What have you done for your boat lately?
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Yard Sale
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We did! But it was the blue boat that didn't set their spinnaker and was going slow that caused us to wipe out. Totally my fault not waiting to get the kite up. Unfortunately boat 6's mast broke on the second day. Steady 25-30 knots with puffs to the mid 30s, which is about max we can race in. We hit 16.5 over ground on saturday and 17.6 on sunday. Minus the 1(?) knot river flow and we were darn near 20. Good fun.
Rainforest Gump
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Hey Yard Sale , your boat a Moore 24?
Yard Sale
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Yes it is! Been racing on this boat for 25 years. Finally bought it from my buddy a couple years ago. Great boat for the Gorge. Have you sailed them?
Yard Sale
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Best part is that's my wife. Met her when I first started sailing this boat in 2002 while she was on another boat. The oldest, and by far best looking, bow in the fleet. It's a really hard job and she is still killing it in her mid 50s. I don't crash often, but when I do she lets me know about it.
Even better!Best part is that's my wife. Met her when I first started sailing this boat in 2002 while she was on another boat. The oldest, and by far best looking, bow in the fleet. It's a really hard job and she is still killing it in her mid 50s. I don't crash often, but when I do she lets me know about it.
Rainforest Gump
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I haven’t sailed them but have been around them while racing. Those are amazing boats! I heard that one circumnavigated a while back. Do owners still have pun intended names like Moorphine and Moore cowbell?
I used to own a Kiwi 30 IOR 1/2 tonner owned it for 21 years , racing and cruising in the PNW . 
Yard Sale
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I haven’t sailed them but have been around them while racing. Those are amazing boats! I heard that one circumnavigated a while back. Do owners still have pun intended names like Moorphine and Moore cowbell?
Beautiful boat! Really like that color too. I grew up in SF Bay during the IOR era and used to sail on a big red boat called Leading Lady. Its scary how much load those boats generate.
They do still hav the silly names. Ben and Jen still sail Moore Cowbell and Moortician is still racing too. I sometimes sign up as Moopes in reference to the bubble boy Seinfeld episode.
Impressive sailing gentlemen. I raced once here on PS (Seattle, around Vashon and back) 40+ years back (family friends Mercator 35 iirc) and it was pretty exciting. I have a Santana 2023 that hasn’t been wet in many years. I never got used to that much heel.
hey yard sale - do you sale out of the hood river yacht club ??
Yard Sale
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raced a Friday night series on SF Bay for two decades, part of a three man crew on a buddy's Cal 29, whole lotta fun flying wing and wing on the downwind leg with a 25-30 knot push, with occasional mayhem on the turn when the boats were bunched together.
Was bummed out a kick ass flu kept me from spectating at the SailGP this past March, really wanted to watch those F1's scream by in person.
I have seen some rough water, that I won’t brag about. But, the most difficult was surveying the South end of San Francisco Bay in a 30+ knot breeze from the north. Shallow water, the waves stack up. I’m sure they were 15’+ waves with maybe a 30’ period. It were brutal, and eventually we gave up.
I tried to find the F1 race online or a sports channel, but couldn’t.
I tried to find the F1 race online or a sports channel, but couldn’t.
Yard Sale
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I taught the juniors at coyote point YC for a few years. We’d spend the morning out on the bay before the wind filled in. Afternoons were spent sailing in the harbor because of those conditions you mention . By the end of the week the kids would be begging to go out on the bay in the afternoon. On the last day we’d let them go out one at a time, the only caveat being they had to gybe instead of tack to get back. Some of the most spectacular wipeouts I’ve ever seen!
You may want to check in to the compliance for these lights. I know there's been some issues with guys buying these two piece lights from Amazon but getting tickets or warnings because they don't meet the requirements for red/green lights. The lights need to be so that you can only see one at a time if you are looking from either side, and there is a requirement for how far aft they can be of the bow.
Legal Requirements for Bow Navigation Lights
According to U.S. Coast Guard and international COLREGS standards:- Red (port) and green (starboard) sidelights must each be visible over an arc of 112.5°, from directly ahead to 22.5° abaft the beam on their respective sides.
- These lights must not be visible from the opposite side of the vessel or from directly astern.
Not meaning to poo poo your work, but want to at least bring it to your attention if compliance was the goal. A lot of people have installed the same lights not knowing. I almost did the same on my smaller boat before looking into it and then heaing stories locally from people being cited for them.
As far as I've understood, the only real way to be legal on the red green bow lights is with this type of unit:
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Got one side of my new radar arch tower mounted to the brackets. Planned to get it done yesterday morning before the heat, but after spending forever getting the deck-mount brackets attached onto my bait tank/seats where the old tower sat, I opted to move the whole unit forward about a foot so it didn't lean into the dance floor area. So totally unmounted the brackets (which I of course bedded with 3M 5200), and went with the side-mount brackets.
Got the port side done last night, so starboard side is still just kinda hangin there. Hope to get the rest of the bracketing done (starboard side mounting brackets along with the stand-off brackets for stability) by mid week. Then I'll loctite all the connections and attach the 9879873497 rod holders I got along with my radar unit.
(sad, old, flimsy broken tower off to the side)
Got the port side done last night, so starboard side is still just kinda hangin there. Hope to get the rest of the bracketing done (starboard side mounting brackets along with the stand-off brackets for stability) by mid week. Then I'll loctite all the connections and attach the 9879873497 rod holders I got along with my radar unit.
(sad, old, flimsy broken tower off to the side)
