North/South Cat Dash, cash prizes and a good time. Come on down.

David Mosley
www.seacats.org

ps more info is on our website-go to calendar and follow link

and a small craft advisery for the whole weekend - WHOOOOO HOOOO!. (now I really wish my crew had sailed a little prior to this).

Does that mean H-16/G-Cat 5.0?

Well I hope it is a beam reach so we can just hang on tight and scream down the coast.
David
G-Force 21

Wish I could this weekend. Have prior sailing committments.

Dave,
I don't think that is going to happen.
According to Intellicast, the wind is going to be blowing northest, roughly parallel with the coast, maybe slightly offshore.
This could make for a serious sleighride downwind to the mark, but a hard beat upwind to the finish.
Local conditions could kick in and mix it all up.
Hopefully, it will be offshore enough to knock the waves down so we can go FAAAAST.
See ya there.

Thanks for the encouraging words, it will be fun either way. I remember doing the "Sun Fun Dash" in 1992(?) when it was the same way. We beat into the wind 12 miles towards Murrels Inlet. Seems like it took 2 hours or so to get there, then we turned the corner and were home in 20 minutes. We stood on the rudder castings of my 5.2 and white knuckled it back home. I cant remeber going faster or being more scared on any boat I've sailed to date. Oh those were the days.

David Mosley
www.seacats.org

I'd get lost.

Plus, $50 is hard to come by these days

Jake, Since my Dacron sails are four years old, I take it you don't think the vinyl would adhere well. Is that correct? If it won't, I'll keep trying to find out what kind of ink, or paint to use. I am also interested in hull graphics, and it sounds like you are the man to talk to about that! Are there any guidelines you can give me to come up with the graphics? Just the name of the boat, BLESSING. Perhaps two colors. Thanks, Brian

Oh yeah, I suppose that I should show off Jake's handywork....

Here's my boat.. I did the painting, he did the lettering.

Sounds strange to name your boat after one that sank...
Otherwise its a cool name, and it is a very cool lettering job.

Yes, I'm well aware of the implications. A little story here:

The rowing team for our university is very well supplied... they have a couple of brand new 8-man shells out at the lake. One of them is named "Canis Lupis" (our university is the Wolfpack). I thought the latin name sounded nice, almost intimidating. I had been thinking about what to name my boat... things like "this side up" and so forth interested me, but after finding them unoriginal, I was left with little options. Later I almost said screw it, and just wanted to put one of those shark's teeth images on each bow. But then, I put the latin and the shark together, typed into google "Latin for Shark" and the first thing that popped up was "Squalus." It sounded pretty cool, almost intimidating. Jake overlayed the image on a diagram of a N5.2 and I was instantly sold. The font is the same they use on the Porsche 911. I have to say that every time I've taken the boat out, I've got compliments on its looks, even a couple of powerboaters down in Wilmington found it attractive. So I'm going to temp fate and keep the name.

I love the name... I have been trying to figure out what I am gonna name my new boat, but have not found anything original enough for my taste.

How about this one ?

She can ride on my boat anytime! Jake, Got any graphics like that?

Gotta get me one off those...... may also distract the opposition also.... maybe this was Glenn Ashby's tacktic at the last A Class worlds?????