Friday, May 30, 2008

Work pictures

Nathan messing around with one of the solar panels

Nat pushing the slip-on SSB antenna all the way up the backstay.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Even more photos from the Spinnaker Cup

Even the Devil turned up for that race.

Le Flying Fish!


One of our Half-Moon-Bay dock companion...


Doesn't the tether look like a flower necklace?


Speedo...and Speeda

Gary and the Phantom Mist team


David, ex-owner of Salty Hotel, an Express 27 and Phil, the owner of Wetsu, another Express 27


Anyone behind us?

Boogie Woogie at the bow



Life is cool...it's sunny..




Moore's Law


Red Sky...Brian and his team

Traffic watch...

Hi Tom!
Looks like a Humane Society boat


The flying horse...a TP 52


Lani and his team, on a Santa Cruz 52

OK - how does this thing work. Ooopsie, didn't mean to drill a hole in the cabin top, sorry about that.


E.T. Sails Home


Can you see the horse on Pegasus' hull?




Well, I guess that it is appropriate for a horse to be kicking asses...

'Spinnaker Cup Race Committee, this is Elise, Sail 101 in the Double-handed division, checking in, over.'
'Thank you Elise and have a good race'



Hmm, I don't like this new wind pattern...(note the 5 min timer on the watch...that's the duration of a starting sequence, from first warning to start)




Ballet Dancing
Dirty Dancing
Pirates of the Bay Area...

Crash boat from the race committee...


From: http://cbergstedt.myphotoalbum.com/view_album.php?set_albumName=album18&page=6
http://ultimate-yachtshots.smugmug.com/gallery/4996721_bfUfP#P-1-15

Vallejo Start Pictures

What I call big...


Alert: big floating orange spotted at Vallejo. Don't want to think about the size of the tree...

J105s, one of the biggest and most active fleets on the Bay.


Starting gun...
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Photos from Norcal Sailing

Even more Vallejo Pictures

The two Sarcoma Cup organizer: Mark, regatta chair and Nat, BeatSarcoma President

If you watch carefully, you can see a little bit of Elise's stern...on the left of that picture...

Elise is in the background, nice family picture!

And off we go!
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