Ever wonder what it is like to cross an ocean? How about a race across an ocean? Just how fast was Leopard going? 25 knots, 32 knots, 37 knots??? What prep is involved? What conditions can one expect to encounter? Find out the answers to these questions and more. Clarke Murphy and Will Passano present video footage from their Transatlantic Race on board Leopard. A midwinter cruise guaranteed to part your hair and wash your face. What other crazy things happen on a cruise like this? And in case that is not enough, the 2011 cruising season awards will be presented and there were be several other surprises.
Winds were on the light side http://gibsonisland.com/yachtsquadron/wp-admin/post-new.phpas expected for this annual July racing series for Stars. Excellent races were run on both days, though challenging for both the Race Committee as well as for the Star boat crews. Ten boats were on the starting line after the long tow out from behind Gibson Island. A moderate leftover Northeast breeze from the evening’s thunderstorms gave us false hope all morning but as the sun rose higher the breeze slowly expired and veered towards the East.
At the start, crews were hiked and the Stars looked brilliant clearing the line in an 8 knot breeze. Three quarters up the beat, boats coming out from the right side looked good. Tom Price with Alex Schwab crewing took a lot of sterns but worked late to East and in a new, stronger veer led the fleet to the weather mark. Down the run, John Vanderhoff very sensibly took the low lane and sailed past Price and the pack to his left and went on to win. Price and MacCausland finished 2nd and 3rd. Click here for full results(more…)
By Tom Price with Photographs Collected by John Sherwood
They say History repeats itself and in looking back at Gibson Island’s 90 year saga of One Design racing, it’s clear that there has been phenomenal (some might say pathological) desire for racing similar, if not identical yachts within our Squadron, between members and even between other Bay clubs. (more…)
