October 31, 2001

By Grzegorz | October 31, 2001

Photos of the Day

October 31 – Pt. Richmond

In the spirit of Halloween and the blue
moon (any time a full moon falls on Halloween it’s a ‘blue moon’,
or the second full moon in a calendar month), we bring you these
scenes from the Great Pumpkin party, where this year’s theme
was “You can leave your hat on.” We’ll have racing
photos tomorrow.

The Gruntled gang

The kids’ contest

Anne was one of many hard-working volunteers

That’s a box of Grape Nuts on Paul’s sword. Get it?

Photos Latitude/Chris

The adults’ contest prize winners

Great Pumpkin Race Results

October 31 – Pt. Richmond

Here they are, the results you’ve all been
waiting for (well, okay, some of you anyway) . . . Drum roll,
please . . .

Saturday’s finishers from Richmond Yacht
Club’s one design Great Pumpkin Regatta:

FARR 40 – 1) Blue Chip, Walt
Logan, 5 points; 2) Groovederci, John & Deneen Demourkas,
6; 3) Gone Too Farr, David Carrel, 7. (6 boats)

J/120 – 1) Mr. Magoo, Steve Madeira, 3 points; 2)
Chance, Barry Lewis, 7; 3) Twist, Timo Bruck, 9.
(6 boats)

BENETEAU 40.7 – 1) White Dove, Mike Garl/Scott Easom,
4 points; 2) Battant, Chris Herron, 5. (4 boats)

WYLIE 39 – 1) Lilith, Tim Knowles, 5 points; 2) Marishanna,
John Freeman, 8. (4 boats)

EXPRESS 37 – 1) Eclipse, Mark Dowdy, 5 points; 2)
Elan, Bill Riess, 6. (4 boats)

J/35 – 1) Raptor, Jim Hoey, 5 points. (3 boats)

J/105 – 1) Good Timin’, Dave Wilson/Phil Perkins,
5 points; 2) Aquavit, Roy & Alexis Steiner, 8; 3)
Walloping Swede, Tom Kassberg, 9; 4) Advantage 3,
Pat Benedict, 14; 5) Baldeagles, Dave & Jackie Liggett,
18. (14 boats)

99-RATERS – 1) Mischief, Jeff McCord, 5 points; 2)
Two Scoops, Chris Longaker/Tom Goodwin, 5; 3) Rocinante,
Rob Magoon, 11. (6 boats)

SF-30 – 1) Jeannette, Tartan Ten, Henry King, 5 points;
2) Preparation J, J/30, Ron Tostenson, 7; 3) Enigma,
Capo 30 mod., Bob Hultman, 10; 4) Tortuga, Santana 30/30,
Stephen Hutchison, 14; 5) Ixxis, OIson 911-S, Ed Durbin,
20. (13 boats)

WYLIECAT 30 – 1) Silkye, John Skinner, 5 points;
2) Uno, Steve Wonner, 6; 3) Triumph, Steve Seal,
10. (6 boats)

OLSON 30 – 1) Family Hour, Bilafer Family, 4 points.
(2 boats)

HAWKFARM – 1) El Gavilan, Nash Family, 4 points.
(2 boats)

ANTRIM 27 – 1) Always Friday, John Liebenberg, 4
points; 2) Nemesis, Paul Martson, 8; 3) Cascade,
Steve Reinhart, 10. (7 boats)

EXPRESS 27 – 1) Frog in French, Kame Richards, 8
points; 2) Swamp Donkey, Doug Robbins, 9; 3) Dianne,
Steve Katzman, 12; 4) Wile E. Coyote, Dan Pruzan, 16;
5) Ajax, Brett Allen, 18. (14 boats)

OLSON 25 – 1) Barking Dog, Jeffrey Kroeber, 8 points;
2) Baleineau, Charlie Brochard, 9. (5 boats)

MERIT 25 – 1) Twilight Zone, Paul Kamen, 5 points;
2) Loose Lips, Phill Mai, 6. (4 boats)

MELGES 24 – 1) #77, John Edanbach, 3 points. (2 boats)

WABBIT – 1) Ricochet, Andy Hamilton, 3 points; 2)
Mr. McGregor, Kim & Anna Desenberg, 7; 3) Jombo,
Jon Stewart, 12. (10 boats)

MOORE 24 – 1) Vu Jude, Bob Sutton, 4 points; 2) Sunshine,
Stan Martin, 5; 3) Wet Spot, Michael O’Callaghan, 16;
4) Csardas, Judy & Torben Bentsen, 17; 5) Sparrow
Hawk, Vaughn Seifers, 17. (13 boats)

SANTANA 22 – 1) Carlos, Jan Grygier, 4 points; 2)
Dominatrix, Heidi Schmidt, 6. (5 boats)

CAL 20 – 1) Rutharola, Bernard Saggesse, 4 points;
2) Andalusia, Luther Greulich, 9. (5 boats)

Sunday’s PHRF pursuit race goes around Alcatraz and Angel Islands
in either direction. The direction is crucial; this year clockwise
was the right choice, after a one-hour postponement for lack
of wind put the majority of the race past max ebb instead of
in the middle of it. The top ten finishers were: 1) Spirit,
S&S 33, Steve Lewis; 2) Unknown, Islander 30, unknown; 3)
Eyrie, Hawkfarm, Tom Condy; 4) Mr. McGregor, Wylie
Wabbit, Kim & Anna Desenberg; 5) Barking Dog, Olson
25, Jeffrey Kroeber; 6) Dominatrix, Santana 22, Heidi
Schmidt; 7) Travieso, J/22, Jack Allen; 8) Kwazy,
Wylie Wabbit, Colin Moore; 9) Sunshine, Moore 24, Stan
Martin; 10) Csardas, Moore 24, Judy & Torben Bentsen.
(128 boats)

Check back tomorrow for on-the-water photos!

Red Rock Regatta

October 31 – San Francisco Bay

Meanwhile, across the Bay at Tiburon Yacht
Club, 16 boats raced in Saturday’s Red Rock Regatta. First place
winners were Bill Hoehler’s J/105 Joyride in Spinnaker
Division, and Don Kunstler’s Santana 28 Don Wan in Non-Spinnaker.
For the rest of the results, see http://tyc.org/race.html.

Last Boat Finishes Volvo Leg 1

October 31 – Cape Town, South Africa

Amer Sports Too
finished Leg 1 of the Volvo Ocean Race today at 1:20:12 GMT,
ghosting in through the early morning drizzle to a warm welcome
at Cape Town.

Photo Courtesy www.nautorchallenge.com

Their arrival was none too soon. The gas
ran out as they heated the last dinner at sea and they motored
to the arrival pontoon on the emergency diesel supply. One more
day at sea and they could not have heated food or run the generator.

Amer Sports Too
arrived six hours and 20 minutes after djuice, a rival
with which they had fought a match race which lasted almost 4,000
miles, virtually from the equator to Cape Town, and took nearly
three weeks.

It was a match race where the lead changed
frequently and also from time to time involved Team SEB.
Right up until the finish the women’s crew, which includes Tiburon’s
Melissa Purdy, kept fighting and chasing, determined to be taken
seriously in the toughest of ocean races.

Hopes rose again yesterday when Amer
Sports Too started reeling in the miles
when djuice was caught in light winds. The deficit was
cut to only 15 miles in less than 24 hours.

McDonald and crew will have three to four
days off, before returning to work on Sunday to ‘star’ in a TV
commercial being shot for sponsor UBS and to prepare the yacht
for the next leg – an estimated 25-day dash to Sydney via the
Southern Ocean.

djuice Dragons
finished yesterday at 19:00:53 GMT. The djuice crew could
only afford to eat a single meal each day for the past four days,
and the crew arrived much thinner and extremely weak. Team chef
Arne Bertelsen, fearing that eating
large quantities of unhealthy food (they were craving hamburgers
and pizza) would damage the sailors’ recovery process, instead
mixed up a delightful concoction. “The drink will make it
easier for the body to rapidly absorb all the vital things it
needs,” he said.

On his experience of this leg, djuice
skipper Knut Frostad commented: “It was not only the
worst leg, it was the worst race I have ever done, awful, horrible.
I have never fought so hard for so little.”

Another protest has been filed against
the leading yacht, German entry illbruck. The first protest
regarded Internet access to non-public sites; this time the race
committee lodged a protest on a technical issue dealing with
their Volvo Penta supplied S-Drive. A protest hearing has yet
to be scheduled. For the full story, see www.volvooceanrace.org.

That’s My Boat!

October 31 – Steamboat Slough

Bryan Hoyer writes, “We’re the ‘proud’
owners of the beached catamaran in your photo of the day [October 23]. We purchased the
FP Belize 43 Rapscullion in April of this year and crash
outfitted it for our first trip to the Delta in August.

“The photo shows the results of our
welcome to the Delta the first night of our trip.

Photo Dave Wilson

“After motoring up from Oyster Point,
we tied up mid-tide ‘houseboat style’, bows in with spring lines
off each side. My main concern was floating off at high tide
during the night.

“We awoke at a decided list that we
never experienced during our shakedown cruises in the Bay. The
tide had picked us up driven us onto the beach and then left
us high and dry. It was four feet to the beach from the bottom
step of the stern, which is normally only a few inches off the
water.

“We unpacked our stern anchor; a 44
lb. Bulwagga, which had arrived the day before sans rode, and
assembled it with nylon rode and 6′ of fresh chain. We then motored
it out in the dinghy and simply dropped it over the side.

“To my surprise it didn’t drag an
inch when we winched it in. So the next high tide we backed off
without incident using the kedge along with alternate full
reverse from the two 27 hp Saildrives. Wife Dani and daughter
Kjersti assisted by creating waves with the dinghy.

“During the day we received a lot
of attention, with a few people even coming ashore to walk between
the hulls, accompanied by many offers of help.

“Thanks to everyone at Hidden Harbor
and the Delta who offered assistance, or just good Karma.”

YOTREPS

October 31 – The Pacific Ocean and Cyberspace

Who is out making passages in the Pacific
and what kind of weather are they having? Check out YOTREPS –
‘yacht reports’ – at http://www.bitwrangler.com/yotreps/

Weather Updates

October 31 – Pacific Ocean

San Francisco Bay Weather

To see what the winds are like on the Bay
and just outside the Gate right now, check out http://sfports.wr.usgs.gov/wind/.
(Note: This page seems to be working correctly again.)

California Coast Weather

Looking for current as well as recent wind
and sea readings from 17 buoys and stations between Pt. Arena
and the Mexican border? Here’s the place – which has further
links to weather buoys and stations all over the U.S.: www.ndbc.noaa.gov/stuff/southwest/swstmap.shtml.

Pacific Winds and Pressure

The University of Hawaii Dept. of Meteorology
page posts a daily
map of the NE Pacific Ocean barometric pressure and winds.

Pacific Sea State

Check out the Pacific Ocean sea states
at: http://www.mpc.ncep.noaa.gov/RSSA/PacRegSSA.html.

For another view, see http://www.oceanweather.com/data/global.html.

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