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Does this look like the real McCoy? Boaters' boon or bust? BlackLight Power unveils technology that generates electricity from water Tue, 05/22/2012 - 3:00am PowerPulse.net Get today's electronic OEM design headlines and news - Sign up now!<http://subscribe.advantagemedia.com/ecn_ods/landing.aspx?cmpid=textadincontent> BlackLight Power, Inc. (BLP) announced a major breakthrough in clean energy technology, which experts agree holds tremendous promise for a wide range of commercial applications. The announcement comes on the heels of BlackLight's recent completion of a $5 million round of financing to support commercial development of its new process for producing affordable, reliable energy from water vapor. In six separate, independent studies, leading scientists from academia and industry with PhDs from prestigious universities including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology, confirm that BlackLight has achieved a technological breakthrough with its CIHT (Catalyst-Induced-Hydrino-Transition) clean energy generating process and cell. The Process is fueled by water vapor that is a gaseous component of air and present wherever there is any source of water. The CIHT cell harnesses this energy as electrical power output and is suitable for essentially all power applications including transportation applications and electrical power production completely autonomous of fuels and grid infrastructure at a small fraction of the current capital costs. "BlackLight's continuously operating, power-producing system converts ubiquitous H2O (water) vapor directly into electricity, oxygen, and a new, more stable form of Hydrogen called Hydrino, which releases 200 times more energy than directly burning hydrogen," said Dr. Randell Mills, Chairman, CEO and President of BlackLight Power, Inc., and inventor of the process. Hydrogen is not naturally available and has to be produced using energy. But, H2O vapor is ubiquitous and free, obtainable even from ambient air. Dr. Mills says that BlackLight has achieved critical milestones in scaling its new technology with typical electrical gain of more than ten times that which initiates the process, operating over long duration at the 10W scale. A 100W unit is planned for completion by the end of 2012, and a 1.5 kiloWatt (kW) pilot unit that can serve the residential power market, as an initial target commercial application, is expected to be operational by 2013. (One kW is equal to 1000 W, and 1.5 kW is the typical, average power consumption of a U.S. home.) BlackLight has raised a total of $75 M for the development and commercialization of its breakthrough energy technology, and has license agreements with companies to use its patented commercial processes and systems in heating and electric power generation. The new BlackLight Process validation reports, including full documentation and results of theory evaluation, replication and testing of the CIHT systems, and Hydrino characterization, are publicly available at the company website. The website also includes links to validator resumes and to technical and business support materials, including recent presentations that further explain the BlackLight Process and a technical paper providing the detailed chemistry and identification of Hydrinos by analytical methods, which laboratories can follow and replicate. W. Henry Weinberg, who was a professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Applied Physics at California Institute of Technology for eighteen years, a professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Materials Science at University of California, Santa Barbara for six years, and co-founder and CTO of Symyx Technologies for 13 years, commented, "It would be irrational not to be very skeptical, and I was extremely skeptical. However, after having reviewed Dr. Mills classical theory, participated in experimental designs and execution, and having reviewed vast amounts of other data BLP produced, I have found nothing that warrants rejection of their extraordinary claims, and I encourage aggressive optimization and fast track development of a scaled up prototype," said Dr. Weinberg. "To be able to use hydrogen from water as a cheap and nonpolluting source of power would represent one of the most important technological breakthroughs in history." Dr. James Pugh, Director of Technology at The ENSER Corp., stated, "Representatives from the ENSER Corporation witnessed the assembly and operation of multiple CIHT cells, and the results showed excess electrical energy, up to 100 times that used to maintain the process in cells run as long as sixty days," said Dr. Pugh. "There is no apparent difficulty in assembling single cell and multi-cell units, in a production scale environment. By carefully designing and optimizing the CIHT cell, a one-liter volume could generate 3.3 kW. This is greater than that necessary for motive as well as stationary electrical power applications."

Charlie, the Wikipedia article about the inventor and his company, founded in 1991, doesn't appear to support his hype. Oh..PHOOOEY! I'm still trying to get my Model A to run on water with the Popular Science gadget I bought out of their classifieds in 1956! Jerry From: "Husar, Charlie [USA] (ASE)" <hu… [at] bah.com> To: "CAL Yahoo (Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com)" <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:00 AM Subject: [Cal_Boats] April Fool or... Does this look like the real McCoy? Boaters’ boon or bust? BlackLight Power unveils technology that generates electricity from water Tue, 05/22/2012 - 3:00am PowerPulse.net Get today's electronic OEM design headlines and news - Sign up now! BlackLight Power, Inc.(BLP) announced a major breakthrough in clean energy technology, which experts agree holds tremendous promise for a wide range of commercial applications. The announcement comes on the heels of BlackLight’s recent completion of a $5 million round of financing to support commercial development of its new process for producing affordable, reliable energy from water vapor. In six separate, independent studies, leading scientists from academia and industry with PhDs from prestigious universities including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology, confirm that BlackLight has achieved a technological breakthrough with its CIHT (Catalyst-Induced-Hydrino-Transition) clean energy generating process and cell. The Process is fueled by water vapor that is a gaseous component of air and present wherever there is any source of water. The CIHT cell harnesses this energy as electrical power output and is suitable for essentially all power applications including transportation applications and electrical power production completely autonomous of fuels and grid infrastructure at a small fraction of the current capital costs. "BlackLight’s continuously operating, power-producing system converts ubiquitous H2O (water) vapor directly into electricity, oxygen, and a new, more stable form of Hydrogen called Hydrino, which releases 200 times more energy than directly burning hydrogen," said Dr. Randell Mills, Chairman, CEO and President of BlackLight Power, Inc., and inventor of the process. Hydrogen is not naturally available and has to be produced using energy. But, H2O vapor is ubiquitous and free, obtainable even from ambient air. Dr. Mills says that BlackLight has achieved critical milestones in scaling its new technology with typical electrical gain of more than ten times that which initiates the process, operating over long duration at the 10W scale. A 100W unit is planned for completion by the end of 2012, and a 1.5 kiloWatt (kW) pilot unit that can serve the residential power market, as an initial target commercial application, is expected to be operational by 2013. (One kW is equal to 1000 W, and 1.5 kW is the typical, average power consumption of a U.S. home.) BlackLight has raised a total of $75 M for the development and commercialization of its breakthrough energy technology, and has license agreements with companies to use its patented commercial processes and systems in heating and electric power generation. The new BlackLight Process validation reports, including full documentation and results of theory evaluation, replication and testing of the CIHT systems, and Hydrino characterization, are publicly available at the company website. The website also includes links to validator resumes and to technical and business support materials, including recent presentations that further explain the BlackLight Process and a technical paper providing the detailed chemistry and identification of Hydrinos by analytical methods, which laboratories can follow and replicate. W. Henry Weinberg, who was a professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Applied Physics at California Institute of Technology for eighteen years, a professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Materials Science at University of California, Santa Barbara for six years, and co-founder and CTO of Symyx Technologies for 13 years, commented, "It would be irrational not to be very skeptical, and I was extremely skeptical. However, after having reviewed Dr. Mills classical theory, participated in experimental designs and execution, and having reviewed vast amounts of other data BLP produced, I have found nothing that warrants rejection of their extraordinary claims, and I encourage aggressive optimization and fast track development of a scaled up prototype," said Dr. Weinberg. "To be able to use hydrogen from water as a cheap and nonpolluting source of power would represent one of the most important technological breakthroughs in history." Dr. James Pugh, Director of Technology at The ENSER Corp., stated, "Representatives from the ENSER Corporation witnessed the assembly and operation of multiple CIHT cells, and the results showed excess electrical energy, up to 100 times that used to maintain the process in cells run as long as sixty days," said Dr. Pugh. "There is no apparent difficulty in assembling single cell and multi-cell units, in a production scale environment. By carefully designing and optimizing the CIHT cell, a one-liter volume could generate 3.3 kW. This is greater than that necessary for motive as well as stationary electrical power applications."

This works on the principle that Dr. Mills MD claims to have discovered of lower energy states of the electron around hydrogen than ground state, (lower than what current science says is the lowest possible energy level). Good luck with that. http://scientopia.org/blogs/goodmath/2011/12/29/hydrinos-impressive-free-energy-crackpottery/ From: "Husar, Charlie [USA] (ASE)" <hu… [at] bah.com> To: "CAL Yahoo (Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com)" <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:00 AM Subject: [Cal_Boats] April Fool or... Does this look like the real McCoy? Boaters’ boon or bust? BlackLight Power unveils technology that generates electricity from water Tue, 05/22/2012 - 3:00am PowerPulse.net Get today's electronic OEM design headlines and news - Sign up now! BlackLight Power, Inc.(BLP) announced a major breakthrough in clean energy technology, which experts agree holds tremendous promise for a wide range of commercial applications. The announcement comes on the heels of BlackLight’s recent completion of a $5 million round of financing to support commercial development of its new process for producing affordable, reliable energy from water vapor. In six separate, independent studies, leading scientists from academia and industry with PhDs from prestigious universities including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology, confirm that BlackLight has achieved a technological breakthrough with its CIHT (Catalyst-Induced-Hydrino-Transition) clean energy generating process and cell. The Process is fueled by water vapor that is a gaseous component of air and present wherever there is any source of water. The CIHT cell harnesses this energy as electrical power output and is suitable for essentially all power applications including transportation applications and electrical power production completely autonomous of fuels and grid infrastructure at a small fraction of the current capital costs. "BlackLight’s continuously operating, power-producing system converts ubiquitous H2O (water) vapor directly into electricity, oxygen, and a new, more stable form of Hydrogen called Hydrino, which releases 200 times more energy than directly burning hydrogen," said Dr. Randell Mills, Chairman, CEO and President of BlackLight Power, Inc., and inventor of the process. Hydrogen is not naturally available and has to be produced using energy. But, H2O vapor is ubiquitous and free, obtainable even from ambient air. Dr. Mills says that BlackLight has achieved critical milestones in scaling its new technology with typical electrical gain of more than ten times that which initiates the process, operating over long duration at the 10W scale. A 100W unit is planned for completion by the end of 2012, and a 1.5 kiloWatt (kW) pilot unit that can serve the residential power market, as an initial target commercial application, is expected to be operational by 2013. (One kW is equal to 1000 W, and 1.5 kW is the typical, average power consumption of a U.S. home.) BlackLight has raised a total of $75 M for the development and commercialization of its breakthrough energy technology, and has license agreements with companies to use its patented commercial processes and systems in heating and electric power generation. The new BlackLight Process validation reports, including full documentation and results of theory evaluation, replication and testing of the CIHT systems, and Hydrino characterization, are publicly available at the company website. The website also includes links to validator resumes and to technical and business support materials, including recent presentations that further explain the BlackLight Process and a technical paper providing the detailed chemistry and identification of Hydrinos by analytical methods, which laboratories can follow and replicate. W. Henry Weinberg, who was a professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Applied Physics at California Institute of Technology for eighteen years, a professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Materials Science at University of California, Santa Barbara for six years, and co-founder and CTO of Symyx Technologies for 13 years, commented, "It would be irrational not to be very skeptical, and I was extremely skeptical. However, after having reviewed Dr. Mills classical theory, participated in experimental designs and execution, and having reviewed vast amounts of other data BLP produced, I have found nothing that warrants rejection of their extraordinary claims, and I encourage aggressive optimization and fast track development of a scaled up prototype," said Dr. Weinberg. "To be able to use hydrogen from water as a cheap and nonpolluting source of power would represent one of the most important technological breakthroughs in history." Dr. James Pugh, Director of Technology at The ENSER Corp., stated, "Representatives from the ENSER Corporation witnessed the assembly and operation of multiple CIHT cells, and the results showed excess electrical energy, up to 100 times that used to maintain the process in cells run as long as sixty days," said Dr. Pugh. "There is no apparent difficulty in assembling single cell and multi-cell units, in a production scale environment. By carefully designing and optimizing the CIHT cell, a one-liter volume could generate 3.3 kW. This is greater than that necessary for motive as well as stationary electrical power applications."

Read about Charlie: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/news/12/0511/<http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/news/12/0511/> ----- Original Message ----- From: Husar, Charlie [USA] (ASE)<mailto:hu… [at] bah.com> To: CAL Yahoo (Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com)<mailto:Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com)> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:00 AM Subject: [Cal_Boats] April Fool or...

Great article! Inspirational! Doug Cal 29--Noregreta San Francisco Bay On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Fin Beven <fi… [at] msn.com> wrote: > ** > > > ** > Read about Charlie: > > http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/news/12/0511/ > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Husar, Charlie [USA] (ASE) <hu… [at] bah.com> > *To:* CAL Yahoo (Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com) <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com)> > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:00 AM > *Subject:* [Cal_Boats] April Fool or... > > >

Aww, shucks, Folks. Kind of a mix between flattering and embarrassing. Thanks for the kind words. Take Care Charlie From: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com [mailto:Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Doug Johnson Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:50 PM To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Charlie Husar. Great article! Inspirational! Doug Cal 29--Noregreta San Francisco Bay On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Fin Beven <fi… [at] msn.com<mailto:fi… [at] msn.com>> wrote: Read about Charlie: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/news/12/0511/ From: Husar, Charlie [USA] (ASE)<mailto:hu… [at] bah.com> To: CAL Yahoo (Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com)<mailto:Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com)> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:00 AM Subject: [Cal_Boats] April Fool or...

Charlie (alias Mr. Cal 25) you are truly a "Cal Hero" and justly deserve this recognition. Not just for your sailing ability but keeping this fleet alive and thriving. Just a few years back a Cal 25 won the overall PHRF for the Ensenada Race, after many tries, proving persistence, good crew work, and a well prepared boat pays off. You don't have to spend a fortune to have just as much fun out in the water as the big spenders with their latest, hotest designs. In fact, I think the older boats are more sea kindly and therefore, more pleasant to sail. After one afternoon doing the 'up and over, down and up and over'-the waves in a Santana 30-30 I could hardly wait to get back on my Cal 24 with its smoother, Cadillac like ride. Jerry

It is a great article. I found it really hard to find crew over the years with a Cal20 and now a Cal29. That is the biggest resason I went to Single Handed racing. That and it is either all my fault or all my glory. I would love to race more with crew it just seems like so much work to get them and then many seem to bail the night before if conditions aren't just right. It seems to be different for the captains that have that $200K+ boat. Scott Cal29 Hatikvah --- On Wed, 5/23/12, Fin Beven <fi… [at] msn.com> wrote: From: Fin Beven <fi… [at] msn.com> Subject: [Cal_Boats] Charlie Husar. To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 6:26 PM Read about Charlie: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/news/12/0511/ From: Husar, Charlie [USA] (ASE) To: CAL Yahoo (Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com) Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:00 AM Subject: [Cal_Boats] April Fool or...

Scott, Finding Crew is a good subject for discussion. There are various sailing websites (Is sailing anarchy one of them?) and yacht clubs have bulletin boards, and non landed sailing clubs. In San Francisco Latitude 38 has meet new crew/ owner parties a couple of times a year. Here in Marina del Rey they used to have a freebee magazine with a crew available/crew wanted classified listing. I've also seen listings on Craigs List in the boats for sale/sailboats for sale list. Jerry From: scott cyphers <sc… [at] sbcglobal.net> To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 7:53 AM Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Charlie Husar. It is a great article. I found it really hard to find crew over the years with a Cal20 and now a Cal29. That is the biggest resason I went to Single Handed racing. That and it is either all my fault or all my glory. I would love to race more with crew it just seems like so much work to get them and then many seem to bail the night before if conditions aren't just right. It seems to be different for the captains that have that $200K+ boat. Scott Cal29 Hatikvah --- On Wed, 5/23/12, Fin Beven <fi… [at] msn.com> wrote: >From: Fin Beven <fi… [at] msn.com> >Subject: [Cal_Boats] Charlie Husar. >To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com >Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 6:26 PM > > > >Read about Charlie: > >http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/news/12/0511/ >----- Original Message ----- >>From: Husar, Charlie [USA] (ASE) >>To: CAL Yahoo (Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com) >>Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:00 AM >>Subject: [Cal_Boats] April Fool or... >> >>

YOU da Man! Glad to hear you were able to negotiate a few MGD's into the article..... nice! *´¨) ¸.· ´¸.·*´¨) ¸.·**¨) (¸.·´ (¸.·' ( ..........-_/) [cid:image005.png@01CBF93B.85770E70] Timm Lessley From: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com [mailto:Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Husar, Charlie [USA] (ASE) Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 8:37 PM To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Cal_Boats] Charlie Husar. Aww, shucks, Folks. Kind of a mix between flattering and embarrassing. Thanks for the kind words. Take Care Charlie From: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com [mailto:Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Doug Johnson Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:50 PM To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Charlie Husar. Great article! Inspirational! Doug Cal 29--Noregreta San Francisco Bay On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Fin Beven <fi… [at] msn.com<mailto:fi… [at] msn.com>> wrote: Read about Charlie: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/news/12/0511/ From: Husar, Charlie [USA] (ASE)<mailto:hu… [at] bah.com> To: CAL Yahoo (Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com)<mailto:Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com)> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:00 AM Subject: [Cal_Boats] April Fool or...

Thanks Jerry. I will look into those resources. I have always relied on friends and friends of friends. So far that hasn't made enough contacts to keep a large enough pool. Scott Cal29 Hatikvah --- On Thu, 5/24/12, Gerald Sobel <so… [at] yahoo.com> wrote: From: Gerald Sobel <so… [at] yahoo.com> Subject: [Cal_Boats] Finding crew, was: Charlie Husar. To: "Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com" <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> Date: Thursday, May 24, 2012, 9:19 AM Scott, Finding Crew is a good subject for discussion. There are various sailing websites (Is sailing anarchy one of them?) and yacht clubs have bulletin boards, and non landed sailing clubs. In San Francisco Latitude 38 has meet new crew/ owner parties a couple of times a year. Here in Marina del Rey they used to have a freebee magazine with a crew available/crew wanted classified listing. I've also seen listings on Craigs List in the boats for sale/sailboats for sale list. Jerry From: scott cyphers <sc… [at] sbcglobal.net> To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 7:53 AM Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Charlie Husar. It is a great article. I found it really hard to find crew over the years with a Cal20 and now a Cal29. That is the biggest resason I went to Single Handed racing. That and it is either all my fault or all my glory. I would love to race more with crew it just seems like so much work to get them and then many seem to bail the night before if conditions aren't just right. It seems to be different for the captains that have that $200K+ boat. Scott Cal29 Hatikvah --- On Wed, 5/23/12, Fin Beven <fi… [at] msn.com> wrote: From: Fin Beven <fi… [at] msn.com> Subject: [Cal_Boats] Charlie Husar. To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 6:26 PM Read about Charlie: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/news/12/0511/ From: Husar, Charlie [USA] (ASE) To: CAL Yahoo (Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com) Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:00 AM Subject: [Cal_Boats] April Fool or...

On the 29, we had a core crew of 4 which was enough to get the job done.However, there are always days that one or more core can not make it. So, Stan would always invite anyone capable of crewing, whether they were hanging around the marina, working on his house, met while playing tennis etc. Always new faces. Some just wanted a free boat ride (Mr. Toads Wild Ride) while others came back and raced more regularly. Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: scott cyphers To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:54 AM Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Finding crew, was: Charlie Husar. Thanks Jerry. I will look into those resources. I have always relied on friends and friends of friends. So far that hasn't made enough contacts to keep a large enough pool. Scott Cal29 Hatikvah --- On Thu, 5/24/12, Gerald Sobel <so… [at] yahoo.com> wrote: From: Gerald Sobel <so… [at] yahoo.com> Subject: [Cal_Boats] Finding crew, was: Charlie Husar. To: "Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com" <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> Date: Thursday, May 24, 2012, 9:19 AM Scott, Finding Crew is a good subject for discussion. There are various sailing websites (Is sailing anarchy one of them?) and yacht clubs have bulletin boards, and non landed sailing clubs. In San Francisco Latitude 38 has meet new crew/ owner parties a couple of times a year. Here in Marina del Rey they used to have a freebee magazine with a crew available/crew wanted classified listing. I've also seen listings on Craigs List in the boats for sale/sailboats for sale list. Jerry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: scott cyphers <sc… [at] sbcglobal.net> To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 7:53 AM Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Charlie Husar. It is a great article. I found it really hard to find crew over the years with a Cal20 and now a Cal29. That is the biggest resason I went to Single Handed racing. That and it is either all my fault or all my glory. I would love to race more with crew it just seems like so much work to get them and then many seem to bail the night before if conditions aren't just right. It seems to be different for the captains that have that $200K+ boat. Scott Cal29 Hatikvah --- On Wed, 5/23/12, Fin Beven <fi… [at] msn.com> wrote: From: Fin Beven <fi… [at] msn.com> Subject: [Cal_Boats] Charlie Husar. To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 6:26 PM Read about Charlie: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/news/12/0511/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Husar, Charlie [USA] (ASE) To: CAL Yahoo (Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com) Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:00 AM Subject: [Cal_Boats] April Fool or... __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 7165 (20120524) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 7165 (20120524) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com

On 5/23/2012 9:26 PM, Fin Beven wrote: > > Read about Charlie: > http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/news/12/0511/ > Nice article, although I do take offense that our old raised-deck Cals aren't handsome vessels. Generosity with knowledge is one of the finest attributes one can have, in my book. Chris Campbell

On 5/24/2012 1:05 AM, Gerald Sobel wrote: > You don't have to spend a fortune to have just as much fun out in the > water as the big spenders with their latest, hotest designs. In fact, > I think the older boats are more sea kindly and therefore, more > pleasant to sail. After one afternoon doing the 'up and over, down and > up and over'-the waves in a Santana 30-30 I could hardly wait to get > back on my Cal 24 with its smoother, Cadillac like ride. This is exactly the point that Ted Brewer made in his design articles for /Good Old Boat /magazine. His theory that a bit of displacement and the more traditional hull form can be much more kindly to the boat's crew in a seaway. Chris Campbell > > Visit Your Group > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cal_Boats;_ylc=X3oDMTJmYWgxNmtqBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE2NDg1Njk1BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2NTc5MgRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzEzMzc4MzU5MjY-> > > Yahoo! Groups > <http://groups.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTJldjAxOGdnBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzE2NDg1Njk1BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2NTc5MgRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTMzNzgzNTkyNg--> > > Switch to: Text-Only > <mailto:Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com?subject=Change%20Delivery%20Format:%20Traditional>, > Daily Digest > <mailto:Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com?subject=Email%20Delivery:%20Digest> > . Unsubscribe > <mailto:Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com?subject=Unsubscribe> . > Terms of Use <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> > . > >

Our good old boats are relaxing most of the time. When not caught in a storm. And when you are storming it, you know that you can make it back. The fast planing hulls are incredibly fast and exciting, but physically fatiguing to operate. And like any high speed sport the risk of injury to oneself and the boat is proportionately higher. I have sailed mono hulls at 20+knots skipping across the wave crests. I have to admit, there is nothing like it and if the opportunity presents itself again, I will be the first one at the dock! But safe and relaxing it is not. I come back bruised, cut, and strained for days. There is nothing like the feeling of a Cal of any size punching through a white cap ten miles off shore. You know you have the right boat as I do when on another boat you long for your Cal. Mark From: Chris Campbell To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 6:28 PM Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Charlie Husar. On 5/24/2012 1:05 AM, Gerald Sobel wrote: You don't have to spend a fortune to have just as much fun out in the water as the big spenders with their latest, hotest designs. In fact, I think the older boats are more sea kindly and therefore, more pleasant to sail. After one afternoon doing the 'up and over, down and up and over'-the waves in a Santana 30-30 I could hardly wait to get back on my Cal 24 with its smoother, Cadillac like ride. This is exactly the point that Ted Brewer made in his design articles for Good Old Boat magazine. His theory that a bit of displacement and the more traditional hull form can be much more kindly to the boat's crew in a seaway. Chris Campbell Visit Your Group Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest . Unsubscribe . Terms of Use . __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 7165 (20120524) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 7165 (20120524) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com

Thankyou, Charlie To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com From: cc… [at] lsnm.org Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 21:23:04 -0400 Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Charlie Husar. On 5/23/2012 9:26 PM, Fin Beven wrote: Read about Charlie: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/news/12/0511/ Nice article, although I do take offense that our old raised-deck Cals aren't handsome vessels. Generosity with knowledge is one of the finest attributes one can have, in my book. Chris Campbell

One thing I hadn't really considered was how much more crew I'd need to sail/race our Cal 39 after having had a CS 30. When we bought it nothing was lead aft and the main trimmer could only trim the main sheet from the cockpit, not the outhaul or the vang. There was no downhaul or topping lift lead aft, all halyards were at the mast. All winches are non self tailing, no roller furler, no adjustable car leads so it took a minimum of two people to do just about everything. I've since rectified most of those issues but still need ST winches and a furler to make it easier for my wife and I to cruise by ourselves. On the CS 30 we could literally race in the spinnaker class with 3 people in lighter air. With the Cal we need a min of 5 people who know what they are doing to race spinnaker and 7 is better. We are allowed a max of 11 . . . like that'd ever happen. Yesterday was the first time I've had an all guy crew of 4 guys for a non spin beer can race. As luck would have it it was a light air race and the muscle power that my female crew lacks wasn't a factor. My female crew are all co-workers of my wife and my male crew were other boat owners and a nephew of one of the boat owners. We have to keep a big list of people to call upon because until we get them hooked on sailing our races are not high on their priority list. One thing we do is email a race schedule of all the races we intend to do at the beginning of the year so they can make whatever arrangements they need to with work, family etc. In this schedule we provide boat times, deliveries required, and all pertinent data to help them make their decision. Paul Adventure Kwest Cal 39 From: Mark Alan Stahnke (MAS Consulting) <ma… [at] cox.net> To: Cal_Boats <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thu, May 24, 2012 5:29 pm Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Finding crew, was: Charlie Husar.  On the 29, we had a core crew of 4 which was enough to get the job done.However, there are always days that one or more core can not make it. So, Stan would always invite anyone capable of crewing, whether they were hanging around the marina, working on his house, met while playing tennis etc. Always new faces. Some just wanted a free boat ride (Mr. Toads Wild Ride) while others came back and raced more regularly. Mark From: scott cyphers To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:54 AM Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Finding crew, was: Charlie Husar. Thanks Jerry. I will look into those resources. I have always relied on friends and friends of friends. So far that hasn't made enough contacts to keep a large enough pool. Scott Cal29 Hatikvah --- On Thu, 5/24/12, Gerald Sobel <so… [at] yahoo.com> wrote: From: Gerald Sobel <so… [at] yahoo.com> Subject: [Cal_Boats] Finding crew, was: Charlie Husar. To: "Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com" <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> Date: Thursday, May 24, 2012, 9:19 AM Scott, Finding Crew is a good subject for discussion. There are various sailing websites (Is sailing anarchy one of them?) and yacht clubs have bulletin boards, and non landed sailing clubs. In San Francisco Latitude 38 has meet new crew/ owner parties a couple of times a year. Here in Marina del Rey they used to have a freebee magazine with a crew available/crew wanted classified listing. I've also seen listings on Craigs List in the boats for sale/sailboats for sale list. Jerry From: scott cyphers <sc… [at] sbcglobal.net> To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 7:53 AM Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Charlie Husar. It is a great article. I found it really hard to find crew over the years with a Cal20 and now a Cal29. That is the biggest resason I went to Single Handed racing. That and it is either all my fault or all my glory. I would love to race more with crew it just seems like so much work to get them and then many seem to bail the night before if conditions aren't just right. It seems to be different for the captains that have that $200K+ boat. Scott Cal29 Hatikvah --- On Wed, 5/23/12, Fin Beven <fi… [at] msn.com> wrote: From: Fin Beven <fi… [at] msn.com> Subject: [Cal_Boats] Charlie Husar. To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 6:26 PM Read about Charlie: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/news/12/0511/ From: Husar, Charlie [USA] (ASE) To: CAL Yahoo (Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com) Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:00 AM Subject: [Cal_Boats] April Fool or... __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 7165 (20120524) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 7165 (20120524) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com

On 5/24/2012 11:40 PM, Mark Alan Stahnke (MAS Consulting) wrote: > > Our good old boats are relaxing most of the time. When not caught in a > storm. And when you are storming it, you know that you can make it > back. The fast planing hulls are incredibly fast and exciting, > but physically fatiguing to operate. And like any high speed sport the > risk of injury to oneself and the boat is proportionately higher. I > have sailed mono hulls at 20+knots skipping across the wave crests. I > have to admit, there is nothing like it and if the opportunity > presents itself again, I will be the first one at the dock! But safe > and relaxing it is not. I come back bruised, cut, and strained for > days. There is nothing like the feeling of a Cal of any size punching > through a white cap ten miles off shore. You know you have the right > boat as I do when on another boat you long for your Cal. And to think that the Cal 40 was once regarded as unsafe for anything outside sheltered waters.... a dangerous lightweight with that exposed rudder. Chris Campbell

All, We returned home last Thursday at midnight from the Bahamas. It was a really fun time partying and racing Regatta Time In Abaco. Magic, the smallest and highest PHRF rated boat in the class, did not compete well. 1st place overall went to a J-120, although we did outsail an Oceanis 381 and a Pearson 26 (PHRF 168). We ended up with a nice bottle of coconut rum though. :) The crossing to the Bahamas was good. After motoring six hours, we were finally able to go full sail on our way to West End on Grand Bahama. Weather from tropical depression Debbie kept us there at the marina for two days. The leg to Great Sayle Cay was good, but the following morning, we had to motorsail with a reef in the main to the anchorage at Crab Cay. With 30+ kts we replaced the 135 Genoa with our storm jib and reefed main to make way for the Bluff House marina on Green Turtle Cay. Weather for the remainder of our stay in the Abacos was excellent (warm & humid of course). Winds for racing ranged from ~5 kts to 15 kts. We sailed with our 135 & 155 Genoas, and used both our asymmetrical and symmetrical spinnakers. With five races, ten parties, and lay days moving from location to location, we had a full schedule. My wife had to fly home on the 8th from Marsh Harbor, as she was out of vacation time. A friend of mine and I brought Magic home. It took us five days.... some longer than others. We attempted to cross back to Florida on July 11th, but had to turn back to the marina after 13 miles out due to ugly weather. We look forward to our next visit there in 2014. --Michael--

Hello All, The fuel pickup clogging on my Cal 34. It will clear for a short time after using compressed air to backwash. I have flushed the tank twice and don't see a significant amount of debris. Anyone know what the pickup looks like? Is there a screen on it? From what I can tell, it looks impossible to remove with the tank in the boat? Ted Cal 34 Hull #207 .