hi everyone.
It was great fun (and a bit scary) racing w y'all this weekend. For everyone that went, yeah we had a blast and fortunately everyone ended up ok. For everyone who made a wise decision not to go, don't beat yourself up, bc you only got 1 you, and thats never worth a race (no matter how hard it is to convince yourself of that). Anyway re my epirb, I did lose my handheld one (BreakOutAnotherThousand) so I brought my "desktop" unit (a 406 w built-in gps). We actually (miraculously) never did flip (slow conserv. sailing) yet the pirb was in my spin bag which got hi powered drenched and this must have set it off. The coast gaurd told me it only went off briefly and hence never sent gps coords, just an id (it takes about 15 mins. to send first coords). so that being said, makes u feel better about their not locating us (which we fortunately didn't need them to do). On the other hand, when i emptied out my spin bag on anne's beach, the pirg was flashing so either it was intermittently off and on (the first signal had gone out 2 hours earlier) or it was not transmitting properly. Of further interest, once it was out of the bag 2 minutes it dried out and shut itself off automatically. Bottom line, its nice to have a pirb, but try not to need it cause it may not be enough to bail u out.

Look forward to seeing everone on the distance circuit this spring.


lf