[C38] First win ever!!!!

[William Knowles]

Nice job Max Rock & Roll. Five weeks to launch here.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Max Soto <maxsoto at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Just wanted to let you know that I just won my first race on Estancia. We
> were racing with a phrf handicap against pretty fast boats, but despite
> that, I was the second one out of the starting line, a minute later we were
> leading the fleet and that was it until the finish line. Also we were the
> ones with the least number of crew., just three!! I almost fell by handling
> the whisker pole as an spinnaker pole by myself (the ATN tacker was not
> doing its job on some wind angles, and I did't care if the whisker exploded
> while being used as a spi pole, but it worked great). Of course we were
> using a spinnaker snuffer...
> We finished a lot of time ahead of a Bavaria 49, hunter 44, legend 37,
> beneteau 46 and some others that were also using racing sails. The downwind
> legs were the best for us despite the 1979 $95 spinnaker from Minney's that
> I bought just for learning and practice purposes.
>  Everybody was impressed with our speed, and believed or not, a judge boat
> came by to check if we had our engine on!!!They were really surprised, and
> so was I!!! Estancia now has a lot of respect and they were trying to get
> some info from my boat and look for C38 info on the web and double check our
> rating. They never thought about an older desing making such a race against
> newer models.......Did I mentioned that most of the boats were using folding
> props and I still have a fixed prop??
>
> Regards from a really proud C38 owner
>
> --
> Max Soto
> C38 #198 ESTANCIA
> Puntarenas, Costa Rica
>
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W H Knowles
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