Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Rescue in the Pacific


Narrating the 1994 Force 12 Storm that formed near Fiji and the rescue operations that went along with it. A lot of the abandoned ships by able bodies were found intact months later.

ZYC Challenge

Fun time at the ZYC Challenge this year - 7 boats crossed the start line! 3 more than last years
  1. Elise
  2. Stink Eye
  3. Domino
  4. Dura Mater
  5. JouJou
  6. HotSocks
  7. Nicolas' boat



Race committee on station waiting for arrivals


Getting ready to welcome back a boat - Serge was spotting and I was writing down times.

Serge also took a lot of pictures at the start.



Elise, Stink Eye and Domino at the Start


Hotsocks and Dura Mater at the start


Not part of the race but a cool pictures from Serge


Nicolas getting to the start line


After the start, the race committee enjoyed some fireman show


A nice lunch with a friend


Nathan getting ready for the race


The race committee before heading out to lunch


Photo courtesy of Nathan on Elise


Elise heading back from the lightship


Domino as viewed by Elise


Nicolas is getting a Rookie Medal at the award dinner. Crispin on HotSocks also got one.


First place trophy by less than a minute on corrected time goes to Nathan on Elise



Second place trophy goes to Jonathan on Stink Eye.


Third place medal goes to Tom on JouJou.


Photo courtesy of Joanthan on Stink Eye - interesting art piece.

Last Sail on Elise - Half Moon Bay


at the start - photo courtesy of Serge. Elise had very good boat speed.



We sailed the boat back at night to enjoy the stars and warm weather and Vlad and I drove back to Half Moon Bay to pick up Vlad's car and enjoy a fabulous breakfast at Ketch Joanne.



Out under the gate for one last time


Light air and a superbly well behaved boat


Fabulous conditions 


Two panhandlers at Half Moon Bay


There she is - beautiful as ever


My kind of boat