brerrabbit Posted April 29, 2013 Report Share Posted April 29, 2013 April 20 Start just south of the bridge to Key Biscayne ...8 AM Route all set up in my Garmin GPS with 22 waypoints Wind DIRECTLY from the south, uhh the way we must go. Rules are weird in this race, the larger boats can motor south through the several very narrow channels A third of the way we are thinking time to scrub the trip.....a 42.5 mile beat to windward. Then the wind gets fluky, my inexperienced first mate Vlad says, "What's this" I look behind...big storm in Hollywood Florida 25 miles north. Pretty soon we are making a wake like a motorboat, bildgeboards up, rudder set to kick up if we hit ground, cold wind directly form the North where the storm is.. Flying south, seeing the bottom right below us. I know it is mid tide and rising, I know these waters. No races scrubbing here! 3/4 of the way there; the wind decided, well, to not be there, at ALL. Now we are doing the Sargasso sea thing, thinking about laso-ing one of the Card Sound mosquitoes....they are BIG. Battery dead on the GPS. Vlad says, "Go find the wind!"...huh. We wait, eat, tell some stories, talk the the third passenger, by parrot. And wait.... Till little breeze takes us very slowly the rest of the way, finding the green flasher at the north end of Jewfish creek with chart and binoculars. I am thinking, I gettin pretty old, I can not see squat in the darkiness. Through the creek to dock-age at 1:15 AM Sunday. Everyone has partied and gone to bed Call a cab, are are none available, so they send a limo for the same price Here we come Tiki Suite ------------------------------- But the next morning, as the big guys headed back for Miami, they saw a pretty tiny cat ketch with no motor ....those guys are brave, or stupid or both Thanks BandB Donald Crampton, M.D. Skipper and builder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordy Hill Posted April 29, 2013 Report Share Posted April 29, 2013 Thanks for the report. Beautiful boat! This was just a warm-up for the Everglades Challange, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brerrabbit Posted April 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 I originally purchased the plans for EC22 Then got real about expenses. Who knows about next year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale Niemann Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 Please show us more photos of your beautiful boat. Thanks, dale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Dunsworth Posted May 1, 2013 Report Share Posted May 1, 2013 Please more pic's of the boat, I love most of Grahams designs but the lapwing has that special look. I have often wondered what a Belhaven would look like built in laps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brerrabbit Posted May 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2013 If the weather is good this afternoon, I will be taking lots of pics this afternoon. Stay tuned! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brerrabbit Posted May 4, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2013 Steady rain in Miami ....but pic WILL come Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brerrabbit Posted May 5, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2013 YUP...some pics! YUP...some pics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hokeyhydro Posted May 5, 2013 Report Share Posted May 5, 2013 VERY PRETTY! questions: Do you have an option to reef those sleeve luff sails? Are those short belying pins in the disk at the mast bases? It appears you have two boards - bilge boards? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brerrabbit Posted May 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2013 YUP bilge boards, leeward one down when going to windward. I wanted people room in the forward area Old fashioned belaying pins on masts. My version of reefing is a third mast station, according to Grahams design. You can see the "hole" in the forward thwart in the pics. I have not sailed here yet with the main-in extra position. I just received a Tohatsu 3.5 HP 4 stroke and plan a motorized dinghy configuration option, leaving home the rudder and masts I will post some pics of that setup when I finish mounting plates on the inner transom. I plan a 40 pound sandbag up front for this config.. Hope the coast guard does not ask about flotation....answer plenty of plastic "toys-are-us" colored balls in quarters and forward behind forward bulkhead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwbaginski Posted May 8, 2013 Report Share Posted May 8, 2013 nice job! my question is on the mizzen staysail fixing position: looks lik you placed it on the bow deck at the centerline , while usual (?) way is to have to positions on both sides of the bow deck, and to change them while tacking (?). At least this is my case, . Well, is it just Lapwing solution or your improvement? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brerrabbit Posted May 9, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2013 That is not a Lapwing thing. It is me prototyping with this boat to see what works best. You may have it right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwbaginski Posted May 12, 2013 Report Share Posted May 12, 2013 Thank you. Please share your observations with us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brerrabbit Posted May 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2013 will do, as we take her places Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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