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MarcusJtown
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Here's one from last Tuesday's race, taken from a competitor. My Olson is the blue and pink spinnaker.
Rocinante33
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Marcus,
That's a beautiful shot! It would look great in a frame on the wall.
That's a beautiful shot! It would look great in a frame on the wall.
Rick R.
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Beautiful!
MarcusJtown
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Yeah it is. I passed that along to the Photographer. I'm trying to get a hi-res file from her to print. I'll tell you what, on the light nights, it sure is nice to have that big masthead chute!
August 2014 down the WA coast
Crew and friend Steve just emailed this to me. Looking aft during the afternoon, with building seas of about 4'. Starting to surf to 9 and then 10.5 kts.
Sunny day followed by a star-covered night, with 24 kts true from behind us.
Just rocking' and rollin' along, and likely about ten miles off the coast.
Flag looks undignified, but it was starting to fray until I "furled" it around the radar post.
Other picture not a lot different, but Larry is -almost- in it!
Loren
Crew and friend Steve just emailed this to me. Looking aft during the afternoon, with building seas of about 4'. Starting to surf to 9 and then 10.5 kts.
Sunny day followed by a star-covered night, with 24 kts true from behind us.
Just rocking' and rollin' along, and likely about ten miles off the coast.
Flag looks undignified, but it was starting to fray until I "furled" it around the radar post.
Other picture not a lot different, but Larry is -almost- in it!
Loren
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Rick R.
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I see see you out the dodger back on Fred.
Loren, is that you at the helm in your photos?
Yup. Gotta brag a little-- boat steers easily off the wind in those seas. Photos do not do justice to the wave heights, but they never do....
This was, however, the first time we've had any water surging (some -- not too much) back up through the cockpit drains. Our stern wave would catch up with the transom and engulf the drain outlets and the exhaust.
This was when the the water speed was in the high tens and the gps chart plotter SOG was over 12.
Fun stuff!
Loren
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Rick R.
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Yup. Boat steers easily off the wind in those seas. Photos do not do justice to the wave heights, but they never do....
This was, however, the first time we've had any water surging (some -- not too much) back up through the cockpit drains. The waves would catch up with the transom and engulf the drain outlets and the exhaust.
This was when the the water speed was in the high tens and the gps chart plotter SOG was over 12.
Fun stuff!
Loren
Looks like a brisk day too!
Rocinante33
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Loren,
Is that a running back stay on the right of the frame of the picture? If so, how do you tension it? Also, what does it attach to on the mast?
Is that a running back stay on the right of the frame of the picture? If so, how do you tension it? Also, what does it attach to on the mast?
Runners!
Ha! Leave it to a guy with an E-33RH (with runners) to catch that little detail!
Our tall rig does have factory runners (perhaps more accurately termed ''check stays"?). They go to a ball terminal fitting on each side of the upper spar, above the upper spreader. Our upper portion was wire from the factory but I had them both replaced with hi-tech line as a part of the rig replacement in '02. Tails are still fat line, led thru swivel blocks on each side deck just in front of each stern mooring cleat and thence up a little ways to the secondary winch.
Never used on local waters, and only in the ocean to prevent possible pumping forward when jamming into big seas (and we certainly did that... on the way to the Rendezvous while crossing the Columbia bar on the end of a rough ebb.)
Trivia note: Olson 34 shrouds are parallel with single lowers -- no double lowers like most (all?) of the BK-designed Ericson's.
Now the runner tails are removed and stored, along with the flat jack-lines... and the spare yellow diesel cans are back home. All badges of "blue water honor" are gone.
The upper "runners" are tied off to each shroud base.
Regards,
Loren
Ha! Leave it to a guy with an E-33RH (with runners) to catch that little detail!
Our tall rig does have factory runners (perhaps more accurately termed ''check stays"?). They go to a ball terminal fitting on each side of the upper spar, above the upper spreader. Our upper portion was wire from the factory but I had them both replaced with hi-tech line as a part of the rig replacement in '02. Tails are still fat line, led thru swivel blocks on each side deck just in front of each stern mooring cleat and thence up a little ways to the secondary winch.
Never used on local waters, and only in the ocean to prevent possible pumping forward when jamming into big seas (and we certainly did that... on the way to the Rendezvous while crossing the Columbia bar on the end of a rough ebb.)
Trivia note: Olson 34 shrouds are parallel with single lowers -- no double lowers like most (all?) of the BK-designed Ericson's.
Now the runner tails are removed and stored, along with the flat jack-lines... and the spare yellow diesel cans are back home. All badges of "blue water honor" are gone.
The upper "runners" are tied off to each shroud base.
Regards,
Loren
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Rocinante33
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Thanks, Loren! My E 33 RH should have R.B.S.s, but it didn't come with them. It is one of a long list of upgrades needed before serious offshore sailing, though it has been fine for our sometimes boisterous Santa Barbara Channel without them. No mast pumping has been seen even in rolly and high wind conditions. I don't think I have ever sailed DDW in 24 knots with a 4 foot following sea, though. Close to it, but not quite.
You are dead right about the picture, BTW. It cannot do justice to the power of the sea.
You are dead right about the picture, BTW. It cannot do justice to the power of the sea.
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