RE: Chicago -> Mackinac yacht race

A good skipper/helm who knows his boat (and his crew) *and* can understand the wind can do wonders. Looks like they had a 360 wind shift and that would have resulted in some 'dead wind' at points of time. Frustrating to say the least. In sailing, sometimes it is not the number of correct decisions which count but the number of wrong ones and the wrong time.

Each of the 22 have an assigned position/responsibility and train hard and long for it. When they are actually not doing anything, they help in balancing the boat - especially on a broad reach (wind from the side) which makes it look like it's going to keel over...

Fyi, Larry and his crew nearly lost their lives in a big race (near Australia?) a few years ago. Larry would have learnt a lot of things from that race.

Any other sailors on this list?

John Kanagaraj
(ex-470 sailor)

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Deshpande, Kirti [mailto:kirti.deshpande_at_verizon.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 9:57 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>Subject: RE: Chicago -> Mackinac yacht race
>
>
>>Larry had 22 people on his boat. I had no idea it took so
>>many to run a race
>
>They ought to use 9i on that boat..... ;)
>
>- Kirti
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jonathan Gennick [SMTP:jonathan_at_gennick.com]
>> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 9:21 PM
>> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>> Subject: Chicago -> Mackinac yacht race
>>
>> Larry Ellison's boat was first to finish in the Chicago
>> Yacht Club's race to Mackinac Island. See the following URL:
>>
>> http://www.sailnet.com/chicagomackinac/media/release4_2001.htm
>>
>> For a bit of a blow-by-blow from the ship's crew, go to this
>> URL:
>>
>> http://www.sailnet.com/chicagomackinac/contributors/sayonara.cfm
>>
>> I live only a couple hours from Mackinac, and in fact was
>> there on Friday, the day before the race began. I didn't
>> actually hear about the race until it was over, or I might
>> have driven down to watch the finish.
>>
>> Larry had 22 people on his boat. I had no idea it took so
>> many to run a race.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Jonathan Gennick
>> mailto:jonathan_at_gennick.com * 906.387.1698
>> http://Gennick.com * http://MichiganWaterfalls.com *
>http://MetalDrums.org
>>
>>
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