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Slip to Ship - Memorial Weekend - Ocean Springs, MS
Message from the OSYC Vice-Commodore - Wed, May 26, 2010
Not Oil For Slip to Ship! Sign up online now, $50 with no late fee.
We are looking forward to another terrific Slip to Ship this weekend. Looking at the marine forecast as of today, winds are forecast on Saturday to be out of the NW at 5-10 kts. Sunday's forecase is out of the W at 5-10kts. Should be plenty of wind for competitive sailing.
I have received several inquiries about oil and the Islands. As of today, no change. The oil is 60 miles away and the Islands remain open. Me and 4 other boats sailed to Horn Island last weekend and it was beautiful. If you know someone who is aprehensive, tell them to sign up now. 30 boats is fine, 50 would be awesome.
Robbie Holstead will be cooking his cajun fare extrodinaire and we are lowering the food prices for extra meals down to $6.00 from $8.00. If you have already paid the $8.00 let us know and we will give you extra raffle tickets to make up the difference. Also, if you paid the late fee, I will put in for a refund for you.
We will have several special awards to give out as well as the Round Dear Perpetual. We will also have a great local band to entertain you on Saturday night.
As always, tents are permitted and a good time required.
As to the course, we will be providing the GPS coordiantes for the finish boat near the eastern tip of east ship Island (Race 1) at the competitors meeting.
Race 3 (Round Dear). The large range marker is no more. After being damaged in the Hurricanes last year, it has been removed. To keep consistency in the race, we will station a chase boat at the former location of the large range marker. An Orange Cylinder will be dropped as well. Competitors must round the Orange cylinder to port. Race 3 will remain the same in all other respects.
2010 Tybee 500 Final Results
Thirty stalwarts of the beach catamaran sailing community took sail on 15 boats May 10th, 2010 to face the elements in a grueling race to Tybee Island, Georgia, some 560 miles from the starting point in Islamorada, Florida.
The first day from Islamorada, FL. saw stiff breezes on the nose changing as boats rounded the tip of Florida to continue a tough beat to the finish. The distance of 90+ miles took the last boats more than 12 hours to finish in the dark, but all boats made it, with crews beat up and looking for a comfortable bed.
The second day from Hollywood to Jupiter, FL was a shorter leg, but rough seas continued. Crews saw wash board sailing and challenging sea conditions take a toll on the boats. Ground crews were up late into the night working repairs.
Day three from Jupiter to Cocoa Beach were equally challenging, where inlets caused rough sailing even though winds had clocked to give sailors their first chance to use spinnakers. One boat lost a crew member in early going, recovering, but the boat and crew drifted ashore with broken battens and a decision to take its penalty and a day ashore. Another crew lost a crew member and put panic in the race committee until all systems worked as planned and the crew member was found by use of the required personal EPIRB and was returned to his boat by Boat US, to continue the race.
Day four starting from Cocoa Beach involved a trip around Cape Canaveral, where a Shuttle stood on the pad, ready for launch the following day. All boats were required to remain 3 miles off shore for the rounding before arriving in Daytona Beach. The day was a glorious sail for all with great reaching winds cooperating for a continuous spinnaker run, after turning the corner off the Cape.
Day five from Daytona Beach was equally a great sailing day, traveling from Daytona to Fernandina Beach, Florida in record time. The race committee had to drive ahead quickly just to stay up with speeding catamarans.
The final day, starting at Fernandina Beach on May 15th, 2010 looked to have light winds and the crews voted to start at 8:00AM in case the forecast held. Actually, the winds held, but the course carried to the north east, causing the leg to be full of short and long spinnaker gibes. But even so, much to the pleasure of all, boats began to arrive at 3:30 in the afternoon. There was a joyous celebration throughout the home city of Tybee Island, GA. Awards followed on Sunday morning.
| Final Results 2010 Tybee 500 See Complete Results |
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| F18 Teams | Skipper/ Crew |
Total Elapsed Time (hours:minutes:seconds) |
Place |
| Bugaboo (Hobie Wildcat) | Mischa Heemskerk (Neth) Eduard Zanen (Neth) |
38:09:51 | 1 |
| AHPC (AHPC C2) | John Casey Dalton Tebo |
38:57:05 | 2 |
| PepPod Sailing (Nacra Infusion) | Tyler Burd Garth Fasano |
40:47:59 | 3 |
| Seacats Adrenaline (Nacra Infusion) | Todd Riccardi Brendon Scanlon |
41:07:41 | 4 |
| Nacra 20 Teams | Skipper/ Crew |
Total Elapsed Time (hours:minutes:seconds) |
Place |
| Velocity 1 | Trey Brown Baily White |
38:15:53 | 1 |
| Royal Yellow | Steve Lohmayer Jay Sonnenklar |
38:23:11 | 2 |
| Royal Orange | Jared Sonnenklar Colin Page |
39:31:25 | 3 |
| Seacats Orange | Jake Kohl Frank Moore |
39:41:14 | 4 |
| Royal Blue | Todd Hart Jeff LaSapio |
41:26:33 | 5 |
| Royal White | Jason Childers Zack Marks |
43:25:18 | 6 |
| Velocity 4 | Sam Carter Kirk Spicer |
44:50:14 | 7 |
| Velocity 5 Cat in the Hat |
Larry Ferber Bryan Paine |
45:11:19 | 8 |
| Velocity 3 | Brett Robinson Alan Friedman |
49:34:46 | 9 |
| Velocity 2 | Don Lenfestey Ryan Boyle |
56:43:41 | 10 |
| Seacats White | Chris Zander David Strickland |
DNF | DNF |
Team Bugaboo gets line honors for first leg of Tybee 500
The first Nacra 20 to finish was Team Velocity One skippered by Trey Brown with crew Bailey White. Finishing at 6:06:00 pm, about 4 minutes ahead of the next Nacra 20.
The first leg of the Tybee 500 started from Islamoroda in the Florida Keys. Because of the lack of sandy beaches in that area this becomes the only leg that uses a traditional on-the-water start. On all the rest of the legs an off-the-beach start is used.
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