Tbird333

February 8th looms.

I hope someone magically transports me to Valencia to watch the Cup. Ah well. I just hope there’s good tv coverage. In the mean time:

Monsoon Cup in Malaysia. Watch out for Ben Ainslie.

Hi all. When it comes to Tbird 333, it’s been a tumultuous year.
A lot of fun was had, don’t you worry, but some hard knocks were taken and hopefully some lessons were learned.
So let’s liven things up with some good old-fashioned female arm wrestling, or as I like it call it, marmwrestling.
This from last night at the Tin Shed:

Alas and alack, the incident with Marine Servicenter is still unresolved.  Anyone know any good maritime lawyers so I can take these port bargers to task?  Team 333 is disbanding for the Fall Series, it seems, as I have not registered or paid my yacht club dues, and our boat is uninsured. Bummer, but it will be worth it to get our ducks in a row before we get back out on the race course.  On the bright side,  I may be racing on Valkyrie.  CWB regatta was hot and fun, and I took some videos:

With Puffy down I hopped a ride on Zoe and got some videos of Fleet 2 and the Thistles.

Had a collision at Duck Dodge with a Laser SB3 from Marine Servicenter. They were demo-ing the boat to potential clients.  We were clearly established on starboard for about a minute. They tacked on to port and when I saw them I didn’t have enough time to avoid. I don’t think they saw us at all until the collision. One of their crew was thrown overboard and their mast split in half and fell on to my deck. Luckily no one on either boat was hurt. 333 has a some real good dings in her and is currently unsailable. Marine Servicenter needs to take responsibility for their actions here.

I was able to get some good photos of the boat, being an another one.  I actually took video but I had to pull stills from it because all the footage was really shaky and I was trying to do crew work at the same time.  Beautiful windy night.  Fine, adding the videos.

This video is mostly an audio recording because my camera was on in my pocket during a start.  Kinda neat to listen to.