40, if the helmsman had chosen to keep the boat 10 degrees higher. But, I guess that would have forced the, do nothing, crew into a jibe later in the day.
The "frozen" crew is a helmsman nightmare. Helpless as his error in steering unfolds into a round down. They were lucky to get away with a two-part spinnaker pole. No one was hit by the boom as it sliced across, the main wasn't ripped when it encountered the starboard spreaders, and it was the pole rather than the mast that snapped. But what's really fascinating is that the Spinnaker Cup uses NCORC MER. How many of the crew were wearing crotch/thigh straps? It seems almost all of the videos of recent ocean races demonstrates a lack of attention to race requirements. No tethers are in sight, either, but one might assume they're safely stowed below where they won't get wet.
Five years ago, while playing in sawdust and glue, I started this thread to celebrate the passing of WILDFLOWER, and New Beginnings.
While gluing and screwing the hulls of the new boat in the garage, friends would scrawl messages on the walls. Before they are covered over, here are a few:
"Speed, Comfort, Cost: You can only have 2 out of 3." ~H.S.
"If you don't know what it's for, take it off the boat." ~H.S.
"There are no straight lines in nature" ~Ted Pearson
"A string won't oppose gravity."
"We aren't superstitious, we just believe it causes bad luck." ~H.S.
"We're shittin' in the clover now." ~ Hap Laurilla
"Just because we look confused doesn't mean disaster is imminent."
"All forces on a multi-hull, or any hull, are inward." ~H.S.
"The narrower the catamaran, the heavier (displacement) it must be." ~H.S.
"Best laid plans are merely good ideas. ~Gary Adams
"I don't know where I've been, and I've just been there." ~Butch Cassidy
"The further the boat gets from the driveway, the smaller it gets. ~H.S.
"I have finally arrived at an age at which things I remember most clearly never happened at all ~Mark Twain
"If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own ~Scoop Nisker
From Rocks and Sands, and Every Ill,
May God Preserve the Sailor Still. ~ Mariner's Prayer
And if you need an emergency rudder blade, go see the For Sale, Rent, or Loan Forum, below.
CU all in Half Moon Bay.
While gluing and screwing the hulls of the new boat in the garage, friends would scrawl messages on the walls. Before they are covered over, here are a few:
"Speed, Comfort, Cost: You can only have 2 out of 3." ~H.S.
"If you don't know what it's for, take it off the boat." ~H.S.
"There are no straight lines in nature" ~Ted Pearson
"A string won't oppose gravity."
"We aren't superstitious, we just believe it causes bad luck." ~H.S.
"We're shittin' in the clover now." ~ Hap Laurilla
"Just because we look confused doesn't mean disaster is imminent."
"All forces on a multi-hull, or any hull, are inward." ~H.S.
"The narrower the catamaran, the heavier (displacement) it must be." ~H.S.
"Best laid plans are merely good ideas. ~Gary Adams
"I don't know where I've been, and I've just been there." ~Butch Cassidy
"The further the boat gets from the driveway, the smaller it gets. ~H.S.
"I have finally arrived at an age at which things I remember most clearly never happened at all ~Mark Twain
"If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own ~Scoop Nisker
From Rocks and Sands, and Every Ill,
May God Preserve the Sailor Still. ~ Mariner's Prayer
And if you need an emergency rudder blade, go see the For Sale, Rent, or Loan Forum, below.
CU all in Half Moon Bay.
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For those who have visited aboard Nelson's flagship HMS VICTORY, or the U.S.S. CONSTITUTION ("Old Ironsides), you know cannon balls and "ships of oak and men of steel" altered the course of history.
Currently moored to the guest dock at Santa Cruz Harbor is another ship, small boat really, that did something important in World Events. This all but unnoticed 30 foot wooden ketch with tanbark sails is the GOLDEN RULE, designed by Hugh Angleman and built at Wilmington Boat Company in San Pedro.
In the 1950’s, the U.S. military used the Marshall Islands as their primary site for atmospheric nuclear weapons testing. These nuclear detonations in the Western Pacific began to wreak havoc on the environment and human health. Readily detectable clouds of radioactive fallout began to drift around the planet. Contamination was found in cows’ and mothers’ milk. Skepticism began to grow about government assurances that there was no danger.
In 1958, the GOLDEN RULE was purchased by a group of activists who set out on a voyage of nonviolent protest toward the Marshall Islands. Their plan, which was well publicized, was to sail into the target zone and sacrifice both boat and crew if need be to bring a halt to the tests.
GOLDEN RULE and her feisty crew never made it to their destination. The Coast Guard stopped the vessel in Hawaii and arrested the crew. But publicity surrounding the crew’s trial and imprisonment helped ignite worldwide public outrage against atmospheric testing.
That outrage turned the tide. By 1963, the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom signed the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which banned nuclear tests in the atmosphere, underwater, and outer space. No nuclear tests took place in the Marshall Islands after 1958.
The use of nonviolent direct action as a fundamental guiding principle of the GOLDEN RULE's crew fired the imagination of future generations and was the forebear of many peace and environmental protest boats that followed, including Green Peace, The seas of the world have never been quite the same since.
After the 1958 voyage, GOLDEN RULE was sold and eventually wound up in Humboldt Bay, badly neglected. She finally sank in a storm in late 2010.When a group of Northern California members of Veterans for Peace learned the damaged ketch was nearby and might be salvageable, they raised the GOLDEN RULE and against prevailing wisdom, restored her to original condition.
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With GOLDEN RULE's rebuild complete, she is currently voyaging slowly down the California coast, honoring her original crew as a living museum. Her present day crew hopes to educate future generations on the risks of nuclear technology and the importance of the ocean environment.
For today's quiz, one of GOLDEN RULE's bigger sisters won the Transpac. Name the boat and year and win an overnight stay at Capitola Yacht Club. Bonus points if you can identify the furry things in GOLDEN RULE's rigging, and their purpose.
Currently moored to the guest dock at Santa Cruz Harbor is another ship, small boat really, that did something important in World Events. This all but unnoticed 30 foot wooden ketch with tanbark sails is the GOLDEN RULE, designed by Hugh Angleman and built at Wilmington Boat Company in San Pedro.
In the 1950’s, the U.S. military used the Marshall Islands as their primary site for atmospheric nuclear weapons testing. These nuclear detonations in the Western Pacific began to wreak havoc on the environment and human health. Readily detectable clouds of radioactive fallout began to drift around the planet. Contamination was found in cows’ and mothers’ milk. Skepticism began to grow about government assurances that there was no danger.
In 1958, the GOLDEN RULE was purchased by a group of activists who set out on a voyage of nonviolent protest toward the Marshall Islands. Their plan, which was well publicized, was to sail into the target zone and sacrifice both boat and crew if need be to bring a halt to the tests.
GOLDEN RULE and her feisty crew never made it to their destination. The Coast Guard stopped the vessel in Hawaii and arrested the crew. But publicity surrounding the crew’s trial and imprisonment helped ignite worldwide public outrage against atmospheric testing.
That outrage turned the tide. By 1963, the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom signed the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which banned nuclear tests in the atmosphere, underwater, and outer space. No nuclear tests took place in the Marshall Islands after 1958.
The use of nonviolent direct action as a fundamental guiding principle of the GOLDEN RULE's crew fired the imagination of future generations and was the forebear of many peace and environmental protest boats that followed, including Green Peace, The seas of the world have never been quite the same since.
After the 1958 voyage, GOLDEN RULE was sold and eventually wound up in Humboldt Bay, badly neglected. She finally sank in a storm in late 2010.When a group of Northern California members of Veterans for Peace learned the damaged ketch was nearby and might be salvageable, they raised the GOLDEN RULE and against prevailing wisdom, restored her to original condition.
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With GOLDEN RULE's rebuild complete, she is currently voyaging slowly down the California coast, honoring her original crew as a living museum. Her present day crew hopes to educate future generations on the risks of nuclear technology and the importance of the ocean environment.
For today's quiz, one of GOLDEN RULE's bigger sisters won the Transpac. Name the boat and year and win an overnight stay at Capitola Yacht Club. Bonus points if you can identify the furry things in GOLDEN RULE's rigging, and their purpose.
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Skip, That would be "SEA WITCH" - which became the prototype for a long series of Angleman ketches. And, yes, baggy wrinkle was hemp line "fuzzed up" and fastened to standing rigging to keep sails from chafing. Seems strange sailing a Wyliecat that I don't have a 2nd mast and any standing rigging to deal with. The only baggy wrinkle aboard "NANCY" is my unshaven beard. Pat B.
On a blue chart on the bottom of the Home Page of the SSS Forum, there is a note that the 2016 SingleHanded TransPac starts in June, 2016. "Join Us!"
It's not too early to be booking housing in Hanalei. But what's the start date for the 20th Edition of the SHTP? I believe its been set and committees are already preparing for the seminars, sendoff and reception. The Start Date. Do we need a secret password? The 2016 Race2Alaska starts June 23, 2016. I hope to be at one or the other.
It's not too early to be booking housing in Hanalei. But what's the start date for the 20th Edition of the SHTP? I believe its been set and committees are already preparing for the seminars, sendoff and reception. The Start Date. Do we need a secret password? The 2016 Race2Alaska starts June 23, 2016. I hope to be at one or the other.
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Extra points to John S and Pat B for identifying the charming word "baggywrinkle" as the name for furry chafe protectors wrapped around wire rigging to reduce wear on sails.
Baggywrinkle is made from short strands of old rope woven into a long, shaggy fringe that is then wrapped around the rigging so that it becomes becomes a large hairy cylinder looking like poodles hanging the rigging. These days, except on tall ships, baggywrinkle has fallen out of favor, being replaced by high tech teflon tape and sails that resist chafe better than cotton of yore.
Congrats also to Pat B for identifying GOLDEN RULE's big sister as SEA WITCH, overall handicap winner of the 1951 TransPac Race from San Pedro to Honolulu. Below are two beautiful paintings of SEA WITCH, and as is seen, she can spread a load of sail. There were a number of Sea Witch ketches built, almost 40, all with the word "SEA" in the first part of their name. Sea Witch ketches can still be seen sailing and identified by their upward raked bowsprit, gaff main, marconi mizzen and graceful sheer.
Additional extra points for naming and telling us how to pronounce those horizontal steps up SEA WITCH's main mast rigging.
Baggywrinkle is made from short strands of old rope woven into a long, shaggy fringe that is then wrapped around the rigging so that it becomes becomes a large hairy cylinder looking like poodles hanging the rigging. These days, except on tall ships, baggywrinkle has fallen out of favor, being replaced by high tech teflon tape and sails that resist chafe better than cotton of yore.
Congrats also to Pat B for identifying GOLDEN RULE's big sister as SEA WITCH, overall handicap winner of the 1951 TransPac Race from San Pedro to Honolulu. Below are two beautiful paintings of SEA WITCH, and as is seen, she can spread a load of sail. There were a number of Sea Witch ketches built, almost 40, all with the word "SEA" in the first part of their name. Sea Witch ketches can still be seen sailing and identified by their upward raked bowsprit, gaff main, marconi mizzen and graceful sheer.
Additional extra points for naming and telling us how to pronounce those horizontal steps up SEA WITCH's main mast rigging.
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