When:
May 11, 2024 @ 10:00 am – May 12, 2024 @ 10:00 am America/New York Timezone
2024-05-11T10:00:00-04:00
2024-05-12T10:00:00-04:00
Boat Location:
Navy Marina
17 Perry Rd
Newport, RI 02841
USA
17 Perry Rd
Newport, RI 02841
USA
A couple of notes:
- If you need a ride on base, meet at Newport Nautical at 0945. Boat call at 10.
- Bring a lunch, your off shore PFD, AIS, safety tether, night lite, water bottle. We will provide dinner and breakfast.
- Will be down to 50 degrees overnight. Bring you off shore foul weather gear, boots, some layers and a hat. You should always have a hat in your pocket if not on your head. If you have an Alliance Bag, bring it with what you need in it.
- Plan to do dock side safety items (check AIS, put of storm sails (review video on how to fold the storm jib), Sam and Conor will go through the Bermuda Safety check lists. Plan to go out around 1400 and practice safety evolutions (quick stops, MOB, …). After dinner, we will set up a watch rotation, head out on rumb towards Bermuda, pass windmills up wind of them, and turn around to be back early. Objective to get familiar with night time operations and sleeping below.
- Main is loaded, bringing old jib and A2 to practice with.
All for now. Looking forward to a good Alliance shakedown underway.
Recent Comments
Congrats to 1st place winners in ORC Class Six!
Competitor Bulletin #13 released this morning now has COVID testing options arranged by the Bermuda Race organizing committee. Looks like a simpler process.
Eric and Mary to meet Bill, Gardner and Erin at Borden Light near entrance at 1000. Will quickly scope out dock we are going to, Eric to drive all to Alliance. Please bring your lunch. We will have warm beverages, beer and rum to share.
Cheers
Alliance Racing
For Sunday, we will be doing some mast wiring work between 09-1100 with Bill. If you can come early to help (two trips up the mast) that would be great. We picked up some J122 Zig Zag Sails to check out between 1100-1500 as well as our recut Code 75. From Zig Zag we will got a Code Zero, A1, A2, a lite Jib and M/H jib. So some batten stuffing prep also required. We also toured Zig Zag and got to see their new bottom paint job. We have beer and Dark & Stormy. Please bring your own lunches. Good discussion with Bruce Berriman today about inspection and did get to fly the Code 55. Kevin Farrar recut the luff and leech so flies much nicer.
See some of you tonight at CHNYC.
Cheers,
Alliance Racing