That was a thrilling video. Great boat handling, so glad no disaster happened right there. Ahhh, J105s. I’ve raced the last 4 or 5 big boats and love the Classics, always thought you guys were just swanning around the bay courses looking gorgeous and drinking wine, but this was positively thrilling
Having raced both J/105s and Schooners, it makes me happy to see you go into the mark with your elbows out, take the room you deserve, and bonus points for flying the kite. Who says schooner racing is boring...
Starboard tack infraction by one of the J/105's. Good quick efficient move by the crew of Schooner Mayan to avoid any kind of collision. Smartly trimmed up on the larboard tack. Long live schooners!
Guys, that mark rounding was the closest MAYAN has ever come to hitting (and possibly sinking) another boat. Just before the beginning of the video 5 blasts were sounded three times. The J-105 fleet continued to mostly ingore that. Finally our tactician just blew a solid blast until he ran out of horn gas. The last 4 boats finally realized that entering a starboard rounding on port gave them no rights at all. They go head to wind in the video. But by then we had tacked to avoid a collision. The buoy was about 18” from our starboard beam, the J-105 who was forced off of Starboard and onto port above us by the 3 idiots on port who refused to give way was about 25” from our port rail, having bounced off of at least one J-105. Both he and the three port tackers above him crashed into each other. But, as is the J-105’s reputation, no one protested. (They were at the tail end of the fleet.) I was astonished that we were able to squeeze through that turn, the helm was hard over and without an emergency cast-off by the mainsheet trimmer we would not have avoided crushing at least one J-105. In hindsight, I look at the video and think I should have just turned away from the mess, but there were three J-105s on port just above us setting their chutes and we would have hit at least one or two of them. They weren't looking at anything but their own boats.
I was the port tacker in situation like ths (but much less fraught and much less dangerous) a few years ago. The reason was not keeping up with the rulebook. I was thinking I had rights from being first in the 2 boat length circle, but the then-current rulebook disagreed.
In 1969, musician David Crosby found Mayan in Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale and purchased her for $22,500 borrowed from Peter Tork. He sailed her from Florida through the Caribbean and the Panama Canal to a new home port in Sausalito, California. In 1970, Crosby began living on Mayan full-time and wrote rock songs such as Wooden Ships, Carry Me, and Lee Shore while aboard. I lived in Fort lauderdale . and loved this ship !. So glad to see the revitalization and her moving again.
That was a thrilling video. Great boat handling, so glad no disaster happened right there. Ahhh, J105s. I’ve raced the last 4 or 5 big boats and love the Classics, always thought you guys were just swanning around the bay courses looking gorgeous and drinking wine, but this was positively thrilling
Having raced both J/105s and Schooners, it makes me happy to see you go into the mark with your elbows out, take the room you deserve, and bonus points for flying the kite. Who says schooner racing is boring...
Starboard tack infraction by one of the J/105's. Good quick efficient move by the crew of Schooner Mayan to avoid any kind of collision. Smartly trimmed up on the larboard tack.
Long live schooners!
Guys, that mark rounding was the closest MAYAN has ever come to hitting (and possibly sinking) another boat.
Just before the beginning of the video 5 blasts were sounded three times. The J-105 fleet continued to mostly ingore that. Finally our tactician just blew a solid blast until he ran out of horn gas. The last 4 boats finally realized that entering a starboard rounding on port gave them no rights at all. They go head to wind in the video.
But by then we had tacked to avoid a collision. The buoy was about 18” from our starboard beam, the J-105 who was forced off of Starboard and onto port above us by the 3 idiots on port who refused to give way was about 25” from our port rail, having bounced off of at least one J-105. Both he and the three port tackers above him crashed into each other. But, as is the J-105’s reputation, no one protested. (They were at the tail end of the fleet.)
I was astonished that we were able to squeeze through that turn, the helm was hard over and without an emergency cast-off by the mainsheet trimmer we would not have avoided crushing at least one J-105.
In hindsight, I look at the video and think I should have just turned away from the mess, but there were three J-105s on port just above us setting their chutes and we would have hit at least one or two of them. They weren't looking at anything but their own boats.
I was the port tacker in situation like ths (but much less fraught and much less dangerous) a few years ago. The reason was not keeping up with the rulebook. I was thinking I had rights from being first in the 2 boat length circle, but the then-current rulebook disagreed.
Good thing you have an all-star crew on board!
In 1969, musician David Crosby found Mayan in Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale and purchased her for $22,500 borrowed from Peter Tork. He sailed her from Florida through the Caribbean and the Panama Canal to a new home port in Sausalito, California. In 1970, Crosby began living on Mayan full-time and wrote rock songs such as Wooden Ships, Carry Me, and Lee Shore while aboard.
I lived in Fort lauderdale . and loved this ship !. So glad to see the revitalization and her moving again.
David C would have been very confused by this
Wasnt that D Crosby's boat?
Yes
There's still coke in the bilge