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Another resource with pretty detailed info.

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This book is long out of print, but might be available from used book sellers. Brian Fagan was a UCSB Prof and sailor out of Santa Barbara. I met him there many decades ago.

PS. - I don’t know...

More Improvisation:
When Double-Handing the Wylie-60 ROXANNE we experimented with an interesting spinnaker hoist method for the 1998 PacCup. It involved no effort on our part, no electric winch or...

Matt, please keep the progress photos coming. This is great fun to see and I’m particularly enjoying the images of the venue in the background. You’re working in the spar loft.

Watson here and the answer is: Nope. My NT PACIFIC LOON was right there at RYC participating in the Great RYC Renewable Diesel Delivery via tank truck from DieselDirect, Stockton.

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“0ne of these things is not like the other. One of these things is not the same…”

An excellent resource for information about small boat access points is the BAY AREA SEA KAYAKERS (BASK) Trip Planner.
https://www.bask.org/trip_planner/6.4/?z=14

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Another photo of SAGA’s owner and 110 sailor Kimo Mackey of Bainbridge Island, WA. An interesting part of SAGA’s history is that around 1939-1940 she was owned by Myron Spaulding and raced on SF...

It’s hard to take a bad pictures of such a lovely boat. Here’s another view:
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Agree with all comments. As for starts at St. Fancy, I was with you Bob (and maybe Sam) when you were PRO the time we got kicked out of StFYC. I’m pretty sure it was a Farallones race. In best SSS...

There are several hints in Sled’s text and one BIG hint in the photo. And the photo file name is a red herring.

1) That’s not just any International 14, but THE Original 1927 I-14 being sailed by...

Go PESTOU! Eric (the singlehanded sailor) is underway and going for the steak knives.

Interesting… DOGSMILE is going up the Grenville Channel which tends to be a funnel for NW wind. Looks like torture.
Here is a photo I took in Grenville Channel in June a few years ago on a calm day....

A good lesson for all of us: If you want to win the race (or the steak knives), you need to finish. It’s all about really good prep, and DON’T BREAK THE BOAT!

I wonder about this year’s attrition...

Just reported (on Facebook) from Chad on 2nd place TEAM TRES EQUIS:https://www.sfbaysss.org/forum/blob:https://www.sfbaysss.org/c3a340fb-b757-4803-9201-41b8d360e043 “We have retired from R2AK. More...

I remember seeing GRAY WOLF for sale ~12 years ago. A very interesting boat.

From the builder: GRAY WOLF is a state-of-the-art wooden boat with strong influences from classic American work boats...

I really hadn’t been paying much attention to this edition of The Ocean Race before the long Southern Ocean leg. Maybe I’m just old fashioned, but I find it had to relate with what this race has...

Someone a while back suggested there should be age categories for answering Sled’s quizzes. I believe the answer is the 13’ BANSHEE designed by Richard (Dick) Reid. There was a series of builders...

Not BARUNA. BARUNA (a yawl) was painted black. I remember hearing that they painted her silver underneath the black paint in an effort to reflect heat. The sloop in the photo is most likely ORIENT...

Bob,
With the first page open on your iThing, click on where it says All Pages in red near the top of the page and you should be able to see it all.

ok, Sled. This is the only “guess” you haven’t responded to. I did a bit of internet searching and there is an account of a squid purported to have attached itself to a French boat in mid-Atlantic...

#24. — I’m waiting to hear the story of those yak fur jib sheets (#24). Who’d a thought? And WHY?

I understand yak wool actually make nice sweaters.

August 2015, near Raufarhöfn, Iceland
The Arctic Henge, a work in progress.

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A bit of internet search will reveal that Canadian author Farley Mowat (1921-2014) was an outspoken environmentalists in addition to being quite a prolific writer. He was probably best known for his...