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: Michael Alan Bruzzone ([email protected]) contact the author
Subject: Considerations uping weight limit to 1060 to 1080
Info: (2959 views) Posted: Monday 10-2-23 11:34:07 PM
Marcia and I have conferred, and these fleet participation debilitating points are not just fallacies they are sophistries and cannot be proven.

WP, the boat will structurally blow up with 6 . . . bull shit maintain u'r boat

WP, the 880# weight limit allows a woman . . . so would 1060 to 1080.

Executive committee there are currently detractors, the price of an extra sandwich.

Marcia points out and I agree with 880# flogging the rig is more detrimental to the entire boat than propagating the fallacy that the boat will blow up structurally.

I maintain someone at my weight is not competitive at 260# in the back of the boat without a midship counterweight and EVEN THAT IS NOT COMPETITIVE say beginning 220# and has cost the fleet membership.

Marcia and I agree, 6th person opens up a training position when the weight limit is 1060 to 1080.

Marcia and I agree the 6th person opens up a fleet recruiting path.

Marcia and I conferred on the Morgan Larson technique of 7 that Marcia also employed that sends essentially no weight with big arms to leeward trim.

Marcia and I conferred on Jeff Madrigalli 1100# NAs and it works on a windy circle NA but I have found from 40 years of e27 racing over 1065 is on average faster than 1100#.

Fleet participation looks good in the winter but on average is dying having adopted the weight limit of a J24.

More people more fun . . . you can always go with less than 1080.

mb

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