Columbia S Carolina, December 29, 30, 31st(?). 20 some odd mile distance race around our Lake. Last 3 years temps were in the 60's with good wind. Nice beach, good people, ecellent camping, fireworks(watch out for the Big Nasty!), and its all free...yes, thats right, free.
Jake, can your repost your map? This thread was started elsewhere but needed its on space.
Open multihull, but mostly spin boats. Lemans starts and finishes, no scoring, just fun. Yes there is an elapsed time record thats held by Trey and Jake, so who wants a piece of that? I do....

Cool!

Maybe we can have our reacher/hooter ready by then.

Big image for printing

Trey and I set the course #3 record in the first running of the event with 2hrs 4minutes and change on an F18. Susie Ebert Island is very sheltered (and shallow) and has jammed up the fleet in the past as we get around - first one to break free and get back into the breeze is usually gone and rounding that next point into the main body in breeze is the trick. Bringing out the 20 this year.

hooter would be a nice addition for this race!

LOL!

It will be quite the homemade rig. Old E-scow flat,triangle reacher (found a couple and one has 1958 class stamps on it) and a pole/sprit that is a cut down end of an old tapered mast. Still debating on roller furling or not.

Sounds like a great time! Wish we could come....Wish you all good wind and perfect weather. Let us know the "results"!

The informal rules we have for this is that you can run the course at any time of the year day or night. Lap times and course to be proven by submitting GPS record to me. This just happens to be the one time a year we get together and try to beat it all at once.

If anyone would like to donate a GPS...we would love to try. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Maybe when we come in early for the another race.

I've got a couple you can use - good for tracking, not much else. Just let me know when.

thanks!! will do..

So when will you decide which day?

When we feel good about the wind forecast.

So what's good? Over 5?

Distance racing with NO wind is not fun. So yes, we'll wait for the day that it looks like has the best wind...of course, this will be up to popular opinion. The reason we have three different courses is if the wind is light, we can choose to all race one of the shorter courses.

Ahh-

I think you are scared of our superior drifting skills...

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Perhaps, but more importantly, my cooler is small.

Nicely put. Much better than laughing outright. Gracias. Yeah, drifting is not much fun.

You boys are killing me ! I will still be in Calif. sailing(I hope) a new Columbia Sport. I do plan on putting one or two of our Sea Sprays on Murry this summer. Have fun...

bob on "Paxil" US-257
Team Hillbilly

Jake, I'd like to borrow one for New Year If you have a spare with large print and directions, Rick

Jake is the GPS sugar daddy... one of his got us through the steeplechase!