SINGLEHANDED LEG NOTES
16 June - Received the following emails
after the race from past skippers. John Drozdal, Ariana: "Just wanted to
pass along a hearty congrats to the skippers and wishing them fair winds for the
return. May they all have a rum swizzle for me, and yourself as well for the
expert administration and enduring a nail biting event, and best regards to
Brian for looking after the fleet as usual."
Juan Perez, Tango: "You have done a great job with this year 1-2 Congratulations
to all the finishers which to me they are all winners."
16 June 2000 - We had a group grill on the
charcoal fire pit out back and ate up on the deck washing it down with some more
Gosling's Dark'n Stormy in a can. After the meal we had cake to celebrate
those skippers amongst us that are 70 and above years of age: Ray Renaud, Peter
McCrea, Doug Shearer and the oldest Stanley Paris.
16 June 1815 - Dan Stadlander called me on
Mirari near Nomans Land from his cell phone. He said he broke his boom,
tore his mainsail, broke his jib and is sailing with a storm jib. The wind
was out of the NW or NE and wasn't able to put up the spinnaker which was the
only other sail he had. While motoring he broke the shaft. With all
the tools he has on board he was able to build a coupler and tie the two pieces
together and motor again (beat that Peter McCrea). Then he was running low
on fuel and a NOAA vessel going by donated to him some fuel. He is
planning on going into Menemsha on Martha's Vineyard to recover, fuel up and go
home. Plans on making the awards in Newport on the 29th.
16 June 1100 - A group of us went
snorkeling with Patrick Paley in Tobacco Bay and then lunch at the Beach House.
Another group went out to the West coast to see the first day of the Fitted
Dinghy races. Grill night tonight.
Two amongst us, John Lubimir and Brian Flynn, volunteered to be crew on the St.
George's Dinghy & Sports Club's Fitted Dinghy for the races today, Sunday.
The boat was swamped on the second tack. They had one hell of an
experience.
15 June 0830 - It's windy and rainy here.
Brian took Charles (Serif) to the Dinghy Club for shower and breakfast.
I'm hunkered down in my apartment. I received the following after the fact
emails. Brian Oatley picked up Charles (Serif) and took him to the Dinghy
Club for a shower and breakfast this morning.
Windswept - "Amazing, I soaked my computer in WD-40, put it in the sun
for a couple of hours, and today it sputtered back to life!"
Curlew - "When I turned around and headed N from the Gulf Stream Curlew
was going 5 kts under bare poles with a strong SW wind. A couple of hours later
I was able to unroll the small jib and carried on N making 6+ kts through the
night in very big seas. It was quite comfortable as we were going downwind in
total control with the wind vane doing a great job. I slept like a log that
night. The following morning the wind shifted to the NW and blew at 25+ until
about midnight. It was very rough, we were triple reefed with small jib, and all
I could do was hang on and try to rest in my bunk during the day. The vane was
once again doing the work and keeping us pretty close hauled on a course to
Newport. The wind started to moderate a bit as the sun went down and a little
past midnight we lost the wind completely. I turned on the diesel and powered
the rest of the way into Narragansett Bay as the forecast was for a calm
Thursday morning and then another NE blow with lots of wind for the late
afternoon. I wanted to beat that which I was lucky enough to do."
"We made it back to the mooring in Barrington at 1500 today. The only damage was
one torn sail slide webbing on the main and lots of black and blues on the
skipper. I feel lucky now that I am reading the stories of others. I hope the
return leg is less of an adventure. " ME TOO
Serif was towed to the Dingy Club by Brian Oatley in the early evening to
be amongst the group. Now we have the whole group. Well, actually
Halcyon is out on the hook but Dan intends to come to the dock on 17 June.
14 June 1629 - Serif, the last boat to
finish! Finishing in grand style, no electrics and no engine. Towed in by
Brian Oatley with Eric Johnson and Vicky Hurt. As they went by the Dinghy Club to Customs we gave Charles a
welcoming cheer. Serif was put on the town dock which was the safest thing
to do for now. Rick McCally donated 3 fenders from his boat to help Serif
survive the blow coming over the next 20 hrs. He's actually in a fairly
protected area. Charles had a short I think he said somewhere around
Tuesday night and fried some of the wiring when trying to start the motor.
He thinks the motor is fine and might have been able to start the motor if he
had jumper cables. Then in a gust with the main triple reefed all the
slugs pulled out of the mast slot and broke. So he had been sailing with a storm
sail for the past two days. He did very well given his problems. A
group of us greeted him at his boat and talked. He wants to spend Saturday
evaluating the wire damage.
Mirari is still making progress towards Connecticut albeit slow but
steady (sort of). His initial estimate of getting back by Saturday seems
to be an underestimate.
14 June 1130 - Nimros, after waking up
called to say he finished at 0021 this early morning. Then he hailed me to say the
Rhode Island Fast Ferry is going by him, "am I dreaming".
14 June 0800 - Nimros hailed me a
couple of buoys away from the finish but I didn't hear from him for the finish
but Bermuda Radio said it looked like about 0015, just after midnight. He
is still anchored in the Harbour and needs to make it to Customs before he comes
to the Dinghy Club.
Serif is still trucking towards the finish and is projected to finish
around 1600. That will make 16 boat here out of 23 started.
13 June 1945 - Recieved an email from
Curlew, Brian Guck. "We made it back to the mooring in Barrington at 1500
today. The only damage was one torn sail slide webbing on the main and lots of
black and blues on the skipper. I feel lucky now that I am reading the stories
of others."
Nimros is the next boat to finish somewhere around 2225 tonight.
Twelve of us made our way down to Tavern By The Sea and had a wonderful night of
drink, food and camaraderie.
13 June 1800 - Draft results are posted.
13 June 1444 - Bluebird reported finished
13 June 1300 - Panacea reported finished
13 June 1114 - Windswept reported finished
13 June 1054 - Island Girl reported that he
finished.
13 June 0612 - Halycon reported finishing
13 June 0435 - Bent reported finishing.
13 June 0055 - Aggressive finished.
13 June 0233 - Wildeyes reported finishing.
13 June 0115 - The Coast Guard reported
that the HC144 has spotted Mirari and Dan Stadtlander is onboard. The
HC144 is communicating with Dan to figure out what his options are since he is
headed into more bad weather. Dan says he has sail issues but he is not in
distress and can sail. He has to jury rig his sails for a direction and he
chose going North to get out of the Gulf Stream. Once out of the Stream he
will hang a left and head for Connecticut and plans to get there by Saturday.
CG will be monitoring his progress via Yellowbrick.
12 June 1120 - Coast Guard out of Cape Cod
has sent a fixed wing aircraft HC144 to fly over Mirari to determine its state.
They have also put out a hail to all vessels in the area however the closest
ones are hundreds of miles away thus the sending out of the HC144.
12 June 2057 - Dirigo crossed the finish
line and made it thru customs before they closed for the night. Aggressive
is next.
12 June 1910 - Upstart crossed the finish
line.
12 June 1227 - Resolute called in his
finish time. 3rd boat to finish.
12 June 1217 - Flight Risk called in his
finish time. 2nd boat to finish! Resolute can't be too far away.
12 June 1215 - The trackers are again
updating on the website.
12 June 1140 -Resolute & Flight Risk both
hailed me on VHF that they were about one hour from finishing.
12 June 1100 - The trackers are not
updating on the website. Yellowbrick is working on it.
12 June 0800 - Kontradiction reported
that he used his engine while hanging around Solid Air. He had lost his
jib overboard but all is ok now. However the winds are 30-40 kts.
Wildeyes called to report 25 kts triple reefed main and storm jib and
heard from no one.
Island Girl called to report he had lost his jib halyards and was using
his storm jib on spinnaker topping lift in 25 kts from SE. Was within motoring
distance if wind died. Doesn't look like that will happen.
By the way the mooring balls were installed
yesterday. The boats will tie their bows to the mooring balls and back up
to the fixed pier. No anchors.
12 June 0640 - Kiwi Spirit reported
finishing. 1st boat to finish! Kiwi Spirit is docked on the
end of the pier. Man is that a big boat!
12 June 0300 - Kiwi Spirit is waiting for
7am before he tackles the entrance into the Harbour.
12 June 0000 - I am in contact with the CG
in Norfolk, D05, and the Bermuda Harbor Radio with respect to Mirari and
his eastern trajectory. CG is monitoring him.
Brian Oatley submitted an
article to the Bermuda Royal Gazett.
11 June 2130 - For the past four hours we
have been dealing with a problem on Solid Air, Jan Steyn. Jan called me to
say he thought that his keel was about to fall off. He had no steerage
even with the motor and the wind was taking him NE at 2 kts. He put out a
VHF hail at that time and Wildeyes was the only one to answer. Wildeyes
was having problems changing directions to get to Solid Air. In the mean
time three other boats came much closer than Wildeyes (Bent, Kontradiction and
Halcyon) and all three heard Jan's hail. It was determined that Halcyon would be
the boat that would come to Jan's rescue and picked him up about 2115 EDT.
Jan called back saying that Dan on Halcyon did a masterful job of sailing the
boat for the transfer. Jan is fine but wet but now very comfortable since
Halcyon is a Hallberg-Rassy 49! Unfortunately Jan has abandoned his boat
but Jan is safe which is very important. The tracker is still on Solid Air
and Harbor Radio will be following it's position.
11 June 2000 - Resolute called in again
with only 26 kts of wind, building seas and he hasn't heard from anyone which
makes sense.
Island Girl, Brian Flynn, reported that he hasn't talked with anyone but
heard Windswept. Island Girl has lost two jib halyards and is now using
the storm jib. He has 30 kts of wind so he is able to continue.
11 June 1630 - Curlew emailed me that he
is fine, the boat is fine but he is in tough conditions and has decided to head
back so his tracker is showing him heading back to Newport.
11 June 0900 - There is now a Line Honors
category to choose from in the Leader Board displays to see the whole fleet.
11 June 0800 - Gust on Bluebird
emailed: a rough night, winds 25-30K T, down to staysail and 2 reef. Better now.
Boat moans and groans, creeks, bangs and crashes, then I thought I was hearing
voices- yes, just the radio... on course but have lost Windswept ahead...
plugging along.
Resolute said that he is having 1-2kts of negative current making 8kts
through the water but only about 6 kts over the ground. Resolute could
hear Flight Risk but evidently FR couldn't hear Resolute so they are getting
farther apart.
Kontradiction called earlier in the morning to say that he though Bent
was stopped however the tracker shows him moving fine.
Island Girl called to say doing well, double reef, over 20 kts and lumpy,
No contact with any boats.
Kiwi Spirit called saying he is 166 nm from finish, expecting to finish
late tonight. Making good speed.
Correction for Choucus, obviously he is headed home vice Newport.
Just posted a link to another Leader Board which
has more information at the left under the Tracker Map menu.
10 June 2000 - Resolute reported he has
crossed the Gulf Stream and has talked with Flight Risk & Kiwi Spirit.
Wildeyes reported that he hasn't been able to talk to anyone and has
18-20 kts of wind from 220.
Eric on Dirigo emailed the following: POS N37 16.3 w068 18.6 COG 164 SOG
8.0 Highest water temp 77 degrees.
Almost 70 miles of gulf stream hard on the wind is just about over and I'm
looking forward to reaching off for Bermuda. I'm able to hold 165 degrees so
that tells me I'm out of the influence of the left to right current that I've
been in for the last 10 hours or so. It was pretty lumpy, I'll have to tell you.
The wind was in the high teens low 20's from the SSE for most of the crossing
making it hard to get around the boat. Once I put a reef in the main and rolled
in the jib to just about the size of the fore triangle the boat settled in and
was cooking along in the 7 knot range. I saw steady 8's and 9's and even some
10's SOG during the crossing so I got a steady 2 and 3 knot push.
The entry point was a good plan as you can see from the screen shot I got washed
to the west bringing me closer to the rhumb line. I'm starting to be able to dig
in on the course I need for the finish. Once I'm able to do that I'll be able to
reach off a little bit, ease the sails and make for a more comfortable ride. I
can't remember being close hauled so much as I have in this race.
It's dark now and I've got the NAV and Instrument lights on. Maybe, I can catch
a snooze in a little bit. But first! Dinner. Hope you're enjoying the race.
10 June noon - Finally received an email
from Windswept: I am just
recovering from an epic case of sea sickness. In the confusion, I forgot to
take my dose of dramamine before the start. I have been sailing since I was
four years old and never had any trouble with sea sickness until about five
years ago. I think I will try my first hot meal in a few minutes. The first 24
hours were a bit bumpy followed by light winds which persist to the present. I
am sailing in the company of Bluebird and Island Girl, and just recently seem to
have added Halcyon, but of course you know that thanks to Yellow Brick. I
received an e-mail from Brian this morning and spoke to Peter last night during
the chat. I have had no contact with Nimros, Mirari, or Robin. I overheard
Peter chatting with Serif on Sunday morning. Last night the value of AIS was
driven home as I was awakened by the sound of heavy diesel engines thumping away
in the dense fog. It turned out to be a Russian tanker which passed 1.7 NM
north of me. In the fog, after waking from a sound sleep, it was almost
impossible to tell the speed, position, or bearing of the ship. The AIS overlay
on my computer showed the whole thing very clearly.
I am presently about
80 KM from my planned GS entry point, which is naturally dead to windward!
The following from Bluebird: Bluebird is moving slowly at 1-2 K in a
light SW'ly breeze- actually a big improvement over the last 12 hours, in which
we weren't moving at all and the poor sails were flogging about. Island Girl,
Windswept and Panacea are about and in the same situation- I don't know about
the rest of the fleet. Took a nice cockpit shower at dawn, feel clean, fresh and
rested. Send some wind!
10 June 0815 - Kiwi Spirit, Stanley Paris,
contacted me while I was in the Reagan Airport waiting for my flight to Bermuda.
He is finally moving at 7.6 kts. I had a hard time hearing him but I think
he had wind from the NW at 10 kts and has only heard from Wildeyes and one other
boat.
10 June 0715 - Resolute: 0 wind and talked
to Flight Risk and Upstart last night.
We lost a connection with Kontradiction and didn't get any information.
Island Girl - Brian Flynn said light winds also, 63 degree water, heard
chatter including from Kontradiction and Bluebird.
Wildeyes - Mike Millard said that he heard from Upstart and Solid Air.
Wind 8-10 ESE and finally moving. Barometer steady. No wind last
night.
10 June - gryphon Solo 2 - And now Gryphon
is coming back. No problems though.
9 June 2200 - Choucas called to say he has
lost his ability to charge his system and is headed back to Newport. He is
fine.
9 June 2000 - Kontradiction called again
since he couldn't talk to any one. Having random problems with his
autopilot. Seeing 10 kts SW seas 2-4ft. He's managing though.
Resolute called sounding tired. Said he and others have been sea
sick for the past 24 hrs but feeling better now. Hear Class 2 only; Wildeyes,
Flight Risk and Upstart. Wildeyes talked to Kiwi Spirit who said he needs
7kts of wind to be able to move thus not doing well. Reports 5 kts of wind
at 250.
Wildeyes reports 10kts WSW and has talked to Kiwi Spirit and Resolute as
well as Flight Risk and Upstart.
Resolute called back again to say that he heard from Halcyon and that he
is having comms problems but lost him before he could find out what. I
suspect sat phone.
Nimros called for the first time. He said he had to switch his
battery on the phone. 4kts of wind 3kts of boat speed in the wrong direction.
Doug was his usual joyful self. Hear from Pancea in the morning but no one
at night.
9 June 0930 - Kontradiction called to say
he lost his autopilot during the night so helmed all night and feel asleep and
missed the chat hour. Autopilot working now. 2-4ft seas 15ktsw out of the
SW.
9
June 0800 - The boats are generally to the west of the rhumb line but will
it be enough with the predicted southerly's expected as they get closer to
Bermuda.
Resolute said he has heard from Class 2 boats, Wildeyes, Flight Risk and
Upstart who are evidently real close to each other and he has also heard Panacea
and Dirigo. Wind 8 kts 270.
Wildeyes was able to call in with weak signal reporting sunny conditions
wind 10kts WNW and lumpy but better than yesterday. He is having quite a
race with Flight Risk and Upstart.
Island Girl reported that he hasn't heard from Class 3 boats but has
heard from all the class 4 boats who have adopted him. All are alive and well in
much nicer conditions after yesterday and expect to catch up and what couldn't
be done yesterday.
8 June 2000 - Resolute called. Has
talked to Wildeyes and Kontradiction. Wildeyes phone has weak signal (he
is the one that is supposed to call in!). Very lumpy conditions, 16kts 250
degrees. Feeling sick.
Jan Steyn on Solid Air called to say that he fixed the autopilot and is
continuing on to Bermuda.
Island Girl, Brian Flynn, called. He said he split his genoa and lost some
time swapping to a jib so he is behind his fleet and with class 4. Heard
everyone complaining about
seasickness due to very lumpy conditions. 15kts
wind.
Don Gray, Warrors Wish, showed up at the Duty Desk. He is getting a
part for his back stays from West Marine and waiting to get a part for his
autopilot and will be leaving for Bermuda Monday. Wants to do the return
leg.
Noticed that Kiwi Spirit has caught up to Gryphon Solo 2 and they appear to be
staying close now. Kiwi Spirit spotted Gryphon Solo 2 40.5 minutes at the start.
8 June 1730 - Warriors Wish, Don Gray,
has returned to Newport awaiting a part and expects to head on down to Bermuda
to do the return leg with his crew member. Solid Air, Jan Steyn, is
returning to Newport due to autopilot fail. He is hove-to now resting
after trying to resolve the problem and will continue on to Newport when rested.
Murray Danforth, Flying Turtle, is back in his home port. Dan on Haycon is
having problems with his brand new autopilot. He is making use of his
autovane and continuing while trying to fix it.
8 June 1500 - Dirigo, Eric Johnson, is
back on the path to Bermuda with a temporary fix for the boom vang. He has
our trophies! It was reported by people on Ft Adams that Island Girl ripped his
genoa.
8 June 1400 - We had a great start, the
sun even came out. It was initially a beam reach then changed to a beat
out of the bay. The sun even came out. Later the typical SW showed up
after the boats were out of the bay. A whole bunch of Optis and other
dinghys congregated around us thinking we were their RC boat. We had to
keep directing them away from us. Got somewhat scarry at times when in
starting sequence. Mirari, Dan, lost his hat starting as
he went by the Race Committee boat; so much for that hat. Bluebirrd gave
us a scare on the RC boat. He came real close to our bow. We had a call
from Dirigo that he was coming back due to a broken boom vang. He is back
here on a mooring trying to fix it. Then I received a call from Murray
Danforth on Flying Turtle. He lost all his electrics and has to retire.
Heading back to Little Compton. The good news is that Ray Renaud on
Aggressive actually started and a good one also. Ray had a knee infection
a few days back , had it taken care of and thought he wouldn't be able to race
but felt quite better so he jumped back in.
Bob and Laura Wandress took several guests out to watch the start on their cute
tug. Bermudians Brian and Susan Oatley and John Andersen went along for
the ride. John graciously agreed to take photos of the start for me.
I need to sort through them and I'll post them in the gallery.
The Race Committee Boat had the following volunteers: Roy Guay, Ned Anderson,
Jeff Spranger, Betsy McClintock, Ted Singsen, Bjorn Johnson, and George Crocker.
8 June 0500 - The tracker link on the left
now works.
7 June 2000 - The link to the Yellowbrick
tracker display is not working. Will post when fixed. The trackers
are working. You can use this
link to just see
their latest report.
7 June - The Skipper's Meeting was held at
1400 to 1600. Brian and Susan Oatley were present and Susan gave us some
information about the process once down in Bermuda. Bill Biewenga gave a
weather brief which currently shows this storm blown by us by 8am Saturday
morning however expecting strong winds S to SW when arriving towards half way to
Bermuda. So we are expecting to start. Frank Bohlen gave the brief
on the Gulf Stream. About 41 people attended. Again people that are
not going to race showed up; Mike Hennessey, Tristan Mouligne, Barrett Holby,
Peter Bourke.
6 June - Today was registration day; hand
out the skipper's books, shirts and the yellowbrick trackers to be mounted so
they can be tested. The Skipper's Sendoff Party was at 6pm. About 35
people showed up including some that were not racing; Tristan Mouligne.
Great gab and food. Food by Caryn Cummings.
30 May - Frank Bohlen has provided another
update to his Gulf Stream analysis. The
race is getting close now.
15 May - Frank Bohlen has provided an
update to his Gulf Stream
analysis.
POTENTIAL
SKIPPERS FOR 2013:
The following
people have stated that they expect to race in 2013: Dan Alanso (new in his
Hallberg Rassy 49!), Bert Barrett (new), Peter
Bourke, Robert Brown, Doug Campbell, Fred Cosandey, Murray Danforth, Mike Dreese, Don Gray, Brian Guck, Joe Harris, Mike Hennessy,
Eric Le Coq, John Lubimir on a Quest 30, Rick McCally, Peter McCrea (I’m sure
there will be more from the Maine contingent), Dave McLoughlin, Louis Meyer (2 leg),
Mike Millard in another Quest 30, D. Scott Miller, Tristan Mouligne, Robert Patenaude (depending on his schedule getting his Class 40 back
from Europe), Dave Rearick (Class 40), Doug Shearer, Dan Stadtlander,
Mike Stevens, Gust Stringos, John Van Slyke, .
17 Mar - US Customs User fee sticker
- To save yourself from having to deal with exact change at 0 dark 30 at
the Newport Yacht Club's docks at the end of the second leg it is advisable to
get your US Customs User fee sticker ahead of time. Go to:
https://dtops.cbp.dhs.gov/main/addAccountHomeController.htm
If you haven't done it before you will have to register. There is a user's
guide on the right side that will help. Thank you Peter McCrea for this
information. Peter has been doing this for a while.
2 Mar - Skippers' Forum/Party was held at
the Newport Yacht Club. Around 24 people participated. Frank Bohlen again
provided an analysis of the Gulf Stream urging the skippers to follow the
stream's pictures leading up to the race 8 June. Frank's brief of the current
state of the stream is posted. Tristan Mouligne led a good
discussion on a Man Overboard process that occurred on a Class 40 race.
Afterwards we enjoyed food provided by Mal Kaul and Caryn Cummings with help
from Rosa and Jennifer Tysor and Deb Harris. And of course there was lots of
gab.
6 Feb - We have our first new entrant and
he is from Canada, Bert Barrett.
29 Jan - The March newsletter has been
posted.
28 Jan - The safety check
process has been posted on the on the left.
All skippers are required to follow it.
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26 Dec - We have our first applicant for
the 2013 race! Dirigo
5 Dec - Pictures updated in the Photo
Gallery for earlier years thanks to Peter & Peggy McCrea.
16 Nov - The Notice of Race, Application
and Calendar has been emailed and is posted here now. See links on
the left.
3 Nov - Over 30 people come out for the
Fall Bermuda One-Two Skippers' Forum/Party at the Newport Yacht Club.
After the usual introductions of all participants Frank Bohlen gave us a
wonderful 101 on Weather, Gulf Stream and the combination. Frank also
expressed need to look at this information throughout the winter to become
familiar with patterns. I have posted his list of
links he discussed for
analyzing weather and Gulf Stream. Afterwards I mentioned some changes in the Notice
of Race which I hope to get out soon: Fire Blankets will be required, Drift
Punches required to remove any rigging clevis pins, new Appendix B for
recommended safety equipment (including PLBs, AIS Transponder and SSB/Sat
phone), early due date for applications of 27 April. The pictures below are 1.
Frank Bohlen giving his brief and 2.. Caryn and Megan cooking up the food we, as
well as the rest of the yacht club, filled up on.
5 Oct - The October
Newsletter is now posted.
3 May - Does this guy look familiar?
It's our own friend of sexy whales, Robert Patenaude! For those that don't
know Robert is going to be doing the Two Star starting this month (with our own
mini sailor Phillipe Laville). He has plans for doing more long distant
races also. While I'm at it other Bermuda One-Two skippers are
participating in distant races, the Atlantic Cup (for Class 40s) also starting
this month with 14 Class 40s: Joe Harris with Tristan Mouligne, Michael Hennessy
with Merf Owen, and Mike Dreese and Ken Luczynski.
3 March - The spring Skippers' Forum/Party
was held; well sort of. Four people showed up one of which left before we
started the meeting. We may have to consider eliminating the spring
meeting the year after the race. With regard to the meeting:
- The Offshore 160
documents are now available for the 13 July race
- The only ISAF Offshore Special Regulations changes for 2012-1023 that we will
require is to require a fireblanket in the area of the cooking facilities
- Some of the other changes will be incorporated as recommendations like sealed
batteries, Personal Locator Beacons (PLB)
- AIS transponders vice receivers
- Safety at Sea seminars and Hands on Safety Courses
1 March - While we were here slogging
through the winter these guys were full filling a dream; going around the
southern tip of South America (Dave Sherman, Ray Renaud, Doug Shearer and Pete
Maloney.
15 February - The March newsletter
is now out and can be downloaded.
5 November - About 30 people showed up for
the Skipper's Party at the Newport Yacht Club to renew friendships started
during this year's race. Jay Sharkey showed up to say that he would be
driving out to Seattle, WA just before Thanksgiving and that he would be out
there for a while. Caryn Cummings, Ron Moore and Lorrie Babcock-Moore
provided plenty of great food for us (I thought 50 people would show up).
We did the usual introductions and there were several new people trying to make
contacts for expertise in hopes of doing the race in coming years. We may
see 3 or 4 Quests on the line in 2013. See you in March.
28 September - The October Newsletter has
been sent out and is available for
download.
27 Setpember - We have setup the dates for
the 2013 Bermuda One-Two. The start date to Bermuda will be "Saturday" 8
June and the return start to Newport will be on Thursday 20 June. Put
these dates in your calendar.
21 July - Boat for sale: QII is the holder
of 35 foot mono class OSTAR record. She also holds the 35 foot mono record in
AZAB - Falmouth to Ponta Delgada as well as having achieved 1st and 2nd in class
in Twohanded Round Britain & Ireland races, SORC races etc.
QII was designed for safe and fast shorthanded ocean racing. She has been
regularly and professionally maintained and her equipment renewed and updated.
In the winter 2009/10 she was resprayed and had a major refit. Originally
launched 1990, she has every appearance of being brand new but with the added
advantage of having been tried, tested and demonstrated to be the fastest.
Fully designed and equipped to Cat 1 (and more) she is ready to set off on
another ocean race tomorrow. Buy QII, ready to race and to win again, at the
reduced price of £74,950 GBP and save yourself the vast amount of time and money
required to prepare and equip a boat for a shorthanded ocean race.
Conventional sized sails will reduce her irc handicap to 1.050 or less. So she
can win on irc as well as on the water.
For further information please visit
www.maryfalk.com.
10 July - The pictures that I have
received are now posted. Go to the Photo
Gallery.