On Jun 21, 6:41 am, wrote:
cruisin wrote:
There are some real sailors on this yacht club dock, where we still
find ourselves stuck waiting for an exhaust riser and mixing elbow.
Last weekend they had a single-handed race, and almost everybody
participated. In 18-20 knot winds, they took their 40'-plus boats out
(med-tied, remember) did the race, and returned (backing in and med-
tying), all making it look easy, and saying what a great time they'd
had.

Sounds like some capable sailors who enjoy actually sailing.
Med-mooring isn't that difficult, same as other dockings... depends on
how familiar you are with your boat's handling, have the gear set up
for it, etc etc. Doing it single handed adds a challenge for sure.

My guess is, liability issues alone would prevent such events at most
US clubs?
I know there's the singlehanded transpac, but anybody's club hold
singlehanded big-boat buoy races?
Anyway, we were impressed.

There are a number of regattas with double-handed classes, some open
courses and some longer bouy races. Most of the single handed events I
know of are specifically for that, and they usually have specialized
boats too (such as the Mini TransAt).

I'm guessing a lot of these sailors were French?

Sorry to hear you're still waiting but it sounds like you are having a
good time! At the moment we are watching the weather, planning to head
north & east to the Thousand Islands area of Lake Ontario.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Yep, all French. Some really nicely kept boats I might add. This
club has a very active junior program, with Opti's, Lasers, Hobie
cats, etc racing all the time. The old saw about starting 'em young
must really pay off.
So are you taking the tug, or driving up north to Lake Ontario?
Yes, happily we're getting our new exhaust riser installed right now-
all stainless- but discovered the nipple is cracked (and leaking) that
the cooling line attaches to on our "dripless packing system" , which
answered the question about why our bilge pump seemed to be coming on
quite a bit. Now we may be looking at a haul-out to fix that little
turkey. Also discovered the oil fill plug on the tranny somehow went
bye-bye, and I broke the attachment linkage for the shift cable when I
tried to get it out of gear as we anchored here. I think this boat
really wanted a rest!
Mike

Mike