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Probably way too many pictures and other info related to Delicate Balance (Andrews 56) doing the Coastal Cup starting 6/8/06.

Race started near the St. Francis YC , rounded Seal Rocks near the Cliff House and proceeds down the coast to finish in Santa Barbara. The race is about 300 miles (my GPS trip odometer had us traveling 304.89 nm however this included both the prestart and some manueverings after finishing).  We started at 11:05 and finished at about 4:56 PM on 6/9 (Friday afternoon).  Our overall average speed was 9.7 nm/hour and our highest speed over ground was 26.1 nm/hr by GPS.  We had covered 255 miles at the 24 hour point.  At this writing, I am not sure how we corrected out however there were a number of our competitors at the docks when we arrived at the SBYC.

I always wish that I had taken more pictures.  Somehow the pictures don't seem to do my memories justice.  However, they are fun to look at and do help me to remember things that I had forgotten.  If anyone has other pictures or information please pass em along.   I would love to add to what is here (go ahead and use the address on my latest email message). 

Some mental snapshots that are not very well represented here in the pictures are: Billy and Bob's heroic driving during a near black out at night in thirty plus knot (by our instruments) winds; our brush with the ship that caused Doug's douching in the companionway; the way the moon showed through the clouds and reflected off the water before being blotted out from sight in the early morning; the whales; our Friday evening revelry at the SBYC; the drive back up to the Bay Area; Bob's broken ribs; and... lots more I guess.  The pictures are just a taste.

I know that we all want to thank the Santa Barbara Yacht Club for being such good hosts (however they still owe me an XL Coastal Cup T-shirt and hat!).

Oh and also, as we were leaving the bay, I took some fun pictures of Ragtime.  Not sure why I'm being so nice by posting them cuz as I was gleefully taking pictures of their boat, they were trying to roll us.  But owners hardly ever get to see pictures of their boats underway so I thought it would be nice to post em.    Ragtime later drove into a hole and had some trouble with their chute before we lost sight of them.  However, they were in Santa Barbara when we arrived so it couldn't have been all bad. 

Final Results for PHRF Fleet 1

Our studly crew:

Ben Haket
Bernard Slabeck
Bill Columbo
Bob Bergtholdt
David West
Doug Storkovich
Larry Fogelquist (Me)
Paul Rosenthal
Scott Gordon

Doug went on to cruise in the Channel Islands.   See Doug's pictures

Our GPS Track

Overall track of Delicate Balance (yellow) and the route (purple) that I used in my GPS Click on this or the above chart to see more detailed charts

Doug		Dave
Bernard		Rail shot of Dave, Paul and Scott
Billy trimming
Some of the wild life		Ben
		Dave and Bernard
Some more of the wildlife		Cuttin' Mile Rock close
Doug		VA hospital
Bad Bill
Cliff House and Seal Rocks		Point Bonitas
		More wildlife
Lightening pulling away		Cliff House
Doug doing some chart work		Reaching strut deployed - right side up this time
Sails everywhere forward		Junk everywhere aft
		Ounce and a half spinnaker's up!
Scott at the wheel
Dave		Doug checking our progress
Our able tactician can cook too?!... Paul at the stove		Dinner
This little meal was beyond merely delightful - it was the best!		Billy diggin' in
Ship traffic		Surfing - I took lots of picture as we were going down a wave but I guess ya just can't show what it's really like with a snap shot
Next day... Ben drivin'		Billy topside after an heroic night of driving.  Unfortunately I couldn't take pictures of either Bob or Bill during the night but we were all awed by what they did
Bob doing his best to get some rest after spending hours at the wheel over night.  Bernard is to the left		The 3/4 oz
We had lots of ship traffic
		Ben nestled in the sail bags
And suddenly it was WARM... everyone stripped their foulies off
LAND!!!		Santa Barbara Yacht Club on the left
We're almost to the finish... if only we could find it		Everyone was looking
We're done... main's down, motor's started and now where do we park?		Santa Barbara water front
Beach next to the jetty		Marina entrance
At the fuel dock		Ragtime already here and put away
DB at rest		The front end of the boat
The back end
I'm sure that these QueasEase had to have saved my life...Only got a tiny bit queasy but then would take some more and before long... all better		Our famous dock float/butt plug... without the hot sauce
See Lois... Bernard didn't forget to bring out the little beach ball things...
Fortunately for everyone, this is the closest that I got to the wheel all the way down.  Someday I think it would be nice to get a handle on this big boat driving stuff (at least get so my sphincter wasn't completely tight when I was at the wheel) but for now, I'm just happy to be doing the bow so I can get to sail with these guys.
See Doug's Channel Island Pictures
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