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    I was looking at the picture and thinking what a nice looking boat. I bet I could race that ... Then looked closer ☺️
    Thanks for sharing the picture, I'm so glad to see DE still doing good!

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    Nawiliwili again. On my afternoon marina walk I get through the unlocked gate of 200 dock and see this beautiful red boat. Hard to believe it has a bad rudder.

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    Further down to starboard is this sleek Westsail 32 with skipper Bill on board. As I click this his better half Darlene walks up.

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    Earlier today at Poipu Beach we meet this guy.

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    Miscellaneous photos from the past several days:

    The Kahuna at work on the deck of the condo

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    The view of the finish line with Brian's Yagi antenna made from arrow shafts

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    Hula's finish

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    A view from the Condo at Dawn

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    Margie Wood and Brendan Huffman

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    Yes, yes, and we have photos of the sailors and stories about them, too. But we want to give them copies of the 8 x 10" color photographs Erik Simonsen took of them at the start, and they haven't seen them yet. So those will show up here once the racers have seen them first. In the meantime:

    Here are Robb Walker and Jim Quanci

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    Greg and Cliff fixing Will's rudder. Said Will, "But Bob promised me it wouldn't happen again! He PROMISED!"

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    Here is Mary Lovely with friends Ian and Rene. Ian is crew on Green Buffalo back home and this time upon her return

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    Christine Weaver interviewing Falk Meissner.

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    At Tree Time, sitting with his wife, Vanessa Valdez, Falk let slip the cost of shipping Shark on Bluegrass home. Vanessa looked at him in shock. We looked at Falk. Avoiding her eyes and with a straight face he said to the group at large, "I've not been completely explicit about costs."
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    Cliff Shaw, winner of the 2021 Singlehanded Transpacific Yacht Race, multi hull division

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    In the finest SSS tradition, closing down Tahiti Nui. John Wilkerson, Brian, Synthia, Jamie Wylly, Greg and Jackie. Thank you to Jamie and John for picking up the tab.

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    Getting ready to carry all the trophies down to the River: Lee is doing laundry, Synthia is wearing a dress (!!), Brian is eating spicy poke, and Greg is drinking coffee.

    We have burgees and belt buckles. Immediately after we arrived Brian cursed : "I forgot the buckles". Of course we didn't believe him because ... Kahunas don't make big mistakes. But it was the truth.

    He called Simin Imen, his wife at home in Los Gatos, who crawled around in the garage carrying her iphone. She face timed Brian and they found the buckles. Finally.

    We owe Simin big time because she drove to the Post office and sent them priority mail. So they're here.

    In the meantime, here are some photos from July 2

    Brian aboard s/v Pamela

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    Greg and Syn

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    Dennis aboard, playing guitar

    Lee and Brian chatting
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    Christine just sent this over from Latitude 38: https://www.latitude38.com/lectronic...ic-race-awards

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    Default What Happened in Hanalei Bay?

    Okay, where was I? Oh, yes, before the racers arrived there was a race committee meeting on the s/v Pamela. I was already out there chatting with Dennis and we invited everyone else to come visit, too. Here is our host

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    Dennis had no food, but Tom Boussie was in town for another day, and he texted "What can I bring?" The response? "Food". So he did. He brought a ton of delicious barbeque chicken and beer, too. Here he is chatting with Lee's niece, MJ

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    Someone brought rum. Dennis and Synthia mixed up a 2021 batch of the Official SSS Mai Tais.

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    Then we all got back into the Sea Squirrel and Synthia dropped us off at Black Pot Beach boat launch (not really a launch, but close enough to shore for us to wade in).

    Kuhio Highway, the connection between Hanalei Bay and Princeville, where the condo was located, had a restrictive enter and exit schedule. Monday - Friday you could drive between Princeville and Hanalei from 5:30-6:30 am, once again in the middle of the afternoon for an hour, then after 5:30pm until 11 pm when it closed completely. Weekends the road crews managed cars into and out of the towns every hour. The cars were lined up all the way back to the Princeville Village, but almost everyone was a good sport about it.

    What did this mean for your intrepid race committee? Did we tell the sailors that they had to hove to offshore until we could arrive in the morning? No way.

    We walked the three blocks from the old hotel, down the 194 steps to the beach below the hotel, through the deep dark jungle,

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    arriving at the slippery rocks abutting the Mighty Hanalei River. Then we waited for the arrival of Lee on his dinghy, the Robert Parker, or Captain Synbad upon the glorious Sea Squirrel II.

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    If you detect an obsession with small motorized dinghies, you would be correct. We were heavily dependent upon them. In the future I would recommend that sailors be advised to bring their own dinghies, and to use them.
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    My drybag, swim fins and goggles got frequent use back and forth to Archimedes.

    I also recall having Sea Squirrel 1 tied up to to the an anchored boat and having to swim out and back after use. The tiger sharks liked my dusk swims more than I did ; )

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    Default Photos from the Start by Erik Simonsen/ Pressure Drop

    Only five per post, so be patient

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