We have two EPIC race events coming up in the next several weeks:
You might have heard that Angel Island (in San Francisco Bay) caught fire and was burning. Due to its location and lack of access it was extremely difficult to fight. Here is an amazing picture taken by George Dapsevicius of the Maltese Falcon off Angel Island last week...
Here is a new video that Joy Brown created which gives you a little idea (at least from the Schussboomer perspective) what it was like during the 2008 Cheney Cup - in case you missed it!
The Tri-Straits Series Results have been posted - congratulations to Kinetic Ki, Celebration and an oh-so-close tie between Syndicat & Handyman (who would have thought)...
Come join us for our annual crab feed and general meeting this Friday at 1730.
Now that DOGZilla is safely in San Diego it is making the light air down there look a little more exciting. Rumor has it that it is pulling 26 knots in 12 knots TWS. This would mean that it would take 23 knots of TWS for it to break the 50 knot barrier...
BREAKING NEWS - BREAKING NEWS
Here are the supplemental instructions just posted for the Viti Rocks Pursuit Race:
Viti Rocks Pursuit Race
Supplemental Instructions
Race Date: October 11, 2008
Pursuit Race
A pursuit race is where boats are started in reverse order of their PHRF handicap rating (slowest boats first). Each boat?s starting time is calculated based on their PHRF rating and the length of the course.
Boats place in the order they finish, and if you are passing a boat you are beating that boat.
Supplemental Rules
The boat finishing first will stay on station and record the order of subsequent finishers. This duty may be handed off to another boat (with their agreement) at any time, but only one list of boats and their finishing order will be kept and submitted to the race committee.
Boats over early *may* be hailed on VHF channel 72, and may exonerate themselves by restarting at or later than their assigned start time.
Course
Per 2008 Race Packet, start between R2 and refinery pier, Leave G9 south of Viti Rocks to Starboard, finish between R2 and refinery pier.
Assigned Starting Times (based on a 17 nautical mile course)
Boat PHRF Start Time
Kymodoce 226 09:30:00
Handyman 221 09:31:25
Syndicat 221 09:31:25
Lucky Duck 203 09:36:31
Barking Mad 198 09:37:56
Tryst 186 09:41:20
Thunderstruck 183 09:42:11
Zig Zag 171 09:45:35
Solitaire 158 09:49:16
Thumper 143 09:53:31
Celebration 142 09:53:48
Hesitation Zero 135 09:55:47
Jah Mon 112 10:02:18
Pangaea 106 10:04:00
Grafix 93 10:07:41
Slapper 89 10:08:49
Schussboomer 81 10:11:05
No Tomorrows 73 10:13:21
Kinetic Ki 46 10:21:00
Looks like the Nordic 40 had right of way at this weekend's San Francisco Leukemia Cup - but as we all know pictures can be deceiving. The big boat is the Maltese Falcon (owned by Tom Perkins of Kleiner Perkins fame).
Mark you calendars for October 18th! Cool race course, pig roast with all the fixins hosted by Chef Pat Barrett, trophies will be awarded for the season so bring your whole crew.
For many of you this will be meaningless techno babble, but for one (maybe two) it might be of interest -- the FCC just issues an order fully approving Class B AIS devices and dealt with side issues like frequency allocation.