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Roanoke Island ,N.C. | Go Lumpy and Bumpy
I think Jamie told me that they had to drop the rig ,paddle a ways to a checkpoint, paddle back out from under the bridge and re-step the mast.
Todd
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Roanoke Island ,N.C. | Anybody know who the I-20 is Jrock and Lrock? The site sure is tough to get any info out of. I guess they don't want anybody to know who the racers are.
Is Alan Stewart of Team Velocity fame (actually he IS team velocity) in it this year?
Tawd
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The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea
Isak Dinesen
If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most.
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Roanoke Island ,N.C. | He gets a rest.
Looks like they've all ready had to go under 2 bridges, by the spot tracker.
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"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea
Isak Dinesen
If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most.
E. B. White
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Roanoke Island ,N.C. | Randy's boat Sew Sew flipped and he was rescued by the Coast guard at Naples.
Todd
"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea
Isak Dinesen
If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most.
E. B. White
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Roanoke Island ,N.C. | From the Race Board:
"Though we do not know the whole story yet, SewSew turned over off of Naples and was unable to recover. He was calm, had on life jacket with VHF in hand and was able to give the Coast Guard his exact position. He is safely at the Ft. Myers Coast Guard station and his shore crew is on the way to pick him up. We'll let Randy fill in the story later. "
"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea
Isak Dinesen
If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most.
E. B. White
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Sebring, Florida. | Where's the boat? Did he get separated from it or did they CG haul it in for him?
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Palm Beach Gardens. FL | Jrock and Lrock is Larry - Cat in the Hat and his Tybee crew, sorry I can't think of his name right now. This looks like such a blast except for the dropping the mast part. Here's another tracking link, but I can't find Jamie; Link
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Sebring, Florida. | I think if you know you are going to have to drop it quickly, and then raise it again, you could rig up a quick disconect pin and use the spinnaker halyard, tied off to the bridle to lower it slowly and hold it back up too. Of course the bridal, spin pole and snuffer are all going to drop into the water as you loosen it all up, but you might be able to keep the crew up on the bow to hold it up until you get under the bridge, then raise it again.
I would love to see some video of this being done however!
Blade F16
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South Carolina Jake
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South Carolina | I asked him at Tradewinds and he said he was doing it again this year but just hadn't gotten around to registering yet.
Jake Kohl
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South Carolina | I think if you know you are going to have to drop it quickly, and then raise it again, you could rig up a quick disconect pin and use the spinnaker halyard, tied off to the bridle to lower it slowly and hold it back up too. Of course the bridal, spin pole and snuffer are all going to drop into the water as you loosen it all up, but you might be able to keep the crew up on the bow to hold it up until you get under the bridge, then raise it again.
I would love to see some video of this being done however! You could also put the spin pole bridles and the forestay bridles inside some tubing (plastic, carbon, aluminum) that would go from the tang to the connection point on the pole. With the mast down, the pole would still be supported by the tubing.
Jake Kohl
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France | I have to ask. Why drop the mast? Capsize the boat and then either walk it under the bridge or sit on the bottom hull and paddle if it is too deep to walk. There is a race around an island in the UK every year and they do exactly that to go under the bridge linking the island to the mainland (which being the UK is also an island, but I digress  This seems so obvious I must be missing some key information there. Why do they have to remove the whole mast? [Later edit: Video clips showing how it's done]
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