Your information is essentially corect. Gary Helm's trimaran flipped out at
the island. Bruce Schwab and Joachim Johnson(?) picked up him before he was
swept into the surf line. Four boats dismasted. The J-29 problem was that
one of them was swept off the boat attached to his tether and drowned before
his crew could get the boat slowed down and get him on board. There was
some concern about Greg Morris since his 406 EPIRB went off but it was a
fluke . . . the safety pin was still in. It could have been the leaks that
put water over the berths and covered the batteries so he couldn't monitor
the radio.
I hope that the above information is correct.
The waves were the worst I have seen (including four Hawaii crossings). It was a bad day with big breaking seas with short intervals. My boat broke the furler and lost the outboard and mount to a big wave. We slowed way down to reefed main and were hitting 13 knots on the return. The trip out started easily enough (in fact, there was a parking lot under the bridge) but grew dramatically as the day went.
Can anyone give me input on the Nissan 3.5HP as a replacement for my (heavy but environmentally correct) Honda 5. I had a very strong mount but clearly the weight aft was not good.
Maybe Dan Benjamin has more information. It looked like he was doing really well.
Eric
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>From: yhtlines@surfari.net
>To: olson30@sailpix.com
>Subject: Farallones race
>Date: Sun, Mar 28, 1999, 8:41 PM
>
> re Doublehanded Farallones Race
>
> Was rummaging around in Santa Cruz this afternoon, and noticed that Stray
> Cat was back in the SCYC storage yard.
>
> Heard thru a very reliable source that Stray Cat was first Olson to round,
> and likely first to finish, followed by Run Wild. (Also that Pepe flew in
> from the Caribbean to do this race with Rebecca).
>
> Conditions were reported to be consistently over 30 knots, with large seas.
> Several dis-mastings, and one missing crew off a J-29.
>
> Is there anyone here who was a participant who would not mind writing a
> synopsis?
>
>