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Naples, FL | That F24 tri fits on a trailer, right? You could be the first to do the steeplechase on a tri! Come on, we're all getting older and it would be like a beachcat with training wheels. I would totally do Steeplechase on the F-24 (it does have a trailer)... ESPECIALLY now that they changed the route to overnight at UKSC. But I think Rick cut off the boat size at 22 ft? Something like that... My DPN is just a hair slower than an H-16, and I know he let's those guys do it... When is it? Maybe I could "Steeple-Bomb". EDIT: You would probably have to amend the sailing instructions to allow my use of the small outboard to get through Angelfish. It would be to maintain my position, etc. Because if you had me tacking / gybing through that cut, I'd wipe ya'll out with my 18' beam. Assuming, of course, that you are slow enough to be back there with me...
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Naples, FL | crap... I'll be out of town for this year's steeplechase. But might give me time to solicit Rick (and some other tri sailors) to work on the SI/NOR for 2016
Sorry for the thread hijack... but the 2015 F18 Americas are over ...
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Clermont, FL, USA | Sorry Grandude, but chicks don't dig F18,s. Just look forward on your boat. Take a good look at the score sheet you may find 5 sailing.
Yes the scoresheet would lead you to believe that. But! I spent that last two seasons crewing for a woman and the b!tch can freaking drive and she loves it! Then I was lucky enough to get Ms. Darrow (27 year old crewing super freak) to sail with me for America's and by all counts she really seemed to enjoyed herself and it was 5 full days of breeze on! Years ago I was the poster child for "girls can't crew an F18 competively against the boys" and I was flat wrong! Put a 20 something female that knows her way around a weight room on the front of an F18 and it's freaking on! Granted Darrow's are rare (kinda reminds me of Sue, Tom) but they are out there.
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Sorry for the thread hijack... but the 2015 F18 Americas are over ...
THEY ARE NEVER OVER! THEY AREN'T OVER UNTIL I SAY THEY ARE OVER! Yes I meant to yell that!
David Ingram F18 USA 242 http://www.solarwind.solar"Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda "Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent" - Two sista's I overheard in the hall "You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a complete idiot, but it helps"
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SE MI / NE IN | Sorry Grandude, but chicks don't dig F18,s. Just look forward on your boat. Take a good look at the score sheet you may find 5 sailing.
Yes the scoresheet would lead you to believe that. But! I spent that last two seasons crewing for a woman and the b!tch can freaking drive and she loves it! Then I was lucky enough to get Ms. Darrow (27 year old crewing super freak) to sail with me for America's and by all counts she really seemed to enjoyed herself and it was 5 full days of breeze on! Years ago I was the poster child for "girls can't crew an F18 competitively against the boys" and I was flat wrong! Put a 20 something female that knows her way around a weight room on the front of an F18 and it's freaking on! Granted Darrow's are rare (kinda reminds me of Sue, Tom) but they are out there. +1 We (CRAM) have been lucky enough to have some good mixed participation this year. Probably ~40% of the F18s at our larger regattas had a lady on the boat.
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Clermont, FL, USA | who are those poor saps? I feel bad for them... really. I wouldn't feel bad for them! Uli and Krista can rock the F18 and suicide port gets signifcanlty harder the further you get away from the top. Coming in at postion 6 isn't terrible unless you have someone like Robbie Daniel closing the door on starboard. Nine times out of 10 Uli would have been just fine with that move but he drew the short straw and got Robbie on starboard. Kudo's to Uli for executing a clean peel and getting back on it! And yes he knows that the quick duck is the high percentage play and I'm confident he won't get peeled at A mark again. Bad karma coming your way Dazz.
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SE MI / NE IN | who are those poor saps? I feel bad for them... really. I wouldn't feel bad for them! Uli and Krista can rock the F18 and suicide port gets signifcanlty harder the further you get away from the top. Coming in at postion 6 isn't terrible unless you have someone like Robbie Daniel closing the door on starboard. Nine times out of 10 Uli would have been just fine with that move but he drew the short straw and got Robbie on starboard. Kudo's to Uli for executing a clean peel and getting back on it! And yes he knows that the quick duck is the high percentage play and I'm confident he won't get peeled at A mark again. Bad karma coming your way Dazz. Maybe he was feeling sorry for the C2 that got stuck on the mark. They didn't have too many options. Aside from a last-minute board pull-up, I guess the only way that problem could have been solved is 100m before they got to the mark. | | | Re: F18 Americas
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Naples, FL | Yes, I was feeling bad for the team that made the suicide port call that didn't play out and they got parked at the mark while the parade went by. It was hard to watch that kind of suffering (but watch it I did....twice)
I did question who had overlap, as in which boats did he have to let close the door on him, and which ones were supposed to give him room to round "in a seamanlike manner".
At one point it did look like boats were giving him room underneath, but he just couldn't get out of irons (or was rubbing the mark?)
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Clermont, FL, USA | Yes, I was feeling bad for the team that made the suicide port call that didn't play out and they got parked at the mark while the parade went by. It was hard to watch that kind of suffering (but watch it I did....twice)
I did question who had overlap, as in which boats did he have to let close the door on him, and which ones were supposed to give him room to round "in a seamanlike manner".
At one point it did look like boats were giving him room underneath, but he just couldn't get out of irons (or was rubbing the mark?) Oh yeah, I blocked that one out. That's Ian but I wouldn't feel too sorry for him he's going to St Barth and he's taking the crewing super freak with him.
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