Legacy's 2008 Beringer Bowl
So, I just got back from the 2008 Beringer Bowl, an annual ocean race from Marblehead to Provincetown. Our course was 41.9 nautical miles. Here's the route we took, you can click on it to see waypoints (from our satellite beacon):
The race was a lot of fun. We were third in our fleet of fourteen, a really excellent result for our first time in a Mass Bay Event.
I didn't have my usual crew with me; instead I was joined by Jeff Slocum and his son Doug. Both are long time and experienced sailors. Doug in particular barely ever cleated a sheet; he made driving our boat, and fast, his primary goal, and didn't let his attention waver from that at all. Unlike Jeff and me, he didn't sleep during the race, either.
The weather in the race was all over the place. There was ~1kt of wind at the start; the BYC committe boat (named "Carl Alberg") had to delay the different starts to make time and room for us. Then some weather came in, and a microburst came at the edge of the thunderstorm, bringing wind from 1kt up to 35-40kts in NO TIME AT ALL. We went downwind, and took in the jib, then tightened under main alone to the beam reach that pointed us at P-town
And so it went. After an hour or so the genoa came back out, and as you see from the track, we got headed and headed until we took at tack near Scituate. Fopr most of this time, there were thunderstorms all around us, but we stayed mercifully free of weather; we only got rained on once, and that was for only around fifteen or twenty minutes.
After our Scituate tack, we were pointed basically straight at the end of Cape Cod, so after that, just a few more tacks to round our buoy off Pilgrim Pt., and in to the harbour. It was during this time that the moon came out really well, and we were steering straight at it. It was absolutely beautiful.
I'm addicted! See you at the 2009 Beringer Bowl. And next time you're by my home, ask to see my Beringer Cup in the trophy case.
The race was a lot of fun. We were third in our fleet of fourteen, a really excellent result for our first time in a Mass Bay Event.
I didn't have my usual crew with me; instead I was joined by Jeff Slocum and his son Doug. Both are long time and experienced sailors. Doug in particular barely ever cleated a sheet; he made driving our boat, and fast, his primary goal, and didn't let his attention waver from that at all. Unlike Jeff and me, he didn't sleep during the race, either.
The weather in the race was all over the place. There was ~1kt of wind at the start; the BYC committe boat (named "Carl Alberg") had to delay the different starts to make time and room for us. Then some weather came in, and a microburst came at the edge of the thunderstorm, bringing wind from 1kt up to 35-40kts in NO TIME AT ALL. We went downwind, and took in the jib, then tightened under main alone to the beam reach that pointed us at P-town
And so it went. After an hour or so the genoa came back out, and as you see from the track, we got headed and headed until we took at tack near Scituate. Fopr most of this time, there were thunderstorms all around us, but we stayed mercifully free of weather; we only got rained on once, and that was for only around fifteen or twenty minutes.
After our Scituate tack, we were pointed basically straight at the end of Cape Cod, so after that, just a few more tacks to round our buoy off Pilgrim Pt., and in to the harbour. It was during this time that the moon came out really well, and we were steering straight at it. It was absolutely beautiful.
I'm addicted! See you at the 2009 Beringer Bowl. And next time you're by my home, ask to see my Beringer Cup in the trophy case.