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What I Saw

Two goals with a single award

Philpott said:
I'd love some feedback. I know you have opinions.

https://yachtsmanmagazine.com/what-i-saw-by-jackie-philpott-24/
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Jackie is good at what she does. No, let’s make that very good - even excellent.

Putting a community in words is one thing. Finding the community and having folks tell their tale is harder.

I know Jackie is superb. So do a lot of other readers. Maybe too many of those readers take it for granted.

Topic 2 - Dura Mater is in need of an engine ( new, rebuilt, mostly functional and reliable). There are abundant requests for money through gofundme. Most requests are not class acts and go unfulfilled.

I offer a modest suggestion. There are awards for written efforts and at least two come with a cash reward. There could be more.

The Nobel Prize for literature comes with a One Million dollar award. Shucks, that would get a new engine in Dura Mater with some cash left over. (Just remember your friends).

The Pulitzer Prize has 23 categories and 22 of the categories include a $15,000 cash award. That should get a new engine in Dura Mater. Some baking may be necessary to expedite and reward the supporting troops.

I offer one humble opinion.

Cheers,
Ants
 
Thanks, Ants. I don't need a go-fund me effort, but if you could keep your eyes/ears open for a small, fresh water cooled diesel for Dura Mater I would be grateful. She had a 2 cylinder 11 hp and wouldn't know what to do with a bigger engine. Exhaust is on the port side. No bells or whistles, just to get up and down the coast and home from the Delta this summer. Getting to the Delta is a breeze (get it?). Thank you for your attention.

Randy has already turned me on to an engine in Watsonville. Thank you, Randy. Tortuga is on her third engine since he's owned her, so I'm feeling confident.
 
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Since we still don't have an engine, DM and I begged a ride from Bob J to the start of the Fiasco. This is what the morning looked like on the way out of Potrero Reach.

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Thank you, Bob, for getting up early to help. Thank you, Mr Hedgehog, for fending Surprise! off from the dock when I failed to walk her out of her slip. Duh.

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We rounded Blackaller and Red Rock, then decided to call it a day instead of finishing in the dark with no engine.

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Beautiful day for the Fiasco, and enough wind so lots of boats and their people were able to finish.
 
Philpott said:
Especially for you gearheads out there:

https://yachtsmanmagazine.com/what-i-saw-by-jackie-philpott-25/
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When I reached the Navik story I was outraged. The Wife surreptitiously sells her Husband's precious windvane without his knowledge???!!! And Jackie Philipot quickly loads the plundered cargo into her car so as to escape retribution!!??

It may well have been stashed unused in the back of the garage for a decade but that means NOTHING as I well know. For God's sake, he may have been dreaming about the South Pacific or New Zealand or racing singlehanded to Hawaii. Now, tragically, those dreams are tattered, laid waste, over, kaput and generally not achievable.

The Humanity....


Otherwise I thought is was a fantastic article, thanks for sharing.
 
hehehe Thanks, Mike. I still have your diesel container, plundered when I visited the Cunningham YC back in 2018. Every time he sees it, Bob J asks, "when are you going to return that?" As if.
 
Glen Garfein (pronounced Garfeen) is a fine photographer and member of Berkeley Yacht Club. Here is a series of photos he took from the BYC markset boat during the recent Berkeley Midwinters. Glen tells me we are welcome to his photos because he is only an amateur photographer. Ha! You coulda fooled me. Here they are:

https://www.mpal.pictures/BYC-Photos...ry-2024-Sunday
 
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This post should be titled "What I didn't See", for the following reason:
My friend, Kees, flew out from Mississippi to sail in the Fiasco with me. He expected a tshirt, loved the one I gave him from 2023. I agreed that he would, of course, receive one.

Only problem? I can't seem to buy one online. Has anyone out there been able to obtain a Fiasco shirt? I tried repeatedly to buy one before the race, then afterwards I called. Pirates Lair offered a recorded message, encouraged me to leave one myself. So I did. About a month later I got a voice mail saying that my phone call had been received. Nothing more than that.

https://store.pirateslair.com/sss-three-bridge-fiasco-2024-long-sleeve-mens-tech-tee/

I tried again today to buy one online. The Men's Size L Fiasco hi tec shirt looks great on the site, but it never makes it into my cart.

Kees has informed me that "you shouldn't make promises you can't keep". Huh. He's right, of course.

What ever am I doing wrong? Any advice?
 
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In January, my order seemed to go fine. Today, the status is ‘awaiting fulfillment’. Maybe most of the shirts are stuck behind Yerba Buena island?

Sam
 
That's interesting. Not ten minutes after I posted here Ken from Pirates Lair called me on my phone, took my order, promised to mail it to Oxford, Mississippi. Proof that there are still sentimentalists who read this old-fashioned Forum. Primarily for Skip, but also as an alternative Yelp.

While I'm here, I have a post in the And They Said It Couldn't Be Done column:

Over the weekend I invited Greg Ashby s/v Akuma, Jan Hirsch s/v Sweet Pea and Jim Quanci s/v Green Buffalo, to race in the Big Daddy regatta out of Richmond Yacht Club. No engine? No problem.

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Good thing there was wind.
Four singlehanders on one boat?! Was it crowded in the cockpit? Why, yes. Yes it was.
Thank you to my dockmate, Sam Turner s/v Frances, for the first two photos.

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Did we fight over the tiller? No, although Jan did mention something about my derriere getting in the way of making way. We sailed out of the slip, back into it, and sailed effortlessly in between.

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Three fine guests aboard Dura Mater, and she was delighted to have them. Thank you, gentlemen. It was a pleasure.
 
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In Big Daddy we went clockwise, circled Alcatraz and - WAIT! WHAT!? - the rest of the world was on starboard.

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If anybody knows this SSS-registered boat, here's a nice photo of his/her boat s/v LULU

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