The Three Bridge Fiasco is January 26th.
For those unfamiliar with the race, it's a reverse start in front of the Golden Gate YC. It set up so that everyone should, theoretically, finish at once, so the first boat across the line wins. It's run by the Singlehanded Sailing Society. You can visit them on-line at:
The SSS 2002 calendar (including 3-Bridge Fiasco info) may be found at:
http://www.sfbaysss.org/2002_calendar.html
I'd strongly recommend going to the skippers meeting the Wednesday before the race. It'll be at the Oakland Yacht Club, starting around 7:30.
The course more-or-less runs around the three main bridges in the Central Bay: The Golden Gate, the Bay Bridge and the Richmond-San Rafael, thus the name. It's actually not *quite * like that...you have to go around Blackaller Buoy, around T.I. and around Red Rock. The thing is, you can go around them in any order you want. You can cross the Start line in either direction. You can cross the finish line in either direction. You study the tide tables beforehand, you sniff out the breeze (if there is any) when you get there, make your best guess, and go.
Truth is, most years, a whole bunch of the fleet never finishes. The other thing is, picking the right way to go is absolutely key to finishing well, or finishing at all. Conventional wisdom says go the way the tide and currents work out best, but Kame Richards says to go the way the wind says to go, so who knows? Last year I did it as my first solo race in the boat, managed to finish though sheer perseverence (non spinnaker) but since I picked the wrong way to go, got skunked in the results. It's a good time, anyway. Upwards of 150 boats do it, often.
Anyway, I'm doing it, and it looks like Bill and company on Borderline will be out there doublehanded, so we'll be around. I'll be tied up SOMEwhere after the race, probably South Beach so if folks are interested we could get together and drink something hot after the race for an hour or so.
Then again, it will get dark early, it might be pretty cold, and folks might want to head for home, so...
It'd be great to see a bunch of 30's out there.
Alan
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 23:48:01 EST
Rizmirian@aol.com wrote:
> Alan, what's the date? For some reason I didn't receive
> a notice of race.
>
> Bob
Received on Thu Dec 27 13:28:49 2001