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Silver Eagle Race June 24th

I'm lookin at the competition in the singlehanded monohull division and I think I have a good chance of winning it. Red Sky? That's an offshore racer. Ragtime!? I've heard that guy listens to the Bee Gees. The Tweaker? We'll watch him, see if he sails straight. Olsen's the one to beat. I hear he holds the record for the famous Take Alcatraz race. Hmmm.

I'm thinking this is a two granola bar day with maybe some strawberries on the side. And chocolate. Lots of dark chocolate with almonds and sea salt. Mmmm! Looking forward to it. Let's hope those thunder showers don't materialize. I hate having to change into dry clothes half way through a race. But I will.
 
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There's a new entrant into the Silver Eagle Race: upstart Orion, having none of the gravitas of DM's 37 years, with a rating of -189 compared with DM's 213. Full crew, too. I guess they think they need all the help they can get.
 
Thus the "Course for Vessels with Limited Navigability." ORION will be rounding the Pt. Bonita buoy (among others) during their 45 nm run and they will finish at the mouth of the Estuary - which is a good idea since ORION is 55 feet wide and will be going really, really fast. They raced last year too.

As to music, here's that recent thread: http://sfbaysss.org/forum/showthread.php?1643-Sailing-Music&p=13737#post13737

I think Todd will be listening to the Village People, maybe the Monkeys. It appears Gamayun will be listening to Ken Burns.

For the rest of you lurkers out there: See what you're missing? Saturday is looking like a warm day with light but adequate breeze, and it's not too late to sign up. We could use a couple more doublehanders:

REGISTER HERE
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Good music and good food will be what wins this race! Maybe it's time for me to get some HUGE speakers installed on Rock On. I have always wondered if others would make room if I had Ride of the Valkyries blaring from my boat at the start.
 
255grizzly said:
Good music and good food will be what wins this race! Maybe it's time for me to get some HUGE speakers installed on Rock On. I have always wondered if others would make room if I had Ride of the Valkyries blaring from my boat at the start.
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Seriously: Richard Von Ehrenkrook used to play that at the start of races years ago! Richard! Do you still have those big speakers installed?
 
Change in plans. I will be racing on Mojo, Trimaran, in Silver Eagle tmrw. So I will be there, but not my boat. Have a great day all!
 
todd22123 said:
Change in plans. I will be racing on Mojo, Trimaran, in Silver Eagle tmrw. So I will be there, but not my boat. Have a great day all!
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Thank goodness! A friend on big fast lethal catamaran. Please don't hit me!
 
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BobJ said:
Saturday is looking like a warm day with light but adequate breeze...
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Ha! Remember that Rolls Royce ad? "Horsepower, adequate."

There was indeed "adequate" breeze north of the Bay Bridge. I started with a #3 and reefed main - on my boat that was plenty for the beat up to Blackaller and for the LONG beat/close reach from Red Rock down to the Bay Bridge - it was honking in the central Bay. ORION came blasting by, having sailed a much longer course, but once under the Bridge they came to a halt. I was farther to leeward and had more breeze so I actually passed them. An ill-advised set after rounding "SC" forced me over towards Naval Air. This required a beat/close reach back up to R "4" but again, being farther East put me in more breeze so I was able to make up for my faux-pas. Then RED SKY, TRAVELER and RAGS were neck-and-neck in the light breeze all the way up the Estuary. A few well-placed gybes (and a few not so well-placed) and I just nipped both at the finish. But the best news was to be found out later - I beat 'da CAN by three seconds after all that.

IYC welcomed us with BBQ fixings and liquid refreshment, leading to good visits and telling of war stories on their inviting deck. I left at sunset and had a nice sail back to Richmond - I still saw 20 knots north of the slot.

Great day! (Oh, except the other score was starboard winch 1, Bob's nose 0.)
 
Wow, that looks like such a big boat next to Green Dragon! What an interesting race it was. Breeze from mid 20s to zero, spinnakering that seemed to take like 30 minutes to get ready, mistaken rounding marks that took us miles out of the way, green water over the dodger and foulies across the slot, to shorts and near heatstroke conditions at the finish. Great hospitality at IYC. It sounds like they're going to do more hosting after these races. Yay.

Check this out: http://raceqs.com/tv-beta/tv.htm#us...ntana&rival=Cruz Sea Baby&tab=setup&view=auto. You can see both the OYRA HMB race and the Silver Eagle race on the same screen. I'm not sure how that happened but it looks like I might have a "rival." Anyway, you all need to download RaceQs so we can all replay these races and compare each other's strategies :)

(Hope the winch face plant is better soon! I say you tell everyone that a giant sturgeon leaped out of the water as you were rounding Blackaller, slammed into your face before you wrestled it out of the boat, and still took your division....)
 
Burn the winches! One of my main winches popped open after rounding Red Rock. I sailed with one winch for a while, but it was killing me and my sail. That and an earlier spinnaker twist at Angel Island doomed me for this race. I headed in early. Great conditions though, a little bit of everything.

I put my track onto RaceQs... and look at that, I'm racing to HMB now! That's weird.
 
I tried to create a silver eagle race on raceqs... not sure it's working for everyone, I see Kyntana, but not nightmare... also, doesn't show two of my jibes on the way to RR and the wind looks flat out wrong after RR (it shows us on run when we were on a beat.) Hmmm... maybe this is because I didn't finish the race and so it thinks i"m doing something else... not sure.
 
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No wonder you blew up a winch - you only THOUGHT you were going upwind!

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Burn the winches!
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Hear! Hear! A new event: Winch Burnings - every Saturday night at the Blue Pelican. Special this week: We'll also burn your Barclay's shares...
 
"I tried to create a silver eagle race on raceqs... not sure it's working for everyone, I see Kyntana, but not nightmare..."

That's because I was on my way to Half Moon Bay!
 
What Greg posted in the other thread. Fun day, we saw several whales (well, my crew did; I missed them all except for one humpback), several sunfish and a couple of harbor porpoises. We were able to carry the spinnaker right after rounding R2 for a change.
 
I'm signed up. There are a whole 5 boats signed up right now and the Wildcat is the only monohull. I need company.
 
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