Doug Cameron

Warren Richey has made his first feature length film about the Everglades Challenge (It's an hour and a half long). Steve Parks and I did the soundtrack. Goes great with my article about the 2013 EC in this month's issue of Small Craft Advisor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6tLgJX9niM

Alan and Paul finished in just a few minutes over two days - a new monohull record. Phil was running on fumes and got a few hours of sleep in Flamingo so he could cross Florida Bay in daylight. He was only 20 minutes behind Alan and Paul, and Alan said it was only because oars are faster than yulohs. Congratulations to Alan and Paul for a fantastic run!

As we move into day 2, Alan and Paul Stewart's CS 20 and Phil Garland's beautifully built and high-tech CS 17 (carbon fiber masts, wishbone booms, square-topped high roach sails) are battling for first. The many multi-hulls took off in the building norfherlies at a pace that even planing mono hulls cannot match. Now, after 26 hours, two Core Sounds are battling for first. Not since Graham raced the Norseboat have monohulls been in the lead! Check it out at watertribe.com and hit the mapper link.

Interested

Sounds good. What's the weather like in April over there?

I have to teach this weekend, but I can get over there Nov 3. If Graham can have my mast section and I can see the Mk 2, it will be worth the drive.

Thanks, Chick.

Thanks for the answers. I have to teach a Wilderness Medicine course in Nashville that weekend, but I need to get to one of those messabouts. Doug

I have been looking and Graham's drawings and thinking about this boat a lot. Are you putting handrails on top of the cabin for going forward (to anchor, reef sail, lower mast for a bridge, attach tack of staysail)? I would be interested to hear about how well you are able to carry out these tasks single-handed. This has gotten me all excited about another build!

Sorry to be so late with this, but here are some pictures of what I did on my boat: http://capt-doug.blogspot.com/2012/02/completed-boat-work-on-core-sound-20.html

Welcome aboard Dave!

Bridges would say they were opening and we would commit, only to have to abort at the last minute. On day one we had trouble with wind and tide on the nose, and the opening bridges tended to focus both.

I thought I should let you folks know about our knockdown and dismasting in the 2012 Everglades Challenge. We were having a fast run. We were leading the monohulls by 14 hours with only three multihulls in front of us. We had sailed fast on a broad reach all night (often planing) in 15-20 kts of wind and small seas (because of the protection of the shore). At dawn I listened to the NOAA weather forecast on the VHF. They called for gale force winds (30-35 kts with gusts over 40). We pulled into the lee of the crescent beach between Northwest Cape and Middle Cape of Cape Sable to reef in anticipation of the coming gale. We hove to and both of us went onto the foredeck to reef. While we were up there, the first winds of the gale arrived, about 40 kts at about 90 degrees from the old winds. We were immediately over with the broad bottom exposed to the 30 + winds. The winds drove the main mast into the shallow, sandy bottom. We unsheeted the mizzen, climbed onto the centerboard and righted her. After bailing her out and pulling all of the spars, sails, and rigging aboard, we moved the mizzen into the middle step and sailed back into the beach to sort out stuff and sorted stuff out. The whole story of our race is at http://capt-doug.blogspot.com/ Talking with Graham, we see that the biggest mistake was to move everyone to the front deck, lifting the stern out of the water and making the craft very tippy. The shallow water contributed to the dismasting (when the mast is pushed by wind, the boat heels long before the limits of the strength of the mast is approached). Both Michael Collins and I feel that we were finally trusting the Core Sound 20 to take care of us in big seas and strong winds, and she did an excellent job. She was sailing fast and tacking through 90 degrees in 3-4 foot seas and 15-20 kt winds the first day and was flying downwind the other days. Our poor performance at draw bridges is the fault of our inexperience.

Richard Woods has three small tris in his stable, Jim Brown/John Marples have several new designs, the W17 by Michael Waters, the Mark Gumprecht has several tris, etc. Now Alan pops out of the shadows with the B&B F18 meets adventure trimaran. I'm looking for something that I'm calling solo+, which is a solo boat with the capacity of handling two for a daysail or a bunch of supplies for an EC like expedition. Thoughts? The hobies and Windriders and Weta are sorta close, but not really on the money. Jim Brown and John Marples stopped by the finish of the EC on a wooden trimaran designed by Brown and built at Wooden Boat School. They did not get to see Mosquito since she was not in yet.

The sail tack also allows full battens and roach. And with the reefing available on a track sail, there is never the need for the rodeo event of moving the mizzen to the forward position. The lines, led aft, are no problem, so that the only reason to go forward in worsening conditions off Ft. Myers is to move the tack point and to tie in the forward tie on the foot. On our 20 with two people, it is a quick maneuver.

I notice that Paul and Alan Stewart stow their oars under the side decks. Thats much more out of the way than my method using the top of the thwart. How do you stow oars and how do you attach them there?

I bought the Norseboat because I got a great price from an older man who found it too "sporty" for his use. I have used it for daysailing on fresh water except for the trip to Cedar Key shown in this picture (jib is the drifter rigged to the roller furler) http://www.flickr.co...in/photostream/ She is in good shape. Here is a closeup http://www.flickr.co...in/photostream/ I had planned to sell my Core Sound 20 (that I built), add a sliding seat to the Norseboat, and sail her in the WaterTribe Everglades Challenge. But my old Watertribe racing partner came out of retirement, so we will use the Core Sound. I just need more room in my boat shop. I hope to start work on a Core Sound 17 soon. More pictures at http://capt-doug.blogspot.com/2010/05/lake-harris-sail.html http://capt-doug.blogspot.com/2010/05/morde-lake-harris-picturesm.html http://capt-doug.blo...arris-sail.html. The hull and trailer are in very good condition. The sail number is 19. She has a full tarp cover. Apparently the first owner left her outside with the mooring cover and no cover on the main. The previous owner said that neither he nor the previous owner sailed her much. The previous owner replaced the main and bought all the camping covers. I was the first to use the drifter (the red and white sail in the picture in the ad). I keep her inside a garage. The previous owner used a 2 hp motor on the transom and did some reinforcing to make that happen. I have only rowed her when there was no wind. I was thinking of getting a sliding seat rowing set-up (available from Norseboat) and sailing her solo in the Everglades Challenge. I live in Sewanee, Tennessee (near I-24 between Nashville and Chattanooga). I'm asking $14,500 for her, including extra mast hoops, covers, camping cover and bimini, anchor with chain and rode, and boarding ladder. ________________________ Doug Cameron 931-598-0565 home 931-636-1928 cell

So, Gordy, how do you reef?

MM, the dodger was made with a Sailrite kit. On the front deck, it is in tracks. I can unsnap the dodger aft of the pivot and fold it down to access the front deck. It makes the ride upwind in waves drier, and one person can sleep under it while the other sails:

Here is the actual picture. The angle on the block was all wrong with this, so I have ordered swivel blocks. Alan's solution (as usual) is more elegant. snotter.jpg by Capt Doug, on Flickr

Here is the ladder I just added, using Paul Stewart's suggestion. I think it is a graelik. _DWC0479.jpg by Capt Doug, on Flickr

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Here is a (belated) picture of the boom bail attachment I made after mine failed in the 2010 Everglades Challenge. I used a piece of threaded stainless rod with nylon nuts on each end to secure the bail. Now the force is shear rather than trying to pull out threads in the mast. You can see the old holes in the mast behind the bail)

Michael Collins ("Greybeard") and I are in the 2012 EC with a Core Sound 20. It will be our 6th together and the third in the Core Sound. We carry two oars, a yuloh, and a long canoe paddle. We find that it is easier on long pulls to have one of us on each oar' In the North Carolina Challenge we got good use of the yuloh (pivoted in san oarlock on the transom) because that person could see ahead and steer. For checkpoint one, the yuloh and paddle were enough. I made some fairly simple cradles that fit in the mast sockets for trailering and for checkpoint one. There is a little sand beach on the right just before the first bridge going into checkpoint 2. We take down the masts there. As usual, Alan is spot on. He has always finished ahead of us ;-) Doug "Ridgerunner"

Yes, Par, I was talking about the two attachment piece with semi-circular opening.