The mystery box could be anything, it could even be a boat!

[ajhostetter]

our capsize from last year...

[ajhostetter]

This is amazing! What a life! Lucky ducky

It was not easy going back to work today...but a weekend of racing and punishing my liver with two of my brothers was awesome.

[deutschman]

This is amazing! What a life! Lucky ducky

[2mAn]

I thought their shirts said dark and horny, but then I realized they were all white girls so it wouldnt make sense

[ajhostetter]

Aspen Open Regatta this past weekend. I was on the foredeck.

[anabolice30]

Rich bastard. I'm mad jealous.

[LJ851]

Bump

[kickinindian]

Where is said reference? Title is from family guy

[Julien]

ever go to port vauban in antibes?

[ajhostetter]

So below is a shot of my Lightning. It's a 19 ft. hard chined racing dingy designed by Olin Stephans in 1938. They displace about 700 lbs and have a fractional rig with a symmetrical spinnaker. Our boat, hull #12871, was built in 1976 is still actively raced in the Denver Sailing Association. It's a very active and well-funded class.

Mountain sailing is fun..but gnarly. Sudden wind shifts of 30-90 degrees are common. The Aspen Open regatta is held every July at Rudi Reservoir in CO. If you ever get the chance to get up there, do. It's gorgeous, and we've had some of our best weekends there. The sailing is exciting as well.

Two years ago were coming in hot to the leeward mark and noticed that every laser in the race was capsizing down there. A quick check of the weather around us indicated the afternoon storms were filling in from opposite ends of the lake, causing a mild corkscrew effect. As we flawlessly and wordlessly executed a quick tack/gibe, tack/gibe (in effect executing a 720 spin), we made and end run around the fleet to win the race. Working together with that kind of intuition is an incredible feeling.

Here's a shot from the spring regatta in Denver at Cherry Creek Res.

[frankenbeemer]

Great stuff Ray! I love, love, love that J boat, makes my peepee tingle. Poor Beau Geste, perhaps they should change it to Faux Pas and end the renaming ceremony at the middle part.

[Nick_S]

I've never lived near water so I have 0 stories but damn that looks fun.

[BlackbirdM3]

J class sloops are where its at. Should I win the lotto, I will own one. I'd love to see a throwback America's Cup where they race J class boats. How awesome would that be?

The summer of '94 I had a pretty cool experience. I sailed the 181 foot Barquentine SV Concordia from San Francisco to Hilo Hawaii, to Victoria BC. I got posted to the the clew of the Royal yard arm. It was quite an experience. The first time I stepped out to the little dangling rope that I was supposed to stand on while manning the clew, in the dark. 96 feet up, was a little bit of a leap of faith. Actually it scared the shit out of me. Later on the return trip to Victoria, we had an accident. A week out of Hilo the morning watch was headed up the mast to do a sail maneuver in zero visibility fog. Everything was wet, almost like it was raining. A girl was climbing up to the upper crows nest and slipped off. No safety harness. She landed feet first between the mess and the starboard side pin-rail breaking everything from the waist down. I was the first person in the rigging following the accident. The next task was to get all the sails down in order to do a air lift... off a tall ship. It took some creativity. The Navy sent a Seahawk helicopter off the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier to do the lift. The rest of the trip sucked as we motored the last 1000 or so miles.

I always hoped I could find my way back aboard Concordia someday. Sadly she was hit by a micro-burst off Brazil and sank. All crew got off alive, but the ship is now on the bottom of the Atlantic, 600 miles off the coast of Brazil



Will

[Thizzelle]

I sailed the 7 seas, it took soooooooo long.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Is it just me or is the dock listing to port slightly?

I noted the exact same thing. I thought I might be thinking like someone that is shallow, then I realized I really didn't care what others think about what I think.