70+ boats registered as of last night!

thats awesome. We were ready to roll as of Friday morning but came down with the flu (hoping not swine). Damn Damn damn, wish we were there.

I was having a blast until i converted my spin pole into 3 pieces. It took over an hour to get assistance. Carnage for others include a daggerboard snapped in half and a TheMightyHobie18 snapped off his starboard hull at the beam while approaching the finish line. There were several other incidents.

Here is the funny part, I was standing with Kirk just before we started the race and he called the shop and told the staff to stay open late and open in the morning early. . . ."We're going to be selling alot of parts"

Any more news?

More details - The 70 boats is a record at this Regatta. Triangles start at 11ish today. The wind appears to calmer today(Too bad,I was the one that broke a board yesterday).

where are the pics from the regatta? I thought they were on beachcats but couldn't find them

Sounds like y'all had more wind than we did :P

not so much on the second day. would have been nice to take the average for both days. I figure high teens with puffs into the low/mid 20s on sat. 5-7kn on sunday maybe
that I20 thingie is crazy stable... rides like a cadillac, handles like a BMW
but is a raging BEEEATCH to move around on the beach.

Juana's was an official amazing success. What a blast. My 4th day on a Nacra 20, what an amazing boat and what a great race to be my first. Lets have 100 boats next year.

This coming from the owners of an HT18 and F16 . . . welcome to the dark side gentlemen.

Joe (Captn Cardiac) and I had a chance to sail together on Friday on the yellow N20 and had a great time. We were HEAVY and the boat felt great. Things are looking up for N20 class. There have been 5-6 boats in the area added to the fleet. Yeah.

I lost my crew so had to round one up on Friday night for the distance race. During the race she asked me if I always pick up girls from the bar to sail with. I had to correct her that she was not picked up in a bar, but picked up off the volleyball court. There is a difference. Volleyball players meet a higher standard for crew. :P

The Navarrepress has pictures posted here.
More pictures here.
There was another event photographer taking excellent photos, especially on Saturday, but I don't know how to reach him or the photos. I sure would like to see them. Anybody know who he was?

You guys looked a lot more at ease than I was. I don't think there will be much uni distance racing in my future. Too much work!!

They shot some really nice video. It should be up, eventually.
http://www.juanaspagodas.com/RegattaNews.htm

Pete,
I was anything but at ease. When you and I were beating back Saturday, the wind and the waves had built significantly. Those were very TOUGH conditions for me or anybody. Don't beat yourself up. You did very well. NOAA had issued a squall warning for the storm we were sailing in, which means minimum top wind speed 25 mph+ with gusts reported from the NOAA alert at 35 knots. The warning was issued about the time I was finishing jury rigging my boat back from the spin pole failure (131 channel marker) and got really bad about 5 miles east of the marker. Those are tough conditions for anybody. PS. I recommend that you always wear your VHF/weather radio for distance races and don't tell your new crew it was bad until you hit the beach!

More photos from the Sunday races here.

Can someone post a link to some results? Pictures are great though.

More Picks at this site as well:

http://www.jacoulterphoto.com/store/events

Was Mark Smith using his class sails or his aftermarket sails?

After market, note the patch on the main.

No EP patch

Aftermarket for Mark. Race results were NOT posted after the race, the RC was somewhat involved the the spirits of a "Goodtime". Only 2 races on Sunday.

Sundays race Mark took a bullet in the first race. Saturday he was 5th to finish but scored second after the lead 3 boat were dnf for missing a mark.

The aluminum rig was not raced at Juana's but was raced two weeks ago at BigMouth and Mayors Cup.

Any idea where, or if, the video will be posted?