John Cairns wrote:
Sorry guys, didn't get my camera out of the bag the whole race, didn't pull
it out after we left the dock, felt we were too busy to be fooling around
taking pictures, and my camera isn't exactly compact.

http://community.webshots.com/album/550830749owCBob


Is that a J-33? Good name.


Probably not a bad thing under the circumstances, the boat got flooded,
probably 30-50 gallons on the cabin sole, under the quarterberths, forward
by the heads, under the icebox, sink, you get the idea.

Good grief, what happened? From the weather map I know you
had an exciting race.


.. .I had laid my camera
and bag on the port quaterberth cushion, sometime around 2 or so in the am I
noticed my bag floating upside-down in 8 inches of water piled up next to
the sink. Fortunately, the bag was water resistant enough to prevent the
camera or the contents of the bag, a Sigma and fairly expensive Canon IS
zoom lens, from being damaged. The towel that the camera was wrapped in felt
damp, however.


Do you have a way to dry it out, like say in a vacuum
chamber? Good thing to make sure. Dan (dbohara) recently
posted some notes on recovering electronic equipment that
has been dunked, but it doesn't sound like yours was bad.



http://www.toledoyachtclub.com/mills...inishes_R1.pdf

Note the # of dnf's, we were lucky, and under the circumstances, ended with
a pretty good result, 12th overall and 3rd in class.

That's pretty good.

.... RacerX lost a lower,
Hellion lost steerage at a rounding and hit the bouy, punched two holes in
the boat, Kicks broke their tiller. You read and they tell you how every
little bit of speed counts, it never becomes more apparent when you
calculate how much you lost by. We lost one place overall by a little over 2
minutes in a race with an elapsed time, for us, of over 13 hours. Do the
math.


Not a bad result. Sounds like other boats had worse problems
than a little flooding (whatever caused it). One reason why
I've learned to do fiberglassing work is to beef up stuff so
it won't break when the wind & waves get up... it's not the
waves so much, it's the landings! And a couple of bad waves
could make up (or cost you) more than 2 minutes.

Any good spinnaker action?

Fresh Breezes- Doug King