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Half Way Home: Vic-Maui Fleet Looking For Trades

Published on 07-10-2018 03:42 PM

Kraken Log - Day 9

0405 HST; the sun is just coming up on the Eastern horizon and the darkness is slowly being taken over by the light. At first it's black, then dark gray, then lighter gray then lighter gray again, until it's finally light.

One of the things that is interesting about off-shore sailing is that you are out all night every night. In our terrestrial lives most of us normally sleep through the night. We only see the start and the finish. Ask yourselves; how many entire nights have you actually seen in your entire lifetime? How many sun rises? How many times have you seen the moon rise AND set?

Sailing into the night always brings on a certain feeling of anxiety while sailing out of it brings relief. I guess it has to do with the fact ...

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Vic Maui Day 3 Updates

Published on 07-03-2018 10:16 AM

TRACKER

Ocean weather, never a dry topic, is getting more interesting - we have a High, we have a Low, which way to go, don’t you know?

The North Pacific High is established and centered at about 43N 155W. It’s strong – about 1036mb – which is good, and about 600-800nm in diameter. There is a Low developing ...

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Out THe Chute And Turn Left

Published on 07-02-2018 05:11 PM

TRACKER

After a great run down Strait of Juan de Fuca, most of the fleet rounded Cape Flattery before the sun set and got to see a sight that most people never get to. Cape Flattery is the very northwest corner of the lower 48 states and a major landmark. But it ...

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The Loss of Kelaerin

Published on 06-27-2018 04:34 PM

The Loss of KELAERIN (JUNE 17, 2018)

Earlier this month, the USCG reported an incident involving the rescue of a man and his wife 180nm off the Washington Coast

The vessel in question, Kelaerin was owned by Jim and Joy Carey, who set out on a global circumnavigation on their Omega 45' Cutter Kalaerin years ago from their home in Bellingham, WA. In their words:

We bought Kelaerin in 1991 and almost immediately set out cruising with our two daughters down the coast of the Pacific US to Mexico, Central

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Sail like A Girl Wins 2018 R2AK

Published on 06-24-2018 09:59 AM

Team Sail Like A Girl for the win! Arrived at 12:17 am AK times, 6 days 13 hours, 17 minutes. Congrats!

Team members: Aimee Fulwell, Jeanne Assael Goussev, Allison Dvaladze, Anna Stevens, Haley King Lhamon, Kate Hearsey McKay, ...

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Ketchikan In The Cross Hairs

Published on 06-23-2018 06:02 AM

http://tracker.r2ak.com

2018 Day 5: It’s a vortex, man.
There are places in the world that are their own centers of gravity. The great garbage patch of the Pacific gyre that collects the downstream accumulation of our plastic world, the beaches that unexplainably ...

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2018 Day 3: Fresh Race, Stale Breeze, Ketchup Soup

Published on 06-20-2018 03:18 PM

2018 Day 3: Fresh race, stale breeze, ketchup soup

image:Katrina Zoë Norbom

Did you know there is such a thing as competitive Tai Chi? That thing you did in college and/or during yard time at the Senior Center, that slow-mo martial art that is scientifically proven to be three times more likely to be in a heart medication commercial than your day to day—they’ve got competitions for that. We’ve ...

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2018 Day 2: The Narrows Cometh

Published on 06-19-2018 02:47 PM

image: Katrina Zoë Norbom

Day Two of the R2AK offered the same kind of dull excitement as the first. Teams were still dealing with the fat man of a high-pressure system that was squashing the Strait of Georgia under its sweaty mass. Teams sailed, stalled, rowed, pedaled, advanced, and retreated on the tides. Most faired well enough, but at least one team spent four hours ...

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Breeze On In Bellingham

Published on 06-18-2018 04:17 PM

32 5o5 teams showed up to the Bellingham Yacht Club located on Bellingham Bay in Northern Washington for 3 days of racing
just south of the Canadian Border. They got in 7 races and loads of fun in that short period of time. Here is a piece written by Paul Phil,
representing the host yacht club and the PNW!

Article originally posted at Sailish.com

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Dropouts and Leaders Emerge in R2AK

Published on 06-18-2018 09:35 AM

Mknotcrazy has dropped out due to a restless night and rougher conditions than they expected.

http://tracker.r2ak.com/

Peninsula Daily News Rovides the 1st update:

VICTORIA — The customized Gougeon 32 catamaran from Port Townsend that won the “proving ground” stage of the Race to Alaska held the lead during the start of the second leg of this year’s race Sunday.

“Russell Brown [of PT Watercraft] as a solo sailor is doing amazingly well,” ...

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R2ak 2018 Is Underway!

Published on 06-14-2018 12:00 PM

The start of leg one of the 2018 R2AK, Port Townsend to Victoria BC!

Racing underway!

Finish times.

1 PT Watercraft 9:10am

2 First Federal's Sail Like a Girl 9:51am
3 Strait to the Pool Room 10:04am
4 Ptarmigan 10:05am
5 Swan Song 10:10am
6 BlueFlash 10:13am ...

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Breeze On For Melges 24 World Finale!

Published on 06-10-2018 12:19 PM

June 9, 2018 - Victoria, BC, Canada - On the final day of the 2018 Melges 24 World Championship the international Melges 24 fleet of forty one teams from five nations finally received what they were expecting from Victoria - 15-20 knots wind, blazing sunshine, blue skies and great speed to put on the show while surfing the waves in Victoria Waterfront. A final day of racing yielded three more races to conclude the 10-race series at the Melges 24 World Championship 2018, hosted by the Royal Victoria Yacht Club in co-operation with the Canadian Forces Sailing ...

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Day 2 Victorian M-24 Worlds

Published on 06-08-2018 09:26 AM

June 7, 2018 - Victoria, BC, Canada - The breeze eventually fills in on the race course of Victoria and the Melges 24 fleet takes home a full day of sailing, with three races completed in the third day of the 2018 Melges 24 World Championship.

The first victory of the series today went to the home-players Canadians on board of MiKEY ...

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B.C. Light Air Melges 24 Worlds

Published on 06-06-2018 07:46 AM

June 5, 2018 - Victoria, BC, Canada - Light breeze was the protagonist of the opening day of the 2018 Melges 24 World Championship in Victoria BC, Canada, where forty-one crews from five countries gathered to determine who will be the next one to achieve the Melges 24 Worlds title after Italian Gian Luca Perego's Maidollis success at the 2017 Championship in Helsinki.

The Race ...

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2018 Oregon Offshore

Published on 05-11-2018 09:07 AM

image © Maria Swearingen

24 Boats signed up for the 2018 edition of the Oregon Offshore, which departed Portland yesterday for
the 193 nm jaunt up to Victoria BC. A feeder race for the Vcic Maui for some, a start to summer cruising in the
PNW for others

Report from Thursday afternoon:

Looks like ...

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2018 Race To The Straits: PNW Shorthanded Bliss

Published on 05-09-2018 09:50 AM

Race to the Straits, For Racers to Enjoy and Clubs to Notice. Plus, a Serious Injury on the Trip Home
by Kurt Hoehne
Sailish.Com

"At what point will the other clubs take notice?"

This question came out with all of Nate Creitz' overflowing, bubbling, enthusiasm for last weekend's Race to the Straits (RTTS). The double and single-handed Sloop Tavern Yacht Club event from Seattle to Port Townsend and back (with an overnight in the unique sailing town Port Townsend) hit its limit of 125 boats several days before the race, ...

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Brisk But Not Brutal: Blakely Rock Benefit A Windy Affair

Published on 04-09-2018 10:14 AM

Kurt Hohne Reports

Nearly 100 boats were signed up for the Blakely Rock Benefit Race on Saturday, but a large number of skippers were scared away by the dire wind forecasts. A really healthy fleet still made the trip from Seattle to the Rock and back and while it blew hard, it wasn't on the "really scary" side of windy. As Doug Frazer from OxoMoxo said, "We had one knock down, but the salt is good for the teak. I was a little disappointed we didn't need to put in a reef." The sailish.com ...

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Southern Straits No Complaints

Published on 04-05-2018 09:04 AM

by Peter Salusbury, owner and skipper of Longboard. ( via Kurt Hoehne Sailish.com)

This was the 50th anniversary of the Southern Straits Race classic and weather cooperated for what most will admit was a very pleasant and enjoyable race. Bruce’s pre-race forecast was mostly spot on though the NW ...

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Plane Emergency Lands On Columbia River Sandbar Stuffs Landing

Published on 03-21-2018 02:15 PM

On Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at approximately 1:30PM, the Oregon State Police responded to the report of a small plane that had crashed into the Columbia River near Clatskanie. Initial information indicated the plane was ...

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Scatchet Head: A Pleasant Surprise!

Published on 03-13-2018 05:40 PM

Story by Kurt Hoehne

On Friday everyone was contemplating what a Scatchet Head Race in no wind would look like, swirling around with the currents at the south end of Whidbey Island. While Bruce Hedrick got the sunny part right, and he joined the chorus of computer models predicting a drifty sort of day for the middle race of the Center Sound Series. For those of you curious about just why the wind decided to make an appearance, Bruce explained "there was an over 2MB gradient from Bellingham to Seattle which was enough ...

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