The Weather out West

Looks pretty rugged out West for tonight. The Weather Chanel makes it look pretty nasty. Hope everybody out there comes out OK. Take Care Charlie

I'm so far West, I'm in the Far East, Singapore. The wife hooked up at the local yacht club, and is racing the Monsoon Cup on a J-24. Sad to report it is only @ 82 degrees here sunny, humid, with light winds. On the good side, they're currently in first place. Can hardly wait to get home and get our old 9.2 Freewind ready for the Pacific Cup... is just a few months. I believe we have the honor of being the fleet turd, the slowest boat in the race... hope we have wind this year, otherwise it will be very ugly! Cheers, from tomorrow. dEmO From: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com [mailto:Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Husar, Charlie [USA] Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 1:19 PM To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Subject: [Cal_Boats] The Weather out West Looks pretty rugged out West for tonight. The Weather Chanel makes it look pretty nasty. Hope everybody out there comes out OK. Take Care Charlie

Watch out for the blowfish sushi, Timm. Understand it can have mild, but obvious, side effects. Cheers Charlie From: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com [mailto:Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of ti… [at] ch2m.com Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 12:24 AM To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Cal_Boats] The Weather out West I'm so far West, I'm in the Far East, Singapore. The wife hooked up at the local yacht club, and is racing the Monsoon Cup on a J-24. Sad to report it is only @ 82 degrees here sunny, humid, with light winds. On the good side, they're currently in first place. Can hardly wait to get home and get our old 9.2 Freewind ready for the Pacific Cup... is just a few months. I believe we have the honor of being the fleet turd, the slowest boat in the race... hope we have wind this year, otherwise it will be very ugly! Cheers, from tomorrow. dEmO From: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com [mailto:Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Husar, Charlie [USA] Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 1:19 PM To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Subject: [Cal_Boats] The Weather out West Looks pretty rugged out West for tonight. The Weather Chanel makes it look pretty nasty. Hope everybody out there comes out OK. Take Care Charlie

Trish and I was suppose to go to the islands but the weather looked really bad so we had to cancel our trip. Forecast for our area predicted rain, winds to 35 kts. Swell from the SW 6-10 ft. Saturday Feb 23, was race number 3 in the spring series in the Ventura Ca. area. I am normally crew on the Olson 30 boats but since we cancelled our trip to islands at the last moment, I got a call from someone who needed crew on a J-24. Why not? We motored out of Channel Islands Harbor to the start line. The wind just started to come up prior to our start. I was able to convince the skipper we needed to start with the jib instead of the genoa. The wind was above 10 kts all ready and increasing. We set up the jib and the gun went off for our class. The crew consisted of a 15 year old on the bow. Someone who had never raced before, who was trying to find out if racing was her thing or not, myself and the skipper. She has a C&C 40 and this brand new to her J-24. The gun goes off for our start and the block blows up on the port side. Our jib is flailing about till I sheet it in, we tack for the start line and we sail on. We sail to weather and the wind keeps pipping up. We tighten everything down and the wind increased to 28 kts. The seas rose to 4-5 ft from the south. We are passing boats and leaving them behind. We watched as the A class rounded the Paltform and set the chutes and off they went. I watched the Olson 30 I normally sail on head off down wind with chute up and plowing thru the green water. After we rounded Oil Platform Gina, we head back to Ventura. The boat heals and the new Girl is hanging from the life lines yelling, help me! The boat is healed over and she is hanging from one side to the next. I have her by the back of her bibs as the skipper levels things out. I look up to see whats happening. The kid on the bow is shaking violantly. I thought he freaked out but he was just freezing. I make him go below and change clothes. He was soaked. We started back to Ventura. The wind was on our starboard quarter and we were surfing 11 kts. It didn't take long to catch the other boats. The whole rig took a good shaking and the hanks on the head sail came undone. The kid was out of it. So I go the foredeck. Drop the head sail and re-hank it on and off we go. Once again we get another good shaking and I have to drop the sail again and re-hank the sail on again. After all in all. We had the sail come undone twice and we broke 2 blocks. Don't ask me how but we got 2nd place. Hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable weekend. Randy CAL 2-29 Out Patient Channel Islands Ca. "Husar, Charlie [USA]" <hu… [at] bah.com> wrote: Looks pretty rugged out West for tonight. The Weather Chanel makes it look pretty nasty. Hope everybody out there comes out OK. Take Care Charlie --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.