Who's in? I'm looking for that "perfect weather window" year and plan to go for it again.
Last year Tropical Storm Dennis kind of made things "interesting" and I ended up bailing out at Key Sailing about 2/3 of the way around the 105 mile course. Hard to make headway single-handed against a 30 mph steady wind!
Please please can't I have one year with steady 15-20 from the South? I want to finish by 5pm.
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Posted: Jun 12, 2013 - 11:11 PM
Your on your own, Jerome and I talked about it and I had the house reserved but I just can't do it this year, but will be at Island Hop.
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Posted: Jun 13, 2013 - 07:45 AM
I am undecided on it this year.
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Posted: Jun 13, 2013 - 11:24 AM
Aw, come on, hopefully we won't meet up at Key Sailing again.
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Posted: Jun 13, 2013 - 12:20 PM
Well I was all about it until 2 weeks ago. At a regatta in Panama City we did some sailing on a typical summer day which meant drifting and roasting in the sun until 2pm. It occurred to me that RTI is normally much the same.
I will probably bring the boat to FL. But if the weather doesn't look promising, I'm going fishing instead.
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Posted: Jun 13, 2013 - 03:54 PM
I've considered sailing this route based on the best weather window rather than when the race is scheduled.
Just like the big boys do when they want to go for records on Trans Atlantics and such routes.
I've suggested to Fort Walton Yacht Club in the past that they should have a perpetual "outright fastest" record regardless of when it is sailed. The start/finish would always be at the club and GPS tracks used to verify the course was followed.
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Posted: Jun 30, 2013 - 07:45 PM
Did anyone sail around the island this year? Since I wasn't there I'm assuming conditions were perfect.
Ok, just found the results on the FWYC.org it looks like there were only five entries this year, but conditions must have been pretty good and ARC 27 finished in 10 hours 15 minutes and a Tornado in 10 hours 48 minutes.
Randy Smyth apparently was first to finish in about 10 hours 3 minutes on his one of a kind trimaran Sizzor but got some kind of penalty that dropped him to 2nd place overall with the ARC 27 winning.
Maybe we can all get it together and do this next year.
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Posted: Jun 30, 2013 - 08:12 PM
Looks like Randy was OCS, crossed the line to early and didn't restart. 2.5 points penalty but that would give him 3.5 points and third place not 2.5 points and second.
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Posted: Jul 01, 2013 - 03:47 PM
I heard the Hans Report yesterday (second hand).
weather was insane the night before the race
Race was on/off again, course changed then unchanged
only 3 or 4 started
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The weather was very questionable at the start. Race committee decided on the inside course which is in the ditch both ways. It was a beat to Pensacola in 10-20 depending on squalls. In the afternoon the wind dropped to 7 for the down wind leg back to FWYC.
Randy's little boat thing was very fast in the down wind light air. Confusion about what constitued the start line resulted in Randy being penalized 1 place. He was moved back from 1st to 2nd. They have a rule due to a 100 mile race if over early it is just a 1 spot penalty. As an FYI he was not over early in the true sense, as he had to wait under postonement for 30 minutes. Then at the start was on the wrong side of the ball that was made the line even though they in the past used landbased structures to mark the line. In most folks eyes he "won" the race.
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We are looking at moving this back to September, after Juana's...
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Posted: Jul 18, 2013 - 11:20 AM
Hey Ashley Girl, good to see you here. What are the reasons/politics involved in thinking of moving the date?
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Posted: Jul 19, 2013 - 06:41 AM
After catsailor, some say that attendance will improve moving the race back to September. The weather in September will be a little better for drifting the gulf.
Some have raised concerns that it being scheduled the weekend after jaunas will hurt attendance.
I'm not sure how I feel about it, jaunas has been on my list for some time now but I find it hard to make it to.
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Posted: Jul 19, 2013 - 08:24 AM
I usually travel to the coast for Juanna's for a week anyhow, if it was +\- a week I could do both. Not gonna make a separate 7 hour road trip if its say, 2-3 weeks separated. Hard to get off work.
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