Fw: Bella pic 3

Here is "BELLA" at the mark....so sad ...edward&helen "Caliente" ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "fr… [at] yahoo.com" <fr… [at] yahoo.com> To: Helen Horn <he… [at] sbcglobal.net> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 3:08 PM Subject: Bella pic 3

Helen & Ed, For some reason my computer couldn't open the picture. However, I did find this TV account of the accident, which shows Bella docked, and the mast snapped off cleanly (or sawed off?) about a foot or so above the cabin trunk. Jerry On Thursday, April 17, 2014 3:19 PM, Helen Horn <he… [at] sbcglobal.net> wrote: >Here is "BELLA" at the mark....so sad ...edward&helen "Caliente" > > >----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: "fr… [at] yahoo.com" <fr… [at] yahoo.com> >To: Helen Horn <he… [at] sbcglobal.net> >Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 3:08 PM >Subject: Bella pic 3 > > > > > >Sent from my HTC One™ X, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone > > > > > > > >

Group, We used to sail Flying Scots in the gulf coast and there was a trio of women who sailed a Scot that had very peculiar colors and always had old sails and worn out equipment. The skipper and her crew became some of our best friends as they attended every single event we ever sailed in, represented their sailing club with charm, and were great fun to be around. After finishing last or next to last in every race they sailed they would happily show up to Midwinters and mash it up with the best in the sport and then appear at every party! To me, they represented what made my favorite sport special -- that we all could have a great time sailing and racing boats! On St. Andrews Bay, where the Flying Scot Midwinters were held for many, many years, the cruising boats and fancy keel boat racers would use government marks for our races, which I ran for a couple of years. One of our favorite marks was a range marker used by ships and commercial barges that had shoal water not far away. Many times we would round this mark and watch our rigs pass within feet of the top of the radar range mark. The only contact I can remember seeing was light and incidental -- unless you counted the racer's need to re-round which would set them back many places in our minimally attended races! The point is, this could have happened to any of us. We all loved our time on the water, the camaraderie at the Yacht Club after the race (extended to members or non-members no matter as long as they entered our races!), and the joy of capturing the wind to make our vessels move across the Bay! Bella will be missed and my heart goes out to their friends including our group members Helen and Ed. Our response should be to learn from this, and then go out and invite even more friends to experience the joy that is racing sailboats! Just give fixed marks a little more clearance in Bella's honor. Don Dutton 1986 Cal 33-2, "Quantum Evolution" On Apr 17, 2014, at 5:15 PM, Gerald Sobel wrote: > > Helen & Ed, > For some reason my computer couldn't open the picture. However, I did find this TV account of the accident, which shows Bella docked, and the mast snapped off cleanly (or sawed off?) about a foot or so above the cabin trunk. > Jerry > On Thursday, April 17, 2014 3:19 PM, Helen Horn <he… [at] sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > Here is "BELLA" at the mark....so sad ...edward&helen "Caliente" > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > From: "fr… [at] yahoo.com" <fr… [at] yahoo.com> > To: Helen Horn <he… [at] sbcglobal.net> > Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 3:08 PM > Subject: Bella pic 3 > > > > Sent from my HTC One™ X, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone > > > > > > > >