I'm in Port Allen, LA so Bonnie had to scan and email me the cover of the magazine...Oh me....I guess there's no "bad press" except for "no press" but geesh!...

Jake, you're a bit displaced huh? How long will you be in the area?

Clayton

*sob*, now you got me wondering, as I probably will receive my copy in about 4-6 weeks..

Jake, Gotta say it was a real treat to see you and Carl on the cover! Isn't that Dave's pitchpole in there? Great pictures throughout the magazine!

Just a couple of days - I'm helping an oil plant get a production line up and running. The integrator that was scheduled to do it refused because of an inability to confirm sleeping arrangements. We tried an old hunting shack in the woods last night (after 1.5 hour drive) but the plant manager (who was with us) agreed that the accomodations were considerably lacking and was gracious enough to take two of us home to his house. I'm supposed to fly back out tomorrow morning when a replacement should be here for me (he was SUPPOSED to be here two hours ago).

shame on me for having not renewed my catsailor magazine subscription...

but I'm guessing its the picture of you guys trying to shove your daggerboard through the bottom of the boat? :P

Not quite, Tad...I'd scan and post it, but that seems a bit unsporting

very true, it is unsporting,

I just renewed my catsailor subscription. I was wondering why they stopped sending them

Hi Rolf
It is just one of Jake and I with an hourglass in the spin as we launched off the beach .

We also had a board stuck down after striking something underwater off a pier , when your finishing a race on the beach ,this is a problem .

It is a great race , and highly recommend it , I would like a B Class category for it too .

Hey Jake
It all goes with the hollywood image the moviestardom on OLN to magazine covers , you have to watch out for the poperattci

I was thinking I,ve done six 1000 mile races and a few Tybee 500s , that is by my estimates some 84 times pushing off the beach somewhere along the Eastern seaboard and onto the Atlantic racing against some of the best catsailors in the world in the most grueling beachcat event in existance.
This is the time I get on the cover !!

As I recall we had a great days racing and although a slow start and wind dying at the finish we moved through the pack and finished a respectable 4th or 5th .

When kites attack {per cover pic} a quick pull on the sheet all the way in and back out usually corrects the problem , we were on our way seconds latter .

Thanks Rick and Mary for catsailor and all the wonderfull things you do , and evan the pics showing how not to do it, it is all part of the sailing experience.

Jake ,you,ve got some splaining to doooo !!
{kiddin as usual}

What did we say to Robert behind the camera ? we may have to wait until their excellent Tybee 500 movie is out this year to find out .

It was a great race , and again highly recomend the Tybee 500 to any capable and interested
http://tybee500.com/index.htm

Have fun .

here's the story on that photo:

Just before that start, Tim (ground crew extrodinaire) made a comment that I had tied a downhaul line over the spinnaker sheet. I told him that I would fix it later (hindsight; should have just let him fix it). I wasn't terribly prepared mentally for the spinnaker right off the beach. First attempt at a hoist illustrated that I forgot to untie the downhaul line and I released the spinnaker halyard back down to clear the line. The tack line was still engaged. After I cleared that line I rehoisted the chute to find that the salt-encrusted tack line cleat hadn't fully closed and the tack line went flying out about the time I had fully hoisted the halyard. I didn't realize the spinnaker had caught on a batten on the back of the main when I tried to reengage the tack line - resulting in the tear (you can see part of the spinnaker caught on the batten in the picture). After finally getting the sail clear of the mainsail and the two corners pulled out, I went to sheet it in and the sheet pulled out of the clew of the spinnaker. After all this, and realizing that the spinnaker was torn I was redefining the phrase "swearing like a sailor" when Carl pats me on the shoulder and says "It's going to be alright". The spinnaker held and the rip only expanded about two inches for the entire trip that day - we finished in 4th place.

At second glace - looks like the sheet already came out of the clew as there is only one attached. Good thing there's no audio!

Hey Jake , Think it will be fun to see Robert and Jeanie's Tybee 500 movie , --do you remember all of us in the laudry making repairs on the kite with sail tape {some of us doing laundry} and Robert catching it all on film . Think you did explain what had happened and the spin rip , so it should be fun to watch , hope the 2005 Tybee 500 is out soon .
Robert and Jeanie always do such a great job and have thousands of hours and the history of the event on film .

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Jake, dont feel bad about that, it could be worse.

We hooked our spi on the mainsail battens while dousing in front of the whole german Tornado fleet at the german nationals in 2003. We had Darren Bundock, Roland Gaebler and lots of other nice guys shouting advice to us..

It can get alot worse--I recall my early days of buoys racing and after a year or two finally leading the pack around the course for the first time , your excited and nervious which only increased as the race progressed, it was a 3 leg course. It was the last leg with a short hitch to the finish line and was already coveting the imaged trophy and first big WIN ,in rounding C mark I rounded up to weather nicely accelerated well and jumped out on the trap ,---unfortunately I had forgotten to hook in and just simply launched myself off the side .
" dohhh " I surfaced in time to see the boat racing away at a 45 degree hull flying angle with the crew hanging on the side for a hundred yards or so then flip .

The worst part was the entire fleet sailing by with numerous "helpfull" comments and I think one with a scorecard with a minus 9.5 for style points .

After that nothing too much bothers me while racing ,except boat parts failures or dismasting or seeing a large fin trailing behind , things like that .

Right, Carl, and I still remember your story about the "Charleston Deer." <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Rick

THAT was a good story!