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    Default Coastal Cup for Shorthanded Crews

    Great news! Encinal Yacht Club, host of the Coastal Cup race, is adding some new divisions to support our strange breed of sailor: doublehanded and singlehanded, both monohull AND, yes, multihull, starting now, 2012. Plus, in future years they are also going to add a longer SHTP-qualifying course option that extends offshore by the required minimum distance, and that runs an entire distance of the requisite amount. So, feedback is desired here.

    Who is interested?
    How serious is your interest for 2012? future years?
    Single or Doublehanded?
    What kind of boat?
    Standard course or SHTP-qualifying course?
    What schedule? odd years only (same as LongPac), or even years too, when you can't find your way to Hanalei Bay, or both?

    Thanks, and if you can think of anything else, fire away.

    Paul/Culebra

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    I would be extremely interested in a singlehanded shtp qualifier course on odd number years. If they ran it in march or april of 2012, i would probably enter.

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    Default Coastal Cup singlehanded . . .

    very interesting

    You better have a good autopilot for that one - it blows like crap most years, with big seas. Then there's the bash home.

    But still...
    Last edited by BobJ; 12-20-2011 at 01:51 AM.

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    Default Bash Home ?

    In a Moore ? Tough tacking on I-5 or 101 ?

    Quote Originally Posted by BobJ View Post
    very interesting

    You better have a good autopilot for that one - it blows like crap most years, with big seas. Then there's the bash home.

    But still...

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    Exactly, and then there's keeping watch for oil platforms and commercial shipping!

    Say good night Bob.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Culebra View Post
    Say good night Bob.
    Good night Bob.

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    Paul - want me to post this to the BAMA forums?

    While I'd love to do the Coastal on HapaGirl - I'm not up to it. The probably is, but I'm not.

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    Default Double-handed

    I did the coastal cup double handed in Xpression (C&C 110) I think it was in 2004. It was a great race (except for hitting a whale). Even though I prefer single-handed offshore racing, I don't know if I would do the coastal cup single handed.
    The return trip can be challenging as well. I bailed out on the first attempt (blowing like snot).

    Dirk

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    Does anyone know what the dates are for Coastal Cup 2012? If it was in May instead of mid-June (like last year), then I may potentially be interested in doing the race this year. The race last year was epic. We were hitting 20 knots of boat speed on the first afternoon, before ripping our main in a round up and being forced to retire.

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    Quote Originally Posted by brianb View Post
    In a Moore ? Tough tacking on I-5 or 101 ?
    "US 101" would come back via "US 101". It would only make sense....

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