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Philpott
02-13-2018, 11:58 AM
The Singlehanded TransPac has always been a Corinthian race - a race where you sail what you have.
It has also been billed as the adventure of a lifetime, and it is. Mike Jefferson

jamottep
02-13-2018, 06:12 PM
1978

Gosh ... that's a lot of hair ...

Philpott
02-14-2018, 08:01 PM
Skip Allan debriefing the original tribe, Hanalei Bay 1978

Philpott
02-15-2018, 05:13 PM
Margie Woods arriving in Hanalei Bay on Haunani, 2016

Gamayun
02-16-2018, 12:00 AM
Quite the "then and now" contrast in pics, Jackie :)

mike cunningham
02-17-2018, 10:56 PM
Quite the "then and now" contrast in pics, Jackie :)

There's definitely an argument for scruffy IMO. It looks like all these guys were living on their boats and just showed up for the pic. Every one of them looks like "the most interesting guy in the world"!

Philpott
02-18-2018, 11:43 AM
Inspector General, George Lythcott at the Island Yacht Club, where everybody knows your boat.

AZ Sailor
02-19-2018, 07:27 PM
Last item on the "SER to do list", SER 3.28, done:

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Still a handful of things on the "SER to buy/rent/borrow/scrounge list". And not trivial stuff on the general to do list. 124 days to go. Breathe.

dolfinbill
02-20-2018, 03:27 PM
Very nice job Lee. Now I know how to do it.

Bill
s/v Dolfin

Philpott
02-23-2018, 01:50 PM
Max Crittenden, former Commodore of the SSS. Never one to make a fuss , always low key, here is his 2010 Transpac photo and a photo of him over this past weekend handing off a piece of equipment to a fellow sailor. Max says he really is moving down south now. Seriously. His garage is almost empty. He has the southern California singlehanded sailors in the crosshairs. Bon voyage, Max.

Philpott
02-28-2018, 05:52 PM
Best coconut cream pie in Hanalei Bay and walking distance from the yellow house, command central

Philpott
03-01-2018, 07:54 PM
Yellow House provisions

Philpott
03-08-2018, 12:40 PM
Remember this?

Philpott
03-09-2018, 07:43 PM
Rusty Roy plans to do the race this year in his Moore 24 Holokiki. No oven. No head. No problem. Good luck, Rusty!

Here's another Moore 24: Rushmoore with Reuben Gabriel waving goodbye at the start of the 2012 race. Time 15:00:26:00 corrected time 11:06:55:20. Photo probably by LaDonna Buback of Latitude 38. Got Transpac photos? Here's where you post 'em!

jamottep
03-09-2018, 11:09 PM
Rusty Roy plans to do the race this year in his Moore 24 Holokiki. No oven. No head. No problem. Good luck, Rusty!

Here's another Moore 24: Rushmoore with Reuben Gabriel waving goodbye at the start of the 2012 race. Time 15:00:26:00 corrected time 11:06:55:20. Photo probably by LaDonna Buback of Latitude 38. Got Transpac photos? Here's where you post 'em!

Sweet picture!

Philpott
03-10-2018, 10:30 AM
Okay, video du jour it is. Jiri Senkyrik sailed his Olson 30 KATO first over the line in Hanalei Bay in 2016. Time: 12:22:53:50/Corrected 10:12:34:11
Here he is, fresh off the boat, in Larry Conklin's crash boat headed for shore (in case your kids/grandkids are not around, click on the blue lettering. If that doesn't work, cut and paste this into your browser):

https://vimeo.com/259483688

This is not my thread, you know. It's your thread. Post as you choose. Let's get this thing moving.

Lightspeed
03-10-2018, 06:54 PM
My late great Lightspeed 2014. 3208

dolfinbill
03-10-2018, 07:47 PM
I tried to post a photo, Jackie, but I'm just not very techy. It downloaded sideways and then wouldn't display so I just had to bail on it. Hope this isn't a requirement for getting to the starting line.

Bill
s/v Dolfin

Philpott
03-10-2018, 07:58 PM
I tried to post a photo, Jackie, but I'm just not very techy. It downloaded sideways and then wouldn't display so I just had to bail on it. Hope this isn't a requirement for getting to the starting line.

Bill
s/v Dolfin

hahaha that's funny. I just emailed you.

brianb
03-10-2018, 10:04 PM
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Daydreamer
03-11-2018, 09:58 AM
Just after the skippers meeting.

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Daydreamer
03-11-2018, 10:03 AM
Getting ready to cast off!!
Finishing those last minute preparations.

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Philpott
03-11-2018, 12:25 PM
I tried to post a photo, Jackie, but I'm just not very techy. It downloaded sideways and then wouldn't display so I just had to bail on it. Hope this isn't a requirement for getting to the starting line.

Bill
s/v Dolfin
“Euphoria at the finish line, even though it took yet another squall to blow me across.”

Lanikai
03-12-2018, 12:26 AM
This is more of a Gearing Down, so that I may find my way to the starting line in, say, 2022. Packing books for storage prior to moving aboard. Clearly a cruiser's library, with some singlehanding and SSS books and at least one copy of "Sail Trim". Many are from the great annual SF public library sale at Fort Mason.
Of note is "Party of One", which a former non-sailing co-worker and fellow introvert gave to me before I took off for an east coast + Bahamas cruise years ago (singlehanded, as if it needs to be said). Good reading for the SHTP'er having doubts 1000nm from land.

Gamayun
03-13-2018, 08:44 PM
With a huge dollop of Michael Jefferson (Mouton Noir) assistance and know-how, I just got the SSB and MMPT controller installed. Still a work in progress with trim to be reinstalled. That window above all the electronics and my battery bank is kinda freaking me out now. Solar panel going up later this week.

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Philpott
03-14-2018, 02:20 PM
With a huge dollop of Michael Jefferson (Mouton Noir) assistance and know-how, I just got the SSB and MMPT controller installed. Still a work in progress with trim to be reinstalled. That window above all the electronics and my battery bank is kinda freaking me out now. Solar panel going up later this week. 3231

BEEEOOOOTIFUL!!!! coming Saturday?

Philpott
03-14-2018, 07:26 PM
Photo by Jay Bietz. Must be a professional and friend, because that's an awesome shot at the start of the 2016 race.

Philpott
03-15-2018, 10:24 AM
And while they wait for you, your loved ones can go on a muddy hike. This is Kauai mud that never washes out of your favorite pink tshirt. Be prepared!

Philpott
03-15-2018, 06:03 PM
Crinan II w Don Martin at the helm. "Oh hell! There's a Wylie in my Fleet?!!" (anonymous but very very real quote)

Gamayun
03-16-2018, 08:30 PM
Here's my SSB, solar MPPT controller, arch and solar panels. Working on the E-Rud next. I think that's the last of the biggies. I've even turned down work for June, which I can ill afford right now. It's really soon, isn't it? The next few months are going to fly by!

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Gamayun
03-16-2018, 08:31 PM
Crinan II w Don Martin at the helm. "Oh hell! There's a Wylie in my Fleet?!!" (anonymous but very very real quote)

OMG, this sounds like something I said numerous times last year, usually in the plural and the F-word though!!

Philpott
03-24-2018, 09:24 AM
2016. At the Skippers' meeting Corinthian Yacht Club, just before the Luncheon, the day before the Race

BobJ
03-24-2018, 09:44 AM
OMG, this sounds like something I said numerous times last year, usually in the plural and the F-word though!!

It's not Wylies generally but WylieCat 30's specifically. But they need love too. I've found they're beatable but you need a spinnaker. You aren't going to beat them upwind or reaching in breeze.

Philpott
03-25-2018, 11:14 AM
Steve Hodges on Frolic at the start of the 2014 Race. Who took this photo? Dunno. Maybe Jonathan Gutoff? Would love to give credit, cuz it's a doozy.

jamottep
03-25-2018, 11:55 AM
Steve Hodges on Frolic at the start of the 2014 Race. Who took this photo? Dunno. Maybe Jonathan Gutoff? Would love to give credit, cuz it's a doozy.

Great picture! On the topic of picture I don't have one of Double Espresso under way. Would anyone try to shoot one during the Round The Rocks?

Wylieguy
03-25-2018, 06:46 PM
It's not Wylies generally but WylieCat 30's specifically. But they need love too. I've found they're beatable but you need a spinnaker. You aren't going to beat them upwind or reaching in breeze.

Actually you do need a chute to compete against Wyliecats. Since the boat was designed without a spinnaker, the PHRF Committee requires us to sail in spinnaker divisions (like all one design boats whose class association does not use chutes). So, almost all of the time we're sailing against boats with spinnakers.

Sometimes in special circumstances (the Sausalito YC's Champion of Champion Race - sailed without chutes since half the "Champions" come from non-spinnaker divisions) the RC adds an 18 second handicap. Some smaller YC's do the same for lightly enrolled beer can races if there's only one Wyliecat entered in the series.

BobJ
03-25-2018, 10:04 PM
18 seconds is in the ballpark. The WC30 weighs the same as my boat and has more of that weight in the keel bulb, same LOA and LWL, same upwind sail area (with the square top) - I sail even with them hour after hour upwind or on a reach. It comes down to distance sailed downwind. The WC30 can sail straight to the mark (sometimes by the lee) while I'm sailing faster but at hotter angles and gybing a lot. My boat rates 105, so 126-132 for the WC30 is a gift. A member of the NorCal PHRF committee suggested I appeal the WC30 rating based on the above, but I know all you guys...

Now back to your regularly-scheduled SHTP photos.

Philpott
03-26-2018, 11:20 AM
The Geek. Don't know who this is? Ask about it and someone will tell you.

Wylieguy
03-26-2018, 01:04 PM
3276 You want nylon, we got nylon!

mike cunningham
03-27-2018, 04:19 AM
2016. At the Skippers' meeting Corinthian Yacht Club, just before the Luncheon, the day before the Race

I remember the meeting. I was looking around the room wondering if everyone was thinking what I was thinking... "Man are we really going to do this?"

You want to know how dedicated I am? I am checking the SSS forum from a camper van parked in a grove of Eucalyptus 20 miles from Hobart, Tasmania. Yea, buglighter for sure.

Critter
03-27-2018, 08:46 AM
Hey Jackie, I just discovered the pictures of me on p. 1 of this thread, thanks. The toothbrushing photo is from the 2009 LongPac and is an homage to Synthia Petroka who posted a similar selfie a couple of years earlier ... on this forum?

Here's one of my favorites, halfway day in 2010. 3279

Philpott
03-27-2018, 01:31 PM
Hahaha! A new requirement? “Submit a photo of your boat, a copy of your phrf and a selfie of you brushing your teeth.” Here is Synthia on the first day of her 2005 Longpac.

Critter
03-28-2018, 12:57 PM
Quite right! It's permissible to abandon most aspects of hygiene out there, but not dental hygiene.

Philpott
04-05-2018, 09:40 AM
2016 Nawiliwili Harbor, lining up and preparing boats for the return trip by container.