Ron White trimaran for the Everglades Challenge

I looked for the Mosquito from last year's race but did not see it and believe it is not in this year's challenge. Sandy Bottom is his(Steve?) mom, I believe, and she is competing. So is Dance's with Sandy Bottom. You can follow their progress.

 

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What boat are they sailing-any idea?

 

No, but last year Log of Spartina website followed the Mosquito and may be covering Sandy Bottom in this race. I haven't kept up to date too well with it today.

http://logofspartina.blogspot.com/

Apparently Paul and Alan won it today. I didn't get to meet them but their tracker has them as Dances With Sandy Bottom and SOS.

http://www.watertribe.com/Events/ChallengeResults.aspx

It looks like Sandy Bottom stopped at Cape Haze.

 

I can't find any info on Randy Smyth past the second checkpoint-something go wrong, do you know?

 

Maybe Cape Haze Marina was as far as he wanted to go. The cold probably sapped a lot of strength. Many seem to have stopped there rather than go all the way.

 

On the Watertribe site in the general postings there is a message saying he had damage/failure of one of the pivoting ama/aka joints. There was a post that he capsized offshore and self recovered after leaving Checkpoint One. Once he got the boat back up (with the now "bum" joint), he proceeded directly to the beach near Fort Myers and has been on shore since.

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CutOnce

 

That's too bad since as of Saturday night when I had last checked his position he was the furthest south of any of the competitors.

 

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Thanks, Once.

 

I just finished reading the thread over at SA.

Strangely enough, it was all about sailing, getting in updates and pictures, cheering on the hard work / skill of sailors, no BS, no foul language and generally a really good read.

Kind of neat that a pair of "old fashioned" two masted, nonfoiling, monohulls finished 1, 2 overall.

The first place boat lost their main mast near the finish. Who would have thought that "able to limp in on a mizzen mast" would be a key ingredient into a first place EC finish and a new (by a large margin) mono record.

 

There is a lot to learn there. Quoting someone on the EC site: "To finish first, first you have to finish". I'm sure this gem goes back so far that finding the first time it was said won't be easy.

There is no doubt that when all the stars line up, all the God's forgo mischief, and the right person(s) is/are on the tiller that leading edge solutions can be stunning. The problem with technology-based solutions is that when you depend on one component of a design for a high percentage of your performance, your vulnerability to failure is high.

Challenge style endurance events like the Everglades Challenge are more about mitigating risk and having a layered approach to problem avoidance. Graham Byrnes obviously really thought through the design of the Core Sound series. Given the maturity of the Core Sound design-wise this year's performance is probably stronger confirmation of the real magic in his work than the first win was. I sure hope he and Carla popped the top off a bottle of bubbly because Seabiscuit just won again.

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"To finish first, you must first finish"
Rick Mears

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Mears

 

Are there any pics of the core sound boat with laminate sails?

 

Fantastic aerial(kite)video of the boats linee up prior to the start-thanks to "Messabouts" post under Boat Design:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BFxqxAKzCV4

 

I did not manage to get 1 photo of what I believe to be the winning boat.

 

Thank you Hoyte for your fine photos. Found an interesting small trimaran:



Do you know more about it ??