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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 1, 2012 - 11:25pm PT
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Whoa Guido, thanks for the pics....beautiful. Dontcha just love the Pogos? I think they are the cat's meow. Beautiful lines, such functionality in a wonderful size. Rock star boats, indeed.
Susan
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Evel
Trad climber
Nedsterdam CO
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Fair winds and Following seas!
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The Alpine
Big Wall climber
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Thanks for posting the pics Guido! Some good looking vessels in there. Anyone NOT have vane gear?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Is Mouton steel or glass?
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Bon voyage to Michael, and may he be free of aquatic ferrets during his journey!
the trip itinerary includes a continuation on to Alaska and back down the Pacific Coast to the Bay Area in the Fall
I was wondering why it was called "trans-Pacific" until I saw that.
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 2, 2012 - 12:45am PT
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Is Mouton steel or glass?
neither, aluminium
Susan
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Nohea
Trad climber
Living Outside the Statist Quo
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Just got out of a warmer part of the pacific and it's trade winds and warm water over here.
Hana Ho Michael
Aloha,
Will
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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How is Michael doing?
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Damn you for posting all the pictures, now I have drooled all over the keyboard!
Looks fun, for sure. Stay safe, we are all sailing with you in spirit.
http://singlehandedtranspac.com/race-viewer/
This link will show you the race, just mouse over the hull shapes to identify the boats. Michael is inthe middle of the pack with the light yellow hull
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Here is a recent fax of the North Pacific. You can see a Big Fat High, aka BFH which is stationary North of Hawaii and with the isobars spread so far apart it bodes for very light wind and slow slow progress if you are racing. Especially if you are loaded with all the toys and gear for a passage on to Alaska.
There is a Hurricane off the West coast of Mexico but far far away at this point it time and probably too distant to have any effect with the weather near Hawaii in the near future.
Michael and Mouton Noir are at 31degrees-16 min North and 136 degreeds-34 min West wallowing at around 1kt of boat speed. Wind speed 3.60 kts from 071 degrees.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Bummer, is rowing allowed?
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 6, 2012 - 04:41pm PT
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Received Sat call this morning and we all know the expression cursing like a sailor. For about 30 bucks in airtime charges I think I heard every expletives deleted. Guido did a great job of showing the situation. He actually lowered the main because of no wind. It will be ugly getting her powered back up. In conditions like that the boat just rocks and rolls obnoxiously in the swell. Boom flies back and forth. It's the pits. Actually a lot of damage can occur because of the rocking. This is where we'd motor if doing regular cruising. Just waiting for the trades to fill in. Maybe I'll have more time to myself in Hawaii than I expected.
Susan
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Argon
climber
North Bay, CA
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Good luck to Mouton Noir and all of the boats. What a fascinating race. What is the deal with Truth? According to the Race Viewer, it is making 11.6 knots and will make Kauai in about 50 hours at that pace.
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Gene
climber
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Best wishes to Michael. Those are lousy conditions. The boat rocks like mad. You go nowhere. Things on board thump and clank. Stuck in the dull-drums. Here's to freshening winds!
g
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 6, 2012 - 06:36pm PT
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Truth is balls to the walls high end race boat. Not sure why he's in a race like this. Maybe building a winning resume. He's on to race in Australia after this. A climbing analogy would be that Truth is like Flourine or Honnold showing up at the base of El Cap in their shorts and everyone else showing up with a haul bag and porta ledges. And in the case of Mouton it's more like Pass the Pitons Pete.
Susan
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mon dieu! Quelle analogie! Ya mean there's swilling allowed abord Le Mouton?
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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UGH
Right now his wind is light and dead astern. The most uncomfortable direction in nearly any boat.
Go South young man, go South.
Get away from that high center. In the very light airs we were happiest with the main up, a reef in it and the boom belayed hard down amidships. Taut on the mainsheet with preventers out to the jibsheet blocks amidships on either side. Genoa wung out on the pole to leeward and also belayed down. Minimizes the flogging but still could get the sails drawing again in about 3 minutes when the breeze came up.
Hang in there Michael. This too shall pass.
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 6, 2012 - 10:15pm PT
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Go South young man, go South
That was my advice to him from the comfort of my recliner!!!
Susan
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SalNichols
Big Wall climber
Richmond, CA
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The problem is that the gyybe angle points you at Chile. Been there, done that, have the 2010 version of the t-shirt. Once you pick your "lane" in this portion of the course, changing lanes becomes very expensive in terms of angles and miles sailed. If Michael can soak down...good. Gybing is going to hurt until the high begins it's northern oscillation in a few days. Hopefully that TD will provide enough gradient to help the northerly boats in the squash zone.
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SalNichols
Big Wall climber
Richmond, CA
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If you check out Michaels track, you can see where he gybed...hated the angle, and gybed back. Sometimes getting south is a real struggle.
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