tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41873064882378248782024-02-20T03:01:05.502-08:00The Tell TaleThe Official Newsletter for the Washington Yacht ClubMedia Curatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14960556538038893105noreply@blogger.comBlogger152125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187306488237824878.post-14303919450529757992013-08-25T10:22:00.000-07:002013-08-25T11:00:08.850-07:00OHYC Member Circumnavigating the Globe in a SJ24From club member John C - a local sailor from Oak Harbor is attempting a circumnavigation of the globe on a San Juan 24. He would be the first person to ever do so in an SJ24. To boot, he's doing the trip non-stop and solo. Boats from this era are known for broaching downwind. It will be interesting for him in some wind.<br />
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He's set up a SPOT so you can follow his progress:<br />
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An interesting story to watch. Media Curatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14960556538038893105noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187306488237824878.post-89769264961563266212013-08-21T11:12:00.001-07:002013-08-21T11:12:11.134-07:00Summer of Duck Dodge nearing the endWith only a few more Duck Dodges left in the season (check out the <a href="http://www.duckdodge.org/schedule.php" target="_blank">schedule</a> if you like), here's a video compilation from an August Gold Duck aboard WYC keelboat Rascal.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/_e2zJz3dzyM" width="560"></iframe>Media Curatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14960556538038893105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187306488237824878.post-13126438024047396722013-06-29T12:18:00.002-07:002013-06-29T12:28:06.422-07:00Anthony A posts about racing the club J22 "Freedom"<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Greg and I took out the J22 and opted for the 15-minutes-late start. We passed a similarly-sized boat with a crew of 4 or 5, who were disappointed that we weren't interested in tossing around a tennis ball with them while short-handed. Surprisingly, we did not pass any of the fast third-start boats while rounding the course. Overall a fun night, but an outboard is highly recommended.</span><br />
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Friday night racing took place with 8-10 kts of wind and warm clear skies last night. Wizard was in the second start along with a t-bird, J29 and other boats. We started less desirable side of the start line but with clear air and room to maneuver. This turned out to be the right decision as we quickly accelerated past the other boats in our start. Half way to Juanita Bay we passed boats in the first start. At the mark we were passed by a McGregor 65', leaving us in second at the mark rounding. On the way to the finish, we managed to hold off a J209. Because the J209 has an asymmetrical spinnaker they were not able to sail as directly down wind as Wizard with its symmetric spinnaker. In the end, they crossed the finish 2-3 boat lengths ahead of us. After the race the J209 congratulated us and ask, what is your PHRF rating? I replied, not as low as yours for sure. So we ended up third behind the McGregor and J209. Not a bad night for a novice crew and skipper.<br /><br />Join us for Friday night keelboat racing!<br /><br />Leo</blockquote>
Media Curatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14960556538038893105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187306488237824878.post-45462073871074732352013-06-29T12:16:00.002-07:002013-06-29T12:16:34.418-07:00Dennis B. sends a pic from the San Juanspictured: club boat Nightshade, a Cal 3-30<br />
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Media Curatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14960556538038893105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187306488237824878.post-10602116267525048842013-06-25T07:26:00.000-07:002013-06-25T07:26:00.177-07:00Watch out for the cut!<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">From club member Raz:</span><br />
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For everyone who has joined the club since this past autumn, you all are in for a treat. Warm water, long days, sunshine. It is amazing. </div>
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For most of the year the predominant breeze in these parts come from the south and tend to blow across the lake and union bay as sou'westerlies (trivia: "sou'westerly" is a wind. "sou'wester" is a hat). This is a generalization of course, but is largely true (the winds, not the hat).. </div>
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But during the summer, especially in the afternoons, the wind pattern switches and we get lovely northerlies. They tend to build in the afternoon and peak an hour or so before sunset, dropping off quite rapidly after the sun goes down and becoming dead calm by the end of dusk. Again, also a generalization. </div>
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It matters because with the switching of the breeze, the lee shore of Union Bay switches from very expensive real estate and swamp ("wetlands"), to the extremely busy montlake cut shipping channel. I don't recommend drifting into the real estate (expensive!) or the swamp (smelly!), but I REALLY advise against the shipping channel (hazardous!). It is a good idea to avoid it altogether. If conditions are testing your limits, try to stay in a part of the bay where you have adequate sea-room to right your boat before you drift into the cut. This is especially important if you are sailing the cats or bravos. If you find yourself becalmed in the cut (how did you get there!?) then scull or paddle or bow-steer your way out of it. Don't bob around. </div>
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Media Curatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14960556538038893105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187306488237824878.post-77545004190159973722013-06-24T07:25:00.000-07:002013-06-24T07:25:00.517-07:00Motor vs. Sail peeps<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;">From club member Brent:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;">I was having a debate with a powerboater yesterday about whether or not sailors were better boaters than powerboaters. My contention was that they were - predicated on the idea that sailors need to invest more time and effort into sailing, so they tend to be more aware and informed, whereas powerboaters frequently just jump in a boat and drive it like a car. Sailors are much more aware of environmental considerations, and less likely to go out while intoxicated. I also hypothesized that a sailor was more likely to be wearing a PFD if they went in the water. Mostly conjecture just based on my biases. So, I decided to figure out if was true. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;">His argument, by the way, was that powerboats are more controllable, and therefore safer. I conceded that, while that may be true, it didn't offset the generally higher level of seamanship exhibited by sailors.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;">Here's what I found out:</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;">In 2012, there were about 12,101,936 state registered recreational vessels in the US. That alone blew my mind. Of these, 244,264 were some type of sailboat (about half with a motor and half without). Keep in mind, in some states, you don't need to register some kinds of boats (including sailboats). So, roughly 2% of all registered boats were sailboats. Also, about 11,097,404 were mechanically propelled with no sail - or 91.7%. (The remaining 6.3% were kayaks, canoes, rowboats, etc.) That means there were just over 45 times as many powerboats as sailboats registered. So, for my assertion to be true, powerboaters should have at least 46 times as many accidents. This is skewed somewhat because USCG (where I got my stats) report all accidents, even in states where an involved sailboat was not registered. But, it should be close.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><b style="font-family: Helvetica;">Assertion #1:</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;"> Sailors get in fewer accidents than smokers. (Waterworld reference)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;">Nope. Of the 5900 vessels involved in accidents, 5106 were powerboats of some kind, and 330 were sailboats of some kind. That is one powerboat accident for every 2173 registered powerboats, and one sailboat accident for every 740 registered sailboats. Or, a registered sailboat is about 3 times more likely to be involved in an accident than a powerboat. (Of course, this doesn't account for time on the water. One could argue that sailboats spend a lot more time actually moving - possibly three times as much or more.)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;">This is also tricky, though, because a high percentage of accidents are due to vessel collisions. So, if a powerboat and sailboat collide, this will skew the numbers drastically in favor of powerboats, rationally speaking.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;">1 in 45 boats were sailing at the time of the accident, though 1 in 50 boats were sailboats. This suggests that the actual act of sailing isn't any less dangerous than motoring - a little more, in fact.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><b style="font-family: Helvetica;">Assertion #2: </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;"> Sailors are less likely to be involved in a fatal accident.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;">This is also a little tricky because the high percentage of vessel collisions, particularly where fatalities are concerned. But, the fatality numbers pretty closely mirror the vessel numbers: 476 powerboat fatalities, 27 sailboat fatalities. That's one fatality for every 23,314 powerboats, and one for every 9047 sailboats. You're about 2.6 times more likely to die on (or near) a sailboat.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><b style="font-family: Helvetica;">Assertion #3:</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;"> Sailors are more experienced and better educated about safe boating than smokers, leading to fewer accidents.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;">Well, it's a little hard to nail this one down, but there does seem to a be a direct relationship between boating safety instruction and boating safety. I don't know if we can say that this is causal. It may just be that people who take boating safety instruction are just more serious about safety, and therefore less likely to be in an accident, regardless of specific instruction. But, it does look positive. About 3/4 of all accidents were caused by a person with no or unknown boater education.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;">Bad news is that experience is no predictor of safety. The most destructive category, by far, is the group of boaters with 100-500 hours of experience - people who are just confident enough to do something really stupid. (By the way, this is almost exactly the same stat as for pilots.)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;">I don't know if sailors are more/less likely to have formal safety education or any amount of experience, but the proof of sailors' ultimate superiority (or not) is in the primary cause statistics. When you look at the primary cause listed for each injury accident, in powerboats, some form of operator negligence is named in about 57% of accidents. For sailboats, the percentage is almost exactly the same.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;">A few stats about primary cause:</span><br />
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<li>Interestingly, excessive speed is listed as the primary cause in the same percentage of powerboat accidents as sailboat (no motor) accidents. In other words, excessive speed sailing is statistically as dangerous as excessive speed on a powerboat.</li>
<li>Weather is listed as the primary cause in about 12% of sailboat accidents, but less than 5% of powerboat accidents.</li>
<li>Navigation rules violations were the primary causes of about 14% of powerboat accidents and about 16% of sailboat accidents. (I wouldn't have predicted that.)</li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;">So, even though sailors are a little more susceptible to certain factors (such as weather) and a little less likely to make certain kinds of mistakes (such as alcohol), it is hard to paint these statistics in any way that proves sailors are better, safer, or smarter.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><b style="font-family: Helvetica;">Assertion #4:</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;"> Sailors are better looking.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;">Indisputable.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><b style="font-family: Helvetica;">Bonus Stat:</b><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;">By the way, though WA state has about 4.6% of the registered recreational vessels in the country, we have only about 2% of the accidents.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;">Be safe out there,</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;">-Brent</span>Media Curatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14960556538038893105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187306488237824878.post-65201287223273196852013-06-21T07:21:00.000-07:002013-06-21T07:21:00.248-07:00Flying Scot capsizescheck out these links from club member John C...<br />
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Media Curatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14960556538038893105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187306488237824878.post-66739630050401936882013-06-19T07:19:00.000-07:002013-06-19T07:19:00.097-07:00How not to use the tidal grid<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Getting out of the boat this morning I came across this:</span><br />
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From club member Mark (somewhere in Alaska)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The totems at the Wrangell library (part of the previous episode):</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQND5hVNIpBqrdxE79s6vd-PWoNapklox4OGg-cNA_x5pEIA7D0vGhGpmgom-ek1L0HMPBsJ1pRq-q-UnE1WQ6u_xiw2DrhyLKOyvsIIyPNcrvpN2FCYR3UYGjBchksaWAubyIQVQAIf0/s1600/image.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQND5hVNIpBqrdxE79s6vd-PWoNapklox4OGg-cNA_x5pEIA7D0vGhGpmgom-ek1L0HMPBsJ1pRq-q-UnE1WQ6u_xiw2DrhyLKOyvsIIyPNcrvpN2FCYR3UYGjBchksaWAubyIQVQAIf0/s320/image.png" width="240" /></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Friday 31 May</span></div>
<br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We got to Petersburg and did some laundry, showered, toured the small town, bought a few groceries and an extra 6 gallon gas tank to make it to Juneau with sightseeing detours. We refueled and took water on departure and made it to Ruth Island Cove in Thomas Bay for the night. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Saturday 1 June</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We motored all the way north in Thomas Bay to the Baird Glacier. It has receded enough so that it no longer touches the water and can't calve into it. There are no icebergs in the bay therefore. It's a bit ugly with the mud flats in front of it but it was still very impressive to watch the colossal amounts of ice with the binoculars. The shear bulk of it is mind boggling. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The water is milky white with sediments and you can't even see the propeller of the outboard anymore. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We left the bay and hugged the north shore of Frederick Sound and turned to the right into Stephens Passage at the very beginning of which we spent the night in Fanshaw Bay. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Sunday 2 June</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We crossed to Admiralty Island under sail in very sunny weather. In the distance we could observe a couple of whales with our binoculars for quite a while. One of them was splashing a flipper continuously and at times was lying on its back to splash both. The other whale wasn't impressed and left after some time. The splashing whale disappeared maybe ten minutes later. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We sailed in between The Brothers, a couple of islands, for fun. The wind dyed shortly thereafter and we motored and motorsailed all the way Across Pybus Bay to our anchorage in Cannery Cove. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Sunny sailing over water, with impressive cloud-cover anywhere over land:</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtng0EaonCk0db7NlQbi7CFaxh02yj736I3knWMT9ftfc_gK_9OdOUIZPI_-4C-huKZWeYpnpfIOg6RjNskLU5aNK64lyikGhuTkj8hAahD8sP7x25ZGS7w4B1ToU6YDjPr_TSgVeoY2g/s1600/file_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtng0EaonCk0db7NlQbi7CFaxh02yj736I3knWMT9ftfc_gK_9OdOUIZPI_-4C-huKZWeYpnpfIOg6RjNskLU5aNK64lyikGhuTkj8hAahD8sP7x25ZGS7w4B1ToU6YDjPr_TSgVeoY2g/s320/file_1.png" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Cannery Cove in Pybus Bay on Admiralty Island:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We were miffed to find a fishing resort and other buildings in the cove. It is branded as an excellent fishing spot for crabs and bottom feeders and we were concerned that the human presence would have spoiled that.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><br />
<br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Laszlo started to bottom-fish as soon as the boat was anchored. At the first cast and first wiggle he hooked a rockfish! As he took it in I ordered "a halibut" next. He casted again and nearly instantly pulled up a small halibut! It wiggled itself loose from the hook but fell right into our bucket and Laszlo could cast again without interruption. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">That would prove to be the end of the miraculous catch however. Laszlo kept going at it, after dinner too, but no more fish were caught and our crab basket would also come up empty the next morning. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The halibut:</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Monday 3 June</span><br />
<br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We crossed Pybus Bay again and then sailed at an incredibly slow pace around the northeast corner of Admiralty Island. Ultimately we had to turn on the engine. Soon thereafter a pod of about twenty Dahl's Porpoises came to play around the boat for at least a quarter of an hour! They look like mimi orcas with their black backs and white bellies. We watched them with great enthousiasm, taking turns to sit on the bow. As usual it's possible to properly photograph them but I can't wait to see Jenny's movie. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Dahl's Porpoises:</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We slept in Tracy Arm Cove, strategically located for our trip to the glaciers the next day.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJdFdMBCOlG9-Qgc_CQwg0MY2pNGMmhAiA2AAaPEnP9grF73lVHBDSCYviOB_h5dEQViPNQIJQktS4E6SLnJ6OgO76cq5dzyy9pm35roeLSKUWTj1eEc9OqPaoZXoJYMVLVJOviZyPluc/s1600/image-1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Panoramic shot of Cannery Cove mentioned in the previous episode:</span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJdFdMBCOlG9-Qgc_CQwg0MY2pNGMmhAiA2AAaPEnP9grF73lVHBDSCYviOB_h5dEQViPNQIJQktS4E6SLnJ6OgO76cq5dzyy9pm35roeLSKUWTj1eEc9OqPaoZXoJYMVLVJOviZyPluc/s1600/image-1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="70" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJdFdMBCOlG9-Qgc_CQwg0MY2pNGMmhAiA2AAaPEnP9grF73lVHBDSCYviOB_h5dEQViPNQIJQktS4E6SLnJ6OgO76cq5dzyy9pm35roeLSKUWTj1eEc9OqPaoZXoJYMVLVJOviZyPluc/s320/image-1.png" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Unfortunately the little iPod I use can't capture the beauty of that blue. The berg in the picture above was entirely blue to the naked eye, no white whatsoever.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><br />
<br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Many icebergs have seagulls or bald eagles perched on top of them. At some point a bald eagle was harassing a small aquatic bird that I call "little divers" as a generic name for several species of tiny birds that paddle on the surface and frequently dive and swim under water to catch some fish. I thought the eagle was trying to steal some fish from the little diver. It repeatedly ended up in the water and then had to take off from there again. A couple of big seagulls briefly harrassed the eagle and pecked at him in flight. Suddenly it struck me that the eagle wasn't after fish but after the little diver itself and the latter was diving for its life in the milky, turbid water. But the eagle, crashing relentlessly into the water, hit the little diver badly on a couply of occasion before laboriously taking off again to gain a vantage point in the air and observe where its prey would surface next. With the third strike, there was a really short, final struggle with some splashing and then the bald eagle sat still in the water. Unable to take off with its victim clutched in its claws under the surface, it amazingly proceeded to swim to the nearest iceberg, using its wings as a swimmer would when doing the butterfly. It took quite some effort to cover the 7 meters but then it got out off the water and on the ice surprisingly easily, given the now ruffled and limp little bird occupying its claws. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We had observed this whole remarkable scene of bird on bird violence from less than 15 meters distance with the engine in neutral. Now we thought we had an excellent photo opportunity believing the drenched eagle would't be able to take off with its prey so we moved in closer. But without giving us a second glance the bald eagle took off and delivered the dead diver to its nest. Then he chased away another bird of prey that came too close, and then he took position in a tree for further hunting. All in a day's work for a bald eagle...</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Soon after witnessing these events the ice became denser and denser and we had to reduce speed and send somebody on bow watch. I took the first watch with the boat hook ready to push any bergy bits away. As soon as I reached the bow it felt like my feet were freezing through my double layer of thick woolen socks to my shoe soles and the deck. My gloved hands gave me pretty much the same feeling. Within minutes my feet and hands started hurting badly from the cold and I didn't dare move much anymore. Yet I had to push away some ice at some point and obviously proceeded to do that. It was a chunk not bigger than a small person's chest yet it was incredibly heavy and took quite some effort to get moving. Now I totally understand how icebergs, even small ones, can sink ships. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A while later my extremities didn't hurt that badly from the cold anymore simply because I started loosing feeling. I remained as immobile as possible, till the bitter end of my mission, until we had twisted and turned to find a path through the denser ice and made it in sight of the glacier. It was quite thrilling for Laszlo to steer knowing that there was absolutely no tolerance for mistakes. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We stayed about 1.5 km away from the glacier for safety. It can calve huge chunks that create really big waves and slosh all the ice around. We heard it groan and explode all the time, impressive noises like canon shots. And on a couple of occasions we saw it calve large pieces that fell down in a cloud of icy debris followed by spray when hitting the water.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The million dollar shot: WYC burgee in front of South Tracy Arm Glacier:</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">When we left, Jenny observed the biggest chunk ever calve from the glacier! She had trained the binoculars on it and waited for it to happen and enjoyed a first row performance. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">As expected, with the now ebbing tide, the bergy bits were drawn out over a much larger distance and it was way easier to sail through them. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Laszlo on bergy watch, his turn to freeze his extremities off:</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: -webkit-auto;">After a whole day of rain and drizzle the sun peeked through the clouds for the last hour of the trip and never was sunshine so welcome! I exposed my frozen feet the best I could and slowly I started to feel them again. We made it back to our anchorage without incidents and before dark. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Wednesday 5 June</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The crab pot yielded 3 Tanner crabs but they were all too small for (legal) consumption. So far we had only caught Dungeness crab. I guess I'll have to buy some Tanner to know what it tastes like.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Tanner crab:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We spent the morning observing some brown bears on shore. There was a female with two cubs who stood on their hind legs a couple of times. And elswhere there was a lonely bear, probably a male.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau calves into a lake and is a popular destination with cruise ship tourists. There's also a great hike on its west side that Jenny and Laszlo did:</span><br />
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<br />Media Curatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14960556538038893105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187306488237824878.post-62337716081068750482013-06-18T07:17:00.001-07:002013-06-18T07:17:17.828-07:00Summer Snooze 'n Cruise!!!<b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Event <span class="" style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222;">Date</span>:</b><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Saturday-Sunday, August 17-18</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Mandatory Work Party:</b><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Thursday, August 15, 6:00-7:30 pm</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />Sign-ups Open:</b><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Thursday, August 8 (until full)</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I will send out an email to announce when sign-ups open.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />Cost: </b><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">$25 members, $30 guests, $10 children under 12</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Guests are limited to one per member.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">About the trip:</b><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Snooze 'n' Cruise is a weekend sailing adventure hosted by the club during the warm months. We depart early Saturday morning, sail over to Blake Island for the night, and head back to Seattle on Sunday morning. We've reserved a group camp site to put up your tent and a picnic shelter for meals. Saturday's dinner, Sunday's breakfast, and a bagged lunch for Sunday's trip home are included. Please note that you are required to provide your own mess kit.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Skippers may take out dinghies so...go get your single-handed, double-handed or cat skipper ratings!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Those lacking skipper ratings will be placed on a keelboat (or you can request to crew on a dinghy).</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">How to pay:</b><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Thursday before </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">SnC</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> there is a mandatory work party 6:00-7:30 pm) where you will pay (cash or check) and help with some task to prepare the boats (e.g., load gear, clean dishes, food prep, ...). You will receive your boat assignment later that evening or the following day.</span><br />Media Curatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14960556538038893105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187306488237824878.post-63375746040119286702013-06-11T07:37:00.003-07:002013-06-11T07:37:49.846-07:00from club member Marc who is sailing to Alaska<br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Saturday 25 May</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">From Kelp Passage Cove it was only a few hours to Prince Rupert, the last town of British Columbia before Alaska. It is connected by a road and is large enough to find most anything. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We had run out of propane during the night but the only propane dealer in town was closed on weekends. We'd have to sleep without heating and deal with the condensation until Ketchikan in Alaska. Fortunately the next nights would be relatively benign. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">After showering, refueling, eating out, internet, shopping, calling US customs to notify them of our impeding arrival, doing laundry and rinsing and partially drying the spinnaker that had touched salt water, we set off again and motored west-northwest through a narrow winding channel out into the sound where we caught good wind to sail to an anchorage in Pearl Harbor, an uninhabited bay. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">On the way the sun got low enough to get under the cloud cover and we witnessed a rare (because of the usual mountains and clouds) and beautiful sunset:</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: -webkit-auto;">We caught our last Canadian crab which brought our tally for Laszlo's $112 Canadian fishing license plus lost lures to 3 crabs and 1 small rock fish!</span></div>
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We motored nearly all day and crossed Dixon Entrance, the other body of water that's open to the Pacific Ocean and can be pretty wild, but we experienced only a hardly perceptible swell and glassy waters. The border with Alaska follows right after and beyond it we enthousiastically spied our first whale in the distance, finally! Later there was another one but it was hidden behind an island. From the thunderous blowing sounds and the huge spouts, taller than the trees, we figure it must have been a really, really big one. </div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Monday 27 May</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">From Ham Island to Ketchikan it's only a couple of hours. Again there was no sailing to be done and only motoring. However, when we got really near to town in Revillagigedo Channel, a nasty wind suddenly blew against us with a vicious chop. </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">We radioed the harbor master who basically told us we could pick any spot in any basin so we entered Thomas Basin which was closest to us. </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">We spotted a space and I approached it carefully because of the high winds. It was a downwind approach so the maneuver would be to kick in reverse gear when nearly in the spot and bring the stern near to the dock to tie it on first, upwind.</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Things didn't work out as planned. The outboard engine kicked up when switched in reverse and with the prop nearly out of the water it did't work properly anymore and we were blown way too fast towards the dock and the boat in front of our spot. I yelled to Laszlo and Jenny to stay on board and not try to get on the dock and bailed out of there with little room to spare between us and the boat in front. I immediately did a 180 degree turn to avoid a perpendicular dock right in front of us and then pushed the outboard engine back in the water and engaged the forward gear to motor into the wind which we were now facing again. </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Outboard engines have a little lever with which you can lock them into position so they no longer can kick up. Evidently something was wrong with that. I never use this lever on my engine which is always in the "propellor down" position so I couldn't immediately remember where it was located. </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">I was now upwind again from the dock space and decided to give the approach another try, this time knowing I'd have to make do without reverse. The wind was simply too strong however and I just flipped the gear in reverse anyway knowing it probably wouldn't do me any good and indeed the outboard just kicked its prop out of the water. I narrowly bailed out again. </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">That's when I made a mistake. I decided to quickly check out that lever while puttering upwind but since I couldn't immediately locate it I just took too many seconds and the irregular winds in the constricted basin took advantage of my inattention to blow us towards other docked boats. Startled I pulled my head out of the engine well when Jenny and Laszlo started shouting warnings. Fortunately they were alert and fended us off so that no boats came into contact with each other and we extricated ourselves from this pickle a moment later. </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">I thought it wiser at that point to pick another spot and allowed the boat to be blown sideways against the perpendicular downwind dock. It would be hard to leave from there if the wind kept blowing hard, which is why I didn't pick that spot in the first place, but at least it was easy to get to and would allow us to check the engine at our leisure. </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">It turned out the lever, once located, was simply halfway down and not high enough to keep the engine from moving up... I pulled it back all the way up and gave the reverse gear a quick try and all seemed fine. </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">We called US customs and immigration and waited on the boat for them to show up and clear us in the country. A single female officer dropped by about half an hour later and stamped our passports. All she asked was if we had any pets, no questions about alcohol, tobacco, firearms, fresh fruit and vegetables, etc. She didn't come on board. </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Thomas Basin is located next to the cruise ship dock and no less than four of them were in town. Needless to say the whole neighborhood around those docks looks like Disneyland with all sorts of kitchy touristy stores. 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<br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">This was the morning that should be inscribed into humanity's annals. Laszlo caught his first fish on this trip!</span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">This sizable rock fish was hooked from the anchored boat and was received to lots of cheering! It was put in a bucket to keep it alive till dinner. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">In narrow waterways where the wind could hardly reach us, we motored most of the way to Madan Bay at the end of Blake Channel where we spent the night. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Thursday 30 May</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">It was a short trip to Wrangell over Eastern Passage. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYv2Yr9Hc4ceM-Jj_zmo_nbHO-esLB7io0FMgcA0lA71z9IIMeTFhhTEwagCY7CyNFv8Ja7OjgPlsY1yUxpetT3VWi-0P6KfGX_2Rj4XQgMJVh6fcAcHqLzF5USSfWYnnki5M7iOjfuiA/s1600/file_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYv2Yr9Hc4ceM-Jj_zmo_nbHO-esLB7io0FMgcA0lA71z9IIMeTFhhTEwagCY7CyNFv8Ja7OjgPlsY1yUxpetT3VWi-0P6KfGX_2Rj4XQgMJVh6fcAcHqLzF5USSfWYnnki5M7iOjfuiA/s320/file_1.png" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Quickly more were detected in the vicinity:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">(They're 50 meters to the north of the deck if you ever go there.)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A crazy dog with slightly crossed eyes was running free on the beach and was barking furiously at us the whole time. It simply wanted to play and we started throwing sticks. It would bring them back and then bark furiously right in our faces again until we'd throw it one more time, over and over. We think it does this to all the visitors of the petroglyph beach. As soon as we left it went its own way too, expressing a lot of disappointment but clearly set in a routine. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Crazy dog:</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUs4L31l8hcEDoVkSHak_wR0UNcC2T3AlG0hlBBvReBnrFYum9_iqHPsTXmAE5aHBFrBPkKLsPh2BwJVxykiHOEgyZf3r75IinaRn_a32AfiMwumQ2Tz3AIVjpK8Iw8o-pWDV_3BGciSY/s1600/file_9.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUs4L31l8hcEDoVkSHak_wR0UNcC2T3AlG0hlBBvReBnrFYum9_iqHPsTXmAE5aHBFrBPkKLsPh2BwJVxykiHOEgyZf3r75IinaRn_a32AfiMwumQ2Tz3AIVjpK8Iw8o-pWDV_3BGciSY/s320/file_9.png" width="309" /></a></div>
Media Curatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14960556538038893105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187306488237824878.post-85450061782414688042013-06-05T17:41:00.000-07:002013-06-05T17:41:33.594-07:00WYC is 65 Years Old! A history of the club, Part 3by Ken Howe<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In May 1948 the club was recognized as a student organization with the mission to teach sailing and support collegiate racing. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">At the SnC to Blake Island club members signed a birthday card for the club. The year that each member received a rating was included with the signature. The oldest rating date was 1964 by former commodore, Tom Schubert. Another former commodore, John Courter wrote his date was 1976. That was the next oldest rating. Everyone at the Snooze and Cruise was invited to sign the card.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The photo of sailing on Union Bay was taken by Jay Flaming July 24, 2011. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">There is more room on the inside of the card for signatures.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I will keep the card at the shop for a while for members to add their names.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The oldest two classes of boats still in use at the club are the Lightning and the Finn. None of the original wooden Huskies and Penguins have survived. Several boats that the club first sailed like the Geary 18 and Penguins are owned by members of the Center for Wooden Boats. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The early club members hoped sailing would to be as successful as crew racing at the University. In 65 years the WYC has yet to have its own building like Conibear Shell House. The crew members even got to live in their building. Maybe in the next 65 years WYC will have it so good.</span></div>
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Media Curatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14960556538038893105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187306488237824878.post-86685937649971758692013-06-03T09:41:00.003-07:002013-06-03T09:41:43.446-07:00Race report<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Thanks to Evan for towing boats to and from the WAC last night for Friday Night Racing at SSP. We had a total of 14 Laser racing with wind ranging from nothing to just under 10 Knots.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The evening started with only 1-3 knots of wind from the North, and when the wind line actually reached us by about 7pm it was a stable 10 knots or so. Lots of good racing and swearing on the course.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">It was a great time had by all. I was wondering if there was anybody with a whaler rating who would be willing to drive the whaler up next week? If we can get a schedule running then it would be easier to send out an invitation to Friday Nights earlier knowing that we have a tow organized.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Goran</span><br /><br />Media Curatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14960556538038893105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187306488237824878.post-59471463856873525562013-06-03T09:36:00.000-07:002013-06-03T09:36:02.995-07:00Cruising report<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">From Bryan: Nightshade is back from the weekend with a very full tank of fuel and cushions and sails stored below. We swept the inside, wiped the counters & power washed the outside. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We left the WAC around 7:30pm Friday. At the locks, the lock tender asked us to stay right outside the small locks with fenders out in the future so they know we're waiting to pass through (we had circled around and backed out to be in view of both stoplights for the large and the small locks, then tied off after waiting awhile). In other words, if you're in sight of the stoplight for the large lock, you're farther away than this guy prefers (their station is behind a concrete structure in between the two locks). </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We sailed to Kingston past sunset to spend the night and checked out the farmers market saturday morning before casting off for Langley. Was a nice sail once the wind picked up in the afternoon coming around south Whidbey. Langley was beautiful at sunset and well worth the walk around and we got a beer at the pizza place. Can't wait to go back. Sunday we set sail at 8:29AM and had a nice 5-hour spinnaker run all the way back home. Lots of traffic waiting for the locks as a fishing vessel came in to occupy the large lock and an Argosy boat passed us to occupy the small lock. Motorboaters were fiercely anxious to pile inside once they called us through. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Here is a "damage report" of some notes we made during the trip. There were a couple nice knives in the second drawer - could whoever took them please return them?</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Traveler track pulls up away slightly from fiberglass on starboard end</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Starboard running light not working</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">V-berth cabin light not working - one of the new fixtures (we think its the connection at the split across from the head)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Cabin light across from head not working - one of the old fixtures </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Auto pilot fuse needs replacing</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Left burner on stove leaks alcohol when system is pressurized - BE AWARE!</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Tiller stop bolts have fallen out (prevents rudder from turning too far over). They are on the shelf above the captain's table.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Tiller has been drilled for tiller extension by someone and the wood split (anybody noticed the old tiller extension on a bracket above the battery switch?). The little metal piece and the one screw that was installed fell out and is now above the captain's table. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Aft side of port settee the wood panel needs to be secured</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Depth sounder display not bright enough to see</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Knot-o-meter not working</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" />Media Curatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14960556538038893105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187306488237824878.post-44270873239471038782013-06-03T09:21:00.001-07:002013-06-03T09:21:14.699-07:00Race report<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Thanks to Evan for towing boats to and from the WAC last night for Friday Night Racing at SSP. We had a total of 14 Laser racing with wind ranging from nothing to just under 10 Knots.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The evening started with only 1-3 knots of wind from the North, and when the wind line actually reached us by about 7pm it was a stable 10 knots or so. Lots of good racing and swearing on the course.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">It was a great time had by all. I was wondering if there was anybody with a whaler rating who would be willing to drive the whaler up next week? If we can get a schedule running then it would be easier to send out an invitation to Friday Nights earlier knowing that we have a tow organized.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Goran</span>Media Curatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14960556538038893105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187306488237824878.post-22272171578504243372013-05-30T13:28:00.003-07:002013-05-30T13:28:48.597-07:00Club member Anthony posts a video from Duck Dodge, where he skippers club boat "Charlotte," a Catalina 27 along with club member Josh (who's also our Purser)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px;">Josh Solomon and I bought the Kabuki Maru, a Japanese-built 30 footer kept in Salmon Bay, with some others over the winter in order to give us easy day-sail access to Bainbridge Island BBQ (which subsequently went out of business after only one trip). A group of us have been taking out Charlotte to Duck Dodge for the past few weeks, and in addition to our inability to start on time, we decided to take it easy and not fly our chute this week. As a result, the two boats were particularly inseparable this past Tuesday, hence the sappy tune I decided to set this video to.</span>Media Curatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14960556538038893105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187306488237824878.post-45211077325793669632013-05-30T12:27:00.001-07:002013-05-30T12:27:40.252-07:00Report from club member Marc in Alaska May 13-14<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">As said previously we spent Monday morning at the Squirrel Cove General Store to refuel, shower, etc. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We first docked at the public dock failing to find a fuel dock. Somebody pointed out that fuel would be available at the general store when it would open at 9 am. So I walked over there to check things out and found a tiny dock with a single fuel hose leading to it. I peered into the water and saw it was deep enough for Mariposa. So we moved her to that tiny dock and eventually the store opened and we went at our business. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A guy walked up to me and said he owned the same sailboat as I did and thought I was very "brave" for daring to dock there since at low tide the whole dock would be aground... Needless to say we moved Mariposa back to the public dock as soon as we were done!. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">It rained badly all day. While we had lunch, safely moored to the public dock, with the little fuel dock now nearly hitting bottom, we were lashed by unbelievable downpoors of hate rain again. There was a continuous stream of water over the portholes as we were looking out, not rivulets but a thick uninterupted layer of water gushing down the entire side of the boat like a waterfall! We stopped eating and watched in amazement.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We would have toodled around Deception Sound before moseying on to cross the rapids, but with the rotten weather we just stayed put at the dock until about half past three when we had to leave to still make it to the rapids on time. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We arrived at the Yukulta Rapids at 7:15 pm, 15 minutes earlier than planned and it looked calm enough to proceed. We'd have three knots of current against us *on average* at that point. Laszlo had piloted us through tiny vicious Malibu Rapids on the way out of Princess Louisa Inlet, at perfect slack without turbulences, and now it was time for him to measure himself against a big guy like Yukulta with current still flowing. He had read the cruising guide on how to tackle it and how to play the eddies, he had looked up the tides and currents, and I had shown him the general route on the chart. All the homework was done so in we went. The two first eddies caught him by surprise and the boat got pivotted 90 degrees each time, but after that Laszlo held the tiller with a firm hand and quick reaction times. It was fun to see our progress on the chart plotter. Even though we were pointing in a certain direction, the actual direction in which we were progressing could be 90 degrees to one side and then a second later 90 degrees to the other side! Worst speed over ground was around half a knot and Laszlo had to find another way amongst the eddies at that point. As time went by, the currents and eddies abated and we passed through the adjoining Dent Rapids at full slack at around 8 pm, which was the goal of taking an early start in Yukulta Rapids. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Over an hour later, as we approached our dock for the night in Shoal Bay, one of our fenders was dropped over board. It was black and it was night but we managed to keep track of it and fish it up. Soon we were all safely docked and sound asleep. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Tuesday we got up at 5:10 am to catch the slack at Green Rapids. Jenny took the helm to tackle this one but we encountered hardly any turbulence since we hit it right at slack. It's always weird to sail over a placid rapid that doesn't seem different than the rest of the channel yet to know that at full strength it has the power to swamp boats or to smash them against the rocks. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We kept motoring on, all the way to the Johnstone Strait where we started sailing the wind that was forecasted to keep increasing. At he end of our run with the current on the Strait, to avoid the coming counter-current of the flood, we turned back into the side channels where we first had to motor again against the now strong winds. (In the Havannah Channel). </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The depth sounder had been acting up and was now refusing to display our depth at all. Since we were headed towards the Chatham Channel, which is shallow and narrow, I wanted to check that thing out and simply started by wiggling the wires. To my surprise water just dripped out of the enclosure! (Thank you so much, hate rain.) I took it apart and the thing isn't even caulked. It worked for a while again to get us through the Channel but then gave up on us and life and the universe. It stubornly displays two dashes, no depth. We'll see if its attitude changes after a night of drying. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">When we neared the Chatham Channel our ever intrepid Laszlo decided to unfurl the headsail to motorsail against over 25 knots of wind while I was inside. Needless to say that the result was a big roll while I held on to all our stuff inside, followed by lots of flogging of sail and sheets, and then a neetly furled headsail again after I had come out to lend a hand. Somewhat subdued by the events, Laszlo and Jenny then motored most of the way downwind in the Chatham Channel. I came back outside in the cockpit a while later and promptly fell asleep with Jenny at the helm. When I awoke we were in Knight Inlet and found there was good wind and lots of space. The engine was shut off altogether and we sailed for nearly the remainder of the day. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We even passed in between the islets located between Spring and Retreat Passages under sail, which required a lot of play with the ever shifting and dissapearing winds of those near landlocked areas, and good fun was had avoiding the shores and reefs under those conditions. Then we motored into Waddington Bay, our landlocked anchorage for the night, forecasted to be pretty stormy. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">No pictures were taken due to the weather again.</span>Media Curatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14960556538038893105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187306488237824878.post-64339202122873302542013-05-30T12:23:00.001-07:002013-05-30T12:23:21.293-07:00Report from club member Marc May 20-21<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">At anchor we even removed the tarp from the frame over the cockpit to enjoy the sun! It was a perfect time to caulk the depth sounder. It is drying more and more and is now working more or less reliably in shallow depths but we don't use it anymore. There is a fish finder that came with the boat and that I thought didn't work until the depth sounder quit on us and we started tinkering with it. The fish finder gives us our depth reliably.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">During our endless wait at the fuel dock we had chatted with another boater there. He'd been throwing out fish at the bald eagles to photograph them and that's what we had seen them fight over. I used this opportunity to take a few shots of my own (with my good camera, not with this iPod so I can't send them along). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">This friendly Canadian also explained to us how to fish for bottom feeders such as rock fish and halibut. Obviously we don't have the gear for halibut which can weigh hundreds of pounds but we tried for smaller fish. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Laszlo went at it for a while without result. I myself don't really care about eating fish and even less about catching the slimy things but seeing how low the morale of the troops had fallen on the fishing front I got up and grabbed the rod and loudly declared: "It's time for some beginner's luck!". I had never fished in my life before and just did what the Canadian at the dock had explained to us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The hit only produced a dull thud without any other effect and the fish gave us an indignated look:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The poor little rock fish was not much of a struggler so it was attempted to go straight to the cutting part but the blade broke from the handle!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">After more fumbling with another knife the poor thing was finally out of its misery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Before the grill:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: -webkit-auto;">After this victory, Laszlo had tried to catch more before dinner but we got only the one. Its flesh didn't feed the three of us of course but the morale was greatly boosted. Personally, I would have let the little guy go.</span></div>
Media Curatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14960556538038893105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187306488237824878.post-10185527340309743672013-05-30T12:13:00.003-07:002013-05-30T12:17:41.521-07:00Report from club member Mark May 18<br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Saturday 18 May</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We left Fury Cove in furious rain. Even though we waited for it to calm down before exiting the cabin to pick up the anchor, we had no more than 10 minutes reprieve and by the time we motored out of the cove into Fitz Hugh Sound both Laszlo and I were drenched, tarp or no tarp. Fortunately it didn't get through any of our clothing. Laszlo offered to stay out by himself in the hate rain and I took him up on it. Jenny had opted to stay inside from the beginning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Fortunately it didn't last and less than an hour later we went back to normal light rain after which we had a pretty dry day overall. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We managed to put quite a bit of sailing in too, in between bits of motoring and motorsailing. At some point I was inside and heard Laszlo crank the winch followed by a loud bang! Out of the corner of my eye I saw the starboard sheet block (pulley) kind of explode. Then it was dangling on the sheet (a rope) in more or less one piece even though partially distorted and Laszlo reported that only the clevis pin had snapped. I was already with my head in my tool bin and passed him the right tool as he opened his mouth to ask for it. I had a little trouble finding a replacement clevis pin of the right size and had to take the cotter ring off a spare block but nevertheless, about 10 minutes after the incident all parts were bent in shape again and reassembled, good to go. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Laszlo fixing the block:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We dropped the anchor in Ada Cove near Bella Bella in the evening. A few playful sea otters were splashing around.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Grilling at sunset in Ada Cove:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">After Dinner Laszlo wanted to fish some more, but after 10 days of trying nearly all day long every day without any luck he suddenly quit in disgust and exclaimed: "There is no fish in British Columbia!"</span></div>
Media Curatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14960556538038893105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187306488237824878.post-21351115073737849522013-05-30T12:11:00.003-07:002013-05-30T12:17:54.843-07:00Report from club member Mark May 17<br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Friday 17 May</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">At 6 am we extricated Mariposa from her spot on the dock which was smaller than herself (yes you can park your boat in a spot that is smaller than itself because unlike cars, they're not square and you can overlap bows). We then moved from the inner bay to the city warf in the outer bay from where it was an easy walk to Cafe Guido, the only place in Port Hardy that I know of where you can get free internet. We arrived there at 7:02, just when they opened up. With hot beverages we stayed for nearly an hour. It was the first decent internet connection we had on this whole trip. I could finally see the pictures in e-mails I had received earlier but unfortunately my iPod already no longer listed some of those. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A Coast Guard found us in the cafe to warn us that there wouldn't be enough water at low tide where we docked the boat but this time that was fully anticipated. We had approached our spot on the dock with the utmost prudence with the intermitently working depth sounder and had a fair guess of its depth. We were only staying for an hour around high tide anyway. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Port Hardy at 6 am:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">As you can see in the picture above Port Hardy is a fishing town--and you'll know for sure by the smell as soon as you enter the inner bay. While we were doing laundry the previous day, Jenny and Laszlo got in a conversation with an old fisherman. He told them he had just seen the largest pods of whales behaving so wildly at close quarters that he had the scare of his life in his boat. Unfortunately we didn't get to see them ourselves on our approach to Port Hardy. Wales move fast. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The other bit was that there is no fish this year. So yes, congratulations to ourselves! We finally did it. We killed all them scaly bastards!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">After our internet fix we motored away and were engulfed in fog pretty rapidly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Motoring in fog:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jenny was at the tiller and remarked how easy it is to get completely disoriented. Fortunately it didn't last more than half an hour. We motored for a couple more hours before we had enough wind to kill the engine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">It was a really slow sail, mostly between 3 and 4 knots across the open stretch of Pacific Ocean. With the frequent rain showers we didn't hoist the spinnaker since as you can imagine, there's no practical way for us to dry it. When our speed finally fell to under 2 knots, we motored again for 3 hours then could sail a bit more but still had to motor for the last hour. The weather forecast had been for 20 knots of wind pushing us... We ended up motoring for about 7 hours out of 13.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The mild ocean swell didn't agree with Jenny. She took a pill and skipped most of dinner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We surprised a sea otter on the way. It was clearly asleep resting its head on some kelp and only about 2 meters from us did it start and dive under. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Fury Cove was reached well before dark, my favorite anchorage in the Pacific Northwest. We're in the boonies now and should finally have frequent encounters with whales! It is getting bitterly cold but we're mostly acclimated. I'll still add a third layer of socks. </span></div>
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