Time Bandit is at Race Rocks

Just heard by radio from Time Bandit, they are at Race Rocks.

Our thanks to Schooner Creek and Brian Hallett at Navigation Solutions, RC's newly installed VHF radio is working well and we've been able to communicate with boats at Race Rocks and with the hospitality boat, Total Eclipse at Ship Point.

Now, if we could just get the cell phones to work as reliably. On one side of the trailer, our cell phones say they are getting "service" from AT&T, on the other side, the "service" is from Rogers... neither works very reliably, and at night, they are worse.

Early morning VTS check-ins

Several boats have managed to make it around the corner in the early morning hours:

Giant Slayer checked in with Seattle VTS at 1:17 am
Rauzer II checked in at 1:49 am and
Mummbo Jummbo checked in at 2:44 am.

It will be interesting to hear the tactics from these boats, since these boats are all in different classes and the last of the three to check in was in A fleet.

VTS also heard from Rattler, who was about 15 miles from Duntze Rock about an hour ago, so they were expecting to hear from them within an hour or two.

Riva makes it to Race Rocks

As of 2:35 am Saturday morning, Riva is at Race Rocks. They have about 4 knots of wind. ETA to finish is several hours away unless the winds pick up. Here inside Ogden point, the RC flag is just hanging on its pole.

Rattler checks in

We just heard from Rattler. They are 15 miles from Duntze Rock at 12:13 am.

Line Honors go to Rage

At 22.40.39 tonight Rage ghosted across the finish line in very light air with her chute barely filled. The wind has become steadily lighter this evening and Rage took a bit longer than predicted to make the line.

First word from Kokomo

Kokomo just checked in. They are at 124'40" and have passed 48N some time in the past. They are currently about 10 miles from Duntze Rock.

Rage at Race Rocks

Rage arrived at Race Rocks at about 20:41 tonight. We expect to see them arrive at the finish soon. They are doing 9.2 knots and hoping the wind picks up. It has picked up at the finish line.

Rage's latest check-in

Rage was at Sheringham Point at 7 pm, according to Nancy Rander. They expect to reach Race Rocks at around 9pm.

Weather here in Victoria is turning a bit overcast as the clouds come in from the Pacific. Winds have remained light all day. Right now our view out the RC window shows a flat, almost windless bay with the sun slowly setting into the clouds.

Velocity crosses 48N

At 7:25 pm Tom on Velocity called to let us know that they have crossed 48N. Winds are light, about 6 knots out of the South West.

VTS check-ins

Riva checked in with Seattle VTS at 6:20 pm and Time Bandit checked in with them at 6:29 pm this evening. Earlier we heard that they were all in sight of rage.

Latest word from Rage

Rage is now 3 hours from Race Rocks, so we will expect to see them arriving at about 11 pm or so tonight. We have one cruise ship that is docking now and should be here until after Rage arrives.

The rest of the furry RC


More furry RC members:
On the top is Star and on the bottom is her mother Whoopie. We have been sharing the dock with various cruise ships

The furry members of RC #1

These three guys are the youngest members of RC. They were born on Monday - right to left, we have Margarita (girl), Patron (boy) and Tequila (girl). Note - Monday was also Cinco de Mayo.

Becalmed for 4 hours

Latest update from Legacy. They (and several other boats) were becalmed for about 4 hours this morning. They are now underway again. Passepartout is on the horizon in front of them and another boat is on the horizon abeam.

At about 2:45 pm, they were about 18 miles from Destruction Island.

RC now has working internet at the finish line, so we should be better able to get our updates filed promptly. Cheers!

Time Bandit

10:30 am. Time Bandit has crossed 48N. Phone connections with them were terrible, so that's all we got.

10 am Race Committee

RC is sitting in the sun on the dock drinking our morning coffee. We are still trying to get our internet connection on the dock working. Winds at Victoria are light and the sun is blindingly bright for those of us used to Portland's overcast.

We are heading to RVYC to get a new DSL modem that has already been configured for the line at the dock. With that modem, we hope to be able to get our posts up as soon as we hear from the boats. The previous posts have all been made from RVYC, so they have to wait until we are there to do the posting.

Rage at 10 am

Rage is 20 miles from turning the corner. They have Time Bandit on the horizon behind them. Winds are light. Weather is sunny.

The word from Rauzer II

9:30 am report from Tom English on Rauzer II. They are at 47'30" N 124.3 W (near Destruction Island).

It is nice and sunny with light east wind. They saw a "herd" of wales about 1/4 mile off the boat a couple of hours ago. They have a couple of boats in sight, one abeam of them 5-6 miles away and another about 8 miles out from them. The boat 8 miles out is running a chute.