Halifax, here they come

[Thad]

Yesterday I rowed out and around Baggatelle, Ticondaroga, Bluenose II, and Annemarie, among the fleet gathered for the Marblehead-Halifax race off today at 1. It had been grey cold and wet for days but yesterday the sun came out and the wind was fresh from the WSW. Coming in a friend was heading out in his Whaler for the same tour so I moored and jumped aboard for another spin around. The breeze was so nice I had been saying "We should be sailing" so when we got in to SEA HARMONY Jon says "How about sailing?" Just the thing in the late afternoon to run out, jibeing past the fine visitors and off into the sound in company with the Chabacco FAME out of Salem before turning to beat back. Today I expect to be out sailing in a recently returned Rozinante, hopeing to get out near enough to see the start. And, my but it is gorgeous! NW 10-15 forecast.

[StevenBauer]

Thad, you gotta get a digital camera! smile.gif

Steven

[mmd]

This (http://iboattrack.mapsherpa.com/2005MH/) is a pretty cool website that tracks the race. You can layer on sea temps, weather data, track by class, etc. Updated every two hours.

EDIT: I just scanned the race list - some of the entrant's names are amusing. First are those taking the names of past racers: (Delawana, the Lunenburg schooner that suffered the indignity of losing to Esperanto in the very first International Fisherman's Trophy race in 1920; and Puritan, the Edward Burgess-design America's Cup defender of 1885,

Then there are the amusing names such as Duck!, Campbell's Sloop, Next Boat, Rum Funny, and Big Dog Party.

There are the old warriors brought out to re-live past glories: Intrepid, the 1967 two-time America's Cup winner, True North, Canada's second entry in the Anmarica's Cup races in the post WWII era.

And, in every gathering of yachts, there are the Greeks : Cygnette, Actaea, and Spartina.

Finally, there a few classic yachts to add gravitas and glamour, the grande dame of these being the original Herreschoff Ticonderoga.

The waterfront at the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron should be a pretty nice spot in the next few days. :cool:

[ 07-10-2005, 11:24 AM: Message edited by: mmd ]