Tuesday, April 30, 2013

OREGON OFFSHORE 2013 - Turnagain's first offshore race!


The crew and the team at First Yachts have been working tirelessly to ready the boat for Oregon Offshore 2013.Turnagain’s first offshore race!!!  You can follow along on any AIS program, or www.oregonoffshore.org

With final touches being done on the boat Tuesday and Wednesday (April 30 and May 1, 2013) we will load the life raft and provisions Thursday evening and head out to Victoria. Ion is planning on meeting us in Victoria Saturday for an 1100-1200 departure to Astoria. 

The delivery crew is short consisting of Jason Bowman, Steve Corcoran and myself.  I am sure we will be relying on the autopilot (at least I will be J) to do a portion of the helm work. Current winds look like light NW winds for the trip, hopefully enough to push us along at a reasonable clip.

This winter and spring have brought many projects to Turnagain, including installation of SSB, fine tuning the water maker, an additional solar panel, inner fore stay, second chart plotter, and hardening of multiple items.  Most of the work has been performed flawlessly by First Yachts of North Vancouver with the remainder completed by the boat crew.

We will be using Oregon as a test of multiple systems, including SSB email and weather access.  As the distances and time frame of the trip is not extensive, it is a great time for testing such systems since the reliance of updates is not critical.

Travis