Went sailing today on Karma and took photos of the new Oracle Tri. Check them out here.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
New Karma - New bottom - New sails
The joke goes something like the two happiest days you have owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it. Well I went a grand total of 4 days without a boat. Mike Casinelli (our spin trimmer from worlds) was trying to get rid of his old boat after having just purchased a Cal 36. The Kirby 30 (called Scrambled) had been very actively raced before falling into neglect before Mike saved her. While Mike almost never raced the Kirby (renamed Good Fortune), he did a ton of work cleaning her up and fixing her up.
Mike wanted to get one last race in on his Kirby before getting rid of her, so we decided to do the double handed race around the Coronado Islands. While racing we talked about his new boat, and how I had just sold Karma. Well as fate would have it, we decided that I should purchase the Kirby, and we should make a run at some of the local regattas next season. A quick e-mail to Theresa (who is deployed in Qatar), and my lovely and very beautiful wife let me buy a new boat without her ever having seen it. Having a boat that can stay in the water and isn't as extreme as the melges helped sell the idea.
The Kirby was in great shape in every respect except for two things, she needed a new bottom and her main is hurting. A quick call to a local boat yard, and we now have a new bottom.
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After:
Next was a quick trip to the Ullman loft to order a new main. While there Chuck Skewes just happened to let me know that they had a carbon jib for a Kirby 30 laying around the loft that had only been up twice. So there is a new carbon #1 sitting in my garage, and the boat will have a new main in the next couple of months. Again, since Theresa is gone, I asked her if we should go carbon on the new sails or save some money and go with a dacron type main. Theresa starts asking some questions, and one of them is "Will the main last more than 5-6 regattas?" I started laughing explaining that now that we weren't doing the melges thing anymore, the main would last more like 2-3 years. Once she found that out, she immediately said go carbon. Got to love it.
I am hoping our first regatta in the new Kirby 30 Karma will be the PHRF Area G champs October 11-12 in San Diego.
Mike wanted to get one last race in on his Kirby before getting rid of her, so we decided to do the double handed race around the Coronado Islands. While racing we talked about his new boat, and how I had just sold Karma. Well as fate would have it, we decided that I should purchase the Kirby, and we should make a run at some of the local regattas next season. A quick e-mail to Theresa (who is deployed in Qatar), and my lovely and very beautiful wife let me buy a new boat without her ever having seen it. Having a boat that can stay in the water and isn't as extreme as the melges helped sell the idea.
The Kirby was in great shape in every respect except for two things, she needed a new bottom and her main is hurting. A quick call to a local boat yard, and we now have a new bottom.
Before:
After:
Next was a quick trip to the Ullman loft to order a new main. While there Chuck Skewes just happened to let me know that they had a carbon jib for a Kirby 30 laying around the loft that had only been up twice. So there is a new carbon #1 sitting in my garage, and the boat will have a new main in the next couple of months. Again, since Theresa is gone, I asked her if we should go carbon on the new sails or save some money and go with a dacron type main. Theresa starts asking some questions, and one of them is "Will the main last more than 5-6 regattas?" I started laughing explaining that now that we weren't doing the melges thing anymore, the main would last more like 2-3 years. Once she found that out, she immediately said go carbon. Got to love it.
I am hoping our first regatta in the new Kirby 30 Karma will be the PHRF Area G champs October 11-12 in San Diego.
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