Lohmayer and Livingston Tracking Live

Rick,

Is randy sailing his frontal Lobotomy tri again this year?

Aren't there some required low bridges on this route? Did the Tornado guys carry some way of quickly dropping and raising their mast?

Haven't heard anything about Randy this year.
They shortened the course last year and don't believe they had to deal with any bridges. At least that was my understanding.
Rick

Go Lumpy and Bumpy
I think Jamie told me that they had to drop the rig ,paddle a ways to a checkpoint, paddle back out from under the bridge and re-step the mast.
Todd

Anybody know who the I-20 is Jrock and Lrock? The site sure is tough to get any info out of. I guess they don't want anybody to know who the racers are.
Is Alan Stewart of Team Velocity fame (actually he IS team velocity) in it this year?
Tawd

What happened to the Kernal Foghorn?

He gets a rest.
Looks like they've all ready had to go under 2 bridges, by the spot tracker.

Dont think Alan is doing it this year. He's got senior design project to worry about.

Randy's boat Sew Sew flipped and he was rescued by the Coast guard at Naples.
Todd

****.

He alright?

Edit: I just read on SA that he's ok. Thank goodness.

Randy is a survivor, because he is always prepared for anything. <img src="<>/smile.gif" alt="smile" title="smile" height="15" width="15" />

From the Race Board:

Though we do not know the whole story yet, SewSew turned over off of Naples and was unable to recover. He was calm, had on life jacket with VHF in hand and was able to give the Coast Guard his exact position. He is safely at the Ft. Myers Coast Guard station and his shore crew is on the way to pick him up. We'll let Randy fill in the story later.

Where's the boat? Did he get separated from it or did they CG haul it in for him?

Jrock and Lrock is Larry - Cat in the Hat and his Tybee crew, sorry I can't think of his name right now.
This looks like such a blast except for the dropping the mast part.
Here's another tracking link, but I can't find Jamie;
Link

I think if you know you are going to have to drop it quickly, and then raise it again, you could rig up a quick disconect pin and use the spinnaker halyard, tied off to the bridle to lower it slowly and hold it back up too. Of course the bridal, spin pole and snuffer are all going to drop into the water as you loosen it all up, but you might be able to keep the crew up on the bow to hold it up until you get under the bridge, then raise it again.

I would love to see some video of this being done however!

Larry and Jackson.

Btw, has anyone heard from those guys whether or not they're gonna do the Tybee this year?

I know he's crazy about it, but he's not pre-registered, or rather wasn't last time I checked.

I asked him at Tradewinds and he said he was doing it again this year but just hadn't gotten around to registering yet.

You could also put the spin pole bridles and the forestay bridles inside some tubing (plastic, carbon, aluminum) that would go from the tang to the connection point on the pole. With the mast down, the pole would still be supported by the tubing.

I have to ask. Why drop the mast? Capsize the boat and then either walk it under the bridge or sit on the bottom hull and paddle if it is too deep to walk. There is a race around an island in the UK every year and they do exactly that to go under the bridge linking the island to the mainland (which being the UK is also an island, but I digress <img src="<>/smile.gif" alt="smile" title="smile" height="15" width="15" />

This seems so obvious I must be missing some key information there. Why do they have to remove the whole mast?

[Later edit: Video clips showing how it's done]

It's a tornado and the beam is greater than the bridge height. I talked with jamie about this at the Tybee because we were thinking of doing it, and with the size of the bridge spans it was the only option, even for an I-20, I think.

Jerry ,
That's awesome, I didn't realize it was Larry. They aren't keeping track of them very well on the site or they have a problem,one or the other. Do you know if he has a spot locator website?
Also sounds like Alan's Mom (what a cool lady)is doing it AGAIN, but no Alan.
Todd

Steve and Jamie win it!!!

There was a comment on SA that Jamie had a special head sail to go upwind in the light...and it was red, white & blue. Sounds like the mythical Chupacabra (Lovell & Ogletree's secret weapon from failed Olympic bid)has made its return and (finally) found some glory!

Dropping the mast on the Marstorm T so no small task. There is no hinge arrangement on the step... just a thumb-sized stub which the mast base sits on. So, when the mast goes past a certain angle, the foot lifts off the stub and the mast will go free fall unless there's someone applying bodyweight loads to the foot to counter the leverage. This would be near impossible to do on the water...maybe they rigged up some kind of gin pole where they could do the job while still aboard.

yeah, it's the Chup