![]() Paul Bieker dove in and provided a repair plan, with drawings and laminate schedules KKMI in the Bay Area found a meticulous laminate specialist with AC experience to do the work in the water we found Marin Yacht Care to run errands and get the boat prepped for the delivery back to Seattle. It is ALWAYS something, and just when you think its just one thing, it’s something else. ![]() There are a whole lot of very helpful and talented people in the sailing community here and we found many of them.Which is when we all remembered the very, very loud bang in the middle of the night when we turned upwind to drop the main just off the infamous “Potato Patch” near Point Reyes.Ī frantic scramble to see if emergency repairs were feasible and if any carbon fiber experts were available for overnight work led to three conclusions: The #3 ring frame in the bow was cracked in four places and delaminated. Scott is usually right about things: He was very right. The day before our start, all the food on board, gear on board, crew well rested and starting to stack the sails and stow the gear, I was on deck when I heard Scott Roberts say: “That doesn’t look right! After pulling some sails to brick out of the bow he had a good look at the hull. Look at the place we sail!!! Mount Rainier and our three news bots that secure straight lines and quick adjustments even under tricky conditions and on deep water.Īfter four months of preparation, refitting water tanks, fuel tanks, wiring in new instruments, adding new sails, replacing all the running rigging and all the other sundry things that took hundreds of hours of crew time, Mist headed south to San Francisco in June.įour days later we were in beautiful Schoonmaker Point Marina in Sausalito and doing the final prep. The fleet’s final regatta is in first weekend of October at the yearly PSSC - Small Boat event out of Shilshole. Join us! ![]()
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