An Epilogue

Block Island Race Week has been over for a week now. We've had just enough time to do all our laundry, dry out the foul weather gear, and catch up on sleep missed over the week. We put in a few hours on Apparition as we prepared for Block, delivered the boat, and (most importantly) racing her. Fortunately we found that she is just as tough as ever. 30 knot winds and 8 foot seas off long island might as well have been 10 knots in power boat chop in the Chesapeake - the boat behaved itself just as well.

I suppose we learned a few other things over the week: Keith's a good cook too - we better keep him around. We also learned just how much pressure a chute can hold on a close reach in 25 knots of wind. Unfortunately, we were also reminded just how good the other competitors are at BIRW.

Apparition will now go in for some repairs. Over the next 6 weeks, she will have her engine replaced and the chain plates will come off to be re-bedded. Some more minor repairs are probably in store as well. There always seems to be something small that needs fixing. Rest assured, we'll be back out there racing on the Chesapeake this fall.

Thanks for following our blog about our Block Island Race Week adventure. Perhaps we'll blog about our next big racing event. Until then, I hope all your starts are clean.

Main Sheet
Marshall

All is Well

Apparition made it home last night at Midnight and all is well. They dropped Jim off in the C&D canal just like they did last time, but that didn't seem to add too much to the time for delivery. Leaving at 9pm on Friday, that means they made the delivery in about 51 hours. They beat us again, dang!

Looking at the results, I can see the final count shows Apparition finishing 6th out of 10 in the class. the J/100 managed to get a 1st place in the race around the island on Monday, so they got 5th place over all even though we tied in points. That makes sense, though. It's pretty hard to get a 1st place.

Congrats to all our competitors. It was some tough racing out there and they definitely earned it.

Fuel and drop

Captain reilly gave me permission to jump ship at summitt north marina and took on 10 gallons of fuel. They are off and bound for annapolis. Safe trip gents. jim

Had a little too much fun trying to take the inside channel right when depth guage crapped out. We then took the long route around cape may, lost some time. We are now at 3905915 7512136. Heading north against a knot of current. Gizmo says 230 am in annapolis. Delivery crew out.

Ac in sight

All is well, we came through some wind and weather last night, but managed to miss any rain or storms. Just had bout 40 dolphin hang out with us. Crew is well fed thanks to keith and the beef stew. We can just make out ac and think we will turn the horn at cape may after 3 am.

On the way out

Looks like the storms are moving out and the crew is on their way home. 9:00 and we are approaching. The cut to block island sound.

Enough rain I'm leaving

I think this rain is starting to mess with me. Race week is over, but now rain wants to stop me from going home.

If Sean and the delivery crew are smart, they will wait out the storms before leaving. want to take bets?