Post by CoolBreeze on Jun 28, 2007 9:28:36 GMT -4
Well, as many of you know, I do a lot of sailing, mainly racing, in the summer. This year, I am once again doing the Marblehead Ocean Race on the boat: Climax - a Santana 35 out of the Dartmouth Yacht Club. DYC has two other boats attending - Defiant and Noah Genda
We (Climax) leave this Friday the 29th for Marblehead, Massachusetts- which is about 45 minutes north of Boston.
It will take about 65 hours to get there by combination motor/sail. If all goes well (i.e. no bad weather, mechanical issues), we'll be in port by Monday morning.
From there, we have prep work to do to the boat, then looking forward to he race start on Sunday the 8th of July. When I did the race in '05, we finished in 82 hours. Very light wind conditions made it a very tiring, tactical race. With reasonable winds (say 8-12 kts) we should be able to knock off at least 15-20 hours this time around. We hope to finish sometime Tuesday afternoon/evening.
You can track the boat on the internet!!!!! All boats will be carrying a transponder which sends back live data to servers so you can watch our position on the net.
There will be a drop down bar, where you can select the boat name...
Race Tracker: www.fistracking.com/marbleh/2007
Boat name : Climax
Division: PHRF Racing (Probably will be III...not sure yet)
Marblehead Homepage: www.marbleheadtohalifax.com
The tracking site should be up and running Sunday, so you'll be able to see how it works before the race starts. You'll be able to see the boat on it's own, or in comparison to the fleet.
Cheers!!! Robert
We (Climax) leave this Friday the 29th for Marblehead, Massachusetts- which is about 45 minutes north of Boston.
It will take about 65 hours to get there by combination motor/sail. If all goes well (i.e. no bad weather, mechanical issues), we'll be in port by Monday morning.
From there, we have prep work to do to the boat, then looking forward to he race start on Sunday the 8th of July. When I did the race in '05, we finished in 82 hours. Very light wind conditions made it a very tiring, tactical race. With reasonable winds (say 8-12 kts) we should be able to knock off at least 15-20 hours this time around. We hope to finish sometime Tuesday afternoon/evening.
You can track the boat on the internet!!!!! All boats will be carrying a transponder which sends back live data to servers so you can watch our position on the net.
There will be a drop down bar, where you can select the boat name...
Race Tracker: www.fistracking.com/marbleh/2007
Boat name : Climax
Division: PHRF Racing (Probably will be III...not sure yet)
Marblehead Homepage: www.marbleheadtohalifax.com
The tracking site should be up and running Sunday, so you'll be able to see how it works before the race starts. You'll be able to see the boat on it's own, or in comparison to the fleet.
Cheers!!! Robert
