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April 2005
Alter Cup: I hoped that if we time
it right and catch the wake on the other side of the ferry, we may
get quite a burst of speed for a few seconds so we held our course
until we thought the timing might be right. After gybing and
heading further down the course, we reached the large wake about
2/3's the way back and immediately received a huge burst in speed.
The third place boat was coming back across the course on starboard
and while we had made up a lot of ground, we were on a collision
course and they had right of way...click
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April 2005 Spring Fever Regatta:
...we knew this fleet would be aggressive. With a little over
1 minute from the start a miraculous hole opened and we both thought
"Wow!" a great hole for a start at the committee boat and we shot
for it - completely throwing out our whole game plan! As
suddenly as that hole had appeared, it disappeared and we found
ourselves trapped on the course side of the start line on top of
several boats. YIKES! ....click for
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January 2005
Tradewinds Regatta: Both Team SEACATS F18's traveled to Key
Largo to race the Tradewinds/NAMSA Nationals Regatta this past weekend
(Jan 14-15th 2005). All of us were pretty anxious to get back to Key
Largo and out on the
water and see how we faired in the large and very competitive F18 fleet.
This was the second time in a month that both Team Seacats F18s had made
the drive to Key Largo, FL. Fellow sailor, Eric Arbogast, informed
us that making two separate trips to the keys in a month qualified
us for honorary Florida resident status (that's over 48 hours on the
road for each team!)....click for
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December
2004 Steeplechase: ...We caught up to David and Shambie about the time we
reached our first land/shallow obstacle on this side of the Island.
Had Jake been able to clear the salt water from his eyes enough to look closely at his GPS, he would have realized that
deeper water lied about 30' to the left of their course. However, before
Chris could finish saying "we need these daggerboards up like yesterd....!"
the boat ground to a halt in the crushed coral bottom!.... click for more |
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October 2004 Alter Cup Qualifier:
The wind and chop continued to
build as the class flag went up with a horn sound barely audible
over the howling wind. The second race saw winds between 15 and 18
knots with substantial gusts - it was getting interesting! Nigel
had previously gone to the beach to sort out his spinnaker problem
and was back with a great start at the horn. Team Weathermark was
off and galloping in clear air as well. The gusts were getting
healthier...click for
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2004
Tybee 500 Journal: "It was another
fast and furious day for David and "Cowboy Jake" who landed on the
beach with another photogenic and entertaining finish at just after
3pm. They lost a few minutes with a capsize at one point and had a
spinnaker halyard jam, but other than that there were no major
malfunctions. Pointy side up, rudders intact, both sailors on board,
check. Everyone else wasn't so fortunate today. Besides our good
friends at Team Weather Mark who had to drop out..."
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2004 Mug Race:
...While most people
would consider us 'brave', nobody out here was very excited to be
sitting under a 32' lightning rod in the middle of a huge expanse of
water in an active thunderstorm. It's not as if we weren't
already going as fast as we could but there was now a new sense of
urgency where "Finish and finish fast!" was on everyone's mind.
We rounded the mug on the west side of the river and made a hard
right turn toward the finish line on the other side. With
lightening popping all over the place, we were
side by side with two other Nacras, trapezed, tight reaching, and
galloping toward the finish line with the second place boat just ahead....click
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