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    In a most unusual tropical weather scenario, Category 2 Hurricane HILARY is set to overtake and pass slower moving Tropical Storm IRWIN close by to the north.... Usually you don't have hurricane races. But this is the exception. IRWIN is wandering aimlessly, with light to non-existent steering currents. HILARY is truckin' west at 13 knots.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Smokester View Post
    She's Tamzine. One of the many small ships of Dunkirk taking part in the rescue of British forces during WW2.
    Congrats, John. Yes, TAMZINE is the smallest of the 700 "little ships" that crossed the English Channel May 28-June 4, 1940 to help rescue 350,000 retreating British and French soldiers from the beach at Dunkirk.

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    Having just come from the theater to see "DUNKIRK" on wide screen, we found the sunset view from Capitola's cliffs to be exceedingly clear. One could easily imagine we were looking across the English Channel with the beaches of France in the distance.

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    TAMZINE, well preserved and on display at the Imperial War Museum in London, was a light but strong fishing boat, 14'7" in length, clinker built of Canadian spruce in Margate, Kent, 1937. She was equipped with sails, as well as a British Seagull engine and crossed the English Channel (Straits of Dover) on her own bottom to help ferry soldiers from the beaches and shoal coastal waters seaward to larger rescue vessels. On her return trip, "saturated in blood" she was towed back to England by a Belgian fishing vessel and quickly reclaimed by her fisherman/owners.

    Here is TAMZINE and her "little ships" sisters returning to Dunkirk in 1965. The one-way crossing distance from Ramsgate to Dunkirk is about 28 nautical miles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zqrcc8R8fc

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    Sweet, it's basically "Swallows and Amazons vs. the Nazis".

    I saw Dunkirk the other night and it reinforced my desire to never be trapped belowdecks in a large sinking ship. Mark Rylance was great as the skipper of the motorsailor.

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    Thanks, Mike, for the milestone. Edward Allcard, an adventurous restless spirit and singlehander in the time of Bill Tilman, the Hiscocks, and Smeetons. Once went "missing" for 3 months at sea. Lived to be an active 102.....

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    Here is Allcard at 101, working on his next book..

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    Quote Originally Posted by sleddog View Post
    Thanks, Mike, for the milestone. Edward Allcard, an adventurous restless spirit and singlehander in the time of Bill Tilman, the Hiscocks, and Smeetons. Once went "missing" for 3 months at sea. Lived to be an active 102.....

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    Here is Allcard at 101, working on his next book..
    Coincidentally while he was "missing" he was living in Seychelles. I spent ten years there and I can't blame him for hanging out for a few months, especially back in the day when there was no airport and the Seychelles were pretty isolated and untouched. Must have seemed a true paradise found.
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    A most unusual weather event happened Wed. afternoon about 4 pm. At Santa Cruz Harbor I was rigging WILDFLOWER for a sail. It was warm and muggy, maybe 85 degrees, with interesting "monsoonal" clouds overhead. There was a 12 knot afternoon seabreeze from the SW.

    In a short space of time the seabreeze quit. A long, low, white cloud approached from the SE, and the wind suddenly began blowing at 25-30 knots, also from the SE, while the temp dropped probably 25 degrees.

    I've seen many a squall. But this was different. The wind lasted only a few minutes, then quit, and zero zero fog moved in, which also lasted a short time, until it was over and the warm temps and seabreeze resumed.

    What was this??? Professional weathermen called it a "gravity wave," and "convection." Some local came up with the name "fognado," which sounded good to the press, and seems to have caught on. One experienced TV weatherman said he'd never seen anything like it in all his years.

    Whatever, the wind was whistling at the Harbor, and I had to put on long pants and a fleece. Kiddie pools were reported becoming airborne.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuSlbKW-1tM

    It wasn't tornado related, as the ominous, long, white cloud seemed to be rolling horizontally along its 10 mile front, not vertically as in a tornado.

    The answer seems to be it was a rare "roll cloud," defined by the NWS as "a low, horizontal tube-shaped arcus cloud associated with a thunderstorm gust front (or sometimes with a cold front). Roll clouds are relatively rare; they are completely detached from the thunderstorm base or other cloud features, thus differentiating them from the more familiar shelf clouds. Roll clouds usually appear to be "rolling" about a horizontal axis, but should not be confused with funnel clouds."

    Apparently the thunderstorm that created our rather bizarre "roll cloud" was nowhere in the vicinity. Film at 11.

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    Meanwhile, yesterday, after a 12.5 day return passage from Honolulu, MERLIN returned to Santa Cruz to a warm aloha of a small group of well wishers.
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    It's nice to see MERLIN on the cover of this month's Latitude 38.
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    Other than the owner's wallet, the most highly stressed piece of marine equipment, on any fore and aft rigged sailing vessel is the ............

    Singlehanded Transpackers would not be out of order to carry a complete spare. The item in question has to operate, often under extreme loads, for days on end. In 3 dimensions: in/out; up/down, back/forth, with a certain amount of rotational twist thrown it.

    In WILDFLOWER's case, it was 4 dimensions when on Wednesday evening, in good breeze with two reefs in the Hobie 18 main, we jibed by quickly overhauling the mainsheet. The main came across nicely with a loud thunk. But the rotating mast didn't jibe, at least not quickly enough. The failure came in the form of owner's error for having a piece of under-engineered equipment not up to the task when the boom was on one jibe, the mast on the other.

    Dr. Howard and I made repairs this afternoon using a much stronger Windsurfer universal. "Go break that," the good doctor said.

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    MERLIN got the Latitude cover shot. But you don't need a Santa Cruz ULDB to go fast in the Molokai Channel. Check out this Hawaiian Sailing Canoe coming at ya, approaching Diamond Head finish after crossing from Maui:

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    These guys racing with sticks and strings and blue plastic poly tarps for sails going just as fast as COMANCHE. And the kids learning about turning the wind while racing leaves upwind in the lagoon! (a 2 minute video of note.)

    https://www.facebook.com/greatninigocanoerace/
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    I really enjoyed those canoe videos....smokin' along!
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