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2023 SHTP skippers - Gary Burton on Elizabeth Ann, Bill Stange on Hula and Randy Leasure on Tortuga
Ahoy!
Tortuga and I depart for the Singlehanded Transpacific Yacht Race on tomorrow Sunday June 25th!
The race tracking page will be available to view here:
https://www.jibeset.net/tv.php
I will be sending update to the race committee and they will be posting all the racer updates on the Singlehanded Sailing Society site:
https://www.sfbaysss.org/main/
Note that this tracking is not 100% real time for all boats and there could be delays or times when trackers stop working. Fear not, if the tracker stops working it’s probably just some tech gremlins at work.
The race starts on tomorrow Sunday at 10am off the Golden Gate Yacht Club for those that want to see the start.
I’ve had a crazy 24 hours! The bottom cleaning diver found a bunch of play in the max prop moving fore and aft on Friday am. I was able to get an emergency haul out yesterday and got the problem fixed with the bolt holding the hub on the shaft had worked loose. I splashed again yesterday afternoon but the blades weren’t aligned right. We got the blades aligned properly and back in the water before low tide this morning when they couldn’t launch me.
It couldn’t have been that easy though….
The line holding the lifting straps got caught in the prop in the sling. In a flash, the boat yard hero Mohammed dove in the water to cut it away! all good and was able to make it to the skippers meeting this afternoon.
All provisions loaded and ready!
A big thank you to my north star Danielle for her patience and help as I’ve been working non stop on boat projects the last few months!
Thank you to all the others who have supported Team Tortuga with advice and help prepping the boat! I wouldn’t be able to race without you!
Randy
W32 Tortuga
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Post race links
Latitude 38
Jibeset race Summery - the details.
Dave King analysis:
"A MAGNIFICENT RACE! Hula, with Bill Stange, crossed the finish about 20 minutes ahead of Elizabeth Ann, with Gary Burton, BUT, Elizabeth Ann corrected out about 15 minutes ahead of Hula. Elizabeth Ann has a one second per mile rating advantage over Hula, due to technical differences.
Elizabeth Ann and Hula will be listed as the 12th and 13th fastest, corrected time finishes of all time in the history of the Single Handed Trandpac (SHTP). A truly MAGNIFICENT RACE! I am in tears. Randy, on Tortuga, is currently holding on to 8th place. He is due in Tomorrow morning and will also break the previous W-32 record crossing set in 1978 by Michael Lintner. "
I'm looking for links to the details from Hula and Elizabeth Ann -- to add to this topic... Please advise Jay Bietz ...