Karl's wild ride

http://moving-target-photos.com/CRAW/2012MadTown/KarlsWildRide/

The only thing I see wrong here is that it's only September and your wearing an f'ing drysuit. Looks like you've got the rest under complete control!

What went wrong? Firsthand story please

Two more feet would probably fix that.

How the hell is he supposed to walk around with four feet, Dave?

If only he had a footstrap.

At leat he kept the spin trimmed in tight, until it was too late!

He's a bright boy I'm sure he'll get it sorted out.

+1 I suspect he could have recovered if he wasn't flung forward and could have released either the traveler or the spin sheet.

Slight hole followed by a massive puff and shift. I saw it coming from a mile away, knew it had my number a long ways out.

I f'd up.

Oh and Dave, sure one more leg wouldn't hurt me at all.

To self: Don't go there, don't go there, don't go there.

There's got to be a good shot in there for the Sailing world Dr. Crash calendar.

Karl, where were you sailing? Pepin?

Tom G

CRAW regatta on lake Mendota in Madison Wisconsin.

I agree - the Dr. Crash calendar has been sucking this year.

Does anybody see the BIGGER problem here?

Let's see:

Karl bought the boat.
Karl sails the boat.
Karl dumps the boat.
Karl gets the bumps and bruises and humiliation.
Karl has to fix any damaged equipment...

Geoff Sobering gets the copyright.

Humiliation? Its like taking a dump. Everyone poops (there's even a book). It just isn't caught on camera too often.

On the last pic you can see all of us watching karlos eat shiz. Pretty funny but it slowed up the sequence.

Always easier to say from the armchair:
Wouldn't spilling some spin sheet and heading closer to the wind the anti dive strategy if you sail with such an heel angle?

Cheers,

Klaus

See me squatting? That's me dumping some sheet. I try to keep the rudder in the water, and usually I'm shooting for about half in the water with the leeward rudder. Unfortunately squatting is about the only option with one hand on the sheet, and its usually enough. Usually....

I should've been in the footstrap, but I think I was too far back most of the time anyway, just this gust up and raped me.

Jeez, won't somebody comment on how finely polished the boat is? I spent four hours washing and buffing that baby the weekend before!

OK: It looks beautiful, and when taken as a whole, is clear evidence that those fours hours would have been better spent, I don't know... practicing??? (Hey, you asked...)

On the bright side, at least you remembered to let go of the Hot Stick. Too many of us have tiller remnants from when that goes wrong...

Mike

A drysuit? Really? I would have been sailing naked in that sh!t.

Where's the risk in that, Lee? You don't have body hair; you have a pelt.

the bottom of your hulls look very nice and shiny

thank you for showing the finely polished hulls to us at great personal sacrifice.

If nothing broke, then you did a great job. Better than I have done so far. :-)

I did learn this mast is heavier than my old one. Couldn't right the boat. Had to get help. I could get it out of the water, but not past horizontal.

I think I'm going to take the top off, pull the foam and re-do it as thin as I can and see if that does the trick. I'm borderline anyways.

Maybe my tapered main halyard was enough with my last boat? Kinda doubt it.

How about inserting a 4' long tube type bladder at the tip and fill it with helium?

Once it's at horizontal, it should fly up practically on its own.

I know, just couldn't get it there. Close, but not quite. My last boat, putting my arm over my head made the difference between getting it back up our not.

drink more beer

I had the same thing happen after a spill, the mast would only get to horizontal and no more. It just wasn't windy enough to get it to blow up any more. Then I remembered Karl saying he put his arms up over his head, so I did, and slooooowly it came back up! I never thought my arms were that 'heavy' (more like chicken wings) but I guess since they are at the far end of the lever, every ounce helps.

I had an encounter with a Sasquatch once...he just stood there looking at me in admiration.