Yup, interesting race. Paul and I swapped driving duty. Unfortunately for Paul, he was driving when the adjuster let loose. I hope he can save the shirt he was wearing. It soaked up a LOT of hydraulic fluid. Pics of the repair can be seen here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_C6No1c6s9YadL6Uwrk7lFOu83G3DWxL Touche' averaged 7.7 knots for the 100 mile race. We averaged 8.3 knots for the first 4 legs (60 nm). It was the 70th Gulfport Pensacola Race and the fastest. The monohull record fell by an hour. The first multihull, an F25, finished in 6 hrs 44 minutes. It was sailed by Randy Smyth, 5 time US multihull champ and 2 time Olympic silver medalist. For those interested, you can replay the race here: http://kws.kattack.com/GEPlayer/GMPosDisplay.aspx?FeedID=1723 It was a 9.5 nm shallow beat from the start off Gulfport to round a mark off Ship Island (one of the Gulf Coast barrier islands) followed by an 8 nm close reach to the Gulfport sea buoy. After the sea buoy, we loosened up to a beam/broad reach for the 42 nm leg to the Mobile sea buoy. We passed the Mobile Sea buoy before sunset. We've NEVER come close to that previously. After Mobile we turned down even more but couldn't hold the rhumb line without collapsing the genoa. We were back close enough to shore where we could look at the tracking data and saw we had a nice cushion on the second place boat so we opted to sail gybe angles instead of putting up a pole for wing on wing. The seas were fairly substantial, the boat was pretty squirrely and I didn't want to send anyone to the foredeck to set the pole (especially since that person was me). I hate wing on wing! We probably lost 10 minutes or so but safety rules! We finished 23rd out of 34 boats including the spinnaker class. We might have given up a half dozen spots by not going wing on wing. On the 3rd leg between the island and the Gulfport sea buoy, we passed a McGregor 25 sailed by Benz Faget , a local North sailmaker and national class sailor (he started 10 minutes ahead of us). Soon after we rounded the sea buoy, Benz passed us with a chute up. We didn't see any other boats set a chute. He won overall, beating a couple of Melges 32's corrected. Who'd a thunk it? A McGregor 25. We watched a Beneteau 45 ahead of us throw up a chute. It immediately exploded. As it turned out, it was probably good we didn't set the pole because we furled the genoa immediately after the adjuster blew up to take load off the backstay while we stabilized the rig. Winds were 18-22 and seas 3-6 feet for the entire race. As for the backstay adjuster, as soon as I finish mowing the lawn, I'm taking it to a local hydraulic shop for them to look at it. If they don't want to take a shot at it, I'll send it to Lew Townsend in Seattle. Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 9:32 AM, Dreuge via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > This past weekend was the Gulfport to Pensacola Race, a 100 NM offshore > sailboat race. Active list member Dennis C sailed Touche’, a C&C 35 mk1, > over 100 NM in under 13 hrs to win 1st place in his class. > > What makes this even more spectacular is the fact that at 40 NM before > the finish, Touche’ suffered a total failure of the back stay adjuster. > Dennis quickly kludged a temporary fix using a couple blocks and lines led > to aft winches. > > > > - > Paul E. > 1981 C&C 38 Landfall > S/V Johanna Rose > Fort Walton Beach, FL > > http://svjohannarose.blogspot.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > > >
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