[C38] OOR

[Max soto]

Good job Steve, 
Sound like an amazing race!!
 15+ knts on a C38??? is the highest I've heard so far!!!! And doing 193 miles in 28 hours sounds like a huge  adrenaline rush!!
Regards, 
Max Soto A.
+506-8312-1367
Alajuela, Costa Rica

> On May 15, 2014, at 11:38 PM, "Steve Smolinske" <SSmolinske at rainierrubber.com> wrote:
> 
> Wow! We just finished the OOR, saw gale force winds, it blew the whole race, downwind at the start clocked to a reach that night, turned in the straits and ran downwind.  We wrapped (I wrapped) the spinnaker tore it at the start then ran #3 on pole until the wind clocked around when we put up the heavy #1.  We finished 16th in the fleet of 32 (1 DNS and 1 dropped out with a broken rudder) highest wind speed 38, highest boat speed 15+ for a finish in 28 hours 20 minutes for 193 miles.  I’ll say one thing our boats are stout and she sure beat us up with that nasty little tendency to want to round up.  (one little pull to weather, second little pull to weather a little stronger………..start over steering before she bites in on that third pull) She took the waves and weather like nobody’s business made some new nasty sounds that woke me up in the middle of the night.  At one point it sounded like the rig snapped or the boom broke, I went back to sleep after realizing the on deck watch wasn’t calling for all hands and where chatting away as normal.   She kept on sailing without any damage other than the spinnaker.  Waves were nuts that night I handed off the wheel and told the new driver steer your best to keep it between 300 -360 magnetic.   If she had some of her hips in her butt she would be one mean machine.  Attached is  graph showing data points for every five seconds of the race starting with the warning gun.  Pretty fun ride not to take anything away from our competitors but had I not mucked up the start (cost us about an hour and a half) I believe we would have been in the running for second in class and something like 10-12 in fleet.  Not that it matters it was just a whole lot of fun!
>  
> Steve
> Peregrine #312
> Seattle
> <OOR 2014 compilation Data.pdf>
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