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May 13 / 11:25pm

Boat Work Day/Weekend

by Nat

Involving Serge, Gregory, Nathan and Nat

  • Safety at Sea Seminar for Pac Cup
  • Recaulked/sealed cabin top windows
  • Applied primer (next step will be to paint over) in areas of cockpit with 'spider web' style lesions
  • labeled all electrical wires linked to battery 
  • replaced all ring terminals for these wires, sometimes replaced wires, or cut wires when they were corroded
  • removed all unused wiring
  • screwed on bus bar outside of battery compartment, too prone to wetness, directly to the bulkhead
  • expoy repair to the keel
  • Elise got a new pole (thanks Argos Yacht Rigging) with colored trip lines so it is easy to tell which is which, genius idea Scott!)
  • Elise got a new used spinnaker (ex Desperado!)

 

 
May 9 / 1:01am

Vallejo 2012 Photos Post Race Photos

by Nat

Time to relax...

Photos courtesy of Serge

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Finishing the job

Posted from San Francisco, CA

 
May 9 / 12:56am

Vallejo 2012 Photos Sunday

by Nat

Photos courtesy of Serge

Before the start

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After the Finish
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Super Serge holding the boat all by himself
 
May 9 / 12:50am

Vallejo Race 2012 - Photos @ Vallejo

by Nat

Photos courtesy of Serge and Mike

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 The raft at Vallejo
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Serge the Snacktician was ready with treats
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Elise getting ready to sleep
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Eric making sure we don't lose track of what's important
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The boys
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Smily faces everywhere :)
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 Elise was on board
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May 9 / 12:48am

Vallejo Final Results

by Nat
Result
PosBoatTotalRace 1Race 2
1 Wile E Coyote 4 3 1
2 Take Five 6 1 5
3 Peaches 8 6 2
4 Desperado 8 4 4
5 Elise 9 2 7
6 Magic Bus 13 10 3
7 Great White 13 5 8
8 Dianne 13 7 6
9 Strega 18 9 9
10 Risk 19 8 11
11 Archimedes 21 11 10
12 Libra 25 12 DNC
 
May 9 / 12:37am

Vallejo Pictures Saturday Race

by Nat
Writeup coming up!

Photos courtesy of Nat's Camera

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Happy Gregory
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 The view from the boat
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 Eric hard at work
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Mike and Nat
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May 7 / 12:43pm

Vallejo Results Sunday

by Nat
SAIL # SKIPPER BOAT NAME BOAT MODEL RATING FINISH ELAPSED CORRECTED PTS. COMMENTS YC
11 Dan Pruzan Wile E Coyote Express 27 ODR 129 16:40:18 3:30:18 3:21:19 1   EYC
18364 John Rivlin Peaches Express 27 ODR 129 16:42:15 3:32:15 3:23:11 2   STFYC
41 Marc Belloli Magic Bus Express 27 ODR 129 16:48:02 3:38:02 3:28:43 3    
77539 Michael Bruzzone Desperado Express 27 ODR 129 16:49:28 3:39:28 3:30:06 4   SSS
28031 Donald Carroll Take Five Express 27 ODR 129 16:50:06 3:40:06 3:30:42 5   CSC
0 Steve Katzman Dianne Express 27 ODR 129 16:50:24 3:40:24 3:30:59 6   LTWJ
101 Nathalie/Nathan Criou/Bossett Elise Express 27 ODR 129 16:55:19 3:45:19 3:35:42 7   STFYC
48 Rachel Fogel Great White Express 27 ODR 129 16:55:58 3:45:58 3:36:19 8   BYC
77 Larry Levit Strega Express 27 ODR 129 17:04:16 3:54:16 3:44:16 9   RYC
18355 Joe Balderrama Archimedes Express 27 ODR 129 17:12:40 4:02:40 3:52:18 10   SSS
91 Neal Holmlund Risk Express 27 ODR 129 17:16:13 4:06:13 3:55:42 11  
113 Marcia Schnapp & Sergey Lubarsky Libra Express 27 ODR 129 DNC : : 13   SFYC/S

 

 
May 7 / 12:42pm

Vallejo Results Saturday

by Nat
SAIL # SKIPPER BOAT NAME BOAT MODEL RATING FINISH ELAPSED CORRECTED PTS. COMMENTS YC
28031 Donald Carroll Take Five Express 27 ODR 129 17:17:00 5:17:00 5:03:28 1   CSC
101 Nathalie/Nathan Criou/Bossett Elise Express 27 ODR 129 17:21:31 5:21:31 5:07:47 2   STFYC
11 Dan Pruzan Wile E Coyote Express 27 ODR 129 17:21:55 5:21:55 5:08:10 3   EYC
77539 Michael Bruzzone Desperado Express 27 ODR 129 17:23:05 5:23:05 5:09:17 4   SSS
48 Rachel Fogel Great White Express 27 ODR 129 17:24:50 5:24:50 5:10:58 5   BYC
18364 John Rivlin Peaches Express 27 ODR 129 17:29:38 5:29:38 5:15:33 6   STFYC
0 Steve Katzman Dianne Express 27 ODR 129 17:31:28 5:31:28 5:17:19 7   LTWJ
91 Neal Holmlund Risk Express 27 ODR 129 17:32:58 5:32:58 5:18:45 8    
77 Larry Levit Strega Express 27 ODR 129 17:36:24 5:36:24 5:22:02 9   RYC
41 Marc Belloli Magic Bus Express 27 ODR 129 17:38:52 5:38:52 5:24:24 10  
18355 Joe Balderrama Archimedes Express 27 ODR 129 17:55:35 5:55:35 5:40:24 11   SSS
113 Marcia Schnapp & Sergey Lubarsky Libra Express 27 ODR 129 18:12:59 6:12:59 5:57:03 12   SFYC/S

 

 
Apr 30 / 11:08pm

Low Speed Chase Salvage Photos

by Nat

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Pics from The SF Chronicle, AP

 
Apr 30 / 11:06pm

Some old photos of Elise

by Nat

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 and an old one with the new management...not sure when or where. Looks like we still had our 3DL main...
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Before she was with the Beethovens

 
Apr 30 / 11:05pm

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by Nat

Sea lion style

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Photo courtesy of Serge

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Apr 30 / 11:03pm

Low Speed Chase Memorial

by Nat

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Photos from Sergei (from Libra)

 
Apr 30 / 10:44pm

Memorial Low Speed Chase

by Nat

Serge photos

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Philip and Lydia

 

 
Apr 30 / 10:24pm

Low Speed Chase Memorial

by Nat

Photos courtesy of Bob Nader

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Apr 29 / 9:15pm

Boat Work Day on Elise

by Nat

Achieved

  • Changed Tiller Extension to one that is not bent
  • Changed two blocks for the main sheets (the plastic was starting to crack)
  • Changed vang block on port side
  • Recaulked some of the black seal on the stern
  • Tried a fix for the main and jib halyard turning block conflict
  • Made new cables for battery cables
  • Changed/cleaned up and labeled power cables for SSB, VHF, Steamning Light, Autopilot 2 and GPS
  • Epoxy Fix on Keel
  • V1 of spider web fixes (we need a brush to really do a good job of that)
  • Cut off all excess line on the outhaul, jib car adjusters and vang and burned off the end to reduce risk of fray
  • Bought new wooden plugs for the two throughhulls (only for ocean races)
  • Cleaned up hot knife so it works again...
  • Bought new 'extreme sowing' kit for sail repair (only for ocean races)

By next weekend we will also have changed top block for the vang (plastic was also starting to crack) as well as one of the turning blocks for the downhaul.

By new weekend, I hope to have done over 50% of the electrical cable clean up and swapping