RE: [Cal_Boats] Cal 40 Wins Bermuda Race

What's this "venerable" crap? Cheers Charlie From: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com [mailto:Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Alfred Poor Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 9:15 AM To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Subject: [Cal_Boats] Cal 40 Wins Bermuda Race

Starting with Chas and Alfred - Hehehe. Isn't it neat that these "venerable" old boats can still do this? I spoke with Peter several times right after he got the boat to help him make decisions about the beam (replace it and don't try anything screwy with carbon fiber). He is a very nice guy and deserves this, because he busted his ass to rebuild that boat into something wonderful. But even more, we should all realize that it takes a great team to make this happen. It's nice to have a good boat, but it still takes that special magic of people. Party time for the people of the Cal 40 fleet!!! I'd like to start by mentioning that Wendy Siegal should be invited to the very next Cal 40 party! These are indeed amazing boats, but they attract equally amazing people. And so do all the Cals from 20 to 48. \Rog Cal 29+ #1 Swiss Navy Cal 2-30 #77 St. Lori's Comet

When did he get it ? I've seen that name in older lists. The Gulf Stream can humble the rich guys. Mike Kennedy Conquest Cal 40 #96 On Jun 22, 2006, at 9:02 PM, Rog Jones wrote: > > Starting with Chas and Alfred – > > > > Hehehe. Isn’t it neat that these “venerable” old boats can still do > this? I spoke with Peter several times right after he got the boat > to help him make decisions about the beam (replace it and don’t try > anything screwy with carbon fiber). He is a very nice guy and > deserves this, because he busted his ass to rebuild that boat into > something wonderful. But even more, we should all realize that it > takes a great team to make this happen. It’s nice to have a good > boat, but it still takes that special magic of people. > > > > Party time for the people of the Cal 40 fleet!!! I’d like to start > by mentioning that Wendy Siegal should be invited to the very next > Cal 40 party! These are indeed amazing boats, but they attract > equally amazing people. And so do all the Cals from 20 to 48. > > > > \Rog > > > > Cal 29+ #1 > > Swiss Navy > > > > Cal 2-30 #77 > > St. Lori's Comet > > > > >

Mike - You may be right. I don't know that he got the boat recently. We had many nice phone conversations about three years ago. He is just a nice guy and I think he did what I suggested - replace the beam with stainless. Anyway, he was doing this for his kids - sound familiar? Best thoughts, Mike. \Rog Cal 29+ #1 Swiss Navy Cal 2-30 #77 St. Lori's Comet _____ From: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com [mailto:Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Michael Kennedy Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 9:24 PM To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Cal 40 Wins Bermuda Race (all armchair quarterbacks) When did he get it ? I've seen that name in older lists. The Gulf Stream can humble the rich guys. Mike Kennedy Conquest Cal 40 #96 On Jun 22, 2006, at 9:02 PM, Rog Jones wrote: Starting with Chas and Alfred - Hehehe. Isn't it neat that these "venerable" old boats can still do this? I spoke with Peter several times right after he got the boat to help him make decisions about the beam (replace it and don't try anything screwy with carbon fiber). He is a very nice guy and deserves this, because he busted his ass to rebuild that boat into something wonderful. But even more, we should all realize that it takes a great team to make this happen. It's nice to have a good boat, but it still takes that special magic of people. Party time for the people of the Cal 40 fleet!!! I'd like to start by mentioning that Wendy Siegal should be invited to the very next Cal 40 party! These are indeed amazing boats, but they attract equally amazing people. And so do all the Cals from 20 to 48. \Rog Cal 29+ #1 Swiss Navy Cal 2-30 #77 St. Lori's Comet

Rog, One of our 34's in the area Shady Lady captained and owned by Steve Honour has done well with her. He used to race true cruiser with his 170 head sail and clean everyone's clock including mine. I guess a one two finish of cal 34's is still good. Well the phrf gods decided that his ding wasn't enough so they changed the rule for true cruisers to not allow the big head sail. Next Steve decided to enter the spinnaker class mainly the Naples to Key West race. They have pretty deep pockets over in Naples and Steve shows up in a 34. Shady Lady is very functional and well maintained but the old girl is showing her age a little. Steve pretty much destroys the competition (3 years now I think) racing against Farr 40's and the like. These guys are spending more on sails that he did on his entire boat. My hats off to you my friend. I did 2 Clearwater to Key West races with Steve and 1 against him before I moved south captaining for the Boy Scouts. I miss the racing and the cold brewsky's post race. See you on the water. Rich and Carol ex 34 owners.

I've had the same kind of butt-kicking in my life, too, Rich. Used to race Cal 2-30's as part of a class in Hawaii in and around a place called Keehi Lagoon, before Honolulu International Airport's new runway cut across about half of the lagoon. There was a guy by the name of Stu Cowan who had a 2-30 named "Chutzpah" with a Star of David on the spinnaker. A couple of years later, in 1973 and 1975 he won back-to-back Transpacs in another Chutzpah, a 35-footer designed by Bill Lee, who later made himself famous with Ragtime and then again with the Santa Cruz 50s. Well, anyway, it seemed that every time I'd look aft (I worked the foredeck, then) on one of those long, fast, trade-wind spinnaker runs back in the day on Keehi Lagoon, there would be that damned Star of David spinnaker coming on like a freight train. And the next thing you knew, they'd blow by everybody in the class and we never would catch up again. It was just great driving and great teamwork by him and his crew. Infuriating and humiliating, but wonderful to watch. I don't know if Stu is even alive anymore, but every time I see a 2-30 with a chute up, I think of that Star of David and the ass-kickings we received. \Rog Cal 29+ #1 Swiss Navy Cal 2-30 #77 St. Lori's Comet

On Jun 23, 2006, at 8:08 AM, Rog Jones wrote: > > I’ve had the same kind of butt-kicking in my life, too, Rich. > > > > Used to race Cal 2-30’s as part of a class in Hawaii in and around > a place called Keehi Lagoon, before Honolulu International > Airport’s new runway cut across about half of the lagoon. There was > a guy by the name of Stu Cowan who had a 2-30 named “Chutzpah” with > a Star of David on the spinnaker. A couple of years later, in 1973 > and 1975 he won back-to-back Transpacs in another Chutzpah, a 35- > footer designed by Bill Lee, who later made himself famous with > Ragtime Ragtime was designed in New Zealand by a guy named Spencer. It was raced there as Infidel and brought to California by John Hall who had raced a Columbia 50 whose name I forget. He lost interest and had it for sale for $19,000 in about 1970. I talked to my next door neighbor, with whom I had done a couple of Ensenada races, about buying it. Instead, 6 guys from Long Beach YC bought it as a syndicate and I saw it at Catalina not long after as they sailed it over on a shakedown cruise. That must have been 1971. They entered a Mexican race the next fall, probably La Paz, which was in odd years, and when the wind came up off Dana Point, stuff started coming out of the deck, like winches. They had to drop out and pulled into Dana Point Harbor to do some repairs and wait for the wind to drop. The draft was so deep, they couldn't go beyond the harbormaster's office. They rebuilt a lot of it, putting far more money into it than I could ever have done, and went to Honolulu in 1973. The rest is history, as they say. They might have taken it in another Mexican race the winter of 72-73 but I can't recall. Lee might well have gotten the idea for Merlin from it as he had not built anything bigger than the 36 foot Witchcraft. Mike Kennedy Conquest Cal 40 # 96

Sorry, Mike, I meant Merlin; not Ragtime. My mistake. \Rog _____ From: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com [mailto:Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Michael Kennedy Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 9:06 AM To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Skippers and Crews (Richard B) (Was RE: [Cal_Boats] Cal 40 Wins (Rog/ Shady Lady)) On Jun 23, 2006, at 8:08 AM, Rog Jones wrote: I've had the same kind of butt-kicking in my life, too, Rich. Used to race Cal 2-30's as part of a class in Hawaii in and around a place called Keehi Lagoon, before Honolulu International Airport's new runway cut across about half of the lagoon. There was a guy by the name of Stu Cowan who had a 2-30 named "Chutzpah" with a Star of David on the spinnaker. A couple of years later, in 1973 and 1975 he won back-to-back Transpacs in another Chutzpah, a 35-footer designed by Bill Lee, who later made himself famous with Ragtime Ragtime was designed in New Zealand by a guy named Spencer. It was raced there as Infidel and brought to California by John Hall who had raced a Columbia 50 whose name I forget. He lost interest and had it for sale for $19,000 in about 1970. I talked to my next door neighbor, with whom I had done a couple of Ensenada races, about buying it. Instead, 6 guys from Long Beach YC bought it as a syndicate and I saw it at Catalina not long after as they sailed it over on a shakedown cruise. That must have been 1971. They entered a Mexican race the next fall, probably La Paz, which was in odd years, and when the wind came up off Dana Point, stuff started coming out of the deck, like winches. They had to drop out and pulled into Dana Point Harbor to do some repairs and wait for the wind to drop. The draft was so deep, they couldn't go beyond the harbormaster's office. They rebuilt a lot of it, putting far more money into it than I could ever have done, and went to Honolulu in 1973. The rest is history, as they say. They might have taken it in another Mexican race the winter of 72-73 but I can't recall. Lee might well have gotten the idea for Merlin from it as he had not built anything bigger than the 36 foot Witchcraft. Mike Kennedy Conquest Cal 40 # 96

--- In Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com, "Rog Jones" <rog@...> wrote: > > Sorry, Mike, I meant Merlin; not Ragtime. I saw Merlin at the Transpac YC dinner this spring, as well as in Honolulu last summer. I asked the owner, who was selling it, why the goofy high deckhouse was added. Apparently, an owner who was a tall Texan added it. It looks odd. Ragtime was there too as well as Westward. Willard's kids are keeping Westward up beautifully. I love the story of their rescue in the 1981 Transpac. I think somebody told the story here recently so I won't repeat it. I almost bought the Santa Cruz 50 hull # 1, which later became Chasch Mer. It was in Santa CRuz in that old building Bill had as a shop. I went up to look at it and there was the bow sticking out. I got divorced instead. Sailing is cheaper. Mike Kennedy Conquest Cal 40 # 96 > > > > My mistake. > > > > \Rog >