BobJ
Alerion 38 "Surprise!"
Sled encouraged me to better equip my boat for cruising, so I bought a windlass.
I'm having a little trouble with it.
I'm having a little trouble with it.
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I almost bought a Haida 26 about 4 years ago. It was in Monterey, at the Breakwater Cove marina. The guy bought the boat...didn't know what he had...and just wanted the slip for his fishing boat. The inside was almost completely removed and there was a very odd steel box built into the companionway, in the cockpit. The rigging was beyond shot, but the mast was still up. This was the flush-deck version....no little cabin. They're slow but this boat had good bones. I was tempted.
Huh. Certainly wasn't expecting that!
mike cunningham
Freedom 30 "Jacqueline"
mike cunningham
Freedom 30 "Jacqueline"
It is official, Singlehanded sailors are geniuses
http://www.the-open-mind.com/science-says-people-who-talk-to-themselves-are-geniuses/
http://www.the-open-mind.com/science-says-people-who-talk-to-themselves-are-geniuses/
That's one seriously tough little tug!
In the majority of TransPacific races to Hawaii, the second half of the course is predominately downwind in NorthEast tradewinds. Though the handicap rules are based on an average wind speed of 14 knots, the truth is the tradewinds blow consistently at 18-22 knots, higher on the front edge of passing squalls. These winds build up following seas of 6-12 feet in height, traveling southwest (towards Hawaii) at an average 15 knots.
In these windspeeds, lighter weight race boats like J-125's and Moore-24's will plane across the ocean swell, catching the wave ahead and occasionally digging in the bow so blue water flows aft across the deck. Though planing to Hawaii is fast and great fun in the right conditions, there's another way to get downwind available to heavier, more underpowered, "cruisy" boats sailing dead downwind. It's called "surfing" and is what Cal-40's and other medium displacement designs love to do.
When you surf down a wave, you wait for a nice steep overtaking swell to pick up the stern. Then give the rudder a few wiggles to break things loose, and aim directly down the face of the wave towards the deepest part of the valley ahead.
Due to their weight, lack of sail area, and blunt keels, Cal-40's won't plane. But they love to surf, often for 50-100 yards at a time. As the boat takes off down the face of the wave, pulling the apparent wind forward, an experienced helmsperson can steer a shallow angle to leeward (by the lee) across the face of the wave for 50-100 yards, doubling the distance towards Hawaii on a boat that has not caught the same wave. Surfing is an easily developed skill that can be learned by practice time at the tiller.
Here's Stan and Sally Honey, Jon Andron, and myself surfing the Cal-40 ILLUSION in the 2003 TransPac:
(That's an "outgrabber" rigged on the spinnaker sheet. The outgrabber does triple duty, spreading and stabilizing the spinnaker, reducing chafe on the boom, and acting as a boom preventer.
The real trick with surfing is not to be left behind by the passing wave. This involves anticipating the moment when the bow begins to rise, and leaving the wave (steering back to windward) before the wave leaves you. This is not something windvanes or autopilots can anticipate. Only a human driver can weave the "S" course needed to surf to Hawaii.
Interestingly, bigger, faster boats like Santa Cruz 70's don't surf very well. They don't fit in the tradewind swells, and get stuck in the wave trough with their stern in the approaching wave, and their bow in the departing wave. We call it "wallowing."
Surfing is most enjoyed by tiller steered boats where the driver is seated athwartships in a bean bag, well braced, with good visibility both fore and aft, and instantaneous fingertip control. Steering with a wheel means standing, not as well braced, and in a more tiring position with your back to the approaching wave.
Surfing downwind. It's becoming out of fashion. But remains great fun for those of us with older, heavier, smaller designs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLgWbH-qhVo
In these windspeeds, lighter weight race boats like J-125's and Moore-24's will plane across the ocean swell, catching the wave ahead and occasionally digging in the bow so blue water flows aft across the deck. Though planing to Hawaii is fast and great fun in the right conditions, there's another way to get downwind available to heavier, more underpowered, "cruisy" boats sailing dead downwind. It's called "surfing" and is what Cal-40's and other medium displacement designs love to do.
When you surf down a wave, you wait for a nice steep overtaking swell to pick up the stern. Then give the rudder a few wiggles to break things loose, and aim directly down the face of the wave towards the deepest part of the valley ahead.
Due to their weight, lack of sail area, and blunt keels, Cal-40's won't plane. But they love to surf, often for 50-100 yards at a time. As the boat takes off down the face of the wave, pulling the apparent wind forward, an experienced helmsperson can steer a shallow angle to leeward (by the lee) across the face of the wave for 50-100 yards, doubling the distance towards Hawaii on a boat that has not caught the same wave. Surfing is an easily developed skill that can be learned by practice time at the tiller.
Here's Stan and Sally Honey, Jon Andron, and myself surfing the Cal-40 ILLUSION in the 2003 TransPac:
(That's an "outgrabber" rigged on the spinnaker sheet. The outgrabber does triple duty, spreading and stabilizing the spinnaker, reducing chafe on the boom, and acting as a boom preventer.
The real trick with surfing is not to be left behind by the passing wave. This involves anticipating the moment when the bow begins to rise, and leaving the wave (steering back to windward) before the wave leaves you. This is not something windvanes or autopilots can anticipate. Only a human driver can weave the "S" course needed to surf to Hawaii.
Interestingly, bigger, faster boats like Santa Cruz 70's don't surf very well. They don't fit in the tradewind swells, and get stuck in the wave trough with their stern in the approaching wave, and their bow in the departing wave. We call it "wallowing."
Surfing is most enjoyed by tiller steered boats where the driver is seated athwartships in a bean bag, well braced, with good visibility both fore and aft, and instantaneous fingertip control. Steering with a wheel means standing, not as well braced, and in a more tiring position with your back to the approaching wave.
Surfing downwind. It's becoming out of fashion. But remains great fun for those of us with older, heavier, smaller designs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLgWbH-qhVo
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It appears Bond, James Bond, has landed in Monterey Bay. At least his ship, the deep dive and submarine research vessel ALUCIA is here, arguably the best equipped research vessel in the world.
At 183 'in length, ALUCIA is anchored just off Santa Cruz's Lighthouse Point, and appears to be making daily visits to nearby Monterey Bay Submarine Canyon, supporting technical dive and photography teams using two, 2-seater submersibles, both rated for a 3,000 foot max depth.
ALUCIA also has a helicopter, decompression chamber, and sumptous interior rivaling any mega-yacht. ALUCIA was used by Hollywood director Jim Cameron to discover the remains of TITANIC and was also the mother ship to the Woods Hole scientific expedition that found the Air France wreckage off the coast of Brazil.
ALUCIA is available for charter as support ship for the '16 SHTP. Or can just be bought for somewhere north of $50 million. Not sure if James Bond comes along with the deal. But ALUCIA should be a great halfway "Welcome Wagon" for all Singlehanded Transpackers, and a 3 hour complimentary tie-up has been negotiated, with showers, ice-cream, laundry, counseling, and use of jet skis included, at position 29 degrees N x 140 degrees West, between the dates July 7-11.
http://fraseryachts.com/Sale/sale_gallery.aspx?YachtID=Y14_MR_SD
At 183 'in length, ALUCIA is anchored just off Santa Cruz's Lighthouse Point, and appears to be making daily visits to nearby Monterey Bay Submarine Canyon, supporting technical dive and photography teams using two, 2-seater submersibles, both rated for a 3,000 foot max depth.
ALUCIA also has a helicopter, decompression chamber, and sumptous interior rivaling any mega-yacht. ALUCIA was used by Hollywood director Jim Cameron to discover the remains of TITANIC and was also the mother ship to the Woods Hole scientific expedition that found the Air France wreckage off the coast of Brazil.
ALUCIA is available for charter as support ship for the '16 SHTP. Or can just be bought for somewhere north of $50 million. Not sure if James Bond comes along with the deal. But ALUCIA should be a great halfway "Welcome Wagon" for all Singlehanded Transpackers, and a 3 hour complimentary tie-up has been negotiated, with showers, ice-cream, laundry, counseling, and use of jet skis included, at position 29 degrees N x 140 degrees West, between the dates July 7-11.
http://fraseryachts.com/Sale/sale_gallery.aspx?YachtID=Y14_MR_SD
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Philpott
Cal 2-27 Dura Mater
Oh, rats! Brian just confirmed a rental on the beach in Hanalei for the race committee. He considered renting a large sailboat for the RC World Headquarters, but the Alucia would have been so much more comfortable!
Though the mission details of the R/V ALUCIA to Monterey Bay are not being made public, they are sure to involve mapping and photographing the Monterey Bay Submarine Canyon, possibly for Nat.Geo. WHOI, or MBARI.
This amazing geologic feature extends from the mouth of Moss Landing Harbor and winds more than 100 miles southwest, reaching depths greater than the Grand Canyon (one mile) rising up with steep canyon walls.
What carved the Monterey Bay Canyon is unknown, although evidence points that it was once the outlet for the Colorado River, over 8 million years ago, before the Gulf of California was opened to the sea. http://www.mbari.org/canyon/Mapping_Sections.htm
ALUCIA's current explorations bring to mind a little remembered 1981 salvage operation seaward of Monterey Harbor. A year earlier, the Shield's Class sloop BARBARA, #186, owned by the Naval Post Graduate School Sailing Association, had sunk in 80 feet of water, 3/4 mile off Del Monte Beach, while returning to Monterey Harbor during a vicious squall. (The Shields, built by ChrisCraft had a design flaw, in their water-tight bulkheads did not reach fully upward to the underside of the deck.)
My father had a pronounced interest in recovering BARBARA if possible. It was his donation to NPGS in 1969 that had made it all possible, and BARBARA had been named in honor of his good friend Cornelius Shield's granddaughter.
Partly due to my father's Navy connections, the specially equipped Minesweeper U.S.S.PLUCK hove into Monterey Bay in 1981 to demonstrate its sonar to NPGS. PLUCK had recently been outfitted with a newly developed sonar and GPS system that was very accurate compared to older methods of mine location. The operators of this device claimed that not only could they find a beer can in 1500 ft of water - they could identify the brand of beer.
Sure enough, given the challenge, PLUCK's crew not only found BARBARA, but raised her from the bottom. While she was at it, PLUCK also located and raised a luxury yacht that had sunk nearby and was leaking fuel.
The Shields story came to a nostalgic climax in late December, 1984, at the Monterey Peninsula Yacht Club, when a fully restored BARBARA was re-christened.
BARBARA still sails out of Monterey, now with her bulkheads truly watertight. http://www.shieldsclass.com/pdfs/Mastheads/1985March.pdf
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While on the subject of research vessels, good news for all John Steinbeck fans. The WESTERN FLYER, the 70 foot purse seiner which Steinbeck and marine biologist "Doc" Ricketts chartered for exploration into the Gulf of California in 1940 and resulted in the classics Log from the Sea of Cortez and Between Pacific Tides, is currently being restored indoors in Port Townsend, WA.
WESTERN FLYER is an historical icon of American Literature and should never have fallen into such disrepair.
As recently as June, 2012, Gary and I saw WESTERN FLYER decrepit and sunk in the mud near Anacortes.
SSS correspondent Gary picks up the tale after a recent tour onboard:
"Chris Chase (in the black hooded sweat shirt) is the project manager. The scope of the restoring WESTERN FLYER seems immense but Chris described it as pretty routine work for the Shipwright's Co-Op.....They have a good source of old growth fir up in BC. Note frames are on approx. 9" centers & all will be replaced. Plans call for a electric engine with bow/stern thrusters. The photo of the wheel house shows that it will be awhile before they get to the "brass polishing" phase. Chris was very generous with his time & we departed with a deep respect for what the "rebuild," costing an estimated $2 million, will entail."
If you are near Port Townsend, visiting WESTERN FLYER is worth a looksee.
WESTERN FLYER is an historical icon of American Literature and should never have fallen into such disrepair.
As recently as June, 2012, Gary and I saw WESTERN FLYER decrepit and sunk in the mud near Anacortes.
SSS correspondent Gary picks up the tale after a recent tour onboard:"Chris Chase (in the black hooded sweat shirt) is the project manager. The scope of the restoring WESTERN FLYER seems immense but Chris described it as pretty routine work for the Shipwright's Co-Op.....They have a good source of old growth fir up in BC. Note frames are on approx. 9" centers & all will be replaced. Plans call for a electric engine with bow/stern thrusters. The photo of the wheel house shows that it will be awhile before they get to the "brass polishing" phase. Chris was very generous with his time & we departed with a deep respect for what the "rebuild," costing an estimated $2 million, will entail."
If you are near Port Townsend, visiting WESTERN FLYER is worth a looksee.
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About surfing the CAL 40...
I used to here "40s Fit" when referring to down wind surfing.
However my first ocean sailing experiences were on a P CAT back in the early 60s. by the time I got competent enough to go ocean racing the Cal 40s were established as the boat to beat, so I sailed on that type and as a surfer enjoyed the surfing ability of the moderate light boats. But I did come from a multihull background and we were used to boats that went faster than waves, so the steering game went from trying to sail into the holes created by the wave to trying to avoid the lump in front of the hole. In other words, steer around the high spot, so as to avoid the "WALLOW" condition that boats that don't fit in the hole, or are going faster that the wave pattern.
It is good to see that the Western Flyer is on the way back.
I read the book while delivering a Cal 40 back from La Paz back in the 60s.
I used to here "40s Fit" when referring to down wind surfing.
However my first ocean sailing experiences were on a P CAT back in the early 60s. by the time I got competent enough to go ocean racing the Cal 40s were established as the boat to beat, so I sailed on that type and as a surfer enjoyed the surfing ability of the moderate light boats. But I did come from a multihull background and we were used to boats that went faster than waves, so the steering game went from trying to sail into the holes created by the wave to trying to avoid the lump in front of the hole. In other words, steer around the high spot, so as to avoid the "WALLOW" condition that boats that don't fit in the hole, or are going faster that the wave pattern.
It is good to see that the Western Flyer is on the way back.
I read the book while delivering a Cal 40 back from La Paz back in the 60s.
Dazzler
m/v PACIFIC LOON
Yes, while in Port Townsend last September for the Wooden Boat Festival, we had heard about the restoration and had to go seek out WESTERN FLYER. I've always enjoyed Steinbeck, and Doc Ricketts' Between Pacific Tides is on our book shelf and has been a reference for both of us for many decades.
We enjoyed seeing WESTERN FLYER and imagining her history. She deserves to be restored.
Quite the contrast with the present day MBARI R/V WESTERN FLYER reseach vessel.
http://www.mbari.org/dmo/vessels_vehicles/western_flyer/flyer.html
Tom & Sue
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Dazzler
m/v PACIFIC LOON
November 12, NYTimes: 75 Years After Steinbeck Sailed, a Boat Is Readied to Go Back to Sea
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/13/u...l?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad
A worker inside the Western Flyer in Port Townsend, Wash. The boat, built in 1937 and made famous by the writer John Steinbeck, is being ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/13/u...l?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad
A worker inside the Western Flyer in Port Townsend, Wash. The boat, built in 1937 and made famous by the writer John Steinbeck, is being ...
For those with an interest in the evolution of yacht design, Roger Taylor's recently published L. Francis Herreshoff: Yacht Designer, Volume I is an extensive biography that chronicles the life and work of the most remarkable yacht designer of his time.
L. Francis, 1890-1972, was the black sheep of the famous Herreshoff Yacht Design family, and began his career in the shadow of his famous father, Nathaniel G Herreshoff. After taking up dairy farming, LFH emerged to become a designer who could come close to the perfection of form in yacht design. Though not prolific, LFH was of genius proportions and his designs, from the Rozinante yawl to TICONDEROGA will always be considered classics.
Taylor's exhaustively researched and well photographed book is certainly a Holiday gift that would be treasured for years to come.
Thanks to red roo, I have received black and white photos of LFH's winning "R" class boat LIVE YANKEE, launched in 1927. LIVE YANKEE was the most radical, innovative, and fastest "R" boat built. LIVE YANKEE had a rotating mast, and sparred jib luff, both of which LFH patented. Unfortunately for him, the handicap rules were changed as a result of LIVE YANKEE innovations.
LIVE YANKEE was a lead mine, with an 80% ballast ratio. The lead keel came all the way up into the cabin. She had streamlined and rolled deck edges for sailing with the rail under, adjustable spreaders, a flexible rudder,a non-overlapping jib, and a beautiful black hull with a canoe stern.
I'd guess if LIVE YANKEE were still sailing today, she'd be as fast, if not faster, than most 40 footers, at least up the wind.
L. Francis, 1890-1972, was the black sheep of the famous Herreshoff Yacht Design family, and began his career in the shadow of his famous father, Nathaniel G Herreshoff. After taking up dairy farming, LFH emerged to become a designer who could come close to the perfection of form in yacht design. Though not prolific, LFH was of genius proportions and his designs, from the Rozinante yawl to TICONDEROGA will always be considered classics.
Taylor's exhaustively researched and well photographed book is certainly a Holiday gift that would be treasured for years to come.
Thanks to red roo, I have received black and white photos of LFH's winning "R" class boat LIVE YANKEE, launched in 1927. LIVE YANKEE was the most radical, innovative, and fastest "R" boat built. LIVE YANKEE had a rotating mast, and sparred jib luff, both of which LFH patented. Unfortunately for him, the handicap rules were changed as a result of LIVE YANKEE innovations.
LIVE YANKEE was a lead mine, with an 80% ballast ratio. The lead keel came all the way up into the cabin. She had streamlined and rolled deck edges for sailing with the rail under, adjustable spreaders, a flexible rudder,a non-overlapping jib, and a beautiful black hull with a canoe stern.
I'd guess if LIVE YANKEE were still sailing today, she'd be as fast, if not faster, than most 40 footers, at least up the wind.
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The fog is so thick I can't see the surfers reportedly riding double-overhead surf just offshore. Will Mavericks Surf Contest be held Friday at Half Moon Bay? Entrants are being summoned to appear.
WILDFLOWER mast is festooned with Christmas lights.
OK Singlehanders, I'd like to share a little Christmas color for decorating your tree. What better than a SHTP Trivia. First to correctly answer the below questions wins an eggnog and brandy in WILDFLOWER's cockpit.
1) Ken, the "General", Roper has sailed a credible 13 SHTP's to Hanalei on his beloved HARRIER. Ken has trouble with his memory, as we all know he swore 2010 was going to be his last year. Can you help Ken remember when he first sailed the SHTP? 1) 1956 2) 1978 3) 1984 4) 1990
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2) This SHTP Over-All Winner had a most unusual happenstance not covered in pre-race Safety at Sea Seminars. Who was it, and what happened?
1) Dan Newland, had a large squid or octopus attach to the bottom of PEGASUS XIV, slowing him 3 knots for two hours, and leaving suction cup marks in his bottom paint as proof.
2) Phil MacFarlane, while repairing his SSB antenna accidently locked himself inside the lazarette.
3) This winner, who shall remain nameless, once came on deck in the middle of a dark night, and waited at the stern for the red pedestrian crossing light to turn green.
4) Skip Allan, while flying a paper kite to over 500' elevation, accidentally snagged an inquisitive booby bird and had to reel him in to disentangle, thereby incurring beak bites from the enraged bird.
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3) This veteran and 3 time singlehanded Transpacker not only spoke with and got the largest ship in the US Navy to alter course, but also did what?
1) radioed the planet Venus on VHF and asked it to please alter course to avoid collision.
2) on purpose set his spinnaker on fire.
3) after an unsatisfactory and possibly political discussion with an unidentified and possibly imagined crew, stepped off his boat into his liferaft.
4) shot skeet with a 12 gauge shotgun while becalmed in the Pacific High.
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4) This boat is not only the oldest entrant ever in the SHTP, but had the most overhang fore and aft, and lowest freeboard.
RUMBLESEAT,, 22 square meter 1930
THALES, Peterson Schooner, 1931
DORADE, S&S Yawl 1930
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5) This SHTP entry was known for its colorful paint job, including a lavender hull, orange bootstripe, and lime green bottom.
1) Moore 24 COLORBLIND 2) Moore 24 RUSHMOORE 3) Beneteau 35.7 ORANGE BLOSSOM SPECIAL 4)Olson 34 RASPBERRIES 5) Triton DARWIND
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6) Of the below list, what was NOT once carried aboard by entrants in the SHTP:
1) a saddle and spurs 2) a lawnmower 3) a shotgun that was used to shoot skeet while becalmed in the Pacific High 4) an anatomically correct blow-up doll 5) flaming torches to juggle on dark nights.
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Lastly, #7, In 1996 "A Buglight For Weirdos" was infamously used to describe the Singlehanded Transpac. This description was coined by 1) Greg Morris after finishing the SHTP in his Moore-24. 2) Gary Mull in his irreverent column in Bay and Delta Yachtsman 3) Jack Schmale in the SF Chron Greensheet. 4) None of the above. It was in Sports Illustrated.
WILDFLOWER mast is festooned with Christmas lights.
OK Singlehanders, I'd like to share a little Christmas color for decorating your tree. What better than a SHTP Trivia. First to correctly answer the below questions wins an eggnog and brandy in WILDFLOWER's cockpit.1) Ken, the "General", Roper has sailed a credible 13 SHTP's to Hanalei on his beloved HARRIER. Ken has trouble with his memory, as we all know he swore 2010 was going to be his last year. Can you help Ken remember when he first sailed the SHTP? 1) 1956 2) 1978 3) 1984 4) 1990
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2) This SHTP Over-All Winner had a most unusual happenstance not covered in pre-race Safety at Sea Seminars. Who was it, and what happened?
1) Dan Newland, had a large squid or octopus attach to the bottom of PEGASUS XIV, slowing him 3 knots for two hours, and leaving suction cup marks in his bottom paint as proof.
2) Phil MacFarlane, while repairing his SSB antenna accidently locked himself inside the lazarette.
3) This winner, who shall remain nameless, once came on deck in the middle of a dark night, and waited at the stern for the red pedestrian crossing light to turn green.
4) Skip Allan, while flying a paper kite to over 500' elevation, accidentally snagged an inquisitive booby bird and had to reel him in to disentangle, thereby incurring beak bites from the enraged bird.
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3) This veteran and 3 time singlehanded Transpacker not only spoke with and got the largest ship in the US Navy to alter course, but also did what?
1) radioed the planet Venus on VHF and asked it to please alter course to avoid collision.
2) on purpose set his spinnaker on fire.
3) after an unsatisfactory and possibly political discussion with an unidentified and possibly imagined crew, stepped off his boat into his liferaft.
4) shot skeet with a 12 gauge shotgun while becalmed in the Pacific High.
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4) This boat is not only the oldest entrant ever in the SHTP, but had the most overhang fore and aft, and lowest freeboard.
RUMBLESEAT,, 22 square meter 1930
THALES, Peterson Schooner, 1931
DORADE, S&S Yawl 1930
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5) This SHTP entry was known for its colorful paint job, including a lavender hull, orange bootstripe, and lime green bottom.
1) Moore 24 COLORBLIND 2) Moore 24 RUSHMOORE 3) Beneteau 35.7 ORANGE BLOSSOM SPECIAL 4)Olson 34 RASPBERRIES 5) Triton DARWIND
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6) Of the below list, what was NOT once carried aboard by entrants in the SHTP:
1) a saddle and spurs 2) a lawnmower 3) a shotgun that was used to shoot skeet while becalmed in the Pacific High 4) an anatomically correct blow-up doll 5) flaming torches to juggle on dark nights.
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Lastly, #7, In 1996 "A Buglight For Weirdos" was infamously used to describe the Singlehanded Transpac. This description was coined by 1) Greg Morris after finishing the SHTP in his Moore-24. 2) Gary Mull in his irreverent column in Bay and Delta Yachtsman 3) Jack Schmale in the SF Chron Greensheet. 4) None of the above. It was in Sports Illustrated.
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Congrats to the General for getting 4 out of 7 SHTP trivia correct!
The Challenge remains open. Hint:Trivia #2 and #6 remain unanswered and both of Ken's answers of #3 are incorrect.
Note: Each of the 7 Trivia Questions has only one correct answer.
For Bonus Points, on question #2, who was the singlehander who got the Aircraft Carrier RONALD REAGAN to alter course?
The Challenge remains open. Hint:Trivia #2 and #6 remain unanswered and both of Ken's answers of #3 are incorrect.
Note: Each of the 7 Trivia Questions has only one correct answer.
For Bonus Points, on question #2, who was the singlehander who got the Aircraft Carrier RONALD REAGAN to alter course?
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