Sailing Anarchy Podcast #57. Tempesta hates everything.

Episode Transcript

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Yeah, there we are.
Hey, now Sailing Anarchypodcast.
That's what you're hearing.
I guess you knew that since youclicked on whatever button you
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Quickly, quickly, unclick.
I'm using a new platform hereand I've no idea if it's gonna
work, but let's, um, let's hopefor the best, right?
I mean, yeah.
Come on now.
Here we go.
Ah, where do I start today?
I, I, I've got a number ofthings I want to get to, but,

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but invariably it gets, it getsback to me every single time.
I, um.
I'm super frustrated with my Hoy33.
Um, not, not the boat so much,although the boat is a weird
duck fucking thing doesn't goup.

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I mean, it goes through thewater upwind really well.
I've probably said that fivetimes already.
It doesn't point worth agoddamn, I mean, it's kind of
embarrassing how poorly thething points.
And if you try to pinch, oh, itjust stops it, you know?
And I pinch sometimes, but whenI get a lane, you know, when I

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try to start to lure it as oftenas I can and let the boat run.
I think last Wednesday night'srace, and that, by the way,
that's all we've done with thisboat is beer can races and we've
gotten the shit kicked out ofus.
Every single time we've gonefrom, well, it should have been
a second in the first race and athird in the second, and we've
been like 4, 4, 5, 6.

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It's just disastrous and partlybecause it's super fluky and you
know, I'm not having any luckwhatsoever.
Just none.
Like, God damnit, we can't do athing right.
Which is really infuriating.
Um, um, but.
The, and the boat downwind isnothing special in light air.

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It doesn't have enoughhorsepower, you know, and I'm
running a stock configuration,you know, as I've said before.
Um, and I, I, you know, I wantedto just start from ground zero,
as it were.
Excuse me.
You know, I had a heavily moedHobie 33 mm-hmm.

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Couple years ago, three yearsago.
Yeah, the o uh, former CaptainSluggo, then Anarchy six.
Now I think it's Captain Sluggoagain.
Uh, on paper it looked prettygood.
Reality said somethingdifferent.
I didn't like that boat much.
I like to downwind in a breeze.
But then again, any Hoey 33downwind in a breeze you like,

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you love, you would wish to beon a Hoey 33 downwind in breeze
and some waves.
I mean, it's just an ideal boatfor that.
And this modified one was good,but.
Terrible around the buoys andjust awful and disappointing.
So I sold it.
Um, I wouldn't say I'm nearselling the 33, but I am growing

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wildly frustrated racing thisboat in ORC.
I suppose a little bit ofresearch would've told me that
ORC does not.
In fact, it hates really lightboats and it pounds the HOEY 33.
I mean, unmercifully, it is suchan unfair rating.
It's worse than PHRF because atleast in PHRF you could have

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your rating adjusted.
ORC.
Sure you wanna fix your rating,hire a designer, and then you
can go through all the variousways to, you know, trick the
rule, beat the rule, make theboat faster, make the boat
slower, whatever it, whatever itis, right?
Like I talked to a guy who hasOB 33.
I.
It has 220 pounds of lead in thebilge down low that was added

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when the boat wanted to do atranspac they needed for
stability to pass the stabilitytest for Transpac.
Well, it turns out that thisboat with a 5% larger spinnaker
than stock and 220 pounds in thebilge gets a fair bit of time
from a stock 33.
If you can imagine that, um, youknow, the lead helps the boat be

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a little stiffer up wind, whichthe boat.
Really needs.
Um, and it can't help butdownwind in light air.
I mean, it can't be, it can't domuch for the boat at all, but
the bigger spinnaker does.
So I'm contemplating, you know,maybe making some mods to the
boat.
First and foremost, I'm thinkingabout, um, adding a SPR to the

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front of the boat.
Troger makes a really nice one.
It's about, I think, 33 inches.
So let's call it three feet.
It's a carbon fiber, liketriangular spr that you can e
either have in place sort ofpermanently, or you can make it
so that you can fold it up incase you, you're worried about
being too big for your slip,whatever the trailering, the
boat, whatever the hell it mightbe.

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Um, and then adding a mastheadasymmetrical to the boat.
I'm talking a big giant.
Runner kind of thing.
Not quite a runner.
Nobody able to really run assos,do they?
I guess they kind of dosometimes, but you know, we need
the boat to be able to reach alittle bit.
With asymmetrical, you typicallydo reach a little bit and so I,
I wanted to go masthead and abig asso, you know, on a three

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foot sprint in front of theboat.
It'd make a difference.
It'd be a big spinnaker and theboat I think would really come
alive, downwind in the, in thetypical four to eight knot shit
that we get in San Diego, youknow, so I'm considering that.
But one of the reasons why I'mdoing it is because I want to
get out of ORC.

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I would like to get into ORCSport boat and, uh, that leads
me to the next quandary in frontof me.
So there is, there is indeed anORC Sport Boat Class
International.
Right.
And it's great that they createdit.
It, it's fantastic.
Um, very few rules by the way.
It's kind of surprising.

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Um, the only rules are sort ofa, a maximum, uh, length.
Um, also a, um, you know,display segment length ratio,
uh, spinnaker sizes.
You know, they can useasymmetric or symmetric.
Um, no, no.

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Uh, talk about.
Head sales size, any of thatkind of stuff.
But then there's a class here inSan Diego that on paper would
seem to make perfect sense.
I think they call it the Fast 30class, you know?
And they've got, and they're,it's based on ORC as well.

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Sorry, you're the papershuffling.
I'm so goddamn old school.
I don't know why I can't justlook off the screen and read it.
I just.
It just goes back to my radiodays, you know, when you had to
print everything out.
And so anyway, here I amprinting and making noise.
So they've got, you know, twodivisions that almost make zero
sense.
But what they've done, there's adivision a length overall, less

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than 10 meters.
Okay?
The maximum length in ORC.
International sport boat is 9.15meters.
So every single boat that's inthe sport boat class in San
Diego using this FAST 30 rulewould not qualify for ORC

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International because they'reall too long flying tigers, Mel
30 twos, uh, and they're all tooheavy for the sport boat
definition, so none of themwould qualify.
Okay, so then you might go,well, listen, why don't we make
a rule?
Why don't we see if we can do amodification where the boats are
a little longer?
Right?
So they said, uh, overalllength, less than 10 meters.

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This is Division A, and thesediscrepancies make zero sense.
They're Division A and divisionB.
Division a length are all lessthan 10 meters.
I said that displacement inmeasurement trim less than 2300
kilograms.
So what's that?
4,600 pounds?
4,300 pounds?
I don't know.
Displacement length ratio.
Okay, got that.
Maximum J gib size, sorry.

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Maximum jib size, 105%non-overlapping, asymmetrical
spinner, spinnaker on centerline.
Now that's class A.
Here's what makes no sense.
Class B length.
Overall less than 11 meters.
Uh, displacement in measurement,trim less than 3000 kilograms,

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kilos, kilograms, um, andmaximum jib size 150%.
And it says symmetric orasymmetric spinnaker for class
B.
Well, it looks like every singleboat in their fleet here in San
Diego is in the A class.

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Um, it's a Rocket 22.
It's a Viper eight 30 flyingtiger.
Mels 32, flying tiger, far East,23 SA seven 50, Mels 24 B 25.
Far 30 mils, 24, so none ofthose boats are in the so-called
Class B.
Well, so I approached this fast,super 30 class, whatever the

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hell they are.
This bastardization of the ORCSport boat rule, which makes
sense to a point and then subtlydoesn't in terms of, well, they
don't, they don't want to andthey're not going to let my
Hobie 33 sail.
And so, because it turns outthat no other boats apparently

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have bothered to want to be inDivision Bs, where you can be a
little bit longer, you can have150% jib.
And by the way, just the factthat they limit it to 150% is
just a bullshit number.
And you, the number is, ispulled out, uh, of thin air for
one single reason, as far as Ican tell.
And that is tough.
Screw over everybody who's got155% jib.

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Because most boats in San Diegothat have overlapping Genos,
they use 155% Genoa.
Why?
Because that's what PHRF allowsas a maximum size without
incurring any sort of penalty.
So these guys in their geniussaid, no, let's make it 150%.
So that basically if you have a1 55, they can tell you you

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can't race.
I mean, that's really the onlyreason the, the guy that runs
this thing, I'm not naming anynames, but boy, what an ass hat.
I mean, this is like PHRF.
Only worse, I.
You, you give somebody a littlefiefdom, right?
A little slice of, ooh, I cancreate this fleet and I'm gonna
create my own rules.

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And doesn't make, if they don't,doesn't matter if they make any
sense.
Doesn't matter if they'reirrational, doesn't matter if it
disqualify certain boats.
This is the way it is.
Isn't that just great?
And that's the way it is.
So I would literally have to cut5% off my Genoa, uh, LP size
from 155 to 150%.
Okay?
That snuck into any wonders tothe shape.

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It's gonna cost me extra moneythat is, is unnecessary.
Why not just make it 155% as themaximum so that any boat that
might want to do this.
It's going to be legal withtheir 155% Genova and they give
you the option of a symmetricalspinnaker or an asymmetrical
spinnaker.
Well, so my thinking is this,that I, I guess how it would go

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in Division B, although DivisionB is the larger class, wouldn't
it be Division A as it's 11meters and Division A is 10
meters.
It doesn't make sense.
Almost nothing about this makessense.
'cause this is, again, createdoutta somebody's mind of how
they, how it should be.
And this isn't how it should be.
And they definitely d do notwant me in there.

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You don't have an asymmetrical.
I know.
I have a symmetrical.
Well, there's no, there's, I, Ican go in the other class.
There's no boats that race inthe other class I.
Well, why is that?
It's because you discouragepeople to race by telling'em
they can only have 150% genman,not they're 1 55, that they're
carrying all the god damn time.
And that's part, that's part ofit.
The other thing is there's zeropromotion for this thing.

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I mean, nobody understandsexactly why it is the way it is.
So I wanna get out of ORCbecause I'm stuck with a bunch
of heavier boats that we oweridiculous time to, that we
cannot beat virtually ever.
I mean, maybe we should have hadone win in this series, maybe.

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But like I said, I've had worseluck ever in the beer can
series.
I mean.
I mean, it's just, it'shorrifying.
But I will tell you last week wehad our first spinnaker leg was
pretty reachy and I have a, arelatively new, uh, Mels 24
reaching kite that fits the Hoey33 parameters really closely.

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So we put this thing up on thereaching leg and I'll be god
damn, the boat went really well.
I mean like I was shocked howwell it was going.
I mean, clearly we're undercellular with this thing.
I mean, first of all, it's areaching kite.
Secondarily, you know, Mel is24, so it's not, not made for
this boat, but the sizes areclose.

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And boy, we were quick.
So it got me thinking, why don'tI put the sprint on the boat,
it's three feet.
Um, and.
Make a masthead asymmetrical to,to fit those dimensions, right?
Three feet on the j, you know,plus whatever the distance is
from the regular spinnaker, uh,haard to the masthead, spinnaker

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haard.
That, that would be a big assasso and it'd be a super light,
uh, you know, light air sail.
I mean, I've already got, I'vegot the flatter reaching spinner
curve if it's blowing on areaching leg, and I've got the
1.5 symmetrical that I can use.
Uh, for when it's maybe superwindy, downwind, let's say,
which it never is in San Diego.

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It's never super windy downwindin San Diego.
It just, it's so rare.
And so the likelihood that I, Iwould really need that most of
the time is unlikely, uh, when Iadd an ASO to the boat, if I add
a O to the boat.
So, so now it's, you know, it'smy struggle all over again

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because then I'd have to spend Xamount of money.
I mean, I, you know.
Carbon sprint is what it is.
Um, but the installation is notnecessarily that easy and it's,
I know it's gonna be spendy toput it on the boat.
Right?
And then of course I have toget, you know, a new
asymmetrical.
Spinnaker a big one.
Those aren't cheap.

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I mean, they're just not cheap.
So, you know, what am I lookingat?
I'm probably looking at sixgrand.
To do this, to get myself out ofORC regular, which we don't
belong there.
And the fact that ORC is justthis way, it screws some boats

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and it loves other boats.
And I suppose rules have beenlike that throughout history.
But man, this is so blatantlyunfair.
I, listen, I've been around theblock, I know what I'm doing.
I mean, I'm not as good as Iwas, but I certainly know, you
know, shit from Shinola and ORCis shit.
When it comes to, to lightdisplacement boats, so the guy

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that has this super 30 class orwhatever, it's fast, 30,
whatever the.
Fuck these guys fast.
30 actively discouraging mefrom, you can't, you can't race,
you don't qualify.
And so then I'm like, well, putme in B.
Well, there aren't any boatsracing in B.
Okay, maybe you should send out,send out a mass email.
I don't know.
Why don't you ask me to promoteit?
How about that?

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No.
Instead, this guy had aattitude.
I mean, it was literally liketalking to one of the Asshat,
PHRF, handicappers, sort of thesame thing, just this mindset.
I'm the king of this littlefiefdom and I'm gonna do what I
want and screw you.
I'm self interested.
I don't like you.
I don't like your boat, so I'lldo everything I can to make sure
that you're not competitive.

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PHRF does that by screwingpeople over with ratings.
ORC does it by inherently.
Uh, proportionally being heavilybiased against light
displacement votes, and I'm noORC expert.
I don't know shit.
I mean, I had Greg Stewart fromNelson's office, you know, run
some numbers for me.
I don't know what they mean.

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I mean, I haven't done the work.
I don't, the handicaps are.
Ridiculous.
I mean, it, they're for a, for adummy who hasn't sailed a rule
boat since morsey and IOR andIMS days, you know, I am out of
the loop and it, it looksdaunting to try to figure it
out.
And one of the things I likeabout PHRF is, well, you don't
have to figure it out.

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I mean, you do, but it's reallyeasy.
It's like, okay, let's see.
We owe those guys six sec, sixseconds a mile, a 10 mile race.
Ha, guess what?
60 seconds.
That's what we want.
We on one minute.
So at any time during the race,you have a really good idea how
you're doing In ORC, you have noidea unless you do tons of
charts and graphs.

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Okay?
We're band level, band one, andso our ratings this and this
breeze.
But geez, did they pick theright rating band?
And I mean a wind band and theright wind strength, who knows?
I mean that is left up to thearbitrariness of, of a
particular race committee, youknow, so.
There's just so many inherentflaws.
So my question is this, I guessI'm asking you and you can

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certainly email me.
It's [e-mail].
Um, I'd definitely like to hearif anybody has something to say.
So, here are my que, here aremy, my options.
Keep sailing.
ORC regular, eh, that is not anoption.
I won't do it.
I'm done.
I won't sail another ORC regularrace if I can ever help it.
Honest to God.

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Uh, number two.
Um, do the, do the mods, spendthe money.
I mean, it'll be a lot more fun.
Boat to sail downwind with, uh,with a nice sci, decent sized
sprint, and a huge ao.
It'll be a lot more fun.
Jiving is easier, you know, theboat's just gonna go better with
this sail.
It's gonna be a lot faster.

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Um, or sail.
PHRF Cruising spinnaker, that's,that's what's left of PHRF here.
Now.
There's no longer any regularPHRF here.
Um, if there's PHF cruising,Spinnaker.
Okay.
Is that what it's gonna come to?
Like seriously?
Is that where I'm gonna hand up?

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I can tell you one thing Imight.
Um.
But then again, I might not raceanymore at all.
I'm having a hell of a timegetting crew.
Um, you know, my, all my possessort of dispersed, they're off
on other boats and yeah, I got acouple guys who will sail with
me and I love it.
But I've been putting newbies onthe boat.
Shit.
Just last night I had this chickwho I guess I misunderstood,

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misled me that she knew how torace.
So I was short a trimer.
I said, you think you can trim?
Yeah.
No, she can't.
No, she couldn't trim at all.
She had no idea really what shewas doing.
I tried to work with her, put itin there.
I had, you know, a guy coachingher a little bit disastrous.
So she sends me an, uh, amessage.
I, I wanted to notify you.
I'm no longer sailing on yourboat.

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I've moved over to expo with Xskipper.
Okay?
So I'm thinking to myself,you're lucky to be even beyond
my boat.
It's pathetic that I'm in thestate, that I don't have such a
good crew that you're even on myboat when you wouldn't normally
ever get near it and you'rejumping ship for a hack boat
with a bunch of yahoos that sailon it.

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I mean, listen, it's where shebelongs.
Don't get me wrong.
It's absolutely where shebelongs.
But so, you know, I mean, that'sthe state I'm in.
There's a decent chance we'renot even gonna race tomorrow,
uh, tomorrow night if I don'tget one other good person.
We're not gonna be able to race.
And right now I'm just, youknow, striking out.
So, so I've, I've, you know, Ihaven't, I wouldn't say I've

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reached my nay dear, but I'mcertainly frustrated.
Um, do I spend the money, try toget A-A-O-R-C super fast 30
fleet going class B and get someof their votes out there and
still have a shitty crew.
Um, do I not do it?
And just go ahead and.

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Sail sport boat B and cut mygenoa down 5%.
You gotta be kidding.
I'm, I'm really, I am pissed.
I'm pissed that the state of thesport is this.
When I bought the boat.
There was no shift to ORC.
Not, not across the board.
There was like, uh, sport boatswere ORC, I mean, the modified,

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the butchered ORC, by the way, Iwonder if ORC approves of what
they've done to the ORC rule.
I mean, it's like, wait aminute, how can you change
these?
We have an ORC Sport boat rule.
I mean, I guess it's like, Hey,the more ORC, the better.
I mean it is ORC, Uber and.
Everybody's on the bandwagon,but I can tell you for a fact, I

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would guess way more than halfof the people have no idea how
to calculate how they're doingin a race.
They have no idea which ratingapplies to whatever win band and
and course designation or verylittle idea.
I.
And the rest sort of do, butit's, it's, it's ridiculous.
It's not that great.
Certainly not having a Hobie 33,it's not great.

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The rule is not great, um, forme and for my boat.
And so I thought, well, maybeI'll do something else, but so
that's what, so, or I just gofuck it and just, you know, put
lazy jacks on the boat.
And, um, I don't know, maybe putthe a hundred percent on a
furler and just go day sailingwith chicks.
I mean, assuming, you know, Icould ever get a chick again.

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Oh God, that's a whole notherstory.
I need to start, uh, anarchydating the, the trials and
tribulations of a.
Of a sailor who no longer hasgirls that want to go sailing
with them.
I mean, have one girl left.
I mean, I've had two girls bailon me in two weeks.

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One because she doesn't knowwhat the hell she's doing the
other be when feelings get inthe way, that's usually
problematic.
Um, I've got a, uh, a, a girl, abow girl.
She's doing just fine, happy ashell, but, and I've got a great
mans sail.
Trior.
A tactician, and I have a decenttrimmer.
But you know, now I don't have apit person.

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Now I don't have somebody whocan squirrel.
I mean, it's like, it's justsuch a struggle.
I know a lot of you run into it,but I did not anticipate it
being this difficult with thisboat.
I didn't.
And, uh, it's partly my ownfault because I, I haven't built
enough of a crew reservoir.
I mean, I thought I did.
But the amount of people whohave left and don't come back

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and don't want to come back and,uh, oh, I'm doing something
else.
You know, it's just maddening.
And, you know, I, I think I'lltry to get the cruise situation
sorted out before I decide toinvest in a sprint and all that
work, and then a kite, you know,and all that money.
Um, I need to solidify the crewa little bit.
So if anybody in San Diego wantsto come racing with me,

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[e-mail].
Slash loser slash washed upslash hack slash Nobody wants a
sale for me.com.
Um, I laugh at it because it isabsurd.
It's also frustrating.
Um, I'm not gonna lie, and theresults just haven't been there
the way I was hoping I.

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They should be considerablybetter, but under no
circumstances.
There's a Benito 36.7 in ourclass that's really well sailed
that somehow manages to be getoff.
The start line terribly isusually so far buried on the
first beat that you don't thinkof them, but then they come
roaring back at the end of thesecond beat.
They go by us and we can't evercatch'em again.

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Even downwind with their littleweird spinnaker.
We can't catch'em.
We're no faster than them.
It's just, it's a fact.
Take your Hoey 33 and go againsta good boat like that downwind
in light air and tell me thatyou're going by'em.
'cause you're not.
Now would, if I had the As OIwould, but I don't wanna be in
ORC regular against boats likethat.

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I wouldn't add, I wouldn't havea higher rating, uh, than the
one I already have.
Just'cause I have a bigspinnaker.
You know?
It's just, I don't know.
I'm frustrated.
I hate it.
I quit.
Uh, I and when I do, when I doquit.
I'll let you know.
I mean, I'll, I'm gonna be veryvocal about it.
Like, fuck this.
Seriously.

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You know, and I, I, uh, I'vetold before I wrap up here, I
gotta go pretty quick.
Um, I, I, I said, listen, I, Itold the people that are
running, you know, that areadamant about ORC, like, this is
the way it is.
Okay?
I said, I, I, why don't you do apoll?
Once you see how many people aresatisfied with ORC, how many

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people think this is better thanPHRF?
I can tell you for a fact, it isnot better than PHRF.
In, I'm not seeing it.
I see boats that, that win thatnever used to win.
I see boats that are up in thetop three that almost were never
in the top three, and there'sonly one re one reason their
boats rate well under ORC.

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Meanwhile, a God like me is, youknow, back in the fleet.
I mean, it certainly couldn't beme, but I'll tell you who feels
worse than me.
Um, Dennis Connor feels worsethan me and here's why.
So he's, he's got this sixmeter, you know, this pretty
bitching, pretty radical sixmeter that he's going to, I

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think, ship back to New Yorkthis summer, later summer, and.
Race in the, uh, six meterworlds and it's, it's a bitching
looking thing.
Um, it's significantly shorterthan the regular boats.
Regular six, I dunno if there'ssuch a thing as a regular six
meter, but the current breed offast six meters, it's way
shorter.
I think it's got a, a shit tonof sail area and I think it's

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light.
Um, but he's out there and hemissed a couple races, but he's
been out there the last two orthree and.
My God, the thing is so friggingoff the pace and I know why he's
catching kelp like nobody'sbusiness.
I'm sure they don't have a kelpcutter.
I'm sure it's almost impossible.

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I bet you have to back down toget the kelp off that keel.
It's one of those radical keelsthat you know.
That you're not gonna get kelpoff of it.
And so they get, they catch kelpand they're just like so far
back and we've had our own kelpissues.
So is everybody else.
I'm not blaming that onanything, uh, on anybody.
It's just a fact of nature.
When you sail in San Diego andthe winds out of the south,

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which it's been, it brings thekelp in all the way through the
bay.
Almost as far as the South Bay,and it's really frigging awful
to sail with.
The Hobie 33 catches it bothkeel and rudder.
Doesn't catch all the time.
It does have sweep to both, butit does.
And the boat's weird.
It doesn't really feel likethere's kelp on the boat.

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Most boats, oh my God.
As soon as it starts flutteringyou, I'm screaming kelp.
You know, kelp.
And normally every boat I'vehad.
That that catches kelp alwayshas a kelp cutter.
Well, this boat doesn't.
We have a nice flossing line,which Scotty Dalen at SD 1D
rigging made for us and it'sfabulous.
You just really give it one tossacross the front of the bow and

(27:37):
it does it, it gets the kelp youfirst or second time, every
time.
And it's not that burdensome orcumbersome to do.
It's mandatory and I just, Idon't call for it enough'cause I
don't feel it enough on.
On the, you know, via the tilleror just the boat in general.
But I have to say, every time Ithink we're going slow, I'm just
gonna have to start calling.

(27:57):
Let's loss, let's loss.
I mean, you know, just removeall doubt.
So, yeah, so that's my hell.
Um.
And, uh, I, I suspect that thisis like 30 minutes of whining,
but it, it, it really okay.
It is, but, but there's logicbehind my whining.
I mean, I, I've, I've got,that's my dog in the background.

(28:18):
Sorry, I, I've got justificationfor what I'm saying here.
Um.
I know I'm right about everysingle thing I've talked about.
Will there be any change toanything?
No.
No.
I can tell Nobody wants tochange anything here and, uh,
and I'm not asking for theworld.
Oh my God, you bought a Hobie.
This one guy from the, from thefast, he goes, why did nobody

(28:41):
made you buy a Hobie 33?
I'm like, who the fuck are youto question what kind of boat I
had?
Maybe I should have bought athird Flying Tiger.
So I'd continue to kick your asslike I did in the first two
Flying Tigers that, that waspart of my email to'em.
So it's a quandary.
I gotta think about it.
I gotta figure it out.
Um, I probably have to run thenumbers.

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And is it worthwhile to try tojoin a fleet where they're only
gonna let there's only one boatand that would be me So far, I
would say no.
Uh, I gotta just say, I thinkthe answer is no.
Okay.
You know what?
Let's just, let's do somethingelse.
Let's talk about something thatyou need, that you have to have.
And if you don't, well, you'relame.
Let's talk about to Jima Direct.

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You know what they are, right?
They're the custom polarizedlenses that they make for you.
These, there's a lot of goodpolarized lenses.
I've not seen anything likethese.
It's fabulous.
Um, what they do is.
Take if you've got a, let's sayyou have a sunglass frame that
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I do.
I got two, I won't wear anyothers.

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And you can send those in toTajima and they'll custom make
you lenses.
Um, you know, depending uponwhat you know, color that you
want and what you're looking toachieve through your glasses.
People never think about this,but really, what do you want
your sunglasses to do?
No, I just, you know, just wantsunglasses.
Yeah, no you don't.
You want sunglasses that have apurpose.

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They work, all lot of the goodguys use them.
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they make a great product andyou'd be surprised it's not
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Here's what you do.
You go to tajima direct.com,that's what you're gonna do.
It works for me.
It going to work for you.
All right.
Listen, one of these times, oneof these podcasts will not be

(30:56):
about me.
When do you think that'll be?
Uh oh God.
Hey, listen.
Thanks for listening.
Hope to hear from you Scott withone [e-mail] for
Sailing Anarchy.
I'm Scott Tempesta.

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See ya.