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Marion-Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race Beverly Yacht Club Blue Water Sailing Club Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club 011 2Marion-BerMuda Cruising YaCht raCe Beverly Yacht Club Blue Water sailing Club royal hamilton amateur dinghy Club www.marionbermuda.com TABLE OF CONTENTS Land Event Schedule ..........................................................3 Bermuda Low .....................................................................5 2011 Marion Bermuda Organizing Committee ..................9 Eight Bells: A Tribute to John Bledsoe Bonds ..................10 Beverly Yacht Club...........................................................13 Blue Water Sailing Club ...................................................15 Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club ...........................17 Welcome Letter – Massachusetts ......................................19 It All Starts Here ..............................................................21 Safety at Sea – Be Prepared ...............................................26 Profiles of Marion Bermuda .............................................34 Tied Up With Navigation ................................................51 Notice of Race ..................................................................54 Starting Line Location ......................................................62 Approaches to Finish Line ................................................64 Photo courtesy of Fran Grenon Bermuda Harbors .............................................................65 Welcome Letter – Bermuda..............................................67 After You Finish ...............................................................69 Flares in the Night ...........................................................71 Galley Tips and Tricks .....................................................73 Bermuda – What to Do … Where to Go .........................75 The Next Generation........................................................79 2009 Race Results ............................................................80 Cover: “At the Mark” Original oil painting by Willard Bond Courtesy of the artist and Annapolis Marine Art. Trophies ...........................................................................82 Graphic Design: Moore & Isherwood Communications, Inc. Bavier Nomination ...........................................................85 Production: Andrea Arnold Printing: Reynolds DeWalt Advertiser Index ...............................................................86 2011 Marion-Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race 1 2011 MARION BERMUDA Cruising YachT RACE LAND EVENT SCHEDULE Marion BerMuda BEvERLY YACHT CLUB ROYAL HAMILTON AMATEUR DINGY CLUB Sunday, June 12 Sunday, June 19 Duty Desk 1200 to 1700 Traditional Sunday Brunch, RHADC On-site Registration by appointment – contact Monday, June 20 [email protected] Duty Desk 1300 to 1800 Monday, June 13 Follow race progress from the Lower Lounge Duty Desk 1200 to 1700 Tuesday, June 21 On-site Registration by appointment – contact Duty Desk 0800 to 2200 [email protected] Flip Flops Dockside Bar & Grille opens as boats Tuesday, June 14 start arriving Duty Desk 1200 to 1700 Wednesday, June 22 On-site Registration 1200 to 1700 Duty Desk 0800 to 2200 Regatta Store 1200 to 1700 Bermuda Swizzle Taste Challenge, RHADC Wednesday, June 15 1600 to 1800 Duty Desk 0900 to 1700 Gosling’s Exclusive Rum Sipping Seminar 1700 to 1800 On-site Registration 0900 to 1700 Pub Classics and Island Ditties, RHADC 1700 to 2300 Regatta Store 0900 to 1700 Thursday, June 23 Bermuda Welcome Dinner, Beverly Yacht Club 1900 Duty Desk 0800 to 2200 Thursday, June 16 Navigators Review presented by Ocean Navigator Duty Desk 0900 to 2000 Dark’n’Stormy Special, RHADC 1600 to 1800 On-site Registration 0900 to 1530 Pub Classics and Island Ditties, RHADC 1700 to 2300 Regatta Store 0900 to 2000 Live Dance Music, RHADC 1900 to 2400 Captains’ meeting and weather briefing, Friday, June 24 Tabor Academy 1700 Duty Desk 0800 to 2200 Gosling’s Captain and Crew Dinner, BYC 1800 Friends & Family Race Friday, June 17 Gosling’s Crown & Anchor Party, RHADC 1600 to 1800 Duty Desk 0700 to 1200 Pub Classics and Island Ditties, RHADC 1700 to 2300 Regatta Store 0800 to 1200 Saturday, June 25 Start: First attention signal at 1230 Duty Desk 0800 to 1800 Scenic Dockyard Tour Boats board at 1645. See Duty Desk. Prize Giving, Commissioner’s House, Royal Naval Dockyard, 1830 to 1930 Gala Dinner, The Keep, Royal Naval Dockyard 2000 Sunday, June 26 Duty Desk 0800 to 1800 2 2011 Marion-Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race 2011 Marion-Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race 3 bermuda low by Steve woodworth The painfully slow first night on the water makes it quickly apparent Survivalof this ain’t gonna be no five day race. The fiTTeST Everything You Need It was somehow fitting that it rained at the Prize Giving. to be Safe at Sea Everything else went wrong – filthy weather, broken boats, injured sailors – why not some rain on the trophies. This was the 17th biennial Marion Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race sponsored jointly by SaleS Service rentalS SeminarS the Beverly Yacht Club, Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club, and Blue Water Sailing. life raftS A week earlier sailors from the 46 boats registered to race jammed the Tabor Academy auditorium for a skipper’s meeting fraught with Ditch BagS both excitement and anxiety over approaching weather systems. The problem was this was just too hard to call. The weather briefing epirBs made it clear that either there would be a lot of wind or there wouldn’t be. If the low formed in one direction we would all be pfDs in for an easy, maybe even a little boring, ride to Bermuda. If the system took a hard right we would get whacked and doubtless all be flareS hanging on for dear life within the next 72 hours. firSt aiD The mood lightens a bit over dinner at the Beverly Yacht Club as icy cold Dark ‘n Stormy temporarily blot out predictions of 45 Signaling knots of wind. Plans are made for what time to be on the boats. Talk turns to the weather again and, for at least one sailor visions of one last night of sleep in a real bed dance like sugarplums in his head. Race day morning is gray and drizzly and generally unpleasant. Forty four of forty six registered boats motor out to the starting line outside of Marion’s Sippican Harbor in 15 knots of breeze out of the southwest. Two boats, maybe having read the weather reports closer than others, remain at their moorings. The drizzle turns into a downpour. As we all approached the start area we were innocents. Little did we know what Mother Nature held in store for us – the 45 knot winds, the 25 foot seas leading more than a third of the fleet to eventually retire and, oh yes, the search and rescue! and the sloppy seas make it hard to maintain way. “Wallow” is the LRSE.com This is only my third Bermuda race. I am aboard the Beneteau most descriptive word that comes to mind. We get a brief treat 1-800-451-2127 423, Attitude skippered by Shawn Dahlen. At 1300 we have a good, when the spectral image of the gorgeous 72 foot Ketch, Kathleen, 590 Fish Road • Tiverton, RI clean boat-end start with 12 other Class C boats (we consider the emerges from the dark and fog and ghosts past us to leeward. idiocy of fighting for a position on the starting line at the beginning The painfully slow first night on the water makes it quickly of a 645 nautical mile race). As we beat our way down the length of apparent this ain’t gonna be no five day race. Waking for the 0430 Buzzard’s Bay in a decaying southwesterly, we talk about how “that watch on Saturday is easy. Slatting sails and a banging boom with other Bermuda race” doesn’t have this feature. “Yeah,” says a boat a squeaky gooseneck have no equal in the world of alarm clocks. mate – “they get right on a reach and sail to Bermuda.” West of the rhumb line we find ourselves in a very light breeze By the time the fleet rounds Sow and Pigs Reef and turns to the from astern. This isn’t much fun. Long slow rollers aren’t easy on open Atlantic towards Bermuda the wind had dropped to 6 knots 4 2011 Marion-Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race 2011 Marion-Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race 5 the tummy and less than 24 hours and 50 miles into the race I’m and responded to an emergency flare in the middle of the night. already wondering “why are we doing this?” Speaking prophetically, The racers who responded were ultimately waived off by search our bow man reminds me “if that low closes in on us we’ll really and rescue authorities and the story that trickled down through the be wondering why we are doing this”. The answer to the question rumor mill was that a French single-handed sailor, not affiliated became apparent as Saturday progressed. We’re here for the with the race, became overwhelmed by the conditions and was camaraderie, cockpit conversations about bottom paint, Brooklin taken off his boat by a cruise ship, thereby leaving his boat adrift Boat Yard, last Wednesday night’s ‘round-the-buoys race, and the mid Atlantic. Corsair’s problem didn’t end with its diversion eventually realized hope that winds would build from 6 knots to 20 to participate in the SAR. A severe medical emergency aboard knots and give us a joy ride for many hours. compelled the skipper to retire from the race and, when motoring to But as is true in life – and doubly true on the ocean – all good Bermuda the boat snapped a steering cable while climbing the face things must eventually come to an end. Sunday morning we find of a wave. ourselves in a confused washing machine of chop and rollers It was Monday, day 4 aboard Attitude, and we were well into the with not enough wind to Gulf Stream surrounded make
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