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6:41am  at Ft Desoto Beach on March 5, 2012

Looking Back

The EC was the first leg of Team B&Bs Ultimate Florida Challenge adventure.   Traveling in straight lines, a path down the EC course could be as short as about 280 miles  --if not going through the Wilderness Waterway which adds about 30 miles.  Most challengers travel more than 280.  For boats with sails, tacking adds mileage.

SandyBottom said their path this week measured 349.8 miles (which includes tacking).   Their max speed was 15.3 knots.   The average speed when moving (which includes times when heaved-to) was 6.1 knots.  She said "We were surprised that in head winds fully reefed we were often moving at 12 knots.  The wind and sea state had us with mainsail reefed throughout the EC except for today (CP3 to Key Largo) when we sailed with the mainsail fully deployed. We rarely used the jib except when needing it to maneuver better in headwinds. Alan very pleased with upwind performance which included being able to sail 45 degrees off the wind."

Here is a video by Danitio:  Key Largo arrival of the "Mosquito" at 8:00pm ...    (Thanks, Danito!!!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt5kGwp6M3Q

Looking Forward

With a little time in Key Largo,  SB and SOS have rested and finished the repairs, resupplying, and improvements needed. They reported this evening that they are aiming to cross Biscayne Bay tomorrow and then stop to sleep. Theyre aiming to wake up at 5am tomorrow morning and then be ready to sail away at about 7am.

Stage Points (SP) and deadlines for the other legs of the Ultimate Florida Challenge are as follows:

SP0  Fort DeSoto     27.6230° -82.7097°     3/03/12  07:00
                                 -- Beach for start of the adventure races

SP1  Key Largo        25.0931° -80.4445°     3/10/12 12:00      
                                 -- Bay Cove Motel, EC Finish.

SP2  Sebastian Inlet  27.8503° -80.4540°     3/17/12 10:00
                                 -- Boat ramp south side of south bank.

SP3  Fort Clinch       30.6962° -81.4601°     3/24/12 10:00      
                                 -- Beach at public boat ramp.

SP4  Cedar Key       29.1357° -83.0367°     3/30/12 10:00       
                                -- Beach in front of the Faraway Inn.

SP5  Fort DeSoto     27.6473° -82.7160°     4/01/12 10:00
                                 -- Beach at east side of boat ramp.

SandyBottom on March 5, 2012

SOS on March 5, 2012

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In case everyone figured I was just goofing off for the last few weeks here is the latest. My mom has been down here almost every weekend for the last 2 months and she has been a great help. It has also helped to start familiarizing herself with the boat. This weekend my dad came down and offered his assistance cutting out parts and gluing them in. Its amazing how much more you can do with 2 people.

We have finished up the cabin sole or sleeping shelf of whatever you want to call it. I prefer "great cabin" and this weekend we installed the main deck with its hatch opening. The deck is made of a strip building product called duracore. It is 3/8" end grain balsa sandwiched between 1/16" strips of western red to give it some longitudinal stiffness while planking. We laid up a 25" wide cambered panel of it on a curved mold (bent plywood) all in one shot in a vacuum bag last weekend. The panel was 9lbs before fiberglass which is a little more than 4mm plywood (0.4lbs/sqft versus 0.6lb/sqft) but the advantages are that the inside of the "cabin" has a smooth roof for sleeping comfort while still giving the deck adequate stiffness for tromping around and raising/lowering the mast. The deck could have been a foam core layup but this stuff was laying around and about to become firewood.

The daggerboard tunk halves are laid up and ready to be joined and then installed in the amas. The daggers are ready for a final fairing and last coat of epoxy.

The Amas will get some 2lb expanding foam and then the decks will be going on as soon as the trunks are complete.

The next big milestone will be the first float and test paddle sometime in early december. I will be going out of the country over the christmas holiday so work will be on hold until I get back to finish all the rigging and get her sailing sometime in February with the race the first week of March. Yikes.


Current weight breakdown (I know your curious): drum rollllll....

Main hull: 105lbs plus bow deck, hardware, more epoxy (looking like it will end around 125)

Amas: 45lbs each plus some expanding foam, decks and trunks. (looking like around 65lbs a piece) Daggers: 12 lbs each

Rig: recently purchased a carbon stick that was on a Bimare Javeline 18HT catamaran. maybe 30lbs

Add sails and rudder, rigging, lines and some more epoxy and she is closing in on 350 at an alarming rate. I am doing my utmost to keep this in check. Im still emotionally ok with the her weight. We will see. Whatever it comes out at youll wish it was lighter but thats just the way it goes.

She has also earned her name. Mosquito

Aside from the many mosquitoes that have met their end by flying into my wet epoxy and become part of the hull (and those that I have swatted), she will be a fast racing machine in all wood and so a nod is given to the de Havilland Mosquito which was a wonder in its own time. Once the fastest plane in the world at 400mph and constructed of all wood. Pretty Amazing. I often feel like I am building a fuselage as much as a sailboat. Mosquito video link

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