I must be going through a midlife crisis, getting close to forty, and want to do something that has never been done before. Race a sailboat in a Kayak race. I entered The North Carolina Challenge a 100 mile race starting and finishing comng in Ceder Island. Please check out the race at www.watertribe.com.
Or follow me Friday and Saturday on this google maplink: The Route
My nickname for this adventure is HOLDYOURCOARSE named after a major sailing collision several years back.
Will filled out, double shot of scotch, suck in that gut, no turning back now.
Good luck JP, it looks like a blast. Make sure you give us a good detailed story afterwards. We were going to do this on some WETA trimarans, but the new order of boats didn't make it to Jon(the dealer) in time.Plus he had to hold the Wave mid atlantics or ? this weekend. Todd
"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea Isak Dinesen If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most. E. B. White
Re: North Carolina Challenge - On an Isotope
[Re: Team_Cat_Fever]
#192024 09/25/0904:54 PM09/25/0904:54 PM
I think JP has a Cat Sailor log in idea. Haven't seen JP use email in a few years, something about the Cub Scouts, work. This trip is a bit of a break out!!
Update - 4:44 - is he still moving, 1.44 nm, maybe...maybe not. I"ll check back at 8:00pm.
Well, he made it to water, and looks like he might be taking a nap.....no post in 2 hours. winds and waves are up. He did add Reef points to his main, and he could sail with just the jib. I will check once more before I call it a night.
In checking out the discussion thread, JP did have a moment of fame mid afternoon. JP appears to be the only boat in class 5. Wonder if that means he's the only sailboat.
It means he is the only multihull. There are 5 more monohull sailboats. Weather is really nasty up there. It seems like one kayaker is taking a lead and rest on the leaders, including sailboats and kayakers hanging in tight group not far behind.
There is a big stretch of open water at final leg. Wind is blowing, it should be interesting to watch a dash to finish
Last edited by Vladimir; 09/26/0906:26 AM.
Re: North Carolina Challenge - On an Isotope
[Re: Vladimir]
#192066 09/26/0907:35 AM09/26/0907:35 AM
There is another famous catsailor, Tybee veteran, Alan Steward a.k.a. SOS from Team Velosity in a challenge.His mom is a manager and organizer of this event. He is sailing home built fast beach cruising 20 ft monohull with his dad. They are in second place right now and I'd expect them to take a lead soon.
Designer of their boat, Worrell veteran Graham Byrnes a.k.a Roo in third position, sailing his 22 foot Cat Ketch planning mono...
Chief HoldYourCourse Dropped Saturday, September 26, 2009, 3:07:00 PM Category: General Comment Keyword: Last I heard, HoldYourCourse had to drop out due to holes in his boat. He hit an old rusted out barge that was hard aground in the channel and got holes in his boat. He is OK. Reply
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Chief Very Close Finish Saturday, September 26, 2009, 3:09:00 PM Category: General Comment Keyword:
I have not got official times yet, but the mapper shows a very close finish. Roo looks like he is in at this time with ArdieO close behind followed by DancesWithSandyBottom/SOS. But we will have to wait until I get a call with official times.
No matter how it turns out they all did a fantastic job. Reply
SOS is Alan Stewart.
"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea Isak Dinesen If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most. E. B. White
Re: North Carolina Challenge - On an Isotope
[Re: Team_Cat_Fever]
#192087 09/26/0906:39 PM09/26/0906:39 PM
Chief Saturday, September 26, 2009, 7:01:00 PM Category: General Comment Keyword:
Rumors that HoldYourCourse was dropping out were greatly exaggerated. He has finished the NCC2009. Check the Challenge Results for his time.
Great job! Reply
"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea Isak Dinesen If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most. E. B. White
Re: North Carolina Challenge - On an Isotope
[Re: Vladimir]
#192088 09/26/0907:28 PM09/26/0907:28 PM
This is such a cool race/adventure/challenge. I can't believe there was not publicity on this.. Thursday was the first I heard of it.. If they do it next year, I would love to do it.. Cool that Alan and his dad are doing it on a custom cat.. I loved some of those custom built cats that sailed the Worrell 1000 in the late 80s. I guess that answers my question about doing it single handed or not.
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea Isak Dinesen If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most. E. B. White
Re: North Carolina Challenge - On an Isotope
[Re: Team_Cat_Fever]
#192091 09/26/0908:55 PM09/26/0908:55 PM
So, I was so worried about JP, that finally at just before 7:00, I called Shelly, his wife. Shelly had not heard from JP since the night before, knew about the hole in the boat. Shelly wasn't worried about JP. Shelly was worried that JP would damage the boat just now that JP has finished his internship and has Saturday's available for sailing again. What a wife!! (My call did not seem to worry her - smile)
Meanwhile, I'm gonna give JP a piece of my mind. It was great fun watching his progress, til he disappeared from the radar. At that point, it wasn't fun any more!!!
Congratulations to both Alan, Paul, and JP for completing the first NC Challenge.
Watch out Cat Sailors. If you thought JP had an ego about Isotopes before, I'm sure he will be insufferable after this event.
Thread: There will be stories SandyBottom Sunday, September 27, 2009, 6:06:00 AM Category: General Comment Keyword: Four kayakers are still out, camping over night. JayBird and StripBuilder, and RunningLiz and KneadingWater. They are not all together but are each paired. All hoping the winds switch to the south to come on in.
Horrible internet and phone access out here, or you would have had much better commentary during the race. I'll encourage all to post some stories during the coming week.
There are many to tell. Like HoldYourCourse in his Isotope catamaran sailing full speed into the rusty hull of an old barge at night on the Newport River. PaddlePeddler having a hot chocolate at CP1 when the tide came in and his kayak started sailing away with the PAS. DancesWithSandyBottom sailing circles right outside the finish because SOS dropped his crock off the boat and had spent 2 months finding then in his size and refusing to leave the shoe floating, all while ArdieO an incredable paddling machine sprinted in to the finish.
Stay tuned,
Dawn
JP finished 4-th overall and second solo. It is very respectful result for first timer. Watertribe's challenges may surprise unprepared by their difficulty.
Re: North Carolina Challenge - On an Isotope
[Re: Vladimir]
#192127 09/27/0903:34 PM09/27/0903:34 PM
DancesWithSandyBottom sailing circles right outside the finish because SOS dropped his crock off the boat and had spent 2 months finding then in his size and refusing to leave the shoe floating
That sounds like Alan. I think I know what Trey would do if they were sailing together in this situation.......