Old designs arn't necessarily slow, we sailed out of San Francisco headed for Drakes Bay to overnight. We beat to weather for over 5 hours looking at the same landmark before convincing the owner to turn on the motor and call it a day. We arrived as the fog and sunset was closing in, with only 3 boats at anchor.
In the morning as the fog lifted, I sat in the damp cockpit of my friends 40' plastic fantastic, not a BCC by the way. As the fog lifted and the sun rose over the horizon, we found ourself surrounded by at 100 sailboats, among them was a Joshua Slocum wooden Spray replica in all her varnished glory.
As we sailed homeward , I commented how beautiful the Spray looked lying at anchor. My friend said, its old fashion, slow, could keep up with his plastic fantastic if they ran they motor.
An hour underway, I looked back at the anchorage to see the beautiful gaff rigged Spray raising her sails and sail up to weigh her anchor. Under full canvas, top sail and all, she looked more like a moving cloud, gathering speed and closing the gap between us.
An hour later, the Spray was abeam to us pulling away. I marked the time as she passed under the Golden Gate Bridge, I also marked our time as we passed under the bridge an hour and a half later!
So much for old fashion and slow.
Marty Chin, BCC Shamrock
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1. Re: IRC Rating
From: "Mark Giegel"
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:25:22 -0400
From: "Mark Giegel"
Subject: Re: IRC Rating
MessageThe BCC sails quite well against other boats under the PHRF.
The rating depends on your area for sailing but in the Long Island area the rating is around 228 depending on your sails, prop etc.
I think if the BCC was sailed competitively on a regular basis the rating would be lowered as it does sail better than the assigned rating.
We have an informal annual race on the Hudson River each Labor Day called the Kizer's Cup Race. I did very well several times against a broad mix of boats , Bristol 40, Nonsuch 26, Tartan 34, Benneteu 42, Catalina 30.
I won twice on corrected time. This irked many other members and they did change my rating to a 215. They were not happy to be bested by an
"old fishing smack" with a bowsprit.
Mark (formerly of "Itchen")
----- Original Message -----
From: Kate Christensen
To: bcc@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 7:09 PM
Subject: RE: [bcc] IRC Rating
Hi BCC Racers,
Mark Geigel won a few races on Itchen! I think she did have a rating. Maybe Scott has that info...of course...after he won a few, I think they changed his rating. The BCC is a stealth racer.
Kate
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Fuller [mailto:utec_markf@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 3:21 AM
To: bcc@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [bcc] IRC Rating
Douglas,
Try Chris Edwards on seanomad@yahoo-he might have this from Xiphias' King's
Cup days.
rgds
Mark
>From: "cdwkayaks"
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>To: bcc@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [bcc] IRC Rating
>Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 01:35:48 -0000
>
>Hi,,, Does anyone know what the racing handicap rating, and IRC
>Rating numbers are for a BCC ?
>
>Douglas
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