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| Delta Ditch Run at Stockton Sailing Club/Richmond Yacht Club | June 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)" |
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| Author: Joe B. ([email protected]) contact the author Subject: Lightship Info: (22454 views) Posted: Monday 3-27-06 02:18:47 PM |
Never done so much knarly surfing to the point of rudder cavitation - crew says we got up to 17.7 on one long ride.
On the return leg before Mile Rock, we got into a nasty jibe and had 3.5 people in the water at one point, but all on tethers. Eventually everyone was pulled aboard, but we called for the Coasties to transfer a hypothermic crew member.
We crossed the finish, but minus crew and myself, so we DNF'd ourselves. Congratulations to Despy as we saw him to be one of the first Expresses to round Lightship and likely to place high in the overall MORA division too.
Joe B.
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