SBYC Hot Rum Series 3/3 2020 on J70 Escape
Better wind, more kelp very fun.
SBYC CHRF Spring #2 2020
Sail Log
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Date
Feburary 9, 2020
Vessel Name/Type/Model
Escape J/70
Course/Sea Miles
H D7 St-Dp-Hp-Cp-Fin ....... 5.50 nm
10.2 mi sailed
Notes
Good Pressure. Fastes was 10.4 nm/hour
Who sailed or my position on the vessel
- Boat Owner/Skipper
Me
- Crew
Jenn
Matt
Sawyer
Weather
FZUS56 KLOX 091144 CWFLOX Expires:202002091730;;251913 Coastal Waters Forecast National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA 344 AM PST Sun Feb 9 2020 Point Piedras Blancas to San Mateo Point CA out 60 NM including the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary PZZ650-091730- East Santa Barbara Channel from Pt. Conception to Pt. Mugu CA including Santa Cruz Island- 344 AM PST Sun Feb 9 2020 ...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... .TODAY...E winds 10 to 15 kt, except becoming 15 to 25 kt from Ventura to Point Mugu in the afternoon. Combined seas 4 to 6 ft dominant period 12 seconds. Chance of rain in the morning, then chance of showers.
Sail Trace (Strava)
Video/Pictures
SBYC Hot Rum Series 3/3 2020
Sail Log
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Date
Feburary 8, 2020
Vessel Name/Type/Model
Escape J/70
Course/Sea Miles
D7 St-Dp-Gt-Bp-Xp-Dp-Fin 5.69 nm
Notes
Who sailed or my position on the vessel
- Boat Owner/Skipper
Me
- Crew
Jenn
Ole
Erik
Weather
FZUS56 KLOX 081034 CWFLOX Expires:202002081800;;196545 Coastal Waters Forecast National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA 234 AM PST Sat Feb 8 2020 Point Piedras Blancas to San Mateo Point CA out 60 NM including the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary PZZ650-081800- East Santa Barbara Channel from Pt. Conception to Pt. Mugu CA including Santa Cruz Island- 234 AM PST Sat Feb 8 2020 .TODAY...Winds variable 10 kt or less, becoming S 10 kt in the afternoon. Wind waves 2 ft or less. W swell 2 to 4 ft at 14 seconds. Patchy dense fog with visibility 1 nm or less in the morning.
Sail Trace (Strava)
Video/Pictures
SBYC CHRF Spring #1 2020
Sail Log
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Date
January 26, 2020
Vessel Name/Type/Model
Escape J/70
Course/Sea Miles
H D4 R (S - B - H - D - F) 4.79 nm
Miles sailed: 8.05 mi
Notes
Got off the line. CHRF handicap was 518 (
handicap). Still was able to
take the lead by mark H. Held on to D. Got stuck in dead air and seaweed. Thought
that 3 would pass. Only lost one place. Team did well.
Who sailed or my position on the vessel
- Boat Owner/Skipper
Me
- Crew
Jenn
Max
Vincent
Sawyer
Weather
FZUS56 KLOX 261035 CWFLOX Expires:202001261730;;537658 Coastal Waters Forecast National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA 235 AM PST Sun Jan 26 2020 Point Piedras Blancas to San Mateo Point CA out 60 NM including the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary PZZ650-261730- East Santa Barbara Channel from Pt. Conception to Pt. Mugu CA including Santa Cruz Island- 235 AM PST Sun Jan 26 2020 ...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... .TODAY...N winds 15 to 20 kt, becoming W 15 to 25 kt with local gusts to 30 kt in the afternoon. Strongest western portion. Combined seas 5 to 7 ft dominant period 15 seconds. Patchy fog in the morning.
Sail Trace (Strava)
Video/Pictures
None
SBYC Hot Rum Series 2/3 2020
Sail Log
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Date
January 25, 2020
Vessel Name/Type/Model
Escape J/70
Course/Sea Miles
Miles sailed (Statuted): 6.17
Course sailed:
K2R (Start,Bell Bouy, Gate, K, Finish) : 2.45 nm
Who sailed or my position on the vessel
- Boat Owner/Skipper
Me
- Crew
Jenn
Max
Ole
Erik
Notes
Resonable start. Did not start fromt he weather mark. Sucked bad air to first mark. Sailed around cruise ship. Made up some time.
Weather
Wind was mild today.
FZUS56 KLOX 251102 CWFLOX Expires:202001251730;;487670 Coastal Waters Forecast National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA 302 AM PST Sat Jan 25 2020 Point Piedras Blancas to San Mateo Point CA out 60 NM including the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary PZZ650-251730- East Santa Barbara Channel from Pt. Conception to Pt. Mugu CA including Santa Cruz Island- 302 AM PST Sat Jan 25 2020 ...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PST THIS MORNING... .TODAY...Western portion, NW to N winds 15 to 25 kt in the morning. Otherwise, E winds 10 to 15 kt, becoming SW 10 kt in the afternoon. Combined seas 7 to 9 ft dominant period 16 seconds. Areas of dense fog with visibility 1 nm or less in the morning.
Sail Trace (Strava)
Video/Pictures
none
Cannabis and social media
My experience with cannabis is very second hand. I have friends who partake and are big advocates. My abstinence from pot is a personal choice. The problem I have now is that there is a snake oil aspect. I am told it cures or mitigates all ills. No one is willing to talk about the documented drawbacks.
My feeling on this is very libertarian. It is your business to partake. Just go in with eyes wide open. A lot of the good publicity is from people who want to get rich, partake, and the government is wanting to gouge cannabis users through sin taxes.
This article is worth republishing. Real choice begins with knowledge.
Libra - Weight Manager and the Hacker's Diet
Libre is an excellent weight tracker for the android. Problme with it is that it is not well documented.
I got interested in the app after Looking at the Hacker's Diet . Especially the section on using xponentially smoothed moving average with smoothing constant 0.9 and trends. This appealed to me since there is a lot of noise in my weight plot.
I don't know how misnomer1 on myfitnesspal got the formula for Libre, but it corrisponds with the Hacker's diet. If you look at the equation and instead of saying 'days' but Alpha or Smoothing constant, it is all the same.
current trend = Alpha x latest weight entered + (1 - Alpha) x previous day's trend where, Alpha = 1/smoothing days as input in settings
So, instead of thing "days", think smoothing constant. Changing the advance setting for smoothing days to 10 days, you get the same results as the Hacker's diet.
Acts of kindness
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
—Aesop
SBYC Hot Rum Series 1/3 2020 on j/70 Escape
First sail of the year! All I am going to say was that it was light wind and very shifty and I need to resist the urge to pinch going to weather. Still fun. Video was just cut short because the battery ran out.
Course D5 (Start,Dp, GT, Ep, Finish)
Every little bit of activity matters
I have a friend who is paying dearly for being sedentary. It meshes with my belief that any activity is better than nothing. This article is so true that it is worth republishing.