New Boat 4 Sled

[AntsUiga]

It's been pretty quiet. To see if anyone is awake, I offer a quiz with ice cream prize. You must guess both photos correctly to win. One try only/24 hours.

1) What class boat is this leaving Inverness YC yesterday for her new home in FLA
2) What famous man made surfing spot in Orange County, CA., with an instantly recognizable name, did this become after the 1920 aerial photo?

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(Good thing I took a break from yard chores….)

1. Sad to see a 110 class boat head to FL. Hopefully, a new fleet is breeding.
2. The Wedge was created when the breakwater for Newport Beach Harbor was built.

If any of these answers are incorrect, then half-awake status is rightly conferred.

Ants

[Philpott]

Damn it, Ants! I just came in from trimming my roses and you've grabbed the headlines. I grew up in Orange County! I finally knew the answers! I want my Macapuno! Skip, when you come up to give the weather report at the SHTP skippers' meeting on the 24th will you bring me some? Remember when you rode your bike over to the Santa Cruz harbor that time when I arrived aboard Dura Mater? You brought me every left over in your fridge: cold pizza, potato salad and even, if I recall correctly, some slightly melted macapuno. Then we analyzed the way I almost wiped out DM's rig trying to gybe @ Davenport.

"That's not the place to gybe slowly, Jackie! Davenport is where wind LIVES!"

I'm sure the sailors on 062423 @ RYC will listen just as avidly. If they know what's good for them.

As I recall, you even made me eat the leftovers before I could have my ice cream.

[BobJ]

The boat is a Zephyr, the 110's smaller cousin. The pictured yellow boat has some keel damage but otherwise looked good, and it was listed for just $1,000. Somebody got a deal. Ralf Morgan had his Zephyr advertised recently for $8,500.

I wasn't a So-Cal surfer so I'll leave that guess to Jackie and Ants. Re Davenport, due to an override on the spinny sheet we did a decent job of screwing a 41' J/125 into the ocean off Davenport.

Whales is heading behind Banks Island. Not sure I agree with that but I'm not driving.
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[sleddog]

(Good thing I took a break from yard chores….)
1. Sad to see a 110 class boat head to FL. Hopefully, a new fleet is breeding.
2. The Wedge was created when the breakwater for Newport Beach Harbor was built.
If any of these answers are incorrect, then half-awake status is rightly conferred.
Ants

Sorry Ants, one of your answers is incorrect. Jackie: if you knew the answers, why didn't you say so? BobJ only guessed one answer and left out the second. So everyone who hasn't yet guessed, the icecream prize is still up for grabs as no one has yet answered both photos correctly.

[sleddog]

Whales is heading behind Banks Island. Not sure I agree with that but I'm not driving..

At 5 pm WHALES is making progress, 5-6 knots, inside Banks Island. DOGSMILES is about 55 miles astern, headed inside Aristazabal Island, up Laredo Channel. WHALES had a choice and went inside Banks Island via Otter Channel, and now is short tacking up the narrow (1-1.5 mile wide) Principe Channel. Talk about a scenic route! Banks Island/Principe Channel are 37 miles long and there is only one satisfactory refuge, Buchan Inlet, about halfway up Principe, on the west side of Pitt Island. My guess that WHALES would be conservative and stay outside in Hecate Straits was wrong. Now they are committed, engineless, in close quarters with land on both sides. Unless they anchor before dark, they are going to be short tacking inside Principe Channel in blackness. I agree with BobJ that this may be a questionable move by WHALES, the leading boat by a lot.

[BobJ]

Sorry Ants, one of your answers is incorrect. Jackie: if you knew the answers, why didn't you say so? BobJ only guessed one answer and left out the second.

We've formed a syndicate and plan to split the winnings. Not very SSS-like but there 'ya go.

[Tchoupitoulas]

Low hanging fruit?
Zephyr
The Wedge

[Tchoupitoulas]

I remember seeing Grey Wolf in Martha's Vineyard years ago. What an impressive boat! Instant Roger Martin fan. Still looks good I think.
I wonder what kind of engine they had to remove.

[sleddog]

Low hanging fruit?
Zephyr
The Wedge

Got It! Congrats, Tchoupitoulas. Here's the Dirty Old Wedge on a good day. The shore and Newport west breakwater joins the ocean beach at right angles, creating insane waves on south swells.

GRAY WOLF aka Team We Brake For Whales is a most wonderful boat. https://www.rodgermartindesign.com/portfolio/gray-wolf/ I believe they removed a Yanmar2 Saildrive

[sleddog]

BRAKE4WHALES did an interesting thing early this morning and backtracked 5 miles to enter Beaver Passage and Ogden Channel, their only option north that keeps them out of Hecate Strait as they cross Dixon Entrance. Smart move on their part, as Hecate reports are NW 25, gusting 40. WHALES now under 100 miles at 7 a.m.
Second place DOGSMILE holed up last night in Dillion Bay, at the south end of Pitt Island. Dillion Bay has excellent protection, and DOGSMILE is in a good spot to wait out the weather.. They want those steak knives!
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