| Tybee 500 Updates #106710 05/12/07 07:49 AM 05/12/07 07:49 AM |
Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 12,310 South Carolina Jake OP
Carpal Tunnel
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 12,310 South Carolina | Along with a few other team sites, Bonnie will be doing her usual reporting and updating from the beam for Team Seacats this year. Don't miss the "love-bug" report up now. www.teamseacats.com
Jake Kohl | | | Re: Tybee 500 Updates
[Re: Jake]
#106711 05/12/07 07:56 AM 05/12/07 07:56 AM |
Joined: May 2002 Posts: 3,114 BANNED MauganN20
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: May 2002
Posts: 3,114 BANNED | Make it part of your rotation. Jen and I will be posting updates on www.velocitysailing.com as well. I love Bonnie's writing style! | | | Re: Tybee 500 Updates
[Re: Brian_Mc]
#106714 05/12/07 02:31 PM 05/12/07 02:31 PM |
Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 915 Dublin, Ireland Dermot
old hand
|
old hand
Joined: Oct 2001
Posts: 915 Dublin, Ireland | I look forward to the reports and wish everyone fair winds and a safe event.
Dermot Catapult 265
| | | Re: Tybee 500 Updates
[Re: Dermot]
#106715 05/12/07 05:37 PM 05/12/07 05:37 PM |
Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 2,921 Michigan PTP
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 2,921 Michigan | I look forward to the reports and wish everyone fair winds and a safe event. DITTO | | | Re: Tybee 500 Updates
[Re: Dermot]
#106716 05/12/07 05:55 PM 05/12/07 05:55 PM |
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 5,558 Key Largo, FL & Put-in-Bay, OH... Mary
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 5,558 Key Largo, FL & Put-in-Bay, OH... | I look forward to the reports and wish everyone fair winds and a safe event. That raises a question in my mind: If the race were guaranteed of having fair winds and being safe, would more people do it or would fewer people do it? | | | Re: Tybee 500 Updates
[Re: MauganN20]
#106717 05/12/07 06:19 PM 05/12/07 06:19 PM |
Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 471 NC drbinkle
addict
|
addict
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 471 NC | Make it part of your rotation. Jen and I will be posting updates on www.velocitysailing.com as well. I love Bonnie's writing style! I know Tad said only Jen and him were allowed to post, but Alan, Allison, and I just put up a report for today. More to come...... | | | Re: Tybee 500 Updates
[Re: Brian_Mc]
#106719 05/12/07 11:47 PM 05/12/07 11:47 PM |
Joined: May 2002 Posts: 3,114 BANNED MauganN20
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: May 2002
Posts: 3,114 BANNED | Derek, Alan, and Jen, Thanks! That was a fun post work read to come home to! Tad, Very cool to have chartered your boat to Meesha. This should make things even more exciting...
Its not my boat anymore... at least, its not the same one that I sent down to Hollywood. Apparently Mischa and co. took it down to its bare rivets. Fixed some leaks, re-seated beams, all kinds of stuff. I feel like I should be paying HIM. | | | Re: Tybee 500 Updates
[Re: MauganN20]
#106720 05/13/07 06:50 AM 05/13/07 06:50 AM |
Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 12,310 South Carolina Jake OP
Carpal Tunnel
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 12,310 South Carolina | Apparently Mischa does that to any charter boat he gets. He was sawing off and re-riviting the rudder arms last night. (one was nearly broken in two inside the casting!).
Jake Kohl | | | Re: Tybee 500 Updates
[Re: Jake]
#106721 05/13/07 08:10 AM 05/13/07 08:10 AM |
Joined: May 2002 Posts: 3,114 BANNED MauganN20
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: May 2002
Posts: 3,114 BANNED | Yeah, How I was supposed to know that was there, I have no idea. I know Tad said only Jen and him were allowed to post, but Alan, Allison, and I just put up a report for today. More to come......
Shoot, let Mischa know if he wants to post on our website I'll let him. His mast still has our URL on it right? :P Just for future reference, Derek, Allie, Jen, Ryan, Ray, and any relatives thereof of TVS may make updates to the website. I've spoken to the lawyers, and they said its fine, even though I had to give them the goat for payment. | | | Re: Tybee 500 Updates
[Re: Jake]
#106722 05/13/07 08:28 AM 05/13/07 08:28 AM |
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 5,558 Key Largo, FL & Put-in-Bay, OH... Mary
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 5,558 Key Largo, FL & Put-in-Bay, OH... | Apparently Mischa does that to any charter boat he gets. He was sawing off and re-riviting the rudder arms last night. (one was nearly broken in two inside the casting!). Don't they have some kind of x-ray or ultrasound machines that can detect metal defects or breaks? If not, somebody should invent it. It would be nice to know in advance when a bolt is weakening or a stay is about to break, without taking the whole boat apart and putting it back together. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> Wouldn't it be nice to be able to run your boat through a big MRI machine at the beginning of each season to find out all the potential problems and weak points? Sorry, just a rhetorical question. I'm not trying to put the thread on a tangent. Can't help myself when I think of something, even when it's probably silly. | | | Re: Tybee 500 Updates
[Re: Mary]
#106725 05/14/07 08:40 AM 05/14/07 08:40 AM |
Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 5,590 Naples, FL waterbug_wpb
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 5,590 Naples, FL | I'll bet that there was a little more play in the rudder around the casting, which tipped them off to bigger issues.
Before any race of that magnitude, I'd probably do the same thing. I mean, who wants to break down in the middle of a 500 mile race because of something really stupid (like a rudder arm breaking) that could have been prevented?
Team Fully Involved had a pretty good idea, too. They put a clevis pin(?) instead of rivets on the rudder arms. This allowed the rudders to be interchangeable in case the one they needed was damaged. They'd just switch with the other one, flip the rudder arm upside down (so the elbow curved the correct direction), and reattach the crossbar & tiller extension (so the damaged rudder was on the windward side).
And those beams weren't seated in epoxy before? Your boat will be a bit faster now that its dry and stiff....
Jay
| | | Re: Tybee 500 Updates
[Re: MauganN20]
#106727 05/14/07 08:52 AM 05/14/07 08:52 AM |
Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 2,921 Michigan PTP
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 2,921 Michigan | Have they figured out where the water is coming from yet?
Last edited by PTP; 05/14/07 08:53 AM.
| | | Re: Tybee 500 Updates
[Re: PTP]
#106728 05/14/07 09:01 AM 05/14/07 09:01 AM |
Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 1,152 tampa, fl ksurfer2
old hand
|
old hand
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 1,152 tampa, fl | The Ocean :-)......Sorry, I could not resist.
If your havin girl problems i feel bad for you son I got 99 problems but my beautiful wife ain't one | | |
|
0 registered members (),
401
guests, and 98
spiders. | Key: Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod | | Forums26 Topics22,405 Posts267,056 Members8,150 | Most Online2,167 Dec 19th, 2022 | | |