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Posts: 5,590 Naples, FL | I'd try.
Its more fun than it looks. Unless it's YOUR boat you hear that fiberglass crunch noise on....
Jay
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Posts: 3,293 Long Beach, California | Bob -
Start scheduled at 10:00... waiting for results of skippers' meeting...
John Williams
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Posts: 5,590 Naples, FL | I thought they called the racing if the roads were wet (well, except for some Formula and rally racing) because it could result in way to much risk for the drivers.
Jay
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Posts: 5,590 Naples, FL | Bob -
Start scheduled at 10:00... waiting for results of skippers' meeting... So what is the surf conditions this morning? I know Jensen is rather infamous for close-out sets and steep breaks in shallow water... How about having them roll the boats across the road (well, down the street a bit) to the intracoastal, and racing up the ICW to the Ft. Pierce inlet and going out there? The inlet will be tough, but not as bad as that surf...
Jay
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Posts: 5,590 Naples, FL | Velocity's website indicates a lot of riptide (expected). I guess if you had to shoot the surf, find a riptide and sail out on it....
Jay
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Posts: 3,114 BANNED | Not me! Boats are too fragile and so am I! I am intrigued by "big wave" surfing. Not that I'd try that either.
I wouldn't worry about the boat unless it flipped, got its mast stuck in the sand and started getting pounded by the surf. | | | Re: Tybee 500 Updates
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Posts: 3,348 | Not me! Boats are too fragile and so am I! I am intrigued by "big wave" surfing. Not that I'd try that either.
I wouldn't worry about the boat unless it flipped, got its mast stuck in the sand and started getting pounded by the surf. Do any on you "old timers", like me, remember a H-18 magnum, called Black Magic, getting pulverized at Daytona? Took the guy a couple of hours to police up all the various and sundry pieces. | | | Re: Tybee 500 Updates
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Posts: 263 SC | Ask all of the guys that go broken up off of Jensen Beach in one of the last Worrell 1000's. I've never race either the Worrell or Tybee but I have ground crewed for both. You go through the year or more of preperation trying to find sponsorship, re-rigging the boat, and if you decide on your own to stay on the beach your done! Get in the car and drive home. The team feels responsible for each other and to the few sponsors that you could round up. So I think there is some pressure to push on out. Alot of those boats on jensen crashed, got back to the beach, re-rigged, and tried again. A mast might be a lot of money but you've got so much invested personally already. I get it. Not to mention that pride can be a real (censored) too.
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
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Posts: 695 Ft. Pierce, Fl. USA | Ft. Pierce...Is breaking about head high with sets as big as two foot overhead...shore pound. The picture makes it look at lot smaller than it issince there is nothing to reference the wave hight to. The wind is great at about a steady 15-18mph...the down side is it is almost straight on shore... Regards, Bob
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Posts: 302 Raleigh/ Wrightsville Beach NC | Chris Green, a Brit, who now lives with his lovely wife in League City (near HOuston). He was my ground crew for the Great TX. Cat Race in 2004. He has entered it since. He had a TheMightyHobie18, then a magnum, and now sports a Hobie Tiger. His Crew Jesse Fulmer, is the son of Bobby Fulmer. His dad used to sail and race Tornados, H16 with his son Jesse, etc. They should finish well on their Tiger. TCDYC, stands for Texas City Dike Yacht Club. see www.TCDYC.com Thanks for the update on the F18 crew. They are doing well against the big boats. It will be interesting to see how they fair in today's conditions. They will be less overpowered, but that extra 2 foot of bow sure is nice in that large swell. It looks like a reaching leg today, so it may get ugly. I was hoping to see more F18s. Leonard and Krantz would have been a stiff competitor. But in conditions like today I think I would want to be on an I20. So far as getting out in today's surf.. If the wind is coming directly onshore.. look for lots of carnage. It takes a lot of practice to power through the surf, not get into irons or get sideways. You got to dance with the waves. | | | Re: Tybee 500 Updates
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#106768 05/15/07 11:13 AM 05/15/07 11:13 AM |
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Posts: 5,590 Naples, FL | Bob,
Thanks for the pics. Living in Stuart for 10 years I know the conditions you speak of. That looks like south jetty (Ft. Pierce).
A good clue as to the conditions - there aren't a lot of people (surfers, swimmers, windsurfers, kitesailors) out there.
The real issue is that there isn't enough time between those lumps to get any real boatspeed going (and control from the foils). The first wave knocks you back, and while you're struggling to reset the sails (because your heading is now off by 45 degrees) and get the airflow to generate power, the next wave is just about to crash (now broadside) into you.
Jay
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