Friday, I got a last-minute call at noon to see if I wanted to sail the Anacapa Island race aka Tri-Point Ocean Race. I was lucky to get on a fast boat with a good crew. Even though my job was to be rail meat, it was very cathartic after the week I had. We had fair wind for most of the race except for the round of the island. The lee of the Island was shifty and dead for the most part. It felt like it took just as much time to round the island as it did to make the channel crossing. All and all, it definitely was a good day.

Got caught in the rain with rainbows afterward. It is not every July in Santa Barbara does that happen.

A cool video that was created by Haul Parteck During SBYC Summer Series One Design. We actually had 30 gusts at one time!

Three good videos for J/70 handling. Section 3 - Tack and Gybe is put first since it is basic sailing of the boat.

So you found me. This URL, I had purchased for my personal blog. Pretty empty for blogging for so many years. All I can say this is not bad. Especially when the current robot.txt file looks like:

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /

I will be updating sometime in the future. Please do not link to anything yet. I am in the process of revamping. I can say this if I spent as much time writing as revamping, what a site!

I am off to go sailing. Later.

BW of my boat Escape. Post splash.

Just want to see the difference between self hosting and hot linking.

Using the mediea rst tag

Using Embeding with raw restrucutred text

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A non-instagram picture:

And lastly a thumbnail

The boat is on its way! Should be here Monday.

A google earth view of the builder of my boat.

A map of the possible route that my boat will take getting here.

This is my boat that is in Rhode Island waiting to be shipped. All that is left is to get the paperwork in order before it is trucked across country.

Purchased a Honda BF2.3 outboard motor today. This outboard is about 1.5 months too early. However, it had to be purchased to get the serial number for my boat loan. I personally find this extremely amusing since the sailboat will not be molded for another two weeks. I currently have a custom trailer that is currently located in Rhode Island. I now have an auxiliary outboard motor without a boat in my garage.

Still, I feel that it is starting to come together.

The loan for my j70 sailboat is approved. The loan that I am getting is way more than what I wanted. The issue being that since I am getting a construction loan, the loan has to be over $50,000.

I needed to provide the obvious documents such as driver’s license, signed the invoice, HIN (Hull Identification Number) and the Trailer’s VIN number. I also needed a second form of ID. I ended using my college staff ID.

I had to plan where to keep the boat. The loan company needed an address of where it would be stored.

While buying the boat, you would think that there would be a reasonable order. You buy the boat first, then get the accessories later. What is holding me up is that I need to buy the Honda BF2.3 outboard motor.

The reason is that the motor is listed on the loan. No serial number, no loan. Simple as that.

I think, all that is left to do, for the loan, is purchase the auxiliary outboard motor, provide the insurance binder and then pay the closing fees.