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RACE TO ALASKA 2018 and Seventy48 Race
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That is a pretty spiffy looking boat! But Take Me to the Volcano's facebook shows:
a slightly different craft is pictured in his face book page--no matter this is an impressive endeavor.
some photos and videohere
I think PT Watercraft is the boat to watch, since she is also a fast sailor (and is probably sailing now in some very light air.--he won the first leg, with crew--now he is solo.. However both of these solo boats are going to have to rest at night...
I also like to follow the insights from Sailing anarchy There are some racers, ex racers and some real experts on the design and building of these craft who post on this forum
a slightly different craft is pictured in his face book page--no matter this is an impressive endeavor.
some photos and videohere
I think PT Watercraft is the boat to watch, since she is also a fast sailor (and is probably sailing now in some very light air.--he won the first leg, with crew--now he is solo.. However both of these solo boats are going to have to rest at night...
I also like to follow the insights from Sailing anarchy There are some racers, ex racers and some real experts on the design and building of these craft who post on this forum
The boats shown on the R2AK website and on Facebook are each different from the one he's racing this year. All of them are variations built from plans for a boat called a "Willoughby V16." One of those earlier versions took serious damage in last year's race. This year's boat is a stripped down version that weighs about 150 pounds.thataway":6mlpip4f said:
I spoke with Matt (owner/builder/peddler) on Wednesday in Port Townsend. He seems to have absolutely no illusions (or even aspirations) about winning the race. His goal is to finish the race and become the first person do this course solely with peddle power. He is a former professional bicycle racer. He says that in calm conditions he can maintain 5mph easily and can reach 10 mph with max effort. I took several pictures of his boat:
http://www.c-brats.com/modules.php?...ame=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php
Bob, I couldn't agree more about many of the people who attempt these kinds of things. They are so into doing the "thing" itself, that many of the goals and rewards other people worry about simply don't matter to them. One of my absolute favorite observations about disinterested human effort was made about Willard Gibbs who was the preeminent American scientist of the 19th century. He taught physics and math at Yale for years. One of his students described a lecture in which Gibbs had just finished filling a blackboard with complicated equations and then turned around "with tears in his eyes, as though he had just seen angels."
I hope I get more sleep than many of these racers will in the next few days, but I'm already obsessed with checking the tracker!
I hope I get more sleep than many of these racers will in the next few days, but I'm already obsessed with checking the tracker!
Sorry to see "Take me to the Volcano" drop out with a tendon injury. He is the second boat to drop out. Mean time, the one I am watching are "Sail alike a Girl" with 4 crew on a hot 32' monohull, vs PT Watercraft, a 32' ultra light narrow beam cat with solo adventurer aboard. PT Watercraft was leading yesterday; took a nap last night, and "Sail Like A Girl" passed. Just now, PT passed SLAG again....I doubt that the solo can keep it up--but you never know! They are about 30% of the way to the finish!
Coming back across the Strait of Georgia yesterday afternoon from Lasqueti Island to Denman Island I passed PT Watercraft heading upwind in a very light NW breeze. The northwesterly was almost completely gone with just ripples to show wind direction. Most of us would call it a flat calm.
He was moving very fast for such conditions. Impressive boat and impressive sailor!
He was moving very fast for such conditions. Impressive boat and impressive sailor!
OK, I have been able to get some reports of the race, via a friend who checks the tracker frequently but I have been on the road.
Back home now and find the same thing on my lap top as on my tablet. There is a great big, soundly fixed, R2AK logo smack in the middle of my screen. There is no little "x" in the upper right corner, and the bottom goes down behind the "utility tray" and I can't figure out how to get the blamed thing out of the way and off the screen. A right click for a menu brings up a menu but there is no delete, and it won't slide right or left. It is like the Face book thing that says I need to sign up there when I go to a face plant link to see what I am missing. Any ideas on how to get around this thing, or a link to get into the tracker from another source, that might help, but every way I go to the tracker this thing hangs right in the middle and occupies about half of the screen size and takes it's half out of the middle.
Back to important stuff. I spent Sunday in Victoria BC so I could visit with some of the race folks, get some boat pictures and see the start. All very worth while.
Team Torrent, Josh Collins, is one of the most impressive individuals I have ever met. The following is part of his intro on the R2AK site.
More here: https://r2ak.com/2018-teams-full-race/team-torrent-2/
Josh was one of the racers I was tasked to check on while he was crossing Juan de Fuca. He was in a tide rip, 4 - 6 foot waves, standing up and paddling. At times his board was only in the water in the middle third, where he was standing and the ends were in the air. Sometimes we could barely see the ends, but the stern flag always popped back up. Talking with him in Victoria, he is humble, dedicated to his therapy and bringing awareness about Vets with Tramatic Brain Injury, PTSD and Veterans Suicide to the world.
From his website: https://www.operationtorrent.com/
Go Josh!
Salute.
Harvey
SleepyC :moon
Back home now and find the same thing on my lap top as on my tablet. There is a great big, soundly fixed, R2AK logo smack in the middle of my screen. There is no little "x" in the upper right corner, and the bottom goes down behind the "utility tray" and I can't figure out how to get the blamed thing out of the way and off the screen. A right click for a menu brings up a menu but there is no delete, and it won't slide right or left. It is like the Face book thing that says I need to sign up there when I go to a face plant link to see what I am missing. Any ideas on how to get around this thing, or a link to get into the tracker from another source, that might help, but every way I go to the tracker this thing hangs right in the middle and occupies about half of the screen size and takes it's half out of the middle.
Back to important stuff. I spent Sunday in Victoria BC so I could visit with some of the race folks, get some boat pictures and see the start. All very worth while.
Team Torrent, Josh Collins, is one of the most impressive individuals I have ever met. The following is part of his intro on the R2AK site.
More here: https://r2ak.com/2018-teams-full-race/team-torrent-2/
Josh was one of the racers I was tasked to check on while he was crossing Juan de Fuca. He was in a tide rip, 4 - 6 foot waves, standing up and paddling. At times his board was only in the water in the middle third, where he was standing and the ends were in the air. Sometimes we could barely see the ends, but the stern flag always popped back up. Talking with him in Victoria, he is humble, dedicated to his therapy and bringing awareness about Vets with Tramatic Brain Injury, PTSD and Veterans Suicide to the world.
From his website: https://www.operationtorrent.com/
Go Josh!
Salute.
Harvey
SleepyC :moon
I did get to meet with others there, some of the ones I was tasked to check on, and several others. Every one has an interesting story, and I would say most are not expecting to win $10,000, but all are wanting to make this trip for their own personal reasons, they are goal oriented and driven.
Team Try Harder, was one of special interest. He told me he had technical issues, lost GPS function from a bad water seal, and that his boat was not the boat for the conditions he encountered and that he should have spent more time in the area prior to the race.
Team Dock Rat is sailing his 26 foot live aboard monohull, and for alternative to sailing, he has a flat bowed pram that he either pushes or pulls his Haida26. He was not in the pack so we had to check, and he is probably not usually in the pack, but this race is all about thinking outside the box, in many ways.
Team Mulig, a 15 foot open canoe with a row rig is a young fellow, experienced, well equipped, comfortable on the water, and though he only did the PT to Victoria section, his plan for getting his boat back to PT so he could get on the plan to Alaska and get to fishing, was to row back to Port Angeles or Port Townsend. He was another one that was not in the pack so we checked in on him. Comfortable and adept, he was rowing through 2 to 3 foot chop, and had a workable plan to use the big tidal eddy into Dungeness Bay, to get to the end of the spit, than work his way along the edge in the least current possible toward Port Angels, which he did, then parked his craft on the beach and walked into town to get a hamburger. (Which is not against race rules. That option is open to anyone.)
With the advancing weather the race is going to pickup, but the Seymore gate is still a factor that separates the race into groups every 6 hours.
Enjoy following.
Harvey
SleepyC:moon
Team Try Harder, was one of special interest. He told me he had technical issues, lost GPS function from a bad water seal, and that his boat was not the boat for the conditions he encountered and that he should have spent more time in the area prior to the race.
Team Dock Rat is sailing his 26 foot live aboard monohull, and for alternative to sailing, he has a flat bowed pram that he either pushes or pulls his Haida26. He was not in the pack so we had to check, and he is probably not usually in the pack, but this race is all about thinking outside the box, in many ways.
Team Mulig, a 15 foot open canoe with a row rig is a young fellow, experienced, well equipped, comfortable on the water, and though he only did the PT to Victoria section, his plan for getting his boat back to PT so he could get on the plan to Alaska and get to fishing, was to row back to Port Angeles or Port Townsend. He was another one that was not in the pack so we checked in on him. Comfortable and adept, he was rowing through 2 to 3 foot chop, and had a workable plan to use the big tidal eddy into Dungeness Bay, to get to the end of the spit, than work his way along the edge in the least current possible toward Port Angels, which he did, then parked his craft on the beach and walked into town to get a hamburger. (Which is not against race rules. That option is open to anyone.)
With the advancing weather the race is going to pickup, but the Seymore gate is still a factor that separates the race into groups every 6 hours.
Enjoy following.
Harvey
SleepyC:moon
Thanks for the report, Harvey. Are you still having trouble with seeing the tracker screen? There's an "OK" button, center bottom, on the pop-up announcement that appears when I first bring up the tracker. Hitting it clears the pop-up. Sounds like you may be running into something else.
This morning (5:45 am PDT), three monohulls with crews of 4, 4, and 8 were leading the pack. PT Watercraft is solo, and has to take a break now and then, but he is really impressive!
This morning (5:45 am PDT), three monohulls with crews of 4, 4, and 8 were leading the pack. PT Watercraft is solo, and has to take a break now and then, but he is really impressive!
I am concerned about PT Watercraft--he has been in the same cover over 12 hours, and this does not fit with his plan.
Dock Rat was pushed aground, and I believe is effectively out of the race. Although possible to tow or push a 26 foot boat, with a rowing dinghy--it will not get you out of trouble once you are in a jam.
Team Torrant continues an impressive pace for a SUP--and is ahead of some of the multihulls. He has the endurance credentials.
Dock Rat was pushed aground, and I believe is effectively out of the race. Although possible to tow or push a 26 foot boat, with a rowing dinghy--it will not get you out of trouble once you are in a jam.
Team Torrant continues an impressive pace for a SUP--and is ahead of some of the multihulls. He has the endurance credentials.
NORO LIM":1bc5lrvx said:
Yes, the problem is that the pop-up bottom is behind the "tool tray" or what ever it is called that has the Date and Time, Battery condition and the Microsoft icons for some of the installed programs - Word, Explorer, Google Chrome, Windows and some others, so I cannot get to the bottom of that stupid Logo patch. Thanks for asking.
Harvey
SleepyC :moon
Montana Kev
New member
Harvey, click your Esc Key. This clears the box for me. I am using Firefox.
Updates on Dock Rat are on his Facebook page here - https://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Edm ... 7594248177
Kevin
Updates on Dock Rat are on his Facebook page here - https://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Edm ... 7594248177
Kevin
Montana Kev":355p2u1c said:
Thank you Kevin. That worked. I just sent an email to the web support for R2AK about the problem. Now I can send them your fix. Mush appreciated.
I don't have Facebook so it takes me to a page of some basic pix and lists of stuff but no update, nothing about the race but a pix of his boat.
Bob, PT Watercraft is making 5.5 knots last time I checked, minutes ago.
Harvey
SleepyC :moon
Yep, PT watercraft took a really long rest--and although he is 30 miles behind the leaders, he is now moving at over 6 1/2 knots, (vs their 2 1/2 knots!)--should catch up in 6 hours (or so???)
It appears that Dock Rat is moving again, and is off the beach. Following his track, shows that he not only ran aground, but went in circles (large) several times...It will be interesting to see if he continues the "Cruise" or not....
It appears that Dock Rat is moving again, and is off the beach. Following his track, shows that he not only ran aground, but went in circles (large) several times...It will be interesting to see if he continues the "Cruise" or not....
for those who have facebook, here is a link to the Operation Torrent that Josh Collins is spearheading. It is a Veterans help program that is broadly inclusive but aimed at PTSD, TBI and Suicide prevention.
This trip to Alaska is part of his therapy. That is serious therapy.
Harvey
SleepyC :moon
This trip to Alaska is part of his therapy. That is serious therapy.
Harvey
SleepyC :moon
Here is a link to a live feed camera at Cracroft Point. It is at the far northwest end of the point and there is an Orca observation point there that looks right into Robson Bight, a protected Orca reserve beach. Lots of beach rubbing goes on there. It is also a point where all the racers will have to go past. I have been buy here several times and talked to some of the observers who work with the Eagle Eye observation station which is farther south and way high up on the cliff. (If you are in the area, you can reach them on VHF chn 7. and the "EagleEye" is also a C-Dory owner.)
Here is the link:
https://explore.org/livecams/oceans/orc ... nt-surface
Enjoy. (The sounds of the beach, the ravens and the bald eagles are all present, along with the whales blowing at times.. Also you can hear some soft voices, at times, and the excitement when the whales approach.)
Harvey
SleepyC :moon
Here is the link:
https://explore.org/livecams/oceans/orc ... nt-surface
Enjoy. (The sounds of the beach, the ravens and the bald eagles are all present, along with the whales blowing at times.. Also you can hear some soft voices, at times, and the excitement when the whales approach.)
Harvey
SleepyC :moon