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: Joe Balderrama ([email protected]) contact the author
Subject: in-hull backstay rigging
Info: (21544 views) Posted: Tuesday 3-29-05 03:14:13 PM
Need some help from the community out there. Even you, Mike B.! I'm replacing a short (about two feet) length of cable and two attached blocks that is the intermediary between the outside backstay & the in-hull sheet/block system.

I'm having difficulty locating the steel blocks for wire cable at svendson's and west marine, so I'm thinking about replacing the steel cable with spectra and using regular non-metal sheave blocks. I realize there would be a little stretch but at two feet of spectra, it can't be much. Should I stay with steel cable? -Thanks!

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