Delta Ditch Run at Stockton Sailing Club/Richmond Yacht ClubJune 2
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Norcalsailing report featuring Summer Palace:
http://www.norcalsailing.com/entries/2012/06/05/ditchrun2.html#.T-iWoI2Mfqs

Below quoted from Pressure Drop: Drew Scott was helming a F-28.

"My crew is starting to swing around to pick me up when El Raton, in perfect control slides up beside me and asks if I would like to get picked up. They had already doused their chute and stopped beside me. I took their offer and got back into a boat (trying to stop a lightweight trimaran next to someone when it is blowing in the mid-20s is not easy so I figured I would not turn down El Raton.

My crew ably finished the race on Papillon, only one boat behind El Raton! And I had many adventures with El Raton, but that is their story to tell.

So, a great big thank you to the Ray Lotto and the crew of El Raton for pulling my soggy hide out of Suisun Bay!!

Drew Scott
Papillon (most of the time)"
Result
PosBoatTotalRace 1
1El Raton11
2Magic Bus22
3Peaches33
4Scandalous44
5Wile E Coyote55
6Loose Cannon66
7Take Five77
8Ergo88
9Great White99
10Libra1010
11Summer Palace1111
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Author: Jason Cosler
Subject: Nationals Report
Info: (12418 views) Posted: Friday 10-15-04 08:16:05 AM
Any chance us cyber spectators could get the low-down on the Nationals? Looks like it was one for the books from the pictures. I'd be interested to know a) that no one was hurt on Exocet (what a crunch) b) how the Regatta Pro experience went and c) What were Attitude Adjustments keys to success (Jeff Thorpe wheeling it probably didn't hurt, but what a setup on that thing! Is there any teak left on it?).

Have to admit all of the below-deck, double-ended controls on AA make me nostalgic for dinghy racing. I also noticed based upon some of the pictures (which are superb, by the way), that they seem to part of the "traveller-up, twist-off" contingent. On the one shot (805.jpg), the jib car looks pulled in farther inboard than it would be with the stock track, sheet eased, main traveller on centerline (probably "up" for the conditions) and mainsheet "eased." More and more, it seems like this is the way to go on the Express. Also looks like one of Quantum's new Fusion M's up front....

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