Category: Racing

Spadefoot – back from the hospital

May 16, 2017

Just 2.5 weeks until the start of Bermuda 1-2 and Spadefoot is back from the hospital.  The last race of Spring Series was not a good time for the da’foot.   But thanks to an incredibly quick turnaround from Fred Lindsey at lindseymarine.com down in Canyon Lake, Spadefoot is healed and ready to go racing. About

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2017 Bermuda 1-2 – a coming home

January 7, 2017

Happy New Year! Another year, another adventure for Spadefoot and crew. Time to put plans to paper. The West Coast doesn’t have a monopoly on cool ocean races in the US. Spadefoot is easily trailerable, so we aren’t limited to sailing on only one coast. Possibly the most popular ocean race over the years has

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Pacific Cup 2016 – Video

August 6, 2016

Here’s our video summary of the “Fun Race to Hawaii”.  Edited to protect the guilty… Spadefoot – Pacific Cup 2016

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Pacific Cup – What Went Well and What Didn’t

August 3, 2016

For those of you thinking about racing across an ocean this might be a helpful: What went well for us – The Jet Boil stove with gimbal worked perfectly. Only 2 small canisters were needed. Freeze dried meals for dinner were “good enough”, and one packet was more than the two of us could eat.

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Pacific Cup 2016 – By the Numbers

July 31, 2016

It always fun to look back at the details of the race. Here are few stats to help summarize the race: 11 days, 8 hours, 25 minutes – a full 2 days faster than 2014. We averaged just over 8 knots for the entire race. That’s 192 nm/day on average. Our best day’s run was

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Pacific Cup Day 11 – Aloha!

July 25, 2016

We made it!  11 days, 8 hours, and 25 minutes.  A full 2 days faster than 2014 on a boat that should have been 1 day slower. The last day wasn’t, of course, without a little drama.  We started by putting up the A0 and the storm jib as a staysail.  This was a combination

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New video – Spadefoot offshore

June 5, 2016

Videos never ever do the sailing justice, but here is a video to share what the California trip was like. Thanks to Rachel and Oren for contributing content (especially since the Go Pro was forgotten in the sleep-deprived haze that Justin experienced trying to get to the airport after racing).

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Practice makes perfect

June 4, 2016

California Offshore Race Week The past week turned out to be the best preparation for Pacific Cup we could hope for.  It all started with a 1,700 mile drive to get Spadefoot from Austin, TX to Richmond, CA.  Chris also drove 900 miles from Bellingham, WA to Richmond to bring several important items from Shearwater

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Toto, we’re not in Austin anymore

May 24, 2016

Road Trip complete… Spadefoot, Oren, and I spent about 30 hours driving from Austin to Richmond Yacht Club.  1727 miles.  The trip, spread over 3 days, was uneventful except the 20-30mph headwinds we had across most of New Mexico, Arizona, and California.  At times we going 55 mph due to the wind and getting 7.5

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600 miles, and we are still in Austin

May 15, 2016

Over the last 10 days we’ve made 10 trips to Austin Yacht Club.  AYC is 30 miles from our house, so that is 600 miles.  Oof.  That’s a lot of time sitting in the car/truck. The good news is that we absolutely killed it.  Boat hauled, emergency rudder installed, bottom stripped, bottom painted, bottom sanded,

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