LOCO SOLOCOCO!!!
I have a new set of spreaders, made with hybrid and uni carbon. These are very
very strong. Ill send you for free!
Next year I will try to be there with you. If you like marathon races you might
like the statue of liberty race. From sandy hook to the statue of liberty and
back about 40nm. There is also the Little Miss Liberty throphy of the girls who
only go half way. I have had a lot of fun with this regatta bt have never got
all the way. (my life story).
----- Original Message -----
From: Romeisle@xxxxxxx
To: swiftsolo@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 9:44 PM
Subject: SOLOCOCOLOCO @ Miami-Key Largo
Hey Gents, Lots of things have been going on with me since Ft Desoto, but
the Mia- Kl was a riot . First let me explain to you that the MYC puts on this
race yearly and this was the 50th Anniversary, it is aproximately 40 nms down
Biscayne Bay to Jewfish Creek in Key Largo, Yes there are salties!, no I did
not see one. yes there were probably in excess of ahundred boats, and the
SOLOCOCOLOCO was the smallest and Baddest. It was the first time I have taken
it to the club and there were hundreds of sailors including lots of Champions
. EVERY ONE LOVED IT!!! I started a bit late since the wind was very light and
I had to bum a ride from a pro beach cat with tender, I made it to the start
line about 6min after the gun. with ghosting conditions and a hundred boats to
windward it was not a pretty start, I inched my way to windward of the mono
fleet( now my fleet) as the multiis rolled the whole fleet and went lower and
faster, I ended up in pretty good position with clear air and no one to
windward so I slowly began to overtake the boats, so that by Featherbed Bank,
aprox 20 miles down the bay and four hours later, I was leading the monos.
unfortunatelly Featherbed bank Pass , about half mile long was dead to
windward, the wind had piped up to over 10 and I was engaged in a tacking
ballet when from astern appeared a 60 + motoryacht with a huge bow wave , I
kept my eye on this boat for a while as it did not seem to backing off for the
pass, I tacked again and then I saw the CHROME ELVIS STYLE GLASSES and the
hand pushing the thottles forward as tocross me before godforbid I would dare
to cross him, when he went by he did not even look down to see if I would
resurface, I stuffed the bow and over I went .
when I finally gathered myself and my cooler I looked up and found my speader
broken . I was helped by many of the bigmonos that had witnessed the whole
thing as they were just reaching the pass, one of the big boats sent a tender
to tow me in to Matheson Hamock Park where I secured the Solo and got a ride to
retrive my van and trailer. It was a long day.... there is always next year.
Next is the Mugg race , on may 7th, 44 nms down the St Johns River, Yes there
are alligators , but those are piece of cake compared to the Crocs. Pepe
SOLOCOCOLOCO
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