Florida 300 Coverage

DamonLinkous wrote: On reflection, the guy giving me the Gulf Stream information was drunk. In fact he was later loudly run off the beach by one of the teams for annoying the sh_t out of them. 😆

oh, that musta been Coach! lulz

DamonLinkous wrote:
Ha! It's funny you picked that video, that boat is the oldest most patched together in the fleet. It's skipper Mark Ferber could buy anything he wants but he keeps patching that one for another Worrell/Tybee/Florida300 right before this race he sailed/carried it 1200 miles from St. Pete to Jacksonville on some kind of endurance run.

No I meant the Carbon N20

This Vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sc8mM8YpSk

MN3 wrote: [quote=DamonLinkous]
No I meant the Carbon N20

As someone on the beach said... Gelcoat is cheap. 😆

Come on over to Cocoa Beach and say hi today or Saturday morning for the last start to Daytona Beach.

Big party planned for after the finish at Daytona at the Ocean Deck right on the beach.

Didn't Sam just say it was upwards of 2k? (I can only imagine for that cost he was talking about a factory finish on a new race cat)

I don't care if it was free - I'm not driving my cat up a beach like that

DamonLinkous wrote: [quote=MN3][quote=DamonLinkous]
No I meant the Carbon N20

As someone on the beach said... Gelcoat is cheap. 😆

Wait, was it the drunk guy who said this too?

DamonLinkous wrote: [quote=MN3][quote=DamonLinkous]
No I meant the Carbon N20

As someone on the beach said... Gelcoat is cheap. 😆

MN3 wrote: Didn't Sam just say it was upwards of 2k? (I can only imagine for that cost he was talking about a factory finish on a new race cat)

I don't care if it was free - I'm not driving my cat up a beach like that

[quote=DamonLinkous][quote=MN3][quote=DamonLinkous]
No I meant the Carbon N20

As someone on the beach said... Gelcoat is cheap. 😆

Yes,

That was a for a factory finish on a race cat. I would be closer to $3k really, if you get a pro like Lars Guck or similar to do the work. I paid $700 to have a few spots on my existing race boat brought up to factory finish standard in my area. You can probably find someone to shoot gelcoat for less, maybe $1000, but add in the fairing work and it goes up quickly. This is why many of the F18 owners won't do this race. After seeing the beach landings (and the launches aren't much different), I see you've come to the same conclusion MN3.

The other thing that keeps some of us on the fence, well, myself especially after racing my old N20 in the Tybee 500, and ground crewing for the inaugural Florida 300, is simply the lack of organization and clear direction from the race committee and organizers. Moving the finish line so a boat gets a time after receiving substantial assistance (really more like was rescued), is pretty much B.S. This is akin to letting Mischa get away with going inside the exclusion zone around the, because he is a pro sailor and you wouldn't want to upset him, and disqualifying everyone else, when the rules specifically state that everyone must stay out of the exclusion zone or you will get DSQ'd for the whole race. Guess what, the race committee hasn't changed all that much since then.

I will say I am glad they switched to SCHRS, that was a good move and the right way to handle the handicap and differences between boats.

Look, I get everyone is doing their best, but with the supposed big money and all the hype given before the race, we get 10 youtube videos and like 2 stories on the Florida 300 page. After the race is done, the hype outside the small cat sailing community goes away. Time is of the essence if you want to promote the race! I get that editing footage is time consuming, I get that trying to run the race and manage the media is a lot to handle (thank you Daemon for doing both and giving us as much info as you have!), but if there is that much money involved on the sponsor side, their should be enough to hire a dedicated media dude (or chick). One other note, outside of a few select teams perhaps, none of the sailors are seeing those dollars. I get that running a race like this costs money, and those costs should be covered by race sponsor dollars first, but if there are leftovers (not saying there are), the sailors should see some of that. They have a lot of money invested in clothing, gear (GPS + PLB alone is a $1k investment easy), the boat, the spare parts needed to run a campaign like this, and the >$1k in hotels for the week. Sailing isn't a cheap sport, never has been, and I'm really glad there are several youth teams on the water (thank you Sonnenklar and Lohmeyer) to hopefully keep this going. I'm just saying if you want to attract international teams, lowering entry fees and improving the overall race management is needed to turn this into the East Coast equivalent of a Round Texel or any big French or Dutch Raid.

Edited by samc99us on May 20, 2016 - 02:15 PM.

On a perhaps more positive note, has anyone from the race contacted http://www.catsailingnews.com/ ? I'm sure they would love to publish some news!

My favorite part of the race was surfing down a wave and hitting the beach under spinnaker at the end of each leg. David's least favorite part of the race was re-doing the bottom when we got back home...

My favorite part of the race was surfing down a wave and hitting the beach under spinnaker at the end of each leg. David's least favorite part of the race was re-doing the bottom when we got back home...

My favorite part of the race was surfing down a wave and hitting the beach under spinnaker at the end of each leg. David's least favorite part of the race was re-doing the bottom when we got back home...

haha!

mikekrantz wrote: My favorite part of the race was surfing down a wave and hitting the beach under spinnaker at the end of each leg. David's least favorite part of the race was re-doing the bottom when we got back home...

http://sailinganarchy.com/ might be another good place to get some coverage from.....

samc99us wrote: On a perhaps more positive note, has anyone from the race contacted http://www.catsailingnews.com/ ? I'm sure they would love to publish some news!

mikekrantz wrote: My favorite part of the race was surfing down a wave and hitting the beach under spinnaker at the end of each leg. David's least favorite part of the race was re-doing the bottom when we got back home...

Style points count!

mikekrantz wrote: My favorite part of the race was surfing down a wave and hitting the beach under spinnaker at the end of each leg. David's least favorite part of the race was re-doing the bottom when we got back home...

What's worse?.... Tornado gaskets, ack

New story, video, and pictures.
http://florida300.com/florida-300-news

Watch these two videos of the first two arrivals. Key Sailing arrived in near flat calm and then Buoy 44 (wlrottge) arrived shortly later under building storm.
Key Sailing https://youtu.be/d7fgvlHxs1Q
Buoy 44 https://youtu.be/PZ-v8SukOig

That cloud! At least it cleared the tourists out of the finish line.

The Day 4 coverage is exactly what we'd been hoping to see. Thanks!

Today's weather:
SYNOPSIS FOR FLAGLER BEACH TO JUPITER INLET OUT 60 NM-
418 AM EDT SAT MAY 21 2016

.SYNOPSIS...WINDS WILL INCREASE OUT OF THE WEST THIS WEEKEND AHEAD
OF A FRONTAL TROUGH WHICH WILL PASS THROUGH THE REGION ON SUNDAY
NIGHT. THE MAIN MARINE CONCERN WILL CONTINUE TO BE SCATTERED
SHOWERS AND STORMS MOVING OFFSHORE BOTH AFTERNOONS THIS WEEKEND.
DRIER CONDITIONS WILL SPREAD SOUTH LATE SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

.GULF STREAM HAZARDS...NONE.

THE APPROXIMATE LOCATION OF THE WEST WALL OF THE GULF STREAM BASED
ON THE REAL TIME OCEAN FORECAST SYSTEM FROM THURSDAY MAY 19TH.

45 NAUTICAL MILES EAST OF PONCE INLET.
33 NAUTICAL MILES EAST OF PORT CANAVERAL.
28 NAUTICAL MILES EAST OF SEBASTIAN INLET.
18 NAUTICAL MILES EAST OF FORT PIERCE INLET.
11 NAUTICAL MILES EAST OF SAINT LUCIE INLET.

$$

AMZ552-211430-
VOLUSIA-BREVARD COUNTY LINE TO SEBASTIAN INLET 0-20 NM-
418 AM EDT SAT MAY 21 2016

TODAY
WEST TO SOUTHWEST WINDS 5 TO 10 KNOTS BECOMING EAST 5
KNOTS LATE IN THE AFTERNOON. SEAS 2 TO 3 FEET WITH A DOMINANT
PERIOD 8 SECONDS. A LIGHT CHOP ON THE INTRACOASTAL WATERS. CHANCE
OF SHOWERS AND SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS.

Edited by jaybird1111 on May 21, 2016 - 10:14 AM.

It was quite a week! Halfway home will have more later.

DamonLinkous wrote: New story, video, and pictures.
That cloud! At least it cleared the tourists out of the finish line.

Florida in May...

MN3 wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnWXg8VeRFs
Holly Cruddd!
I can't believe the way they are sailing their 30,000 n20 up the beach

Wish there was video of our day 1 and day 2 finishes; day 1 was epic, mach 5 with the kite up and all boards down. Not exactly how a Tornado likes to come into the beach!

Not sure how the gaskets survived the week, but I'll be pulling the hulls out of the covers to start cleaning things back up in a day or two. My boat was completely refinished by Lars a couple of years ago and was still pristine, so running her up the beach like that kinda made me cringe.... then I remembered, "we're here to race, not play games".

I'm with you brother, the few little scratches I get are easy to fix. My foot is staying on the gas until I cross the line. My only gelcoat damage was from crashing into my own beach wheels landing in Vero when that thunderstorm took the breeze from SE at 6-8 to E at 20 1/4 mile from the finish. Chuck's eyes got real big when he saw us reaching up the beach heading for his line at a 45 degree angle. I was worried about hitting Lisa so I didn't spin out. I think we should have a "style points for cool landing" competition next year.

Turtle Mojo

I'm with you brother, the few little scratches I get are easy to fix. My foot is staying on the gas until I cross the line. My only gelcoat damage was from crashing into my own beach wheels landing in Vero when that thunderstorm took the breeze from SE at 6-8 to E at 20 1/4 mile from the finish. Chuck's eyes got real big when he saw us reaching up the beach heading for his line at a 45 degree angle. I was worried about hitting Lisa so I didn't spin out. I think we should have a "style points for cool landing" competition next year.

Turtle Mojo

well done guys!