Shakedown run « Team Seacats

Shakedown run

by Bonnie on May.10, 2009, under 2009 Tybee 500

Team Seacats Orange launching for practice day

Team Seacats Orange, Zhik, Royals White and Green, Velocity 1 & 2, Accelerated Chaos, and a few other boats are now on the water, with the rest of the fleet just about ready to take make a shakedown run…after navigating some treacherous rocks here at the launch site. Frank and Jake are planning about a 45 minute test drive to make certain that everything’s in good working order on the General Lee. I know, it’s not Team Tybee’s boat anymore, but it’s bad juju to rename a boat. The wind has picked up to around 11 knots, if I had to guess, so that’s good news. They really need to be able to push the boats a bit today in order to anticipate settings. Some guys, like Mischa and Rob, are on totally new boats (new to them, anyway) and it’s important to get the feel of the it, test their pointing ability and such to see what could possibly be optimized for the Big Day tomorrow.

Since I didn’t know until today, Mischa and Rob are sponsored by Whike, which is a Dutch company that produces street legal recumbent tricycles powered by a sail. Check them out. So now when I mention Whike, you’ll know who I mean.

I would be posting some lovely photos at this point but something funky is going on with either the settings on the camera or the new memory stick. They’re on Flickr (click on Photos toward the left margin of this page or just click here) but look teensy tiny and I don’t know why. Alas, alack. I’ll get it figured out by tomorrow.

Oopsie. Never mind, I got it now.