Nick Mortgu, Dave Ramos, Ken Shaw, Rick West and I will be sailing in the Santa Barbara Nationals on August 13th & 14th during Race Week. While all of us have our own reasons for attending, this is sort of a story of what happens when insanity meets irresponsibility, or vice-verse. I figure that you can save time and effort by just living vicariously through us on our adventure to San Diego.
Until you build a different class boat, you don't fully appreciate how fortunate we are to have the amount of documentation on building our boats readily available to us. The Santa Barbara class lacks a centralized site, which hopefully will change. Because none of us had ever seen a Santa Barbara, we did just what we did when we built the J's a decade ago. We simply fit an EC12 into the shape of a Santa Barbara.
On August 2nd, we'll ship all four east coast boats in one large box that's close to 300 pounds. On August 9th, we arrive in San Diego with the hope that everything arrived intact. There is a lot that can go wrong inside a box during a 3,000 mile truck ride.
If all goes well, we should be able to get a few practice sessions at the lake over the weekend.
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